Kate Sheppard, In These Times. July 24, 2008. McCain is ignorant about pay equity, wants to overturn Roe v. Wade and likes to brag about his "sexual conquests" and visits to a strip club.
Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog AlterNet: PEEK. July 23, 2008. Progressives see McCain as dead in the water, but the optics are quite different in NixonLand.
Patrick Cockburn, CounterPunch. July 23, 2008. John McCain and the White House have been clearly dismayed and embarrassed by Iraqi govt. support for Obama's withdrawal plan.
Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog AlterNet: PEEK. July 22, 2008. Lanny Davis is off the reservation. Except to the extent that he's on it. Well, not exactly on it ... more like near it.
Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report AlterNet: War on Iraq. July 22, 2008. What's next for the man with the supposed foreign policy experience? A comprehensive approach towards Narnia?
Katha Pollitt, TheNation.com. July 22, 2008. He's voted against contraception for more than 20 years, and yet doesn't even care or know enough to explain why.
Jason Linkins, Huffington Post AlterNet: War on Iraq. July 21, 2008. NYT didn't publish McCain's op-ed, but since "he wants the attention, let's give it to him."
dday, Hullabaloo AlterNet: Election 2008. July 21, 2008. The Right's reaction to Maliki's recent agreement with Obama's plan for withdrawal is a good example of what happens when things don't go their way.
Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report AlterNet: PEEK. July 21, 2008. James Dobson reconsiders the ‘circumstances,’ goes back on his word and warms up to McCain.
Matt Stoller, Open Left AlterNet: Video. July 21, 2008. McCain's latest ad blames Obama for rising gas prices and claims drilling is the answer. Both those assertions are false.
Jonathan Stein, MotherJones.com. July 21, 2008. Obama has positions on broadband access and using the Internet as a tool to increase government accountability. McCain? Big nothing.
Pat Garofalo, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. July 20, 2008. McCain claims that oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico "have survived, very successfully, the impacts of hurricanes." He's wrong.
Howard Zinn, Boston Globe. July 18, 2008. We should be asking the candidates: Is our war in Afghanistan ending terrorism, or provoking it? And is not war itself terrorism?
Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America. July 17, 2008. The Beltway press has become dysfunctional, failing to see news when it happens and hyping non-stories that require no real reporting.
Keli Goff, Huffington Post AlterNet: Sex and Relationships. July 16, 2008. "I think that we've proven that both parents are important in the success of a family so, no, I don't believe in gay adoption."
Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report AlterNet: Video. July 15, 2008. "I do ask for your trust," McCain says to Latino audience ... right before lying to everyone in the room.
