The attendees, who dined buffet style because there were only a few tables scattered around, had each paid $50,000 to be there, according to the pool reporter's notes. Let's do the math on that: That's $5,000 per minute of candidate speech per person.
John McCain's campaign on Tuesday unveiled a new squadron of politicians whose duty will be to battle perceptions that are quickly forming about the Republican party's vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska.
Invigorated by back-to-back political conventions, Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama grappled for the mantle of change Friday as the fall race for the presidency took off in states teeming with the independent voters they needed to win.
Several analysts have speculated as to why John McCain plucked Sarah Palin, an obscure governor from the "forgotten" state of Alaska as his selection for Vice President. While there are many reasons that make her an appealing choice for him, the primary reason has only been touched on, but will become more apparent in the coming weeks.
As the Beijing Olympics begin, it's only appropriate that we highlight the first annual Candidate Girl Olympics, Obama Girl vs. McCain Girl.
Fox's Chris Wallace asked Brit Hume to consider John McCain's potential running mates. Hume went through a list of choices, saying that McCain would go with safe choices, that he wasn't far enough behind to go for the "long ball," and that he certainly wouldn't pick anyone older than him (is there such a possibility?).
It isn't an easy card to play, but you will most likely be seeing the combined message in the weeks to come. Basically, by pushing for an intricate yet easily understood plan that could kill both birds with a single stone, Obama can position himself as the man with the plan that can save the dollars now and the world in the long run.
Global warming is unquestionably the most pressing environmental issue facing whoever ends up in the White House in January 2009. Not only does climate change impact -- and in most cases exacerbate -- other environmental problems, it has even wider implications for the economy and society at large. Luckily for all of us, both Barack Obama and John McCain are committed to tackling climate change, although their proposed approaches differ in significant ways.
President Bush and Senator John McCain have long been in agreement on major elements of American foreign policy, particularly in their approach to the “axis of evil” countries of Iran and North Korea, and their commitment to staying the course in Iraq.
On Friday, at a town hall, McCain made a statement that might be considered a Freudian slip.
McCain said:
I'll do everything in my power to get those offshore reserves exploited ...
The co-host of a recent top-dollar fundraiser for Sen. John McCain oversaw the payment of roughly $1.7 million to a Colombian paramilitary group that is today designated a terrorist organization by the United States.
Obama's silence on taxes is a bit puzzling, because independent analyses of his plan compared with John McCain's well-advertised tax cuts show that the vast majority of Americans would be better off under Obama than McCain.
That bears repeating: Obama would cut taxes for ordinary people more than McCain would.
On this week's season finale of Saturday Night Live, John McCain addressed an issue that is frequently brought up: his age.
Barack Obama said on Saturday he would be willing to campaign jointly with Republican John McCain and acknowledged he needed to better introduce himself to Americans.
Barack Obama's image has been tarnished by his past association with Rev. Wright, although he's since distanced himself from Wright (interestingly, despite the publicity over this many still believe Obama to be a Muslim). It turns out that John McCain has a similar problem, with the pastor he has called his "spiritual guide."
“I used to like John McCain, but he’s aligning himself too closely with what Bush did, and that’s just not what I want for this country,” Mrs. Morgan, who is 56, said when asked to explain her rejection of the presumptive Republican nominee.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain said on Thursday that he would be reluctant to ever declare "mission accomplished" in Iraq, adding that President Bush's early predictions of success fueled public resentment over the war.
The Republican and Democratic presidential candidates differ strikingly in their approaches to taxes and spending, but their fiscal plans have at least one thing in common: each could significantly swell the budget deficit and increase the national debt by trillions of dollars, according to tax and budget experts.
For better or worse — and many Democrats fear it is for worse — the race goes on.
Republican John McCain said Sunday that cutting taxes and stimulating the economy are more important than balancing the budget, and accused both Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama of supporting tax hikes that would worsen the impact of a recession.
