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online.wsj.com - 10/22/2008
The Legacy of the McCain Name
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The Legacy of the McCain Name WSJ's Douglas Blackmon speaks with Charles McCain Jr. and his sister Mary McCain Fluker. The two are descendants of slaves held at the Mississippi plantation owned by the family of Sen. John McCain's great-great-grandfather. They discuss the legacy of the McCain ...
article.nationalreview.com - 10/24/2008
Krauthammer: McCain Gets My Vote
— article.nationalreview.com — Don't count me among the wet-fingered conservative ship-jumpers. (more) Krauthammer: McCain Gets My Vote

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reason.com - 10/22/2008
If by "Hero" You Mean Traitor
— reason.com — As some of you may be aware, I've been writing about John McCain rather critically for some... time now. As a result I've grown to expect each new piece to draw one or two e-mails along the lines of " Don't you know he's a HERO, you TRAITOROUS ... (more) If by "Hero" You Mean Traitor

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realclearpolitics.com - 10/24/2008
McCain for President
— realclearpolitics.com — WASHINGTON -- Contrarian that I am, I'm voting for John McCain. I'm not talking about bucking the... polls or the media consensus that it's over before it's over. I'm talking about bucking the rush of wet-fingered conservatives leaping to Barack Obama ... (more) McCain for President

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The black McCains
Jonathan Martin's Blog — ... I meant to post this last week, but the WSJ's Douglas Blackmon had a remarkable piece last Friday on a topic that got some play in McCain's first presidential race but has amazingly been covered little in his contest against an African-American: Mccain's Mississippi roots and the black families still there whose ancestors were onced owned by the senator's ancestors. ...

Video: Meet the Black McCains
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — Much as it means them to mingle at their bi-racial family reunions, guess who these folks are voting for? Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal. And just for giggles, check McCain here, during his 2000 run, gobsmacked to learn that his Mississippi family—the one which owned 2000 miles of plantation and fought in the Civil War—had ever owned slaves. For a smart guy, connecting the dots seems kinda laborious: "But what McCain didn't know about his family until Tuesday was that William Alexander ...

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