Tag: mccain
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mccain: americans don’t care if US in iraq for 10,000 years
from thinkprogress: Last week, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said it “would be fine with” him if the U.S. military stayed in Iraq for “a hundred years” or even a “million years.” Fifty-nine percent say the U.S. should “stick to a withdrawal timetable” instead of keeping “a significant number of troops in Iraq until the situation…
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ron paul: ‘i’ll prove the pundits wrong’
from huffington post: Ron Paul on Wednesday night predicted that he’ll defy the odds, confound his naysayers and register a strong showing in today’s GOP Iowa caucuses. The libertarian-leaning Texas congressman said he’s adopted a stock response for when reporters and pundits ask him how he’ll fare in the leadoff to the presidential nominating process:…
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tancredo quits & cambodia kissinger cozy with mccain
tancredo quits presidential racefrom press tv: US Republican Tom Tancredo has pulled of the presidential race and thrown his support behind his fellow party member Mitt Romney. The Colorado Republican, who built his long shot presidential campaign on opposition to illegal immigration, languished at the bottom of a big Republican presidential field most of the…
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ron paul: iraq is not nazi germany
from raw replay: CNN’s Wolf Blitzer gave Ron Paul a chance to respond to a criticism by John McCain that compares Paul’s Iraq policy with policies that empowered Nazi Germany…
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gop rivals tussle over immigration, the word & hitler
from raw story: Frequently using their YouTube-submitted questions as a jumping off place for attacks on rivals, the Republican presidential contenders took on a range of queries – from silly to serious – posed by ordinary Americans in Wednesday evening’s GOP debate in St. Petersburg, FL… As the evening’s focus later shifted to government spending,…
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paul tops mccain in campaign cash
from raw story: Ron Paul’s Republican presidential campaign raised $2.4 million in the second quarter of this year and currently has that much money in the bank, topping onetime-frontrunner John McCain’s $2 million cash on hand, ABC News reported. The campaign’s most recent haul is nearly quadruple its first quarter fundraising total, which the campaign…
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‘bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb iran’
from raw story: At a stop on Senator John McCain’s “Straight Talk” tour, the 2008 presidential candidate decided to respond to a question with some bars of a song, but it is unlikely that Arizona’s Republican senator will be reaching the final rounds of Fox’s “American Idol.” Speaking at Murrells Inlet VFW Hall in South…
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anti-first amendment s.1 passes congress
from kurt nimmo: It was bad enough George Bush Senior found it necessary to blame bloggers for creating what he deems an “adversarial and ugly climate” (never mind his particular bit of ugliness in Iraq more than a decade ago, eventually resulting in the murder of more than a million people), last month we had…
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news on the march
democrats take control of congressfrom ap/my way: In a day of ceremony and historic change, Rep. Nancy Pelosi became the nation’s first female House speaker on Thursday as Democrats eagerly took control of Congress for the final two years of President Bush’s term. “The Democrats are back,” rejoiced Pelosi, and she immediately set the rank-and-file…
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sacrifice translates into more dead people
from kurt nimmo: Is John “Keating Five” McCain sincerely clueless? Or is he simply a politician playing a cynical numbers game with Iraq and thus eventually condemning to certain death more troops that should be here at home, protecting our borders? McCain told General John Abizaid he didn’t understand why the United States cannot “control”…