John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) is the senior United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican nominee for president in the 2008 United States election. McCain followed his father and grandfather, both four-star admirals, into the United States Navy, graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1958. He became a naval aviator, flying ground-attack aircraft from aircraft carriers. During the Vietnam War, he nearly lost his life in the 1967 USS Forrestal fire. In October 1967, while... read more
Source: WikipediaFrom Poynter Institute Dated 21 May 2012 The New York Times misidentified the man Sen. John McCain called an “agent of intolerance”: Because of an editing error, an article last Sunday about Mitt Romney’s commencement speech at Liberty University misstated, in some editions, the year...
From The Dated 21 May 2012 In Tennessee, Republicans control the legislature, the governorship, and both U.S. Senate seats. In 2008, the presidential race there wasn’t even close: John McCain won by 15 percentage points over Barack Obama. So it comes as something as a surprise that...
From The Dated 20 May 2012 Republican strategist Karl Rove blasted the now-rejected proposal that would have aired ads linking President Barack Obama to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. “Speaking from the perspective of the super PAC, you want to try to do things that you think will...
From The Dated 19 May 2012 Michigan hasn't gone Republican in a presidential election since 1988, yet the GOP nevertheless has high hopes for the state in November. As the place where Mitt Romney was born and where his father served as governor -- and also a...
From Crooks and Liars Dated 19 May 2012 Click here to view this media Fox News host Chris Wallace on Friday suggested that it would be "legitimate" for presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to attack President Barack Obama for his association with Rev....
From Michelle Malkin Dated 18 May 2012 **Written by Doug Powers Mitt Romney is now in the process of sifting through potential running mates (for all I know, so is Barack Obama ). Let the vetting process begin : The team for Beth Myers,...
From The Dated 18 May 2012 After his eastern Ohio swing Thursday, Joe Biden made a surprise visit across the state line to Washington, Pa., where he mingled with residents at Hogfather's BBQ, a local barbeque joint. The blue-collar southwestern Pennsylvania county isn’t exactly Barack Obama country:...
From Taegan Goddard's Political Wire Dated 18 May 2012 Mitt Romney's campaign has begun vetting running mates, The Hill reports. "The team for Beth Myers, the Romney adviser leading the search for the GOP's vice presidential nominee, has already contacted potential running mates... By...
From CTV Dated 17 May 2012 The U.S. political world was afire on Thursday over an explosive report that Republican party strategists are proposing doing "exactly what John McCain would not allow us to do" by launching personal, racially tinged attacks against U.S. President Barack Obama...
From American Spectator Dated 17 May 2012 Both David Axelrod and Jim Messina put out the bait and unfortunately Mitt Romney took it . Joe Ricketts, formerly of TD Ameritrade and whose family owns the Chicago Cubs, proposed putting together a series...
From The Huffington Post Dated 17 May 2012 GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Thursday said that he disapproves of a Republican super PAC's plan to link President Barack Obama to Rev. Jeremiah Wright's inflammatory comments, a tactic that had been used by some in 2008,...
From The New York Times Dated 17 May 2012 Senator John McCain of Arizona repudiated a proposal by Republican strategists to "do exactly what John McCain would not let us do," launch an incendiary, racially-tinged attack on the president.
From The Dated 17 May 2012 Mark Salter, a longtime John McCain adviser who worked with admaker Fred Davis on the 2008 campaign, had this to say to Jake Tapper in the wake of the Rev. Wright outside group ad campaign pitch: “Fred is a...
From The Dated 17 May 2012 The GOP operatives hoping to revive the fiery sermons of Rev. Jeremiah Wright to hurt President Barack Obama in the November election had some harsh words for Sen. John McCain. But the Arizona Republican said he's not about to let...
From Chicago Tribune Dated 17 May 2012 JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — Mitt Romney said Thursday that he rejected the proposal presented to a GOP 'super PAC' that intended to tie President Obama to incendiary comments by his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. — a risky...

