... How can we believe him?" This persistence in repeating demonstrably false charges is something new in presidential politics. Worse than the lies have been the smears. McCain ran a television ad claiming that ...obvious attempt to camouflage the current unpopularity of his Republican brand, the insubstantiality of his vice-presidential choice, and his agreement on most issues -- especially economic matters -- with an exceedingly unpopular ...

...child. Palin requested that the legislature add another $1,200 to offset rising energy prices. Most legislators agreed. The check, to go out in a couple of weeks, will certainly boost her popularity before the presidential electioin, and Alaskan households are definitely hurting because of their high energy prices. But assuming that households use the money to pay energy bills, Alaska is sending part of the oil revenue it is receiving back ...

... a career screwup. | | | | Whaddya call Bush?. He's been a screwup at everything he's tried in | life. Name one occupation he's been good at. Beating the best the left has in a Presidential elections. He stole every election he's ever been in, you idiot. Well there you go Judy, you just named at least one thing that you think George Bush has been exceptional at and you weren't even really trying. Now ...

... preserve ballots from the 2004 presidential election. After a federal judge ... case until after the 2008 presidential election. The Ohio Southern District ... votes awarded to the Democratic presidential candidate, John Kerry, and to...David Cobb, the 2004 Green presidential candidate, raised hard disk incident...stated that the 2004 Ohio presidential results only had to be...Apart from discussing the 2004 presidential election in Ohio, Spoonamore's...

... as we continue to support a strong NATO. McCain even told El Pais, Spain's major newspaper, in April that he would bring Prime Minister Zapatero to the White House. (translation via America Blog) Republican presidential candidate, John McCain, is ready to change the policy of estrangement with the Spanish government that was put in place for four years now by George Bush. He declared that he was ready to fully normalize bilateral ...

... were mentioned in a recent filing in the Federal Register and come as a September 8 deadline for public comment has just passed. Created in 1984, the Sentencing Commission consists of seven presidential appointees who are then confirmed by the Senate Judiciary Committee. The panel is charged with making sentencing recommendations which automatically take effect unless Congress proactively votes to reject them. While Congress has ...

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... was and is indispensable, had swollen to an amount which formed nearly three-fourth of the exports of the whole United States and had become absolutely necessary to wants of civilized man…." Seven years later during the 1868 Presidential campaign, the Democratic Party’s campaign poster read: "This is a White Man's Country - Let the White Men Rule." At the turn of the century (1913), Democratic Senator Ben Tillman said, "We ...

...Leach-Bliley Act. The Gramm is former Sen. Phil Gramm, who was chair of the Senate Banking Committee when he acted as chief sponsor of both pieces of legislation. The same Gramm that McCain picked to co-chair his presidential campaign. Gramm proved an embarrassment when he cavalierly insisted there was no real crisis but only the panic of "whiners," but even on Monday as his "Crisis" ad ran, McCain, in person, was still denying that there...

...-mo launching of a third war in the border regions of Pakistan. The decision to make public a presidential order of last July authorizing American strikes inside Pakistan without seeking the approval of the Pakistani government ends a... outflank her by supporting a policy of U.S. strikes into Pakistan. Senator John McCain and Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin have now echoed this view and so it has become, by consensus, official U.S...