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McCain Insults Vet for Correctly Questioning His Record

A man at a town hall meeting wants to know why McCain didn’t vote to increase health care funding for returning Vets. McCain first talks about the GI Bill, which he also didn’t support, but never gets...

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‘Winning’ the War in Iraq?

As Obama’s trip gets positive media attention at home and abroad, McCain has upped his attacks on Obama’s stance on the Iraq war. McCain claims that Obama was wrong about the surge, and that McCain was...

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Mr. Surge

In case you hadn’t noticed, the conservative talking heads have decided that promoting McCain’s support of the surge is their best bet at winning this election. Amazingly, they continue to repeat how...

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Sexual Assault ‘Epidemic’ in the Military

Today the Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs held an oversight hearing on sexual assault in the military. The head of the sexual assault prevention office was subpoenaed, yet...

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Troops Donate Six Times More Money to Obama

OpenSecrets.org, which tracks money in U.S. politics, reports that contributions from deployed troops are six times greater for Obama than they are for McCain. During World War II, soldiers crouching...

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Cranky and Delusional

Do we really want another President who lives on some other imaginary planet? One who denies the troubling realities when they are not politically convenient? One who can’t admit to any mistakes…ever?...

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McCain the Fighter

Barbara Boxer has a great statement up in response to John McCain’s acceptance speech at the RNC. She talks about serving with McCain for 16 years in the Senate and what she’s known him to fight for...

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Promoting Loyalists: How Palin = Bush

Shortly after McCain announced Palin as his running mate he began to tout her experience as the commander-in-chief of the Alaska National Guard. But then it seemed that several people in Alaska were...

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What If He Is?

This morning on Meet the Press, former Secretary of State Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama. While I lost nearly all respect for Powell when he lied to the UN in the push for the Iraq War, I gained...

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I wasn’t important.

“We have an epidemic here,” [Rep. Jane Harman] said. “Women serving in the U.S. military today are more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire in Iraq.” That was 2008, yet...

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