Mccain Foreign Policy

Sam Stein

McCain Advisers Try To Dispel His Hawkish Image

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.04.2008 | Politics


There is a growing effort on behalf of McCain surrogates here in Minneapolis to paint the Arizona Republican as far less hawkish on foreign policy tha...

McCain For Dummies: Top Ten Reasons Not To Vote For The Maverick

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 09.03.2008 | Home


Jayne Lyn Stahl

Number 7: McCain was for Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, and David Souter before he was against them. At Saddleback he told the evangelical crowd that, if he had it to do over again, he would never have voted in favor of their nominations.

Sam Stein

McCain Surrogates Struggle To Defend Palin's Experience

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.02.2008 | Politics


There is, it seems, a dearth of effective talking points on Sarah Palin's lack of foreign policy experience. On Monday, McCain campaign spokesman Tuck...

McCain vs Biden: Not All "Foreign Policy Experience" Is Created Equal

Arianna Huffington | Posted 08.25.2008 | Politics


Arianna Huffington

The past seven-plus years have shown us that "foreign policy experience," in and of itself, isn't all it's cracked up to be. For Exhibit A of this look no further than George Bush's most "experienced" foreign policy advisor: Dick Cheney. How's that working out?

The Game Is Over--The Media and Rick Warren Can't Protect McCain Anymore

Larry Gellman | Posted 08.23.2008 | Politics


Larry Gellman

When it comes to Barack Obama, the news media does its job with a vengeance. When Obama goes to Germany and draws a crowd of 200,000 they ask if he's ...

Pulling Away From McCain After the Convention

Daniel Burrell | Posted 08.21.2008 | Politics


Daniel Burrell

Obama must challenge McCain on the single issue where he remains strongest. Without the national security and foreign policy legs to stand on, the McCain candidacy goes nowhere.

Sam Stein

Obama Accuses McCain Of Hiding Behind The Surge

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.21.2008 | Politics


Continuing the campaign battles over issues of war and patriotism, Barack Obama accused John McCain of using the successes of the surge to hide the fa...

Defending Against the Real Threats

Rep. Ellen Tauscher | Posted 08.20.2008 | Politics


Rep. Ellen Tauscher

Republicans in Congress, led by McCain, are once again reacting to Russian saber-rattling in a manner that reflects their complete misunderstanding of the threats the United States and our allies face.

John McCain's Secretive Plan to "Kill the UN"

Johann Hari | Posted 08.20.2008 | Politics


Johann Hari

McCain has decided to build up an innocuous-sounding alternative called a 'League of Democracies -- an alliance of countries the US labels democratic that can be used to legitimate US military actions.

A Pundit Not a President

Max Bergmann | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics


Max Bergmann

McCain's approach and tone on foreign policy has always been more emblematic of a TV pundit rather than a sober president.

Who's Presumptuous Now? McCain Articulates U.S. Foreign Policy in Georgia Conflict

Kent Greenfield | Posted 08.15.2008 | Politics


Kent Greenfield

It strikes me as presumptuous indeed for McCain to telephone the president of one of the warring nations, especially to promise something serious. What exactly does "we are all Georgians" mean?

Sam Stein

McCain Adviser Arrested Once For Gun Violation On Capitol Hill

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.15.2008 | Politics


John McCain's chief foreign policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann, is known for his aggressive posture on foreign policy, having served as an architect of...

Sam Stein

McCain: "In The 21st Century Nations Don't Invade Other Nations"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics


Speaking to reporters about the situation in Georgia, Sen. John McCain denounced the aggressive posture of Russia by claiming that:"in the 21st centur...

Obama's Vacation Assignment: Prepping to Make the Case that McCain Isn't "Ready to Lead" on National Security

Arianna Huffington | Posted 08.11.2008 | Politics


Arianna Huffington

Voters trust McCain on the war on terror; Obama needs to show them every day why they shouldn't.

McCain After 9/11: Wrong About Everything

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 08.04.2008 | Home


Stephen C. Rose

On Letterman that October, our experience candidate, was selling Bush's disastrous foreign policy, just as he is today, and in the signature Bush style: smugly and crudely.

McCain Is Taking Foreign Policy Advice From This Guy?

Lionel Beehner | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics


Lionel Beehner

Like all right-wing foreign policy hacks, Randy Scheunemann is a fervent believer in the sanctity of American power as an infallible force for good.

Does "Pro-Israel" Mean Anything?

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 07.28.2008 | Politics


MJ Rosenberg

Supporting the status quo on Israel is the path of least resistance. It is easy and risk-free. But it only adds to Israel's security problems -- and America's declining strategic position in the Middle East.

McCain More Conservative Than Bush

New York Times | ELISABETH BUMILLER | Posted 07.26.2008 | Politics


President Bush and Senator John McCain have long been in agreement on major elements of American foreign policy, particularly in their approach to the...

War President McCain

Jeffrey Klein | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics


Jeffrey Klein

McCain is not as diabolical as Nixon, but he remains ideologically confined by the same faulty hawkish logic the U.S. used to lose the Vietnam War.

Like Vagueness? Elect McCain Commander In Chief

Lionel Beehner | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics


Lionel Beehner

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."

Sam Stein

Biden Praises Obama's Spine, Tells McCain To Study History

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...

Sam Stein

Bush Echoes Obama: Afghanistan Is Descending Into Iraq-Like Insurgency

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...

McCain Defends Czechoslovakia, A Non-Existent Country -- Again

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...

The McCain Campaign Tries Cross-Dressing on Iran

Daniel Levy | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics


Daniel Levy

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.

How to Judge the Candidates' Foreign Policy Experience

Lionel Beehner | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics


Lionel Beehner

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?


 

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