McCain's call for an "integrated" "multi-front" plan for victory in Aghanistan is just gobbledygook for "stay the course but make tweaks around the margins."
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
Sen. Joseph Biden started his speech to the Center for U.S. Global Engagement on Tuesday with the caveat that he is not an Obama insider. But he certa...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
President Bush, during a news conference on Tuesday, compared current-day Afghanistan to the war in Iraq in the height of its insurgency. In the proce...
HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Weiner | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics
UPDATE JUNE 15: McCain made the same mistake again today during a town hall meeting in New Mexico. Watch the video below. At a press availability...
Daniel Levy | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics
So here was the McCain campaign accusing Obama of being insufficiently multilateral and pro-diplomacy in its foreign policy. It's hard to know where to begin.
Lionel Beehner | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
Though Obama has been trashed about his reversal on Iraq, he is right on the biggest foreign policy question facing voters: Is Iraq the central front on the war on terror or is Afghanistan?
AFP | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday challenged the candidates vying for the US presidency to a debate and called for "fundamental change" ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics
On Thursday, aides to Barack Obama continued what appears to be a concerted efforts to shift the foreign policy debate from Iraq to Afghanistan. Harpi...
ABC News | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics
ABC News' Bret Hovell Reports: Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will join presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain in Mexico City Thursday ...
CNN's Political Ticker | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics
After a scheduled meeting between John McCain and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Tuesday, the presumptive Republican nominee was briefed on the upco...
Think Progress | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics
John McCain misspoke and confused his African countries while talking to reporters on the Straight Talk Express today. This time, he was bailed out no...
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
The substance of any proposed economic reforms is less important, frankly, than McCain demonstrating that he can, in fact, understand the economy and discuss it in some depth.
Max Bergmann | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics
John McCain had George Bush's foreign policy before George Bush. This is not just some campaign line -- it happens to be the truth.
Olivier Kamanda | Posted 06.08.2008 | Home
The presidential candidates have all articulated a vision of U.S. world leadership. That much is expected, here and abroad. But for John McCain, the future of American leadership is stuck in the past.
Robert Creamer | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics
Democrats must now focus on accomplishing ten critical tasks that are key to winning the presidency this fall.
Jon Wolfsthal | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics
John McCain's speech on nuclear weapons today seems to adopt the narrowest of lenses in dealing with nuclear weapons, and suggests he doesn't really get the complexity of these issues.
David Paul Appell | Posted 05.26.2008 | Politics
In declaring his administration would meet with the Raúl Castro regime without preconditions, Obama was not being naïve but impeccably realistic.
RJ Eskow | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics
If you're a woman considering a McCain vote or an abstention, why not just call it "Feminists Against Women?" Or how about "Whites Against Blacks?"
Dylan Loewe | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics
What is becoming unmistakably evident from the first major brawl of the general election is that McCain should be afraid of the fact that Obama is not like other Democrats.
Reuters | Steve Holland | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics
Republican presidential candidate John McCain marks Cuban Independence Day on Tuesday with a fresh slap at Democratic front-runner Barack Obama for a ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics
Storied Bush administration anger-droid John Bolton injects himself into the harebrained "appeasement" debate raging between the Obama and McCain camp...
James P. Rubin | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics
The McCain question and answer I released yesterday was a full question and a full answer. Nothing is taken out of context. But in order to avoid further controversy and distraction, I have dug out what I believe to be all of the discussion on Hamas during our interview.
Moira Whelan | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics
McCain is displaying the same plan as a candidate for Miss America to bring about World Peace -- he hopes that if he says it, it will happen, but more importantly, it might increase his chances to wear the crown.
John K. Wilson | Posted 04.30.2008 | Home
McCain said we'd stay in Iraq "100 years" if there were no casualties. But someone who thinks we can occupy Iraq and never be attacked is a complete idiot. Not even George W. Bush is that stupid.
Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics
Speaking Monday, former Reagan administration official Robert McFarlane declared that McCain's first year as president would be "neocon redux."
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Lionel Beehner | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics