John Mccain

John McCain was born on August 29th, 1936 on the Coco Solo Naval Air Station in the Panama Canal Zone of Panama. He was born into a Naval family and continued that tradition when he joined the Navy in 1954 and served for almost three decades. During his time, he was captured and held by his captors as a POW for nearly six years before being released in 1973. He eventually retired from the Navy in 1981.

Soon after finishing his Naval career, John McCain moved to Arizona and quickly became a congressman there in 1982. By 1987, he was an Arizona senator, a position he has held for over 20 years. In 2000, McCain made an initial run at the presidency, but did not garner the Republican nomination.

However, McCain was not done with attempting to be the head man of the U.S.A. and again ran in 2008. This time, he secured the Republican Party's nomination, running against Illinois senator Barack Obama. On November 4th, Obama, along with running mate Joe Biden, soundly defeated McCain and his vice-presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, to become the nation's 44th president.

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• Marco Rubio Is the New Barack Obama

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  Blogger Jordan Carmon catches Marco Rubio’s upstart Senate campaign putting together an ad against Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.)–his opponent in the 2010 GOP primary–that looks and sounds exactly like a hard-hitting ad then-presidential candidate Barack Obama ran against Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in 2008. ...
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• Sarah Palin accuses AP of opposition research in ‘fact-checking’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  Washington DC, Nov 16 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has accused AP of indulging in ‘opposition research’ in fact-checking her memoir ‘Going Rogue’ which is due to be released very shortly. . 
”Amazingly, but not surprisingly, the AP somehow nabbed a copy of the book before it was ...
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• Palin’s memoir describes anguish about daughter’s pregnancy

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  New York, Nov 16(ANI): Former US Vice President candidate Sarah Palin’s highly anticipated memoir, Going Rogue, reportedly describes heart-wrenching anguish about her eldest daughter Bristol’s pregnancy playing out before a national audience.However, the 413-page memoir does not contain a single reference to the ...
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• A Tea Party Candidate Promises Fiorina a Fight

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 767
  Chuck DeVore and Carly Fiorina (Photos courtesy of Chuck DeVore, Agencia Brasil) Carly Fiorina announced her 2010 campaign for California’s U.S. Senate seat in the usual way. She rolled out a new website. She bounded across a stage at a “green detergents” factory to the strains of “Surfin’ U.S.A.” and ...
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• Remarks by Sen. John McCain to the Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Adv. Intl Studies (praises Rats)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 166
  (snip) Most of all, I remember five long decades when, for all our many differences, Americans nonetheless maintained a bipartisan commitment to the freedom and security of our allies. And together, we in the West kept faith with those on the other side of the walls of that world struggle, confident that they wanted ...
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• Statement by Sen. John McCain (on 9/11 terror trials) ("extremely disappointed" with Obama)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 166
  Washington, D.C. ­– U.S. Senator John McCain (R AZ) issued the following statement on the Obama Administration’s decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) and four other Al-Qaeda terrorists suspected of planning and executing the September 11th attacks in the United States Federal District Court for the Southern ...
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• AZ-Sen. 2010: Unhappy campers greet McCain (talks about principles; flops on bailouts, 9/11 trials)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 166
  Senator gets an earful on economy, healthcare. BY SUZANNE ADAMS KINGMAN - U.S. Sen. John McCain was treated to a packed house of feisty Mohave County residents Friday afternoon at the County Administration Building. Most of the comments centered on the economy and healthcare, but McCain also spoke of the troops, the ...
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• CAN WE BANK ON GORDON BROWN TO REGULATE TONY BLAIR?

  
  CALEDONIAN COMMENT — Authority: 121
  In the UK, Government appointed City regulators are to be given new powers to tear up bankers’ contracts if they include excessive pay and bonus deals which might threaten the stability of the financial system, it was revealed yesterday. The measures will be included in a Financial Services Bill forming the ...
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• World leaders say Copenhagen is a steppingstone to final climate deal

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 164
  During a hastily convened breakfast meeting in Singapore, the US president supported a Danish plan to salvage something from the moribund negotiations by aiming for a broad political agreement and postponing contentious decisions on emissions targets, financing and technology transfer…. The deferral plan was ...
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• McCain staffer e-mails contradict Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue”

  
  ShortFormBlog — Authority: 581
  In Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue,” the former Vice Presidential candidate says she strongly supported the idea of going on SNL to refute Tina Fey’s spot-on impression of her. But that’s not what this e-mail, obtained by The Huffington Post from McCain staffers, suggests. There are other examples, but it ...
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• World Lovefest for Obama not found in Philippines

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 130
  Obama is the 3rd term of Bush. Bayan and other cause-oriented groups are expected to launch protest rallies near the US embassy in Manila today. The groups were protesting the permanent and continuing presence of US troops in the Philippines under the Visiting Forces Agreement and the reported additional military ...
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• California Annual Minimum Franchise Tax Repeal Proposed

  
  The-Informer — Authority: 157
  A bipartisan commission appointed by Governor Schwarzenegger has recently proposed sweeping overhauls of California’s tax laws, including reduction of personal income tax rates, the elimination of the corporate tax, and the elimination of the $800 per yaer minimum annual franchise tax levied on corporations, LLCs, ...
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• Obama shows proper way to kowtow

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 130
  but he didn’t apologize for Hiroshima yet! Then you have Cheney meeting Japan’s Emperor Akihito. Watching the video is even worse. It is like the old time comedy movies where the person doesnt know when to stop bowing. Obama bowed to Emperor Akihito then bows his wife then bows a couple more times . tags ...
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• Global Warming News: Campaign I could get behind

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 130
  Contestants vying for the Miss Earth 2009 crown pose with placards and plants in their swimsuits in front of press photographers in Manila on November 4, 2009. 87 beauties championing green causes took part in the Miss Earth beauty pageant, with the aim to spread awareness on environmental issues. The winner will be ...
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• Schmidt calls Palin claims total fiction

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 166
  WASHINGTON (CNN) - John McCains former presidential campaign manager Steve Schmidt is the latest McCain adviser to cry foul over accusations Sarah Palin has penned in her yet to be released memoir "Going Rogue." Excerpts obtained by The Huffington Post characterize Schmidt in an unfavorable light, particularly in ...
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• McCain Campaign Adviser pushes back on Palin book (Romneybot Nicolle Wallace alert)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 166
  A former top adviser and spokeswoman to John McCains 2008 presidential campaign is pushing back against comments reportedly made by Sarah Palin in her new book. Nicolle Wallace tells CNN that Palins account of an ill-fated interview with CBSs Katie Couric during the 2008 presidential campaign is not true. Original ...
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• Carrie Prejean Has More Sex Tapes Than John McCain Has Houses

  
  ANIMAL — Authority: 708
  Remember last year during the campaign when self-proclaimed common man John McCain couldn’t remember how many houses he owned? Well, that number turned out to be seven . And now it appears that self-proclaimed Christian Carrie Prejean has even more sex tapes floating around, eight in total, which means that ...
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• The First Ten Lies from Going Rogue

  
  Baby Boomer Advisor Club|Baby Boomer Health and News — Authority: 442
  The First Ten Lies from Going Rogue is written by Geoffrey Dunn, who is an award winning journalist, filmmaker and historian. Excerpts from Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue have been released by several news agencies and other sources who have received advanced copies of the book. Dunn has giving us the first ten lies ...
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• Thats Rogue... not Rouge, boys

  
  marvelous medley — Authority: 113
  Sarah Palin, the former Alaska Governor and darling of the Conservatives & Tea Partiers everywhere has published her biography and its coming out next week. For those who know better, and Im not just referring to the ones who coined the moniker "Barracuda", the woman we saw on the campaign trail was indeed muzzled ...
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• Sarah Palin: Daughter Bristols Pregnancy Devastated Me

  
  The Insider Featured News — Authority: 621
  Former VP hopeful Sarah Palin gets candid about her teenage daughter’s pregnancy in an upcoming interview with Barbara Walters . Palin tells Walters she didn’t realize Bristol was sexually active, so she was stunned to learn that her daughter and Levi Johnston were expecting a child. “That’s why I was ...
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