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  • TPMtv: McCain's Social Security Bamboozle

    POSTED BY BEN CRAW, JUNE 17 2008 12:45 PM | PERMALINK

    McCain's Social Security Bamboozle

    Your Daily Politics Video Blog: One of the most entertaining things about the 2008 campaign has been watching John McCain embrace all of President Bush's policies and word game flimflams. And there's no better example than Social Security where McCain has not only adopted President Bush's proposal to phase out Social Security and replace it with private investment accounts he's even adopted Bush's word game bamboozlement to try to trick voters into thinking he doesn't...

  • TPMtv: McCain Leaves Fox Speechless

    POSTED BY BEN CRAW, JUNE 04 2008 04:38 PM | PERMALINK

    McCain Leaves Fox Speechless

    Your Daily Politics Video Blog: If you were awful enough to delight in John McCain's prebuttal speech trainwreck last night, feast your eyes on the Fox News commentators trying to decide if it was just bad or downright terrible.

  • TPMtv: Sunday Show Roundup: Appeaser Teaser: Gen. Election Preview

    POSTED BY BEN CRAW, MAY 19 2008 12:16 PM | PERMALINK

    Sunday Show Roundup: Appeaser Teaser: Gen. Election Preview

    Your Daily Politics Video Blog: The general election matchup between John McCain and Barack Obama received a symbolic champagne bottle smash against the hull last week when President Bush implicitly attacked Barack Obama's foreign policy as appeasement during a speech in Jerusalem. Obama fired back, McCain jumped in, and the ship was off and sailing.

  • TPMtv: McCain's Lobbying Pals: Vol. 57

    POSTED BY BEN CRAW, MAY 13 2008 11:03 AM | PERMALINK

    TPMtv: McCain's Lobbying Pals: Vol. 57

    Your Daily Politics Video Blog: John McCain's got so much experience in dealing with rogue regimes that he's got the rogue regimes' lobbyists running his campaign.

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  • TPMtv: McCain's Yes, No, Maybe

    POSTED BY BEN CRAW, APRIL 30 2008 01:02 PM | PERMALINK

    McCain's Yes, No, Maybe

    Your Daily Politics Video Blog: Behind the recent "100 years" brouhaha has been Sen. McCain's claim that we should be seeing our occupation of Iraq following the model of our long-term troop deployments in Germany, Japan and South Korea. But yesterday, the Huffington Post noted that McCain actually hasn't been consistent on this point either -- sometimes saying we need to leave soon and that Iraqis will never accept a permanent US presence and other times that he thinks they'll be...

  • TPMtv: In His Own Words

    POSTED BY BEN CRAW, APRIL 29 2008 10:57 AM | PERMALINK

    In His Own Words

    Your Daily Politics Video Blog: 100 Years in Iraq? Yes, he really did say it. Again and again. We explain the whole story in today's episode of TPMtv.

  • TPMtv: Sunday Show Roundup: McCain's "Respectful" Campaign

    POSTED BY BEN CRAW, APRIL 28 2008 11:18 AM | PERMALINK

    Sunday Show Roundup: McCain's "Respectful" Campaign

    Your Daily Politics Video Blog: Sen. McCain's extreme makeover continues.  And Sunday show yakkers are eager to sign on.

  • TPMtv: McCain's Achilles Heel

    POSTED BY BEN CRAW, MARCH 26 2008 11:14 AM | PERMALINK

    McCain's Achilles Heel

    Your Daily Politics Video Blog: 100 years?  1,000 years?  10,000 years!?!  Think what you want about who's being unfair, who should drop and the like in the primary race.  The Democrats are missing a big opportunity to strike early at John McCain's Achilles heel -- his lockstep support for an extremely unpopular war.  We lay out the key points in today's episode of TPMtv.

  • TPMtv: Unfit to Serve

    POSTED BY BEN CRAW, MARCH 19 2008 04:11 PM | PERMALINK

    Unfit to Serve

    Your Daily Politics Video Blog: The gaffes are the least of it. In today's episode of TPMtv, we discuss why John McCain's poor grasp of foreign policy and military strategy makes him a dangerous choice for the role of commender-in-chief.

  • Possible McCain VP Strategy

    POSTED BY ALEXANDRA STEIGRAD, MARCH 06 2008 03:05 PM | PERMALINK

    U.S. News & World Report suggested today that John McCain may be pressured into picking a female Vice President in order to straddle the gender gap, regardless of who is at the top of the Democrat ticket. US News:

    “Party strategists and even a few of his own outside advisers want the 71-year-old to consider a woman because it would soften his edge and help cut the gender gap that could favor the Democrats this year with either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama at the top of the ticket. Among the names...