John McCain: The Old Warhorse

First, in a campaign year of crass political reinventions, McCain does not flip-flop. Instead, he seems to enjoy telling people what they don't want to hear. Apparently, at his age, and after what he went through in Vietnam, there is no reason to begin trimming the truth now. Full Story »

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by Kaizar Campwala - Jan. 3, 2008

Not particularly insightful, this piece recycles McCain's political positions while throwing in inaccurate one-liner's against Democratic candidates.

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by Francis Scalzi - Jan. 3, 2008

So this Hoover Institution "scholar" writes a glorious hagiography of John McCain: more baloney than you'll find on the supermarket cold cuts shelf - especially the proclamations that McCain is no "flip flopper" and that he's still the "plain talker". Where has this rube been for past year ? He should have consulted the other "scholars" at Regis U. to discover if they might have perceived that the old war horse hadn't taken a fundamental(ist) extreme right turn not very long ago ... More »

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