By Tommy Christopher Larry Johnson, over at No Quarter, has worked himself into a lather over the new paint job on Barack Obama's campaign plane.

By Scott Schaffer and Jon Meyer John McCain held a town hall meeting in Wilkes-Barre Wednesday morning, drawing hundreds to the FM Kirby Center downtown.

The first major poll since Barack Obama started his high-profile foreign tour does not show a huge benefit in the presidential race.
The NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey released this evening gives Obama a 47 percent to 41 percent national lead over Republican John McCain, an edge unchanged from last month. The poll was conducted last Friday through Monday, encompassing three days when Obama was in Afghanistan and Iraq.
running mate issue, 50 percent said theyd like to see Obama pick someone who is an expert in the military or foreign affairs, compared to only 25 percent who want McCain to do so. On the other side, 60 percent of registered voters wanted to see McCain

By Walter Alarkon and Jordan Fabian Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has more field offices and more staffers than Republican rival John McCain’s in

Courtesy of AP This past Tuesday night, presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Senator John McCain, visited Baltimore for a fundraiser.

By Lyndsay DeBord - July 23, 2008 PITTSFIELD - Local political heavyweights were no-shows at Tuesday's rally for Barack Obama but that didn't signify a lack of support, said organizers.
"Berkshire County is Obama County," said Lee Harrison, chairman of Berkshire Brigades, the local Democratic committee, who added it was time to put a Democrat into the White House. "Boy, do we need that."
ed the rally with her daughter Valerie Hamilton. "She's seen a lot of presidents," said Valerie. The senior Hamilton believes Obama has the ability to negotiate across party lines and to appeal to both young and older voters. "He's a unifier," said Mable.

Media reports hinted that John McCain could name his running mate sometime this week. Smart move. It might allow McCain to regain some momentum after whats been a bad week thus far for the Republican presidential nominee.
For months, the McCain camp has been harping on the fact that Barack Obama has traveled to Iraq just once and had never been Afghanistan. Someone with so little overseas experience isnt qualified to run Americas foreign policy, their argument went, apparently not realizing that should Obama actually travel to those locations, their inevitable criticism of the trip would look pretty shallow.
time youre tempted to issue an indirect challenge to Obama, take a pass.

John McCain may not be the shoot from the hip maverick of old, but he hasn’t lost his sense of humor. After a long day of loading on and off buses and planes, a press wrangler tonight told reporters the campaign had a “surprise” gift, adding that it is one that campaign officials, at least, consider “pretty funny.” With that, the staffer walked down the aisle and handed out laminated press ID cards emblazoned with the words “McCain Press Corps JV Squad” underneath a photo of the Statue of Liberty. The caption? “Left behind to report in America.” The reverse side of the ID offered a French translation of the same text along with a picture of a beret wearing pseudo-Frenchman

IN THE HEADLINES Obama tells Israelis he's committed to their security, speaking with Hamas rockets as backdrop ... McCain denies he misstated timing of

By VOA News US Republican candidate John McCain says if he becomes president, once US troops withdraw from Iraq they will not return, because the United

By Josh Rogers on Wednesday, July 23, 2008. McCain rips Obama on foreign policy as Illinois Demcract travels overseas. The attacks come as UNH poll finds

Barack Obama leads John McCain 49% to 37% in Minnesota . The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state finds that when “leaners” are included,

By Michael Falcone The independent group, VoteVets, will begin running a new television ad this week that features an Iraq war veteran who asserts that if

MANCHESTER — US Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign today announced staff that will be joining Obama for America in New Hampshire and the New

(CNN) — John McCain said Wednesday that a troop withdrawal from Iraq under an Obama administration wouldn’t be a lasting one.

John McCain will be back in the state Monday for fundraisers in Bakersfield and San Francisco.
Supporters will write checks for up to $2,300 to see the Arizona Republican. In San Francisco, people under 35 years old get a break, with tickets going for $1,000-a-head.

Unlike 1984, when Ronald Reagan's age was barely addressed until he had a bad debate performance late in the campaign, this presidential campaign, John McCain's age is very much in focus. This is from a big story in today's Washington Post:
He has been making a series of verbal slips -- invariably described as "gaffes" -- that are starting to ricochet from liberal blogs to the mainstream media. And fairly or not, some critics are suggesting the 71-year-old Republican candidate is showing his age.
say John McCain's age would make him a less effective president were he to win in November, while only 8% say Barack Obama's race would make him less effective.

The Drudge Report ran a juicy item about the fact that only one reporter showed up to cover Republican John McCain at a campaign stop in New Hampshire the other day.
Just one.
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By Linda Feldmann | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Washington - Israeli President Shimon Peres.
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Rasmussen Reports poll backs up McCain, reporting a growing portion of likely voters see a bias toward Obama – now 49 percent, up from 44 percent a month ago. Only 14 percent believe reporters favor McCain. And the poll was taken before the McCain campaign complained publicly that the The New York Times had rejected an Op-Ed by the senator that responded to an Obama Op-Ed in the Times.

The New York Times' Maureen Dowd points out a visual contrast this week that's going to be remembered for some time. "The image of John McCain in a golf cart with Bush 41 in Kennebunkport â with Poppy charmingly admitting that they were âa little jealousâ of all the Obama odyssey coverage â was not a good advertisement for the future, especially contrasted with the shots of Gen. David Petraeus and Obama smiling at each other companionably in a helicopter surveying Iraq. (Asked by a Democratic lawmaker a while back why there werenât more Democrats in the military, General Petraeus smiled slyly and said âthere are more than you think.â)"
In a separate piece, the New York Timesâ

by FOXNews.com John McCain is working overtime to grab headlines as Barack Obama enters the thick of a high-profile tour abroad that has all but transported