By KARL ROVE John McCain and Barack Obama have both changed positions in this campaign. That's OK. Voters understand that politicians can and, sometimes,

BY ROCHELLE RILEY • FREE PRESS COLUMNIST • July 22, 2008 It is a way of doing business that causes more harm than we know: Arrogance trumps thoughtfulness.

Jae C. Hong/AP By ALESSANDRA STANLEY It wasn’ta television blackout of John McCain; it was worse: split-screen contrasts that at times made it seem as if

Have the media gone in the bag for Obama, or is McCain jealous of losing the affections of his "base"?
Posted July 23, 2008
allen for Obama? Or is the McCain campaign off base? Post your thoughts below.

I heard a quote on TV yesterday from John McCain that really got under my skin. Here's the text, from the FoxNews website:
"I had the courage and the judgment to say that I would rather lose a political campaign than lose a war," McCain said at his town hall meeting Tuesday, referring to his support for the troop surge. "It seems to me that Senator Obama would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign."
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Editor - When the major networks choose to treat Sen. Barack Obama as if he has already been elected president by sending their top reporters to cover his trip to Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries, but did nothing like that for Sen. John McCain or anyone else, they showed contempt for our whole political system.
I hope that if Sen. McCain is elected president, he will let these network people know it's their turn to be at the back of the bus and give them no special treatment at all, including any kind of interview.
tinction puzzle. Agricultural, development and forestry practices all have significant impacts on the health of salmon habitat.

On a conference call after Obama's press conference, McCain's senior foreign policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann, took off the gloves and launched an attack at the foundation of Obama's foreign policy argument: his judgment.
The other participants on the call -- Rep. Heather Wilson (who lost her Senate primary in New Mexico earlier this year) and Sen. Sam Brownback -- emphasized that the difference between McCain and Obama on the issue of Iraq is that McCain's strategy is not based on the calendar but rather conditions on the ground.
Foreign Relations Committee, when he did not hold a single substantive hearing? His years in the Illinois state Senate or as a community organizer?

A surrogate for John McCain made a leftward feint on a campaign conference call today, suggesting that the presumptive Republican nominee might pull troops out of Iraq sooner than Barack Obama.
"He’d like troops to come home earlier than 16 months if the conditions allow it," Rep. Heather Wilson, (R-New Mexico), said of McCain.
McCain senior foreign policy advisor Randy Scheunemann whether the Arizona senator thought he could get troops home faster than Obama. Scheunemann didn't go there. "Sen. McCain has always said two things would determine his approach to force levels in Iraq: The advice of commanders on the ground and the security situation on the ground."