Mccain

No, this isn’t a video by comedy duo Former Felon Thickneck and Sidekick McNut Job. It’s apparently two real-life McCain supporters attempting to come up with five reasons they’re voting for McCain over Obama. Reasons like, “goodwill toward other nations,” “uh…uhhhh…uh, a good place for crows to live,” and oh, “and he’s a white male.”

America, [...]

Republican presidential nominee John McCain is hosting a group of political power couples for the Memorial Day weekend at his home in Sedona, Ariz. The list includes several potential McCain runningmates — Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney — instantly sparking speculation among the media ranks.

The McCain [...]

Buried deep in a post about Gov. Tim Pawlenty hedging on his promise to serve out the full length of his term in office, TPT’s Mary Lahammer reveals a stunning bit of information: Pawlenty has shed his trademark mullet.

Speculation is running rampant that the potential GOP running mate’s “business in front, party in back” style [...]

Both Rep. Jim Oberstar, D – Minn., and Rep. Keith Ellison, D – Minn., strongly criticized Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain for his remarks today that pork-barrel spending was to blame for the 35W bridge collapse .

As previously reported by Minnesota Monitor, McCain declared that “the bridge in Minneapolis didn’t collapse because there wasn’t [...]

In today’s New York Times, Thomas Friedman calls Hillary’s and McCain’s “gas-tax holiday” proposal what it really is: money laundering masquerading as energy policy. Both candidates say they want to temporarily suspend the 18.4 cents per gallon federal tax over the summer. Cheap gas is a strange thing to support for two candidates who are [...]

Hey, ladies! Are you tired of making 77 cents on the dollar to your male counterparts? Are you tired of waiting for the year 2050 when, at the current rate of salary increases, women might finally catch up to men in pay, according to the AFL-CIO?

John McCain has a solution for you. Get some education [...]

The crafters over at Etsy.com, the site for all things handmade, have been busy making over the presidential candidates. Here, you can find Hillary Clinton’s simpering mug in a beaded, thumb-sized pillow, as Warhol-inspired bottle-cap art, inside collages, or as a voodoo doll and more.

If the number of goods is any indication, Barack Obama has [...]

Via the always excellent Glenn Greenwald at Salon: The top-drawer national media types who attended a weekend “social gathering”-cum-pep-rally at the Arizona home of John McCain were not allowed to record the event electronically. Which left the job to the candidate’s 23-year-old daughter, Meghan McCain. I’ll bet Holly Bailey of Newsweek is tickled no end [...]

“[John] McCain is occasionally asked on the campaign trail about his age,” wrote reporter/physician Lawrence Altman in the Sunday NYT. “But he is almost never asked about his health.” Altman broached one aspect of the McCain medical dossier with his long backgrounder on the Stage II melanoma for which McCain underwent extensive surgery in August [...]

When  I woke up on Super Tuesday, primary results were already coming in, and a prominent national media expert was on TV discussing the outcomes that were unfolding.

No, I didn’t sleep in: I’m in Thailand, thirteen hours ahead, visiting family, and that commentator was Suthichai Yoon, the group editor-in-chief and co-founder of The Nation, the [...]