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

NORFOLK, Va. - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Wednesday accused Republican John McCain's campaign of using "lies and phony outrage and Swift-boat politics" in claiming he used a sexist comment against vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. ...more

September 10, 2008

In a Republican Party news conference call Friday to introduce a new John McCain campaign video, retired Col. Bud Day, a friend and occasional political spokesman for McCain, said the Iraq war is a repeat of Vietnam, and that Muslims "have said either we kneel or they're going to kill us." ...more

July 19, 2008

Help Returning Soldiers Regarding "A Hero At 26, War Haunted Him The Rest Of His Days" (Nation/World, July 9): ...more

July 16, 2008

Citing the specter of attacks from independent groups on the right, Sen. Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, announced Thursday that he would opt out of the public financing system for the general election campaign. ...more

June 20, 2008

Sen. Barack Obama's refusal to wear an American flag lapel pin along with a photo of him not putting his hand over his heart during the National Anthem led conservatives on the Internet and in the media to question his patriotism. ...more

February 24, 2008

A conservative antitax group on Wednesday expanded its ad campaign against Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, helped by a major GOP donor who bankrolled ads that questioned Democrat John Kerry's war record during the 2004 campaign. ...more

December 27, 2007

Sen. John Kerry, whose 2004 presidential campaign was torpedoed by critics of his Vietnam War record, said Friday that he has personally accepted a Texas oilman's offer to pay $1 million to anyone who can disprove even a single charge of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. ...more

November 17, 2007

Four years after her CIA cover was blown in a newspaper column, Valerie Plame is settling scores with the Bush administration, Republican lawmakers and the journalists involved in the White House leak scandal. ...more

October 18, 2007