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08 Election Daily News Clips*May 16th, 2008*
Candidate Tracking:
2:45am BUSH: Tours Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
3:15 am BUSH: Holds roundtable discussion with Israeli youth, Jerusalem,
Israel
8am BUSH: Lunch with King of Saudi Arabia at ranch
10:45am McCain: Campaign Event in St. Albans, WV
2pm BUSH: Dinner with King of Saudi Arabia at ranch
3:15pm McCain: NRA Speech in Louisville, KY
- Tracking scheduled for this event
News Clips:
MCCAIN '2013' SPEECH NEWS
*McCain Vision Has Most G.I.'s Out of Iraq by 2013 (NYT 5/16/08)*
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Senator John McCain declared on Thursday that most American
troops would be home from Iraq by 2013 and that the nation would be a
functioning democracy with only "spasmodic" episodes of violence. The
comments were a striking departure from his usual refusal to set a date for
American withdrawal.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/us/politics/16mccain.html?_r=1&ref=politics&oref=slogin
*Link to trancsript:*
http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/News/Speeches/e8114732-e294-4a0d-b0b6-e5fa16857f61.htm
*Link to video*: http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4862876
*Link to McCain press release*:
http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/News/PressReleases/08d196f1-2e32-4199-9d38-2e7a42c6130d.htm
*McCain Names Drawdown Date (WSJ 5/16/08)*
By LAURA MECKLER; Page A4
John McCain said that if elected president, he would win the Iraq war and
bring most U.S. troops home by January 2013, offering his first date for
withdrawal and refuting Democratic charges he would keep the U.S. mired
there indefinitely.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121086040196595313.html?mod=special_page_campaign2008_topbox
*John McCain and Barack Obama tilt toward the center on Iraq plans (LA Times
5/16/08)*
By Paul Richter
After launching their candidacies with opposite positions on the Iraq war,
Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama seem to be edging toward a
middle ground between them.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-iraqpol16-2008may16,0,3326413.story
*McCain outlines vision of Iraq victory, reduced partisanship (THE COLUMBUS
DISPATCH 5/15/08)*
By Joe Hallett
Republican presidential candidate John McCain speaks in front of a wall of
flags at the Greater Columbus Convention Center today.
Sen. John McCain beamed himself into the fourth year of his would-be
Republican presidency today and looked back at a mostly concluded Iraq war,
a captured or killed Osama bin Laden and a robust economy.
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/05/15/macspeaks.html?print=yes&sid=101
*McCain sets big goals for would-be first term (Dispatch Newspapers 5/16/08)
*
By SHARI LEWIS
In Columbus yesterday, John McCain said U.S. troops would still be in Iraq
in 2013, but Congress would have quit using earmarks.
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/national_world/stories/2008/05/16/mccain_talk.ART_ART_05-16-08_A1_M2A7F1V.html?sid=101
*McCain: Iraq speech is no "magic carpet ride" (Reuters blog 5/15/08)*
Posted by: Caren Bohan
White House hopeful John McCain tangled with reporters on Thursday over
whether he offered a "timetable" when he delivered a speech in Ohio
predicting victory in Iraq and the return home of most U.S. troops by 2013.
http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/05/15/mccain-iraq-speech-is-no-magic-carpet-ride/
*McCain's Grand Ambitions (Washington Post blog 5/15/08)*
By Dan Balz
Two things can be said about John McCain's attempt to look into the future
with a major speech in Columbus Thursday. His ambitions are grand. His
ability to achieve them enormously limited.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/05/15/mccains_grand_ambitions.html
*New Web Ad: "2013" (McCain press release 5/15/08)*
U.S. Senator John McCain's presidential campaign today released a new web
ad, entitled "2013," focusing on what John McCain envisions achieving during
his first term in the White House. The ad will be featured on the web site.
http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/News/PressReleases/a9721ee6-32bf-4bf6-9c07-0110a06fda10.htm
*Link to video of ad*: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB3BNgdfEkI
*MCCAIN NEWS*
*McCain action helped Ariz. land developer (USA TODAY 5/16/08)*
By Matt Kelley
Sen. John McCain secured millions in federal funds for a land acquisition
program that provided a windfall for an Arizona developer whose executives
were major campaign donors, public records show.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-05-15-mccainland_N.htm
*McCain Agrees With Bush's Remarks on Appeasement (NYT blog 5/15/08)*
By Elisabeth Bumiller
Senator John McCain, who has been critical of President Bush on the
environment and other policies this week, on Thursday morning wholeheartedly
endorsed Mr. Bush's veiled rebuke in the Israeli Knesset of Senator Barack
Obama that talking to "terrorists and radicals'' was no different than
appeasing Hitler and the Nazis.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/15/mccain-agrees-with-bushs-remarks/index.html?ref=middleeast
*McCain Faces the NRA (ABC 5/15/08)*
By KAREN TRAVERS, TAHMAN BRADLEY and MIKE ELMORE
John McCain has had a rocky relationship with the National Rifle Association
over the years, with his support for closing the gun show loophole at the
top of the organization's list of grievances and his shepherding of campaign
finance reform a close second.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=3105455&page=1
*McCain Iraq, Iran Policies Make Him Favored Candidate to Saudis (Bloomberg
5/16/08)*
By Hans Nichols and Janine Zacharia
John McCain, who is trying to strike a distance from the policies of
President George W. Bush, accuses Saudi Arabia of sponsoring insurgents in
Iraq and condemns it for human-rights violations, including imprisoning
people whose ``only crime is to worship God in their own way.''
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aTPOwyOePvy8&refer=home
*McCain Hammers Obama's Foreign Policy (CBS 5/15/08)*
By John Bentley
Calling Barack Obama naïve and inexperienced, John McCain sharpened the
Republican criticism that President Bush alluded to earlier today. "Why does
Barack Obama want to sit down with a state sponsor of terrorism?" McCain
asked today, referring to Obama's willingness to negotiate with Iranian
President Mahmud Ahmadinejad.
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/05/15/politics/fromtheroad/entry4099767.shtml
*McCain and Obama weigh in on Cali marriage decision (Politico 5/15/08)*
McCain opposed the Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA) because he believes
states should set their own marriage laws, but did back Arizona's ballot
initiative in 2006 to ban gay marriage.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0508/McCain_and_Obama_weigh_in_on_Cali_marriage_decision.html
*McCain adviser ousted in conflict uproar (Politico 5/15/08)*
By: Ben Smith
John McCain's campaign asked a prominent Republican consultant, Craig
Shirley, to leave his official campaign role Thursday after a Politico
inquiry about Shirley's dual role consulting for the campaign and for an
independent "527" group opposing the Democratic presidential candidates. The
campaign also released a new conflict of interest policy barring such
arrangements.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10394.html
*McCain Campaign To Re-Vet Entire Staff (Atlantic Online 5/15/08)*
By Marc Ambinder
After a series of disclosures forced the resignation of two McCain campaign
aides with ties to unsavory regimes, the campaign has decided to scrutinize
the background of the entire staff to ferret out connections to lobbyists.
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/05/mccain_campaign_to_revet_entir.php
*Link to video*: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8Hzq7PzLpM
*Why Talk to Them When You Can Work for Them? (TPM 5/15/08)*
By Josh Marshall
I hear McCain's top foreign lobbyist advisor Charlie Black (he's the one who
now conducts his lobbying business from McCain's campaign bus) was just on
the tube knocking Obama for his willingness to talk to international bad
actors. Remember, this is the same Charlie Black who worked on behalf of
Ahmad Chalabi (who unless I'm mistaken our government still believes spied
on us on behalf of Iran) and then got the contract for creating phony news
in Iraq ...
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/195326.php
*Link to video*: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44pb1h0o8fU
*Iraq Veteran: Why Is McCain 'Fighting To Kill' 'My One Hope And Dream,' To
Go To College After War? (ThinkProgress 5/15/08)*
Today, nine members of Iraq Veterans Against the War testified before the
Congressional Progressive Caucus about their experiences fighting in the
Iraq war. Kristofer Goldsmith, who served Sadr City and was stop-lossed
after returning home, revealed that he had attempted suicide and was
discharged. The discharge forced him to forfeit the educational benefits
promised under the GI bill and thus his "one hope and dream" to go to
college
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/veterans-question-mccain-gi-bill/
*McCain's Age (Again) (Washington Post blog 5/15/08)*
By Chris Cillizza
Even as the debate over whether Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) age -- he will
be 72 on Election Day 2008 -- is a legitimate campaign issue rages on, a
group of Democratic operatives are out with a campaign jingle that is sure
to inflame passions on both sides.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2008/05/mccains_age_and_the_power_of_a.html
*Link to video*: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTitf2gjMmk
*Boogeyman Foreign Policy: How Obama and McCain define each other (Slate
5/15/08)*
By John Dickerson
The quickest way to understand the emerging foreign-policy debate between
John McCain and Barack Obama is to look at the unpopular world leader each
is trying to turn into the other's running mate. McCain has picked Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad for Obama, and Obama has selected George W. Bush for McCain.
http://www.slate.com/id/2191497/
*It won't be a walk in the woods (Economist 5/15/08)*
THE most interesting election result on May 13th was not Hillary Clinton's
41-point victory over Barack Obama in the Appalachians. It was the
Republicans' loss of an ultra-safe seat in a special election in northern
Mississippi. West Virginia was the swan-song of a dying campaign.
Mississippi was a harbinger of disaster for congressional Republicans in
November—and a warning of how difficult it will be for John McCain to win
the White House.
http://www.economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11376204
*McCain's Diplomacy: I'd Tell Shiites And Sunnis To Stop The Bullsh*t
(Huffington Post 5/15/08)*
President Bush's inane likening of international diplomacy with appeasing
Hitler drew excoriation from all quarters today. If you're looking for the
sort of reaction that reminds one of being hit upside the head with a ball
peen hammer, you can't do better than Senator Joe Biden's "This is
bullshit." For a bit more nuance, however, look to Matt Yglesias:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/15/mccains-diplomacy-id-tell_n_101989.html
*OPINIONS AND EDITORIALS*
*Hypocrisy on Hamas (Washington Post 5/16/08)*
By James P. Rubin
As an interview from 2006 shows, John McCain was for talking to Hamas before
he was against it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/15/AR2008051503306.html
*Link to video:*
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/15/exclusive-video-mccain-wa_n_102031.html
*See How They Run (NYT 5/16/08)*
Senator John McCain scored some points on Thursday by acknowledging the many
failures of the Bush presidency and pledging to not repeat them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/opinion/16fri1.html?ref=opinion
*McCain Has Zero Plan to Get Us Out of Mess President Bush Has Created
(Huffington Post 5/15/08)*
By Joe Biden
John McCain revealed today that he has no plan -- none -- to get us out of
the mess the president has created. Senator McCain said that it is important
for presidential candidates to "define their objectives and what they plan
to achieve not with vague language but with clarity." But especially when it
comes to Iraq and Afghanistan, the picture he painted today of where he
hopes to be by 2013 is totally divorced from reality and there is zero
clarity about how he would get there. It's beyond being vague: John McCain
is totally silent about how he would realize his rosy vision for 2013.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-biden/mccain-has-zero-plan-to-g_b_101979.html
*McCain's ever-evolving position on Social Security (Carpetbagger Report
5/15/08)*
While there have been plenty of polls suggesting John McCain would enjoy
more support from elderly voters than Barack Obama, I've taken some solace
in the fact that very few voters, in any age group, realize just how wrong
McCain is about Social Security. For voters over a certain age, it has the
potential to be quite a political problem.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/15547.html
*The GOP's Ideas Deficit (Washington Post 5/16/08)*
By Eugene Robinson
The problem isn't the brand, it's the underlying ideas. ... The Reagan era
in American politics is about to end, and we have George W. Bush to thank
for its demise.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/15/AR2008051503161.html
*Brand on the Run (Washington Post 5/16/08)*
By E. J. Dionne Jr.
Friday, May 16, 2008; A19
Republicans are turning on each other because even their best news is bad
news.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/15/AR2008051503543.html
*BUSH NEWS*
*Bush Assails 'Appeasement,' Touching Off Storm (NYT 5/16/08)*
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and JIM RUTENBERG
President Bush used a speech to the Israeli Parliament on Thursday to liken
those who would negotiate with "terrorists and radicals" to appeasers of the
Nazis — a remark widely interpreted as a rebuke to Senator Barack Obama, who
has advocated greater engagement with countries like Iran and Syria.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/us/politics/16obama.html?ref=politics
*Link to video*:
http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=6ac163e1c3b19a1c628df3744521421ab23846f8
*Link to transcript*:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2008/05/15/index.html#068688
*Dems fire back at Bush on 'appeasement' statement (CNN 5/15/08)*
By Ed Henry
# Sen. Biden responds to his 'bulls**t' comment on Bush's speech
# Bush says trying to negotiate with terrorists is a "foolish delusion"
# McCain recently charged that Obama is the favored candidate of Hamas
# White House denies comments were attack on Obama
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/15/bush.dems/index.html
*Bush May Have Lost Wealth During Presidency (Washington Post 5/16/08)*
By Dan Eggen; A05
President Bush's financial fortunes appear to have declined over the past
seven years, with his family assets dropping as low as $6.5 million,
according to disclosure forms released yesterday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/15/AR2008051503534.html
*Conyers: 'We're closing in on Rove' (Politico 5/15/08)*
By Ryan Grim
Just off the House floor today, the Crypt overheard House Judiciary
Committee Chairman John Conyers tell two other people: "We're closing in on
Rove. Someone's got to kick his ass."
http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/0508/Conyers_Were_closing_in_on_Rove.html
*OTHER TOP NEWS*
*War Funding Bill Stalls in House (Washington Post 5/16/08)*
By Jonathan Weisman; A03
An odd coalition of angry Republicans and antiwar Democrats yesterday
torpedoed a $162.5 billion proposal to continue funding for the wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan, leaving the House to pass a measure that demands troop
withdrawals, bans torture and expands education benefits for returning
veterans.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/15/AR2008051502874.html
*See also:*
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/05/house_rejects_bill_funding_ira.php
*First Victory on GI Bill Today (Huffington Post 5/15/08)*
By Paul Rieckhoff
This afternoon, the House of Representatives made history. By an
overwhelming margin, lawmakers passed the landmark new GI Bill which will
make college affordable to the more than 1.6 million Iraq and Afghanistan
veterans.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-rieckhoff/first-victory-on-gi-bill_b_101982.html
*California Ruling Reignites Same-Sex Marriage Debate (WSJ 5/16/08)*
By Nathan Koppel and T.W. Farnam
The California Supreme Court opened the door to same-sex marriages in the
nation's largest state, reigniting a hot-button social issue amid a
presidential election campaign so far dominated by economic issues and the
war in Iraq.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121086880069595697.html?mod=special_page_campaign2008_topbox
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Sara DuBois
Deputy Director, Tracking/Media Monitoring
Progressive Media USA
[email protected]
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