McCain Praised Banking Deregulation Earlier
This Month: In a magazine article published earlier this month, John McCain not only claimed credit for the banking deregulation, but he hailed it as a model for what should be done with health care
www.jedreport.com/2008/09/mccain-praised-banking-deregul.html

Pakistan Will Now Become McCain’s Next Flip-Flop
By Brandon Friedman
Like the economists who pleaded until hoarse about a coming financial meltdown, foreign policy types have been doing the same with regard to the situation in Pakistan. Indeed, Pakistan is a nation on the verge. …
www.vetvoice.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1922

Full interview of McCain on Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba, and Spain
By Clare Sammells
He says Chavez is moving Venezuela towards an autocracy, and Bolivia is a similar situation — so similar that he has nothing specific to say about the nation. He emphasizes that the US, because of its human rights record,…
gringotambo.wordpress.com/2008/09/21/full-interview
-of-mccain-on-venezuela-bolivia-cuba-and-spain/

Venezuela Accuses McCain of ‘Fear-Mongering’ With Chavez Ad
By Associated Press
The Venezuela Information Office condemned the ad Friday as an “attempt at fear-mongering” that demonizes Venezuela and Chavez. The US-based office, which is funded by Chavez’s government, said his words “were taken out of context and …
feeds.foxnews.com/~r/foxnews/elections/~3/398427984/

Venezuela criticizes McCain ad targeting Chavez
The Associated Press
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela is taking issue with a John McCain campaign ad focusing on President Hugo Chavez. The Spanish-language TV spot is …
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h3n-TWy1
7Psjl9OFU6M9VLqySZCAD93AMCV80

Q&A: McCain, Obama on Iraq, Iran, Putin
The Associated Press
What they’ve said on Iraq, Iran and then-Russian President Vladimir Putin. IRAQ MCCAIN: “We are going to be there for some period of time, …
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h2OWAseQ
51FM5ebcKlVCP3lPGFkwD93AHQBG0

John McCain’s radio: Jab at Obama
The Swamp – Tribune’s Washington Bureau – Washington,DC,USA by Mark Silva Republican John McCain tackles the economic crisis in his weekly radio address, in which he points to the “corruption” of Washington and its …
www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/
09/john_mccains_radio_jab_at_obam.html

Obama Attacks McCain on Regulation, Lobby Ties
Washington Post – United States
Barack Obama unloaded on John McCain this morning at a rally in Daytona Beach. The Democratic presidential nominee used McCain’s own words to attack him as …
voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/20/
obama_attacks_mccain_on_regula.html

The Palin/McCain ticket
Atlanta Journal Constitution – GA, USA
She brings people and attention and excitement, none of which John McCain can attract on his own. That’s one reason he’s keeping her right by his side in …
www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/bookman/
entries/2008/09/20/the_palinmccain_ticket.html

McCain happy to exploit stars’ attack on Sarah Palin
Melbourne Herald Sun – Australia
With all the celluloid frenzy, no wonder Senator Obama’s wily Republican presidential opponent, John McCain, saw an opening to skewer him in an attack …
www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24375667-663,00.html

McCain and Obama take science test
guardian.co.uk – UK
Photo: AP John McCain, Republican candidate for US President, has joined his Democratic opponent Barack Obama in explaining how his administration would …
www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2008/sep/19/
obama.mccain.debate?gusrc=rss&feed=science

McCain’s negative ads could backfire
Arizona Republic – Phoenix,AZ,USA
John McCain has enjoyed an image any politician would covet, that of a high-minded, likable maverick with a reputation for putting the good of the country …
www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/
2008/09/20/20080920mccain-image0920.html

Obama, McCain weigh in on financial crisis
San Francisco Chronicle – CA, USA
McCain spoke earlier at a campaign rally in Wisconsin, linking Obama to the“do-nothing” Congress and again accusing Obama of doing nothing to aid his…
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/
c/a/2008/09/20/MNPS131AMB.DTL

McCain and Obama different on style as well as substance
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
The choice between John McCain and Barack Obama is not only between contrasting parties and policies; it’s also between two markedly different styles of …
www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-asse
ss20-2008sep20,0,7459654.story

In Rust Belt, Biden rips McCain, but is anyone listening?
Houston Chronicle – United States
Joseph Biden — the Other Running Mate — has been absolutely butchering
John McCain across the Rust Belt this week. It’s not clear who has noticed.
…
www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/nation/6012398.html

McCain’s financial fall guy; foresight or folly?
Reuters India – Mumbai,India
“I would fire him,” McCain declared on Thursday. After a week that started with McCain blundering by talking about the ailing economy’s strong fundamentals, …
in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-35570620080919

McCain’s bad week
By media@politico.com (Ben Smith)
Wall Street’s breakdown and bailout are likely to improve Barack Obama’s odds of reaching the White House — a point not lost on John McCain, whose stumbles this week seemed to lend credence to the view that economics is not his strong …
www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/McCains_bad_week.html

The McCain plan for Healthcare
By kos
It’s really, really good:. Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst …
www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/19/212321/633/865/604244

If the McCain campaign is afraid of Maddow…
By Steve Benen(sbenen@washingtonmonthly.com)
Sarah Palin’s (R-AK) inclusion on the McCain ticket has had with women
voters (according to the latest CBS-New York Times poll), Maddow last night noted that McCain surrogates have repeatedly declined invitations to appear on the show. …
www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_09/014802.php

McCain’s bad timing on SS reform
By Frank James
(AP) _ Wall Street turmoil left John McCain scrambling to explain why the fundamentals of the US economy remained strong. It also left him defending his support for privately investing Social Security money in the same markets that had …
www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/
2008/09/mccain_social_security_private.html

McCain camp rebuffs Fox request
By media@politico.com (Jonathan Martin)
Blog: McCain camp rebuffs Fox request.
www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/
0908/McCain_camp_rebuffs_Fox_request.html

Palin to Dump McCain From GOP Ticket By R J Shulman 20 Sep 2008
Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin announced today that she has asked top GOP officials to fire John McCain as the GOP presidential candidate. “He has served his country well,” Palin told a cheering overflow crowd in this southwestern Indiana city, “but he is starting to drag down my numbers, so he’ll have to go. To make sure he’s gone,” she said, “I’ll offer one hundred and fifty dollars to the first person to shoot him and bring me his cut off right hand — just kidding. I don’t need to see the hand, a faxed picture will do.” (Satire!)
www.legitgov.org/shulman_palin_dumps_mccain_200908.html

ABC: New Doubts Over Palin’s Troopergate Claims —Internal Government Document Contradicts Sarah Palin, Campaign 19 Sep 2008
An internal government document obtained by ABC News appears to contradict Sarah Palin’s most recent explanation for why she fired her public safety chief, the move which prompted the now-contested state probe into “Troopergate.” Fighting back against allegations she may have fired her then-Public Safety Commissioner, Walt Monegan, for refusing to go along with a personal vendetta, Palin on Monday argued in a legal filing that she fired Monegan because he had a “rogue mentality” and was bucking her administration’s directives. “The last straw,” her lawyer argued, came when he planned a trip to Washington, D.C., to seek federal funds for an aggressive anti-sexual-violence program. The McCain-Palin campaign echoed the charge in a press release it distributed Monday, concurrent with Palin’s legal filing. “Mr. Monegan persisted in planning to make the unauthorized lobbying trip to D.C.,” the release stated. But the governor’s staff authorized the trip, according to an internal travel document from the Department of Public Safety, released Friday in response to an open records request.
abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5844710

Dumbf*ck city: McCain on U.S. economy: from ‘strong’ to ‘total crisis’ in 36 hours 17 Sep 2008
Early this week, as the American financial system absorbed one of its biggest shocks in generations, Senator John McCain said, as he had many times before, that he believed the fundamentals of the economy were “strong.” Hours later he backpedaled, explaining that he had meant that American workers, whom he described as the backbone of the economy, were productive and resilient. By Tuesday he was calling the economic situation “a total crisis” and denouncing “greed” on Wall Street and in Washington. Meantime, he moved from adamant opposition to resigned acceptance of the big government bailouts.
www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/17/america/mccain.php

McCain defends retirement accounts amid stock dive 19 Sep 2008
Wall Street turmoil left John McCain scrambling to explain why the fundamentals of the U.S. economy remained strong. It also left him defending his support for privately investing Social Security money in the same markets that had tanked earlier in the week.
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080919/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_social_security

McCain loses ground as Palin bounce shrinks amid economic turmoil 19 Sep 2008
John McCain… was confronted with strong evidence that his Democratic opponent, Barack Obama, has wiped out his postconvention bounce and regained the initiative. After a week of economic turmoil and his damaging remark on Monday that “the fundamentals of our economy are strong” – spoken as Lehman Brothers was declaring bankruptcy – Mr McCain aggressively sought to regain his footing.
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_
americas/us_elections/article4783439.ece

McCain Plays the Race Card By Karen Tumulty 18 Sep 2008
When politicians interject race into a campaign, they seldom do it directly. Consider McCain’s new ad, which the campaign says it will be airing nationally. This is hardly subtle: Sinister images of two black men, followed by one of a vulnerable-looking elderly white woman.
www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/
09/mccain_plays_the_race_card.html

And they thought Hurricane Ike was bad. Hello, Texas! —Oops! Libertarians fight to keep Obama, McCain off Texas ballot By Mark Yannone, R. G. Ratcliffe, and Richard Dunham 19 Sep 2008
One way or another, there’s going to be a weenie roast in Texas. It seems that the Republican and Democrat parties missed their 70-day filing deadlines and failed to submit their presidential nominees’ names to the Texas Secretary of State for certification by August 26, as required by state law.
yannone.blogspot.com/2008/09/and-they-
thought-hurricane-ike-was-bad.html

McCain Attacks Wall Street Greed-While 83 Wall Street Lobbyists Work for His Campaign:
McCain has been quick with fiery, populist-tinged speeches. But one thing has been missing: any acknowledgment that McCain’s own campaign has been loaded with the type of people he’s been denouncing.
tinyurl.com/4xb92n

Would John McCain’s Election Really Represent a Third Bush Term?
FOXNews – USA
But the Wall Street Journal reports Venezuela could become a victim of the investment bank’s failure. You see, the Venezuelan government holds about $300 …
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,425604,00.html

Study: Bombing Iran will take years
By aaron
Senator McCain says he would intensify pressure on Iran through sanctions before attacking the country – under the pretext that Tehran, a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), seeks nuclear weaponry. …
www.infowars.com/?p=4700

Janis L. Karpinski | Palin Can Launch Us Back in Time
www.truthout.org/article/palin-can-launch-us-back-time
Janis L. Karpinski, Truthout: “Hmmmmm. My intuition is kicking into high gear on the nomination of Sarah Palin as vice president on the Republican ticket. Hmmmmm. It is haunting me. There is something sneaky behind her and me thinks it is the devious orchestration of Karl Rove. Months of criticism for Barack Obama’s allegedly short supply of expertise, then McCain selects a true novice as a partner on his ticket. Does this make any sense at all?”

Oliver Burkeman | A Spaniard in the Works
www.truthout.org/article/a-spaniard-works
Oliver Burkeman, The Guardian UK: “Does John McCain know that Zapatero is the Spanish prime minister, and that Spain is in Europe? You’ll have to decide for yourself whether the painful interview above, which John McCain gave yesterday to a Spanish journalist in Florida, really does seem to indicate that he didn’t know that Jose Luis Zapatero is the prime minister of Spain, and that he perhaps even thinks Spain might be in Latin America.”

McCain could be tougher than Bush with N. Korea
Like Bush, Obama has emphasized the need for multinational talks to persuade North Korea to give up its atomic program. McCain, while not suggesting an end to negotiations, has cast doubt on whether they can succeed and could bring a …
www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20080919/us-nkorea-candidates

Video of Iraq Veteran Boosts McCain Online
Wall Street Journal – USA
But the popularity of a new online video, featuring an Iraq war veteran criticizing Sen. Barack Obama for calling the war a mistake, suggests Republicans …
online.wsj.com/article/SB12217854325
8054997.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Presenting science questions to John McCain and Barack Obama
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
Obama submitted his responses in August, and McCain answered this week. Excerpts are printed below, with more to come next Saturday. …
www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-
sci-debate20-2008sep20,0,6385783.story

McCain Using Cox as `Scapegoat’ for Market Turmoil, Frank Says
Bloomberg – USA
19 (Bloomberg) — Representative Barney Frank accused John McCain of using the nation’s top securities regulator as a ``scapegoat’’ for his own role in …
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=
20601070&sid=aBh10fkfo8i8&refer=home

WRAPUP 1-McCain hits Wall Street “reckless behavior”
Reuters – USA
By Jeff Mason GREEN BAY, Wis., Sept 19 (Reuters) – Republican presidential nominee John McCain, seeking to boost his standing in the US presidential race, …
www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN1942864220080919

McCain, Obama Pound Each Other’s Economic Positions
Voice of America – USA
New turmoil in the financial industry, and its reverberation in American households, has prompted Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain to put …
www.voanews.com/english/2008-09-19-voa27.cfm

Who’s the boss? Palin bills herself over McCain
The Associated Press
Sarah Palin flipped the Republican presidential ticket around this week when she spoke about things the “Palin and McCain administration” would do in office …
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iR8TuY4cw
BWOtUhyCVJok1hUvT_AD939TDF80

McCain blasts Fed for bailing out failed banks
Times Online – UK
Senator John McCain mounted a fierce attack on the Federal Reserve today for bailing out failed financial institutions, telling it to get back to“its core …
entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/
us_and_americas/us_elections/article4789583.ece

McCain outlines plans for economy
Boston Herald – United States
John McCain said today as he outlined his plan for stopping the floundering economy and crisis on Wall Street. The GOP presidential candidate, …
news.bostonherald.com/news/national/politics/2008/view/2008
_09_19_McCain_outlines_plans_for_economy_/srvc=home
&position=recent

McCain could be tougher than Bush with NKorea
The Associated Press
McCain has cast doubt on whether they can succeed; he could bring a tougher tone to the often deadlocked talks. “More than Obama, McCain would rely on…
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j5iYQv0MTb
t9DKtGSMOhdrA5YrwgD939S0JO0

TRAIL MIX: Palin Lowers Expectations for VP Debate, McCain Makes …
Editor & Publisher – USA
In Ohio, 7 out of “Big Ten” states too close to call, Palin lowers expectations for VP debate, and McCain collects big time from Wall Street but calls for …
www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/
article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003852550

McCain says Fed should stop government bailouts
The Associated Press
(AP) — Republican John McCain said Friday the Federal Reserve needs to stop bailing out failed financial institutions. The Republican presidential hopeful …
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jMTcLpW
KQvLesRIhgUgTxny_K-WAD939S6F80

Is McCain suffering from Alzheimers?
The only explanation I can think of for this is that McCain somehow confused Spanish prime minister Jose Zapatero with Emiliano Zapata, the Mexican revolutionary. Since Zapata died in 1919, this is not a very easy mistake to make.
meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/20
08/09/is_mccain_suffering_from_alzhe.php

McCain on the Economy
By NRO Staff
Senator Obama may be taking their advice and he may be taking their money, but in a McCain-Palin administration, there will be no seat for these people at the policy-making table. They won’t even get past the front gate at the White …
corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=M2Z
kYmRiZGVlMDcxYzdhZGEzNDcxN2JlZTdlNGFhZDE=

The Picture McCain Doesn’t Want You to See
By emptywheel
Remember this really damning picture of McCain celebrating his birthday with Charles Keating, the villain of the last big taxpayer bailout of unrestrained Republican greed? Here’s the article where bmaz got that photo (download the …
emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/09/19/the-
picture-mccain-doesnt-want-you-to-see/

McCain Chose Vanity
By Hilzoy
McCain Chose Vanity One more comment on McCain’s confusion about the Prime Minister of Spain: as I noted earlier, I think McCain simply did not know who the interviewer was talking about. This is striking, since she identified him …
www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_09/014777.php

McCain would fire top stock regulator
By media@politico.com (Mike Allen)
McCain calls for firing of SEC Chairman Chris Cox. See also: Dems blast McCain.
www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13573.html