McCain Often Repeated 100 Years In Iraq Statement - McCain Source

John McCain would consider his words imprudent now, and would like to take them back. However, when he was trying to win the Republican Nomination by war-mongering and advocating positions just to the right of Atilla-the-Hun, this rhetoric served him very well, and helped him win Republican primaries.
The McCain Source has collected some of [...]

Daily Kos: 100 years? “That’d be fine with me.”

As noted below, John McCain told Charlie Rose that he did not think it would be a good idea to maintain a long presence in Iraq. In an interview with Rose, John McCain denied that a long-term presence in Iraq would be a good idea:
“Do you think that this - Korea, South Korea is an [...]

McCain the Destroyer - Paul Krugman

John McCain recently argued that to not lower the capital gains tax would hurt widows, orphans, and hard-working citizens who have 401-K plans.
Why, John McCain would never allow a tax on hard-working Americans! The only problem is that the financial elite in this country would stand the most to gain by a cut in the [...]

Flashback: As Katrina hit, McCain celebrated 69th birthday with Bush.

John McCain says that he deplores the terrible response to Katrina, but has only made one visit to New Orleans before his recent political speech there.
Think Progress comments on the Newsweek the story on what McCain was doing the day Katrina hit, and destruction of New Orleans was beginning.

Speaking in New Orleans about Hurricane Katrina [...]

MotherJones Blog: John McCain’s Miserable Record on Hurricane Katrina

John McCain’s Time for Action tour arrived in New Orleans Thursday, where McCain toured the hurricane-damaged 9th Ward and criticized both the Bush Administration and Congress for its handling of the disaster. Lamenting the pace of recovery, McCain said, “I want to assure you it will never happen again in this country. You have my [...]

More McCain Façade Peels in the Heat

John McCain’s corruption will be coming under more and more scrutiny as we near the general election. Unfortunately for him, despite flying under the radar while the Clinton-Obama contest dominates the news, the Washington Post and New York Times have done a little digging of their own. If I were John McCain, I’d double-up on [...]

Video: The Fabulous Life of John McCain

When you are trying to figure out how to make ends meet, pay for your child’s college tuition, or even a tank of gas, take comfort that John McCain says that you can always take a second job, or skip a vacation to solve your financial woes.
Did I say “financial woes”?  John McCain says that [...]

Schieffer Reminds Us That It’s The Patriotism, Not The Lapel Pin

With any luck, Bob Schieffer’s commentary at the close of Face The Nation will end all further discussion of lapel pins.
“Finally, today, I watched the ABC debate the other night when that question came up again about why Senator Obama doesn’t wear a flag pin in his lapel.
“Since no one asked me, here is my [...]

McCain, Iraq and Confusion About ‘Al-Qaida’

After hearing John McCain confuse Sunni Al Qaeda with Iran and the Shi’ites, it is not very comforting to hear him say that Al Qaeda is the enemy in Iraq. Al Qaeda (Al Qaeda in Iraq) is approximately 2% of the insurgency in Iraq, and is not the Al Qaeda of 9-11 that makes its [...]

McCain: ‘There’s Been Great Progress Economically’ Since Bush Took Office

Despite the first economic expansion that resulted in a decrease in earnings for the middle-class, John McCain thinks that Americans are doing just fine.
This Think Progress article mentions that maybe McCain is basing his opinions on the economy by his personal fortune, which has risen by $18 million since 1999.
Oh, that’s right! It’s “Cindy’s Money” [...]

TPMtv - John McCain and 100 Years of Quietude

Josh Marshall points out the fallacies in John McCain’s argument that we have troops in other countries, such as Japan, for decades, which is just fine with everyone as long as troops are not being attacked.
Iraq will not permit an occupying force to stay permanently. The occupation would always be a violent [...]

DNC McCain Myth Buster: John McCain and American Security

Today’s McCain Myth: John McCain understands the threats America faces in the Middle East and Asia.

John McCain says he “understands national security and the threats facing our nation.” Yet at the same time, he has said he would keep our troops in Iraq for 100 years, despite the fact that key military and political experts [...]

Did McCain Avoid Voting on a Key 9/11 Bill Because He’s Afraid of the Neocons?

John McCain very cleverly avoids voting on issues that are good for the United States because it might offend his Neocon friends:
Some of John McCain’s best friends are Neocons. So much so that he signed a letter in 1998 to President Clinton, that among other things stated that “the only acceptable strategy is one that [...]

Video: How do you get to 100 years in Iraq?

Here is a very thought-provoking video from MoveOn.org.  I think the Nexis database is one of the most underutilized tools by media professionals, allowing people to search for specific video, and correlate trends and changes in positions (or not) over time.
Jon Stewart demonstrates the value of this type of video research on the Daily Show [...]

Ann Coulter - Dreams From My Father, Lame Excuses From My Grandfather

ad nauseam adv. To a disgusting or ridiculous degree; to the point of nausea. [Latin ad , to + nauseam , accusative of nausea]
I have decided to venture into the primordial ooze that is the right wing swamp, inspired in part by Stephanie Miller, whose talk radio show plays clips each morning from various right-wing [...]