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Republican Convention Speakers Include Old And New Faces
August 6, 2012 Republicans slated to speak at the convention in Tampa include 2008 nominee John McCain and Condoleezza Rice, the Bush administration secretary of state and national security adviser. The list also includes two up-and-comers who highlight diversity in the GOP governors' ranks.
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McCain Defends Clinton Aide, Tells Bachmann And Others To Back Off
July 18, 2012 The 2008 GOP presidential nominee came to the defense of Hilary Clinton's longtime aide on the Senate floor. While Sen. John McCain didn't mention Rep. Michele Bachmann by name, he made clear he wants her to stop suggesting the aide is helping the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Romney Seeks Majority, Trump's Birthers Too, But Defies Conventional Wisdom
May 29, 2012 Visiting with Donald Trump had a certain logic for Mitt Romney when he was fighting to prove his conservative street cred. But the logic is less clear now that Romney is shifting his campaign to gain support among independents. As George Will suggests, the Trump embrace indeed a curious move.
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McCain Calls For Air Strikes On Syria
March 5, 2012 The 2008 Republican presidential nominee also supported the allied air operation against the regime of Libya's Moammar Gadhafi.
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McCain: History Will Judge Obama Harshly On Iran Policy
January 27, 2012 There will be "disdain and scorn" because the U.S. didn't come to the "moral assistance" of Iranians who protested in the streets of Tehran in 2009, the Arizona senator says. The president has said his administration did respond forcefully.
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McCain's 2008 Anti-Mitt Romney Oppo Research Raised 2012 Themes
January 18, 2012 There are no bombshells and much of the "oppo" is, like much of the genre, a compilation of items from news sources. Still, the document is useful because it demonstrates how little the arguments against Romney have changed from four years ago.
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McCain Endorses Romney
January 4, 2012 The 2008 Republican presidential nominee just returned to New Hampshire to endorse the White House bid of his one-time rival, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
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McCain Says Report Backs Comments About Immigrants Causing Wildfires
November 22, 2011 A report by the Government Accountability Office found that at least some wild fires are caused by immigrants crossing the U.S. border illegally. Sen. John McCain was accused of scapegoating when he made comments to that effect during the summer.
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McCain: Forest Service Gave Info That Illegal Immigrants Started Wildfires
June 20, 2011 Some immigration activists accused McCain of wrongly blaming undocumented immigrants for at least one fire and perhaps more based on little to no evidence.
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Winds Whip Fires Again; McCain Puts Some Blame On Illegal Immigrants
June 20, 2011 "There is substantial evidence that some of these fires have been caused by people who have crossed our border illegally," McCain told reporters. He did not cite specifics. Meanwhile, calmer winds may give firefighters a break today.
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Report: Afghan Aid May Do No Long-Term Good
June 8, 2011 Unless the focus is switched to programs that are "necessary, achievable and sustainable," Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee say, programs may not survive the departure of U.S. troops.
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McCain Aide Has One Word For Santorum On Enhanced Interrogation
May 18, 2011 "Who?" That was the one-word diss by an aide to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) who was asked by the Washington Post's Greg Sargeant to respond to a comment by Rick Santorum, the former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, to the effect that McCain "doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works."
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What Panetta Told McCain About Bin Laden And 'Enhanced Interrogation'
May 16, 2011 "There was no one essential ... piece of information that led us" to the al-Qaida leader, the CIA chief said in a letter. And some detainees subjected to "enhanced interrogation" lied about key information — the identity of a bin Laden courier.
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McCain: 'Enhanced Interrogations' Didn't Help
May 12, 2011 In an opinion piece in the Washington Post, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, attempted to kick the legs out from under the waterboarding-led-to-bin-Laden argument as only he can because of his powerful personal history as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War.
