John McCain

Republican Flounders: McCain Loses Top Staffers

Posted by Kombiz Lavasany on July 10, 2007 at 11:14 AM

It's been a hard year to be a Republican candidate, from flip-flopping and having to pander to the right-wing fringe of the Republican party. After a bad fundraising quarter, MSNBC is reporting that John McCain's campaign manager Terry Nelson and chief strategist John Weaver are leaving the campaign.

UPDATE: Mark Salter, McCain's long-time chief of staff and co-author of his five books, is apparently also leaving the campaign. Republican sources close to the campaign are saying that the three did not leave amicably.

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WHO CARES???
Let's talk about real issues like stopping the "War of Lies", impeaching the numerous corrupt elected officials in the executive branch of our government, and fair trade.
Better yet, let's talk about kicking the Republi-lite sell-outs out of the party so we can get on with taking care of the American People, instead of pandering to K-street and their rich and greedy oligarchial bosses.

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Butte on July 10, 2007 at 11:59 AM

What time is Governor Dean on MSNBC today on their poltical marathon. I saw at some blog that he would be.

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sunny on July 10, 2007 at 12:20 PM

Although an important stepback in McCain's compaign, there are more important issues concerning America and the world today that needs to be addressed. As to date, $450 billion dollars has been spent on the meaningless war in Iraq. Americans are put more at risk for violence since the start of this war. And our attention of preventing and stopping international terrorism has lead us into a war under false pretenses and meaningless as this one. More importantly the government has allowed extreme poverty to grow in America and in Iraq with thousands of refugees and people under extreme financial distress. The US is part of the UN’s Millennium Development Project, which has the goal of eliminating global poverty. However by examining the conducts of our government, no poverty is reduced. Rather, poverty has increased. According to the Borgen Project, whose goal is to fight global poverty, it only takes $19 billion dollars annually stop world hunger and poverty. However, more than $340 billion dollars has been put into the Iraq war at a rate of $2 billion dollars per week. Our government needs to realize that it is indirectly funding poverty, violence and hunger, the three things that it pledged and vowed to eliminate. It is time for a change.

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Mstessyrue on July 10, 2007 at 02:20 PM

I'm worried about McCain. He looks white as a sheep. What is his health situation?

I don't think he realizes he's taken on all ofBush's albatross positions...and no Republican strategist wants to be saddled with them during this next election.

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SandyH on July 10, 2007 at 02:39 PM


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