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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• Interview Done To Bolster Courics Self-Esteem: Palin

  
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  Ah, the joys of people reading early releases of upcoming books, and the joys of Sarah Palins somewhat strange comments. As the release of her new memoir, "Going Rogue," approaches, we now know that Palin agreed to her famous interview with Katie Couric out of pity. The interview with Couric became the stuff of ...
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• Lieberman Finds Stride in Senate as the Democrats’ Maverick

  
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  Sen. Joe Lieberman is emerging as a big factor in the health care reform debate, and he is poised to lead an investigation into the Fort Hood shooting. He still draws the ire of some in the Democratic Party, but has found his stride since backing Republican Sen. John McCain in last years presidential election. 
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• Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, November 17, 2009, Going Rogue, Rush loves Palin’s book, Sarah Palin on Rush Limbaugh show, Tuesday

  
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  Sarah Palin, Vice Presidential candidate in the 2008 election and author of a new book, “Going Rogue”,  will be on the Rush Limbaugh show on Tuesday, November 17, 2009. Rush Limbaugh loves Palin’s new book and believes she should not be ruled out for the 2012 elections. Rush states: “truly one of the most ...
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• Was Homeland Security Created To Protect Those Who Deceived America?

  
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  Rense By Jeff Gates 11-13-9 Was Fort Hood really the target of a terrorist attack? The first clue to the real culprit emerged when Senator Joe Lieberman sought to blame this mass murder on the U.S. military. As chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security, he promised hearings on how ...
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• Abandon Truth All Ye Who Enter Here…

  
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  “Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here” Dante Alleghieri, about Hell “Abandon Truth All Ye Who Enter Here” Me, about this: Well, I hope they file this sucker in the fiction section or they’re going to have some ’splainin to do! I read a couple weeks ago, when the announcement was made that Going ...
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• Late Night: Elephants on Parade

  
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  Cowards. Cowards. And again, cowards. I can’t say that word enough because no one else seems to say it at all. Contrast what a sampling of Republicans (and Republican wannabe) have to say about today’s decision, announced by Attorney General Eric Holder, to bring some of the alleged terrorists, currently held at ...
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• Another GTL™ Open Post Friday: Is Sarah Palin “Dumb”? Should 9/11 Terrorist “Mastermind” Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (”KSM”) Be Tried As A Civilian? Should The Obama Administration Legalize Illegal Mexican Aliens? SOUND OFF HERE

  
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  THE Gun Toting Liberal Reaches Out To His Fellow Commentators -Slash- Co-Bloggers And Readers To Furnish Their Opinions On Any Of The Above, Below, Or Anything Else Political One Wishes To O-Pine On…My apologies — it’s been quite awhile yet again since the last time I’ve... This is only a comment summary. ...
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• Palin to visit Fort Hood

  
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  Sarah Palin will visit Fort Hood during her book tour, the Wall Street Journal reports . Palin will visit the base on December 4, just after a book signing in Dallas. The former Alaska Governor will also stop by Fort Bragg, North Carolina. As WSJ notes, Palin is picking her tour stop carefully: The Fort ...
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• McCain received signed copy of Going Rogue

  
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  Sen. John McCain spoke to reporters in Arizona on Friday. (CNN) – Sen. John McCain has already received a signed copy of Sarah Palins new memoir "Going Rogue," but the former Republican presidential nominee hasnt read it yet. "Ive just received a signed copy from her yesterday, so I will read it with ...
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• Sarah Palin Goes To War

  
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  …with the McCain camp. There is yet another controversy associated with the McCain-Palin ticket in which McCain’s associates are saying Palin is factually challenged. UPDATE: The AP gives this list of specifics about how Palin’s book may be at variance with the facts.
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• Trojan Explains How To Prevent "Mistakes" • Palin Takes Book Tour To Fort Hood [Leftovers]

  
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  • The consequences of unprotected sex are pretty obvious nine months later, but this ad from Trojan shows there can also be unforeseen consequences 32 years later when your "mistake" is annoying other people in a movie theater. • • On the heels of reports that Going Rogue confirms there was tension ...
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• McCain camp pushes back against Palin

  
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  You’ve seen the Sarah Palin book excerpts in which she complains about being “bottled up” by Republican John McCain’s campaign last year. Long-time McCain adviser Mark Salter explains here the thinking behind the McCain campaign’s media strategy that Palin seems to be complaining about in an excerpt of ...
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• Sarah Palin Media Blitz Touches on Bristol’s Teenage Pregnancy

  
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  Sarah Palin’s memoir, Going Rogue , is not officially released until Tuesday, but the media blitz has already started, and the 2008 Republican running mate of John McCain is not shying away from the subject of her daughter Bristol’s teenage pregnancy. The day after Sarah Palin’s vice-presidential candidacy ...
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• AP Dishes Palin

  
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  It won’t be officially released until Tuesday, but the Associated Press has an advance look at Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue.” She complains that the McCain campaign deliberately kept her “bottled up,” and coached her to give non-answers. She portrays herself as a down-home simple kinda gal who resented ...
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• The Lies of Sarah, Part 1 (of what is likely to be an infinite series)

  
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  Well, excerpts from the book "written by" Sarah Palin ( not pictured left) are starting to leak. And seriously, how does someone, even with as giant an ego as she has, expect anyone to believe this ? She writes that she sat down with Katie Couric in part because she felt sorry for her, after Nicolle Wallace, a ...
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• Sarah Palins New Fantasy Novel Is Going to Be the Best Fantasy Novel

  
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  Aay! May! Zing! Matt Drudge somehow Drudged up a nice long chunk of excerpt from Sarah Palins soon-to-be-released book Ecce Sarah: Why I Am So America . And — please allow me to tell you what I I am going to tell you — it does not disappoint. Not at all. It reads like the best Sarah Palin fan fiction any Sarah ...
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• Sarah Palin: Mean John McCain Made Me Pay My Own Legal Bills (Also, You Betcha, Etc) [Money]

  
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  Today in "what on earth is Sarah Palin talking about": is John McCain responsible for all those legal debts she accrued that forced her to stop governing Alaska and instead write a steamy political romance-thriller? The AP got a copy of Goin Rogue, Also: Modern Warfare 2 and they totally read it even, which is ...
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• Sarah Palin book Going Rogue attacks John McCain campaign

  
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  In her book Going Rogue Sarah Palin reveals tensions with John McCains campaign aides but does not mention Levi Johnston.
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• McCain blasts decision on terror suspects

  
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  WASHINGTON (CNN) – Sen. John McCain hammered the Obama administration Friday for its decision to try accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other suspected terrorists in a civilian court in New York. Mohammed, Ramzi Bin al-Shibh, Walid bin Attash, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali and Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi ...
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• Sarah Palin Book Week Will Be Rough Ride, With Gaffes, Blunders, Republican Remorse

  
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  When famed political reporter and writer Teddy White was crafting books about ‘The Making Of The President’, he could never have imagined the following line being written for prime time.(She goes easy on Levi Johnston, and Levi thinks he knows why: “She knows what I got on her. It’s a smart move on her ...
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