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Nobody was going to beat Barack Obama in 2008. That's a fact. It was his moment. It wasn't that John McCain ran a bad campaign, or picked the wrong VP. It was just that it didn't matter, it was over when it started.
Martha Maccallum
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Barack
Mccain
Ran
Obama
Barack Obama
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Campaign
John
Picked
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With the likely nominations of Barack Obama by the Democrats and John McCain by the Republicans, one of these two parties is headed for a 2009 crack-up that could prove as messy as any party civil war in recent history.
Chuck Todd
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Journalist
Barack
Civil War
Mccain
Messy
Prove
Obama
Barack Obama
Civil
Democrats
Republicans
Headed
John
Likely
Parties
Recent
Recent History
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Among the events of John McCain's five-and-a-half years of imprisonment and torture in North Vietnam, probably the most heroic, and surely the most celebrated, was his refusal to accept an early release from his captors.
Bret Stephens
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Journalist
Heroic
Imprisonment
Mccain
Refusal
Release
Torture
Vietnam
Celebrated
North Vietnam
Surely
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I took a lot of heat from Republicans when I stepped out of John McCain's campaign after the 2008 primaries. I still supported McCain, and voted for him, but I just didn't want to be the tip of the spear attacking Obama.
Mark Mckinnon
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Advisor
Attacking
Heat
Mccain
Campaign
Republicans
Spear
Stepped
Tip
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If someone busted into your house and robbed you, would you then forgive them if you found out they were a veteran? Of course not. So why are we forgiving McCain for selling out his country by supporting the Bush agenda?
Adam Mckay
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Screenwriter
Busted
Mccain
Selling
Veteran
Agenda
Bush
Forgive
Robbed
Supporting
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When I'm 100 years old, if I make it that long, when I die, probably the first tag line will be John McCain's daughter, and I'm so proud of him and proud of my family's legacy and our life, so I don't have a problem with it.
Meghan Mccain
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Columnist
Daughter
Legacy
Mccain
Problem
Proud
Tag
Die
Life Family Long
John
Line
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A troubled economy is always the sitting president's fault. It was when Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter, when Bill Clinton defeated George H.W. Bush, and when Barack Obama defeated John McCain by running against George W. Bush.
Mark Mckinnon
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Advisor
Barack
Carter
Clinton
Defeated
Jimmy
Mccain
Barack Obama
Bill
Bill Clinton
Bush
Fault
George
George W
George W. Bush
Jimmy Carter
Reagan
Troubled
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Perhaps the right to authenticity and the reverence of authenticity should be reserved for people like John McCain. John McCain who at his most authentic chose to stay and face years of torture rather than leave before his brothers.
Krystal Ball
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Mccain
Reserved
Reverence
Torture
Authentic
Chose
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I am certain that the United States next year, under a new president - regardless whether it's Obama or McCain - will present an ambitious program promoting renewable energies and energy efficiency. Europe could quickly fall behind.
Sigmar Gabriel
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Former German Federal Minister Of The Environment
Ambitious
Efficiency
Energy Efficiency
Europe
Fall
Mccain
Next Year
Program
Promoting
Years
I Am Energy New
Energies
Quickly
Regardless
Renewable
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Sarah Palin lacked the preparation or temperament to be one heartbeat away from the presidency, but what she possessed in abundance was the ability to inflame political passions and energize the John McCain campaign with star quality.
Roger Ebert
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Film Critic
Quality
Abundance
Heartbeat
Mccain
Palin
Passion
Political
Possessed
Preparation
Presidency
Stars
Temperament
Campaign
Star
Inflame
John
Passions
Sarah Palin
Sarah
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You can't be elected president without passing though Iowa and bowing down before corn-based ethanol, before agricultural subsidies. I mean, even McCain was a critic of ethanol, but when he got to Iowa, he was singing a different tune.
Michael Pollan
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Author
Ethanol
Iowa
Mccain
Passing
Singing
Subsidies
Agricultural
Bowing
Critic
Elected
Tune
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I think that Obama is very cool. And I think he's clever, and I think he can be witty. But I don't think he's funny in either the way that Reagan was funny - or John McCain and Dick Cheney are both funny in that ruthless, kind of mean way.
Mo Rocca
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Journalist
Clever
Mccain
Ruthless
Witty
Obama
Cheney
Dick Cheney
John
Reagan
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McCain was so passionate and determined, but he was also practical. He understood what a heavy lift it was to get a 60-vote, filibuster-proof margin on something that lawmakers feared would hurt their ability to campaign to keep their jobs.
Dana Bash
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Journalist
Determined
Lawmakers
Mccain
Feared
Lift
Margin
Practical
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As someone who cares about human rights, I am deeply dismayed to learn that Mr. McCain's charity has accepted money from Saudi Arabia. Their track record of oppressing women, gays, Christians, and political opponents is notoriously horrific.
Roger Stone
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Political Consultant
Accepted
Arabia
Charity
Dismayed
Horrific
Human Rights
Mccain
Opponents
Political Opponents
Rights
Saudi Arabia
Track
Track Record
Who Cares
Mr
Cares
Christians
Deeply
Gays
Record
Saudi
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When you get John McCain going about the war against terror, he comes alive. That's when it gets fun. He rattles off the statistics, he showcases his wealth of military experience, and he doesn't recognize the concepts of defeat or surrender.
Mike Gallagher
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Radio Host
Concepts
Defeat
Mccain
Statistics
Surrender
Terror
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Romney, like Sen. John McCain and Bob Dole before him, were meant to mollify moderates, attract Independents, and 'rebrand' the party in a way that mostly fits the ideal of media types who would never vote Republican anyhow. Each of them lost.
Kellyanne Conway
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Strategist
Bob
Mccain
Moderates
Romney
Anyhow
Attract
Dole
Fits
Ideal
Independents
Types
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Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.
Barack Obama
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44Th U.s. President
Administration
Clear
Israel
Mccain
Policy
Strong
Absolutely
Change Me Will
Obama
Friend
Obama Administration
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The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level.
Ed Rollins
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Political Consultant
Abraham
Hate
Intolerance
Irrelevant
Levels
Mccain
Party
Republican Party
Nominee
Fought
John
Led
Lincoln
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I'm an emotional woman when it comes to service to our country. I watched many people's children leave and go serve. This is something that is the fiber of the McCain family. It was nothing more than me just saying I believe in this country so strongly.
Cindy Mccain
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Businesswoman
Fiber
Mccain
Family Believe Me
Family Believe I Believe
Strongly
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I used to like John McCain, too, but I must admit that was because he was bucking his party to do things I agreed with. I would not have had that reaction if, say, Bernie Sanders decided to rebel out of principle and support privatizing Social Security.
Gail Collins
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Journalist
Decided
Mccain
Party
Principles
Rebel
Security
Social Security
Support
Admit
Agreed
Bernie Sanders
John
Principle
Reaction
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John McCain felt very strongly about virtually every issue that he tackled, but it was never based in partisanship. He didn't try to score partisan points as he worked on issues. He would work with anyone who wanted to accomplish the goal that he shared.
Susan Collins
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United States Senator
Accomplish
Mccain
Partisanship
Score
Shared
Strongly
Tackled
Virtually
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There's a lot of surplus rage from the '60s that was never really worked through publicly. I think a lot of that rage still exists, and I think you see that when John McCain runs a commercial that beats up on Hillary Clinton's earmark for a Woodstock museum.
Rick Perlstein
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Historian
Beats
Clinton
Mccain
Surplus
Woodstock
Commercial
Earmark
Exists
Hillary
John
Museum
Publicly
Runs
Worked
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Presidents seem to fall into two positive categories: they're one of us, or they're heroes. Both McCain and Obama probably see themselves as potential heroes - presidents who will be looked up to, not presidents everyday people will remark are 'just like me.'
Chuck Todd
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Journalist
Categories
Everyday
Mccain
Positive Me People
Everyday People
Presidents
Remark
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When I was sworn in, we had Republican-sponsored climate-change bills all over the place. You had John McCain running for President in 2008 on a strong climate platform. You could see American democracy actually starting to work at solving a difficult problem.
Sheldon Whitehouse
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United States Senator
Bills
Mccain
Platform
Solving
Sworn
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In 2008, Senator John McCain forbid his staff from using an ad that referred to his opponent Barack Obama's inflammatory former pastor Jeremiah Wright or from raising that issue in any other way. He believed it was a sneaky way to use Obama's race against him.
John Dickerson
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Barack
Former
Mccain
Pastor
Race
Sneaky
Staff
Ad
Obama
Any Other Way
Believed
Senator
Forbid
Issue
John
Opponent
Raising
Referred
Using
Wright
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Remember, the first presidential candidate to reject public financing for both the primary and general election was... Barack Obama, in 2008. He did it, in spite of a flat pledge to the contrary, because his campaign saw that it could vastly outspend John McCain.
Jeff Greenfield
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Journalist
Barack
Contrary
Election
Financing
Mccain
Pledge
Presidential
Spite
Barack Obama
Campaign
Candidate
General Election
Reject
Vastly
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Should Sen. McCain capture the nomination as many assume, I believe this general election will offer the worst choices for President in my lifetime. I certainly can't vote for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama based on their virulently anti-family policy positions.
James Dobson
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Author
Barack
Believe
Capture
Choices
Clinton
Election
Lifetime
Mccain
Policy
President
Vote
Worst
Believe Will I Believe
Obama
Assume
General
Barack Obama
Based
Certainly
Believe I Believe Will
General Election
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Nomination
Positions
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'Not again!' I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set to pick Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not again, because too often women are promoted for the wrong reasons, and then blamed when things don't go right.
Dee Dee Myers
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Former White House Press Secretary
Running
Morning
Alaska
Mccain
News
Palin
Wrong Reasons
Women Are
Blamed
Governor
John
Mate
Pick
Promoted
Sarah Palin
Reasons
Running Mate
Sarah
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Although I've been a longtime Democrat (primarily because, unless there is some very compelling reason to be otherwise, I am always for 'the little guy'), my political orientation is not rigid. For instance, I supported John McCain's run for the presidency in 2000.
Vincent Bugliosi
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Attorney
Compelling
Democrat
Instance
Mccain
Orientation
Presidency
Longtime
Rigid
Supported
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In 2008 all the stars aligned perfectly for Obama's 6-point victory over John McCain. He was an inexperienced, untested neophyte, and successfully convinced enough voters to paint their own version of what hope-and-change was all about on the blank canvas he provided.
Bob Beauprez
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Former United States Representative
Blank
Blank Canvas
Canvas
Convinced
Mccain
Paint
Stars
Voters
Obama
Aligned
Version
Inexperienced
John
Perfectly
Provided
Successfully
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My husband saw me go through the 2008 campaign cycle. We did it together for Sarah Palin and John McCain. It ended disastrously, and afterward I really wanted to do something different, so I started writing novels, and I imagined a fictional female president in my head.
Nicolle Wallace
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White House Communications Director
Mccain
Palin
Afterwards
Campaign
Cycle
Ended
Fictional
Sarah Palin
Sarah
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John McCain was one of the senators who voted against George Herbert Walker Bush's disastrous break of his no new taxes pledge when he raised taxes in 1990. That's really important. He's a supply-sider. And he's got supply siders like Phil Graham and Jack Kemp to vouch for that.
Kellyanne Conway
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Strategist
Mccain
Pledge
Senators
Disastrous
Graham
Herbert
Jack
New Taxes
Phil
Supply
Walker
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It is clear to me that Democrats want to attack me rather than debate Sen. McCain on important economic issues facing the country. That kind of distraction hurts not only Sen. McCain's ability to present concrete programs to deal with the country's problems; it hurts the country.
Phil Gramm
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Former American Senator
Concrete
Debate
Distraction
Mccain
Attack
Democrats
Hurts
Facing
Programs
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In '08, Barrack Obama was famously elected president. Even though I'd supported McCain and dreaded what I feared Barrack might do, I felt a surge of elation when the networks announced he'd won. I really hadn't thought the U.S. would go for an African-American for a decade or so.
Orson Bean
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Film Actor
African American
Elation
Mccain
Announced
Surge
Networks
Decade
Dreaded
Feared
Supported
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A person like Donald Trump, who has said what he's said about Muslims, Mexicans, women, George Bush, John McCain - a person like that should not be the nominee of our party or be the president, and I will campaign for an alternative to Donald Trump until that avenue is no longer open.
Mitt Romney
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Former Governor Of Massachusetts
Mccain
Alternative
Avenue
Campaign
Donald
Donald Trump
Nominee
George Bush
Mexicans
Muslims
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The campaigns of Steve Forbes, Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot, and John McCain all outperformed expectations on their support from independent voters. They made no effort to shy away from ideology, but conveyed to voters that their policies were driven by principle, not party talking points.
John Sununu
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Former United States Senator
Campaigns
Driven
Effort
Forbes
Ideology
Independent
Made
Mccain
Party
Shy
Support
Talking
Voters
Away
Conveyed
John
Pat
Perot
Points
Principle
Steve
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Donald Trump called for the closing of borders to Muslims; John McCain said, in response to the President's address on the San Bernardino shooting, that 'this is the war of our time.' As that shooting shows, we react to terrorism with far more intensity than we do to an ordinary crime.
Lawrence M. Krauss
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Physicist
Borders
Closing
Intensity
Mccain
Ordinary
Our Time
Response
Shooting
Terrorism
Address
War Time Terrorism
Donald
Donald Trump
Muslims
React
San
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I admired the way McCain worked on campaign finance reform. I admired the way Nancy Pelosi stiffened the Democrats' spine during the health care debate. I admire the way Barack Obama has raised a dog in the White House without ever putting it on the roof of the car for a vacation drive.
Gail Collins
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Journalist
Vacation
Car
Finance
Admire
Barack
Campaign Finance
Campaign Finance Reform
Debate
Dog
Health Care
Mccain
Nancy
Roof
Spine
White
White House
Admired
Barack Obama
Campaign
Democrats
Nancy Pelosi
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One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.
Gary Locke
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Accurate
Campaigns
Lifetime
Mark
Mccain
Palin
Change Good Look
Change Good Game
John
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I read 'Game Change.' If you want to relive the campaign, that book is unbelievable. It's great. It's the book of that campaign. It brought all the memories back of everything with Clinton and Obama, and Sarah Palin and McCain, and choosing her, and John Edwards. It was an interesting book.
Annette Bening
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Actress
Book
Clinton
Interesting
Mccain
Memories
Palin
Unbelievable
Obama
Game
Brought
Campaign
Choosing
Read
Her
John
John Edwards
Sarah Palin
Relive
Sarah
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John McCain has taken tens of millions of dollars from special interests and lobbyists in his senate and presidential campaigns. Now, we have to wonder if he will be able to remain objective on national security matters, as millions pour into his 'charity' from oppressive foreign governments.
Roger Stone
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Political Consultant
Campaigns
Charity
Dollars
Lobbyists
Mccain
National Security
Presidential
Senate
Special Interests
Governments
Millions Of Dollars
Objective
Oppressive
Pour
Tens
Tens Of Millions
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In 2008, Barack Obama did get Democrats hyperventilating, whipped up to a creamy froth, while John McCain creaked ahead like a cranky granddad whom Republicans let move to the front of the buffet line, deferring to seniority, as they had in 1996, when Bob Dole turtled to the top of the ticket.
James Wolcott
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Journalist
Barack
Bob
Buffets
Mccain
Moving
Seniority
Obama
Ahead
Barack Obama
Buffet
Democrats
Dole
Republicans
Front
John
Line
Ticket
Whipped
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We are all socialists now, it seems. John McCain, David Cameron and Gordon Brown attack bankers' irresponsible behaviour and salaries, and call for state intervention in the financial markets. But these calls will not get them elected or re-elected if they are addressed only to the banking sector.
Noreena Hertz
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Bankers
Banking
Behaviour
Brown
Cameron
Financial
Financial Markets
Intervention
Irresponsible
Mccain
Attack
David
Calls
Elected
Gordon
John
Markets
Re-Elected
Salaries
Sector
Socialists
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Trump has never sacrificed anything for this country, and in fact, he has attacked people who have. It just makes me sick to my stomach when I see him attacking the mother of a fallen hero or John McCain. It just makes me sick to my stomach that this guy thinks he's prepared to be commander-in-chief.
Evan Mcmullin
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Commander In Chief
Hero
Mccain
Prepared
Sick
Stomach
Trump
Hero Me People
Attacked
Me Country People
In Fact
John
Sacrificed
Thinks
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I think this is a part of John McCain that a lot of people don't know about, is that he took younger senators under his wing. And, in my case, I - he taught me so much about national security and foreign policy, even when we didn't always agree. He took me four times with him to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Susan Collins
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United States Senator
Afghanistan
Agree
Foreign Policy
Mccain
National Security
Policy
Security
Senators
Taught
Always Me People
Younger
Case
Me People Always
John
Took
Wing
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It always seemed to me ironic that the McCain campaign kept referring sneeringly to Obama's meager resume - 'a mere community organizer!' - before he entered electoral politics. It was Obama's experience as a community organizer that proved such a killer app when he applied that skill to the Internet.
Tina Brown
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Journalist
Internet
Ironic
Mccain
Mere
Organizer
Referring
Obama
App
Campaign
Electoral
Entered
Proved
Resume
Seemed
Skill
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Jon Kyl did a really good job of presenting a case and moving issues. John McCain probably is one of the more effective legislators, getting things on through the process. I always thought, too - and this may seem kind of odd - Richard Shelby was just an effective guy a lot of times at stopping things.
Sam Brownback
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Governor Of Kansas
Good Job
Legislators
Mccain
Odd
Presenting
Stopping
Jon
Good May Always
Effective
Richard
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McCain is completely against the sequester. It was one thing when we had a Democratic chair who was against it - all the Democrats were against it. But to have a Republican chair who is outspoken and strong against the sequester, who has the credentials in military issues - who is going to challenge him?
Tim Kaine
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United States Senator
Credentials
Democratic
Issues
Mccain
Military
Outspoken
Chair
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In some ways, it's better that Obama got elected than McCain. I'd rather be stabbed in the chest with an Obama steak knife than to have been slowly bled to death with McCain paper cuts. Say what you will, but Obama has brought about a patriotic and civic renaissance, the likes of which I have never seen.
Brad Thor
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Novelist
Likes
Mccain
Paper
Patriotic
Renaissance
Steak
Bled
Chest
Civic
Cuts
Elected
Slowly
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McCain courted in 2008 what I would call 'fringe' evangelicals, in part because evangelicals were skeptical of his commitment to values voters. McCain's embrace of Palin came after having to scuttle endorsements from John Hagee and Rod Parsley, charismatics who believed in Armageddon and fiercely supported Israel.
Anthea Butler
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Armageddon
Commitment
Embrace
Fringe
Mccain
Palin
Skeptical
Voters
Believed
Courted
Evangelicals
Fiercely
John
Rod
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