McCain to Letterman: "I Screwed Up"
blogs.abcnews.com 10/17/2008 — ABC News' Jan Simmonds Reports: "I screwed up," Sen. John McCain R-Ariz., told David Letterman this afternoon as he taped an appearance on Letterman's CBS program, "The Late Show", explaining his cancellation a few weeks ago. McCain originally was ...

McCain Tells Letterman: "I Don't Want To Talk About The Bleeping Campaign"
huffingtonpost.com 12/12/2008 — NEW YORK — John McCain paid a lighthearted visit to David Letterman on Thursday, joking: "I don't want to talk about the bleeping campaign." The former GOP presidential candidate also praised President-elect Barack Obama for some of his staff choices, including Secretary of ...

The Associated Press: McCain tries to make peace with Letterman
ap.google.com 10/17/2008 — 12 hours ago NEW YORK (AP) John McCain told David Letterman that "I screwed up" by canceling a "Late Show" appearance three weeks ago, then faced a sharp round of questioning about Sarah Palin and his campaign tactics. Not willing to risk the wrath ...

Letterman Skewers McCain
talkleft.com 10/17/2008 — John McCain appeared on the David Letterman Show today after making the bad mistake three weeks ago of telling Dave he needed to cancel an appearance so he could rush back to Washington to deal with the financial crisis. McCain actually stayed in New ...

The Associated Press: McCain tries to make peace with Letterman
ap.google.com 10/17/2008 — 3 hours ago NEW YORK (AP) John McCain told David Letterman that "I screwed up" by canceling a "Late Show" appearance three weeks ago, then faced a sharp round of questioning about Sarah Palin and his campaign tactics. Not willing to risk the wrath of ...

Will has no use for McCain
washingtonmonthly.com 10/30/2008 — WILL HAS NO USE FOR MCCAIN.... It's probably fair to say conservative columnist George Will has been thoroughly unimpressed by John McCain of late. He's blasted McCain for "behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high." Will...

York: What Sunk McCain
article.nationalreview.com 11/5/2008 — Could anything have prevented this defeat?

How McCain lost me.
althouse.blogspot.com 11/9/2008 — As promised , I'm mining my archive -- beginning in late August -- to try to understand how I turned against John McCain. August 25: "Nicely done. I'm glad to see the return of the light touch," I say about an Obama ad that uses the song "What a ...

Who Do You Believe?
talkingpointsmemo.com 10/25/2008 — The McCain camp is denying that it was a campaign spokesperson who told local TV reporters in Pittsburgh that the "B" supposedly scrawled on the face of a young McCain campaign worker was a reference to "Barack" Obama, angrily carved into her face ...

McCain On Meet The Press: "I Believe I'm Going To Win"
tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2008: 10/26/2008 — Republican John McCain on Sunday dismissed the sour poll numbers that show him trailing in his White House race against Democrat Barack Obama and said his campaign is "doing fine." Interviewed on NBC's "Meet the Press," the Arizona senator said he has pulled closer to Obama. Watch:  ...

Transition: Shinseki’s return — First Read 12/8/2008
Obama yesterday named retired Gen. Eric Shinseki as his choice to be Veterans Affairs secretary. The AP notes that his "tenure as Army chief of staff from 1999 to 2003 was marked by constant tensions with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, which ...

2010, 2012: Dems' Senate edge — First Read 12/8/2008
CQ does some 2010 math: "Of the 16 states where Democratic Senate seats will be on the line in 2010 (including New York, where both seats will be up), Obama won with ease in 13 of them -- California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, ...

Romney Eyes 2012 Run — WSJ.com: Washington Wire 12/8/2008
Susan Davis reports on politics. The 2008 presidential campaign may not be the last we hear from former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney , who was defeated by John McCain in the Republican presidential primary earlier this year. The  ...

Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion Is Obama's Latest Pick, According to Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion — Wash Post Federal Page 12/9/2008
Funny thing happened on Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion Jr.'s way to a top Obama administration job. Seems Carrion, at a speech Friday at Yale University, told students he had landed a plum position, indicating it was to head either the Small ...

Joe the Plumber ‘angry’ McCain backed bailout — msnbc.com: Politics 12/10/2008
Turns out that "Joe the Plumber" isn't such a big fan of John McCain after all.