"Florida, are you ready to hire us?" Sarah Palin shouted at the crowd. ...more

November 1, 2008

Republican John McCain is trying to keep Florida from swinging to the Democrats with a cross-state bus tour and a series of 'Joe the Plumber' events aimed at blue-collar workers. ...more

October 23, 2008

John McCain dismissively called rival Barack Obama "that one," Obama mocked McCain's "Straight Talk Express," and both left the debate stage to return to the campaign trail Wednesday. ...more

October 8, 2008

We hear it every election season: Candidates for political office seldom give straight answers. Instead, much of what we learn about them comes from political advertisements developed by their opponents and special-interest groups. ...more

September 24, 2008

The "Straight Talk Express" has detoured into doublespeak. Republican presidential nominee John McCain, a self-proclaimed tell-it-like-it-is maverick, keeps saying his running mate, Sarah Palin, killed the federally funded Bridge to Nowhere when, in fact, she pulled her support only after the project became a political embarrassment. ...more

September 12, 2008

LETTERS Edwards' Affair: McCain Is Less Honorable "We" are upset about Sen. (John) Edwards' affair, which he ended over a year ago and obviously was forgiven for by his wife. ...more

August 17, 2008

For months, John McCain's presidential campaign was a near-constant swirl of free-ranging chats with voters, garrulous sessions with reporters and quips from the candidate that often had little to do with the day's planned message. ...more

August 15, 2008

What goes around, comes around. Sen. McCain's long-time allegiance to President Bush has finally paid off. His position on the Iraqi war, amnesty bill, Free Trade bills, prescriptive drug bill, pension exemption for corporations bill, the China negotiation process, you name it, Sen. McCain was behind Bush all the way. What with all the talk about change, even by McCain, guess who endorses McCain? The establishment! Sen. McCain, war hero, beloved by all Americans, now vaulted to the front in the Republican race. How fitting. He was brutally trashed by those supporters of Bush in South Carolina in 2000, but said nothing (perhaps because of what happened to him in Vietnam). He did not blame President Bush. In fact, he supported just about all of Bush's policies, especially Iraq. All well and good, except for one key factor. He has reversed himself on almost all of them in the last two months, except one, the Iraqi war. He now proclaims his Straight Talk Express, which appears to have lost a wheel. He is promising just about everything, even getting Osama bin Ladin, because "he knows how." If so, why not now? He is pandering to every segment of the population, even the conservatives. He is counting on the military for support; yet, the government has exploited them from day one of the war. ...more

February 15, 2008

Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama faced off in their first one-to-one debate of the presidential race on Thursday night, delivering their final arguments before the multistate contests on Tuesday on who is better prepared for the White House and highlighting their differences on issues such as health care and immigration. ...more

February 1, 2008

Sen. John McCain's famous 'Straight Talk Express' was gone, replaced by a bus emblazoned with a sign reading 'No Surrender.' ...more

September 13, 2007