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McCain cites questionable story on 'evil'
Ben Smith's Blog — ... "Not long ago in Baghdad, Al Qaeda took two young women who were mentally disabled and put suicide vests on them, sent them intto a marketplace, and by remote control, detonated those suicide vests," McCain told Rick Warren. "If that isn't evil, you have to tell me what is." ...

Sunday reading: Five million
Ben Smith's Blog — JMart captures McCain's unexpected strength last night. Noam argues that Obama did well on McCain's turf. Broder captures that Chicago is either confident or very good at projecting confidence to reporters. The campaign goes to a real war zone. McCain embraces the confrontational Poland missile deal, an implicit challenge to Obama, who has opposed it. And an exchange on wealth that, as McCain seems instantly to recognize, could come back to haunt him: Warren: Define rich. Everybody talks about, ...

Is McCain Now Copying Solzhenitsyn?
Political Insider — ... diary, the anecdote McCain told about a North Vietnamese prison guard making a cross in the dirt as a sign of solidarity -- or as he said, "just two Christians worshiping together" -- is very similar to a story about Alexander Solzhenitsyn and his times in the Soviet Gulags. ...

McCain Cross Story Raises Eyebrows
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — ... diary, the anecdote McCain told about a North Vietnamese prison guard making a cross in the dirt as a sign of solidarity—or as he said, “just two Christians worshiping together”—is very similar to a story about Alexander Solzhenitsyn and his times in the Soviet Gulags. ...

McCain tells a tall tale?
Political Animal — ... diary, the anecdote McCain told about a North Vietnamese prison guard making a cross in the dirt as a sign of solidarity — or as he said, “just two Christians worshiping together” — is very similar to a story about Alexander Solzhenitsyn and his times in the Soviet Gulags. ...

Did we mention that he was a POW?
The Sideshow — ... about whether Rick Warren's people made sure McCain (but not Obama) had the questions for the forum in advance. Here's a section from the transcripts that suggests that's the case: ...

Pure Evil
Weekly Standard Blog — ... On Saturday night, Rick Warren asked John McCain if evil exists. McCain said yes and told Warren: "Not long ago in Baghdad, Al Qaeda took two young women who were mentally disabled and put suicide vests on them, sent them into a marketplace, and by remote control, detonated those suicide vests. If that isn't evil, you have to tell me what is." ...

Just Asking
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — During his weekend interview with Pastor Rick Warren, Sen. John McCain said that if he were president he would have never nominated Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, David Souter or John Paul Stevens to the Supreme Court. ...

Warren Asked Obama and McCain Different Questions
Crooks and Liars — ... , “Would you support a constitutional amendment with that definition,” Warren instead offered John McCain an opportunity to weigh in on a hotly contested ballot measure being pushed by the religious right in California: ...

Good Question (No. 722 in a series)
Hoffmania! — ... During his weekend interview with Rev. Rick Warren, Sen. John McCain said that if he were president he would have never nominated Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, David Souter or John Paul Stevens to the Supreme Court. ...

No More Mister Nice Blog — COUNTING DOWN: 5, 4, 3, 2, ... ... to the first right-wing flack or mainstream-media pundit who tells us that John McCain's inability to remember how many homes he owns ("I think -- I'll have my staff get to you," McCain told Politico in Las Cruces, N.M. "It's condominiums where -- I'll have them get to you") is a sign that, in fact, he's really an ordinary guy after all, because he clearly doesn't take his wealth and privilege seriously and hasn't let it all go to his head. Right? Somebody will say that any minute now, no? No, wait, it'll be this: John McCain spent his childhood traveling around as a military ...

A question about McCain and that "moment of conception"
Daily Kos — John McCain has been receiving a lot of kudos in the media for his performance at Rick Warren's recent presidential forum at Saddleback Church, with this often being cited as the money quote: WARREN: At what point is a baby entitled to human rights? MCCAIN: At the moment of conception. Apparently that line got a huge round of applause, but it also raises a question that Mr. Warren failed to ask...if John McCain believes that a baby is entitled to human rights from the moment of conception, why does he support and vote for the funding of embryonic stem cell research?     ...

McCain Surrogate Falsely Suggests McCain Does Not Want To Overturn Roe
Think Progress — ... At the Saddleback Forum just a couple of weeks ago, McCain left no doubt about his position: “I have a 25-year pro-life record in the Congress, in the Senate. And as President of the United States, I will be a pro-life president and this presidency will have pro-life policies. That’s my commitment, that’s my commitment to you.” ...

Don’t be fooled, McCain is anti-choice
The Reaction — ... . In it, she suggested that McCain--who only two weeks ago told pastor Rick Warren of California’s Saddleback Church that “as president of the United States, I will be a pro-life president and this presidency will have pro-life policies”--is in fact an abortion moderate who would not even try to overturn ...