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Another McCain Flip-Flop Underway?
Daily Kos — When it comes to Bush's ban on embryonic stem cell research, John McCain has at times almost lived up to his mythical maverickness, even going so far as to state unequivocally in one of the early GOP Presidential debates that he would reverse it. But from an article ironically titled Candidates Vow To Keep Politics Out Of Science, it sounds like the Arizona Senator could be laying the groundwork for another inglorious flip-flop: [McCain] has said that he would support legislation that would expand federal funding for embryonic stem cell research and place fewer restrictions on it. But in a nod to the anti-abortion ...

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard: Those McCain Houses... why they don't matter
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — The problem with John McCain and his houses . . . is not that he has them or doesn't know how many he has. It's that most Americans aspire to be so lucky, to have his wealth. So to make the argument that he doesn't know how many houses he has - while it's witty and cute for the moment - it's disconnected from the psychology of how many Americans think. Americans want to be rich, they want to be so fortunate that they don't know how many houses they have. A good example of the gap between how Democrats think and the real psychology of Americans is this exchange from The Larry King Live show, between ...

That’s it; they’re trying to lose
pandagon.net - we are the public option — by Amanda Marcotte Rick Davis, campaign manager for John McCain’s presidential bid, insisted that the presidential race will be decided more over personalities than issues during an interview with Post editors this morning.”This election is not about issues,” said Davis. “This election is about a composite view of what people take away from these candidates.” The Obama campaign replied: In reaction to Rick Davis’ comments about the election not being about issues, Barack Obama campaign manager David Plouffe released the following ...

Campaign trail confessions
Michael Calderone's Blog — The LA Times ran two first-person accounts from its political reporters today above the fold, detailing their travels with Obama and McCain. Peter Nicholas, who covered Obama, wrote: "One of the striking ironies is that a man who draws tens of thousands of people to his rallies, whose charisma is likened to that of John F. Kennedy, can be sort of a bore." And Maeve Reston led with her infamous Viagra question aboard the Straight Talk, which several members of the press corps told me was the last straw in granting such access to the national press. Although the relationship was mutually ...

Reporter Recalls Moment She 'Shut Down The Straight Talk Express'
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — Over at the Los Angeles Times, Maeve Reston offers up her account of that time she asked John McCain a question about Viagara and officially caused the break up of the Arizona Senator and his once-beloved "base," the traveling press corps. If you don't remember the moment precisely, hers was the question that spawned this monster of a YouTube clip that, for a time, haunted McCain: It's sort of nice to get Reston's side of the story here. Of course, this is hardly a blockbuster revelation. In fact, back in early September, McCain adviser Steve Schmidt cited Reston's ...

Reporter Recalls Moment She 'Shut Down The Straight Talk Express'
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — Over at the Los Angeles Times, Maeve Reston offers up her account of that time she asked John McCain a question about Viagara and officially caused the break up of the Arizona Senator and his once-beloved "base," the traveling press corps. If you don't remember the moment precisely, hers was the question that spawned this monster of a YouTube clip that, for a time, haunted McCain: It's sort of nice to get Reston's side of the story here. Of course, this is hardly a blockbuster revelation. In fact, back in early September, McCain adviser Steve Schmidt cited Reston's ...