STOCKTON, Calif.–At a press avail here Thursday afternoon, McCain called Pastor John Hagee’s ideas about Adolf Hitler doing the will of God “crazy and unacceptable.” He continued: “My church I attend is North Phoenix Baptist Church. My pastor and spiritual guide is Pastor Dan Yeary. I’ve never been to Pastor Hagee’s church or Pastor Parsley’s [...]
For months, John McCain has been taking flak for being endorsed by Rev. John Hagee, a controversial Texas pastor. But he has repeatedly resisted calls to reject the endorsement, saying he did not share Hagee’s more controversial views, and repudiated them. But he also argued that he did not have to agree with all the [...]
UNION CITY, Calif. — This morning’s event was called a “roundtable” discussion, but the table John McCain sat at was actually shaped like the wings of a B-2 Bomber–two rectangles jutting out at an obtuse angle. As promised, however, there was a lot of give and take between McCain and his fellow panelists, which included [...]
Obama thinks so. In an unorthodox move, Obama scolded McCain on the issue from the floor of the Senate today: “I respect Sen. John McCain’s service to our country. He is one of those heroes of which I speak. But I can’t understand why he would line up behind the President in his opposition to [...]
Guess who skipped today’s Senate vote on Webb/Hagel’s G.I. Bill?
Desperate to get attention for her cause to seat Florida and Michigan delegates, Hillary Clinton compared the plight of Zimbabweans in their recent fraudulent election to the uncounted votes of Michigan and Florida voters saying it is wrong when “people go through the motions of an election only to have them discarded and disregarded.” “We’re [...]
No one releases a new type of toothpaste on the Friday before Memorial Day. It is what news editors and marketing reps consider a publicity black hole, a time when the nation’s attention turns from televisions and newspapers to filling swimming pools and driving to the beach. So it is no accident that the much [...]
Pew has posted the transcript of the panel I attended on religion and the brain. Andy Newberg’s opening talk is fascinating, and David Brooks junkies can read a re-mixed version of his “Neural Buddhism” column from last week. There are also pictures! Very striking how many people are wearing pink. Politics is a large subtopic [...]
I’m mentioned in two columns today with similar themes: that people like me–the liberal elite media, we’re called–are playing into Obama’s hands by insisting on accuracy from John McCain (according to Bob Novak) and by hoping that, given the mess we’re in, this can be an election about big issues (Steven Stark). Novak writes: McCain’s [...]
Here’s a web story on Kennedy’s very full plate. In researching about brain tumors I came across some interesting, if not terribly relevant to Kennedy’s case, tidbits from the Senate Historian’s Office. There have been at least two other senators this century who also suffered from tumors, unfortunately both died in office. The first one [...]
