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Obama said he is the candidate who can bring "fundamental change" to the country and continued to try to link McCain to President Bush.

A maverick, John McCain tackled campaign reform, military reform, spending reform. He took on presidents, partisans and popular opinion.

McCain began a week-long tour of poor communities around the country that generally get little attention from presidential candidates.

McCain and Barack Obama have sparred over ties to lobbying firms and financial institutions caught up in the Wall Street turmoil.

Mr Thompson himself is said to prefer John McCain. But any of these candidates could grab some of his supporters, as could Rudy Giuliani.

During an appearance on CNN's Late Edition, he said on many key issues, John McCain is too liberal to be the Republican nominee.

John McCain is trying to tie Barack Obama to oil companies while Obama spend part of the day saying McCain will keep economy in a ditch.

while McCain sat as if he might leap up at any moment, or stood impatiently waiting for his turn to speak.

Sen. McCain has said he is open to a stimulus plan, but hasn't committed to any specific proposal.

Charlie Black, a senior adviser to McCain, said Joe the plumber was one of the highlights of the encounter.

But McCain was on the defensive after one of his supporters made some controversial remarks at a campaign rally Cincinnati, Ohio.

There have been a few honourable exceptions in the upper chamber, notably John McCain's interventions on the use of torture.

A reporter on TV, unable to give up the suspense, tries to think up fanciful ways in which John McCain could reach 270 electoral votes.

McCain said he is open to a variety of possible solutions to the home finance crisis in the U.

Someone spread the utterly false rumour that she was the result of Mr McCain's adultery with a black woman.

Senator Obama fought back with criticisms of the Bush administration's policies, which he said Senator McCain has largely supported.

So how much money would Mr Obama's plan raise, and how much would Mr McCain's lose?

The orphanage could not provide the medical care needed to save her life, so Mrs. McCain brought the child home to America with her.

John McCain said he modelled himself on Teddy Roosevelt, a man who "nourished the soul of a great nation" .

Now, to a large extent the poor quality of Mr. McCain's advisers reflects the tattered intellectual state of his party.

Mr McCain is certainly the right man for the Republicans, but we are not yet ready to endorse him for the presidency.

McCain said he intends to run for re-election to the Senate in two years, but laughed off the prospect of another run for president.

If Mr McCain were to become president, he would also be well advised to restrain his instincts and redefine America's mission in Iraq.

John McCain and Barack Obama talk as if it was all down to the greed of modern bankers.

Obama, sad to say, failed the farm bill test. McCain may have found a theme for a nation that has lost faith in its own institutions.

Senator McCain did not call me this time but I thought to volunteer a draft of a concession speech for him next Tuesday, in the event.

With the primary season forgotten, Mr Obama is now sauntering towards the centre, ready to spar with John McCain.

Out of the question. Later, in Sparks, Nevada , a little girl asked McCain if he will "raise our taxes" and he said simply, "No, " Shep.

Senator John McCain, a Republican presidential hopeful, has said he wants to see the United States in the ICC.

With just a few days before the election, John McCain accused Barack Obama of being too liberal for the country.

Mr McCain was the worst, jabbing at the ceiling and breaking into a shout at unseen enemies, a disturbing spectacle in the quiet room.

The only Republican candidate to give vocal support to the "surge" is John McCain, the front-runner, but his hawkishness may hurt him.

I might even imagine that this was also seen as a way to put John McCain in the White House.

McCain called the comments unnecessary and said he's proud of his record of service. Diane Kepley, the Associated Press.

McCain reversed his comments within a matter of hours and said he thought the economy was in a crisis.

Barack Obama said he was inclined to back it, while John McCain, his Republican rival, said doing nothing had not been an option.

He said the McCain campaign had asked him to attend a weekend rally, but he already had plans to travel to New York.

Dale says McCain has stirred controversy within his own party for some of his positions, and enjoys the role of an independent "maverick. "

He and Bush have not always seen eye to eye, but McCain has said he will welcome the president's support.

McCain said he believes the country is in an economic crisis and he vowed to clean up the greed and corruption on Wall Street.

Obama also leads McCain or is tied with him in several key states that will provide the margin of victory on Tuesday.

Former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who dropped out of the race Wednesday and endorsed John McCain, did not take part.

If I was a McCain a staffer, I would be looking out my resume as there is no chance of a White House job.

McCain was traveling in France and said the brege(breach) incidents required an apology and a full investigation.

Senator McCain's not here. He probably wanted to distance himself from me a little bit. You know, he's not alone. Jenna's moving out, too.

Senator McCain laughed along with the crowd as he said, "May I give the translation? "

Republican rival Senator John McCain is across the pond still on his world tours, spending the holiday in London.

John McCain said the only thing worse than a war with Iran would be an Iran with a bomb.

The Obama campaign's constant charge that McCain is McSame seems to me to have mostly fallen flat.

McCain was quick to knock down the lie. "No, ma'am, " he said, "he's a decent family man, a citizen. "

He said McCain was using the kind of dirty tricks that Ronald Reagan would have found reprehensible.

Let me ask you a different question, though, Carl. Was this John McCain at his oratorical best just in terms of the style of the delivery?

McCain began to gain some ground at the end, he never fully recovered from the pivotal late-September juncture.

Mr. McCain is often referred to as a "maverick" and a "moderate, " assessments based mainly on his engaging manner.

But he makes it sound as if Mr McCain is doing special favours for an industry many Americans regard as villainous.

The president did not formally endorse McCain, but did say he was willing to campaign on behalf of the eventual Republican nominee.

The only odd thing about this election is the fact that the Democratic candidates both seem more comfortable with God-talk than Mr McCain.

In the American tradition of blended families, John McCain's family is a textbook example in every sense of the word.

The big story out of that interview was that John McCain does not know how many houses he owns.

McCain said he wants to see McChrystal use the same aggressive approach employed during the troop surge in Iraq.

John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate, said the US should "avoid reaching for agreement for its own sake" .

Senator McCain said he is confident Congress and the Bush administration can agree on a financial bailout plan within the next few days.

And she seems to go further than McCain, who has said he does not support drilling in the wildlife refuge "at this time. "

In his speech, McCain noted that Congress has yet to pass such reform, but said the cause is not lost.

Mrs. McCain replied that the child desperately needed surgery and years of rehabilitation.

He said he also wanted to thank McCain for his service to the country.

When asked whether he thought the woman's comment was funny, Senator McCain said he laughed because he wanted to move on.

MCCAIN: And I guarantee you he would not -- he would not say that presidential top level.

McCain was traveling in France and said the breach incidents require an apology and a full investigation.

Mr McCain shot back with a speech of his own next day, saying that Mr Obama will raise taxes and unwisely renegotiate trade agreements.

Yesterday, CNN journalist Rick Sanchez raised the question of whether Senator McCain should have admonished the woman.

The former Arkansas governor won five southern states on Tuesday and is third place in the delegate count behind McCain and Romney.

But two of the current tales about Mr McCain suggest that this can be a mistake.

Mr McCain, by contrast, has seemed to be snatching at solutions. The promise is of a tax cut here, another one there.

When Obama took the microphone, he said he needed to correct some misconceptions since McCain had been asking "Who is Barack Obama? "

In turn, the McCain campaign accused Obama of turning the critical White House meeting into a political shouting match.

Biden responded that McCain has not been a maverick on any issue that Americans care about.

Indeed, Obama's is a bit higher than it was a month ago. That suggests the failure of the McCain campaign's attacks on Obama.

Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain supported the surge. His Democratic opponent, Senator Barack Obama, did not.

In a press conference in Florida shortly after the McCain announcement, Obama said the debate should go forward as planned.

McCain said he would soon visit Iraq and Afghanistan to assess the military situations there.

These people do not constitute a nation of whiners, as the McCain adviser whom Obama pilloried in his speech would have you think.

"John McCain's candidacy is as much a casualty of Wall Street as Lehman or Merrill, " he said.

The DNC argues that McCain remains bound by public financing restrictions and should not be allowed to spend any more primary funds.

McCain off the coast of the Philippines, according to CNN, quoting a US official who said it was an "inadvertent encounter" .

As long it was, Mr McCain remained close to his rival in the polls.

McCain also faces a lingering challenge in trying to shore up support among conservative Republicans.

Republican delegates and others attending the convention expressed continued support for her and applauded McCain's choice.

In 2008 it was one of only four New York districts that voted for John McCain over Barack Obama.

Meanwhile, McCain told an Ohio television station yesterday that he had not had seen the Bush proposal "in writing" .

But many Republican strategists believe Wright will be a liability for Obama if he faces McCain in the general election.

But McCain remains undaunted by the long electoral odds in the final week of the campaign. He spoke to a rally in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

If the race continues over the next three weeks to be a conventional one, McCain is doomed.

At a rally in the small town of Cedarburg, in the north central state of Wisconsin , Palin praised McCain for consistently supporting the U.

Speaking in Tampa, Florida, McCain said he and his running mate are the true reformers.

In the magazine interview, al-Maliki did not indicate that he was endorsing Obama over Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee.

McCain made his concession speech from Phoenix, Arizona, after calling Obama to congratulate him on his win.

He repeated his offer for Obama to join him in a series of town hall meetings. McCain also issued the call in a speech last week.

In McCain's first debate with Obama, the two rivals were asked what they would do to lead the United States out of its present crisis.

Last week, Obama accused McCain and President Bush of what he called dishonest and divisive attacks over his willingness to talk to Iran.

In effect, McCain is trying to define Obama for voters, and not in a positive way.

Palin said she was proud to accept the invitation to run alongside John McCain in the general election in November.

Obama. Still, this doesn't seem to be hurting Sen. McCain, reinforcing the notion that in politics, attacks work.

It was a night of quiet triumph for Republican Senator John McCain, whose campaign had been prematurely declared "finished" months ago.

He offered short answers, maintained his cool, and kept his eyes fixed on McCain when it was his opponent's turn to speak.

McCain gave an emotional speech after the concession in which he promised to help his former rival address the country's many challenges.

But it robbed the McCain campaign of at least some of the free prime-time exposure it planned to use to build up Sen.

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Back when he was cultivating a maverick image, Mr. McCain portrayed himself as more environmentally aware than the rest of his party.

But thanks to Mr McCain's "hold" tactic, the Republicans seem to have won the first labour skirmish.

On the Republican side, Arizona Senator John McCain continued to question Obama's message of bringing change to Washington.

It's true that the speech was more about what Mr. McCain wouldn't do than about what he would.

On the Republican side, the main news was that John McCain is in deep trouble.

MCCAIN: Well, you know, let me just.

When a book alleged that John McCain had once called his wife Cindy one, the outrage was bipartisan.

McCain's victory in this year's New Hampshire primary in January put him on course to win the Republican Party's presidential nomination.

Speaking in Tampa , Florida, MaCcin McCain said he and his running mate are the true reformers, .

John McCain might be worried about losing an election, but I'm worried about you losing your job and losing your house!

Mr McCain said the Democratic candidate's was risking "class warfare" by proposing to redistribute wealth.

John McCain, currently a senator representing Arizona, would be the oldest president of the United States if elected.

Palin has been a political lightening rod since she was chosen as Republican nominee John McCain's running mate in 2008.

And that, in a nutshell , is the Bush-McCain Iraq policy - 'Do not learn from your mistakes, repeat them.

Senator McCain would like to see some oversight and some genuine checks on the ability of one person to have that kind of authority.

McCain gave it his backing, but Obama said he would reserve judgment.

Not long after, McCain White House received an invitation from the bottom of Barack Obama.

His opposition to the Iraq war stands him in good stead, too, in contrast to Mrs Clinton and Mr McCain.

'Sen. McCain wants a simple convention reflective of his own style and the tough times we're in, ' Mr. Davis says.

Huckabee told supporters that he called McCain to congratulate him on his victory.

In 2008 Oklahoma was the only state in which John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate, won every county.

Senator McCain has had his stumbles in trying to respond to the financial crisis.

Fiorina is now an adviser to Republican Sen. John McCain in his bid for the White House.

She proved to be a hopeless liability when she was on John McCain's ticket two years ago.

McCain also seemed to be aiming at appealing directly to independents, who tend to like a bipartisan approach to politics.

Such is the sense of panic among Republicans that Mr McCain is now being bombarded with contradictory advice.

A recent poll shows him doing just as well as Mrs Clinton against John McCain among non-Hispanic whites and people without college degrees.

Contrary to McCain who wanted to let the private sector sort this out, Obama promised to enforce net neutrality through federal legislation.

Speaking on the Fox News Sunday program, Davis said McCain made a comeback in his fight for his party's nomination, and is doing it again.

When his fundraising later improved, McCain sought to opt out of the federal program and its strict spending restrictions.

Unfortunately for Mr Romney, Mr McCain beat him among the swelling number of voters who think the economy is in trouble.

Simply because he's a member of George Bush's political party, McCain has the bigger challenge over the next few days.

But McCain devoted a large part of his speech to warning against the dangers of a hasty withdrawal from Iraq.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain laid out a detailed foreign policy blueprint in a speech in Los Angeles.

Neither figure is overwhelming, but the Democrat would be happy if he could hope to split the foreign-policy vote with Mr McCain.

Rep. Allen Boyd, a Florida Democrat, said McCain's visit to the White House threw the negotiations over the bailout package into disarray.

Sen. Obama was at best disingenuous in his convention speech when he criticized the McCain plan for taxing health benefits.

But the question of Mr McCain's age is no laughing matter.

The ad also accuses McCain of trying to shift debate from the economy to Obama's character.

He said McCain suggested suspending the debates, but added the announcement caught him by surprise.

"John McCain sided with the Democrats and voted against the Bush tax cuts, " he said.

Following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, McCain entered the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis.

Few people will buy individual insurance policies under Mr McCain's plan, he predicts, and Mr Obama's does not do enough to restrain costs.

The Democratic campaign must be delighted, not least by the neglect of his Republican rival, John McCain.

After a meeting with Prime Minister Gordon Brown, McCain said he appreciated British military efforts in Iraq.

But Mr Obama coolly reminded the audience that Mr McCain's campaign manager had long been a lobbyist for Freddie Mac.

That this newspaper admires Mr McCain for taking positions it agrees with may seem hardly surprising.

Sen. McCain said he will attend the Oxford, Miss. , event only if Congress reaches accord on a financial bailout package before then.

Senator McCain has focused his campaign on finding new energy solutions, as well as maintaining strong military support for the war in Iraq.

McCain said nuclear power was a clean source of energy that would be key to battling climate change and mocked Obama.

She was a rousing speaker, garnering crowd support for McCain along the campaign trail.

McCain probably would have given himself the power to be judge and jury over any American citizen that didn't approve of his foreign policy.

McCain said the bill is laden with unnecessary projects added by individual members of Congress.

And I'm glad that Senator McCain brought up the history, the bipartisan history of us engaging in direct diplomacy.

When Mr McCain is finished, the mike-check man comes back out and changes his test-phrase to "The next president of the United States" .

Mr McCain seems to be doing precisely the opposite.

Traditional hawks in the Republican Party, chief among them Senator John McCain of Arizona, agree with him.

Republican presidential contender John McCain picked up the endorsement of a former rival Thursday.

THE day before South Carolina's Republican primary, John McCain held a rally on an old aircraft carrier, the USS Yorktown.

Now that the president has belatedly followed his advice and the "surge" appears to be working, Mr McCain looks both bold and prescient.

Sen. McCain was born in 1936 in the Panama Canal Zone to a naval officer and his wife.

During the campaign, candidate Obama had the edge over candidate McCain on this issue because he favored auctioning off all the permits.

Romney said he has never supported a deadline, and he asked why McCain raised the issue just days before the Florida primary.

McCain's agronomists would first visit farmers like Mr Patel every other day. Now they check in once a week.

Mr. McCain essentially proposes continuing the policies of a president whose approval rating on economics is only 20 percent.

All this is true: but the old Mr McCain, who derided the religious right as "agents of intolerance" , would not have stooped to that.

Three weeks or so ago it looked like the contest would be fought on John McCain's chosen territory.

A new focus on economic matters may not be enough to rescue Mr McCain, but it should make the contest a more attractive one.

AT this point in the presidential campaign, Senator John McCain is the candidate of ideas on issues of tax policy.

Because Mr McCain is going to tax health benefits that you get through your employer, your employer may stop covering you.

McCain's focus on the economy came one day after Senator Obama outlined his own plan to help Middle America.

"Political Weekly, " 25 said it is clear that beyond McCain's aides expected the matter in the camp caused by internal rifts .

McCain now spends much of his time attacking Obama's tax plan, which would phase out the Bush tax cuts for upper income Americans.

Republicans rejoiced, and John McCain made Joe the Plumber a theme of the third and final debate, in an attempt to woo blue collar voters.

Powell also says he questions McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as a running mate and direction of the Republican Party is taking.

We are facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and John McCain wants us to turn the page on talking about the economy?

For the moment, Republican John McCain has an advantage over Democratic rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

If anybody could hold on to the White House against a Democratic hurricane, it was surely that Mr McCain.

The latest national public opinion surveys put Obama ahead of McCain by an average of six points, down slightly from earlier in the week.

Barack Obama should keep Ball in mind as he mulls John McCain's suggestion of a joint visit to Iraq.

Mr McCain has his faults: he is an instinctive politician, quick to judge and with a sharp temper.

McCain also said he is concerned that the Timothy Geithner-led automotive panel has a "dearth" of people with industry experience.

McCain, who is the ranking member of that panel, said he opposes setting what he called an "arbitrary date" to begin withdrawing troops.

In his speech, McCain also recalled that since 1980, no Republican has gone on to win the White House without winning the state's primary.

At the end of the debate Mr McCain appeared to snub Mr Obama's outstretched hand.

The bombshell article suggested that Senator McCain had an improper relationship with a female lobbyist.

"Women for McCain" coalitions have been rolled out in key states; women's phone-banks are held each Monday.

But at least one reader, Palin's former running mate, John McCain, will be waiting more with trepidation than excitement.

On the campaign trail, Obama often asserts that McCain is, in effect, running for a third term of the Bush presidency.

On 24 September, John McCain suspended his campaign and went to Washington, proclaiming that it was time to put aside party differences.

There are a number of such climate cowards, but let me single out one in particular: Senator John McCain.

It failed. Mr McCain said he was "frankly surprised" that his colleagues in the Senate would want to try it again.

Time was running out for both presumptive presidential candidates, Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain.

Obama's campaign team, intent on demonstrating it is not going to be a soft touch, resurrected a 1989 financial scandal involving McCain.

Mr McCain, for all his efforts at bipartisan grandstanding , will find it hard to escape guilt by association with the Bush administration .

Well, look, two days before Senator McCain outlined his "specific plan, " Barack Obama laid out a six-point detailed plan. . .

John McCain's attempt to reduce earmarks in an omnibus spending bill was defeated in the Senate.

Cardboard cutouts of McCain and his running mate, Sarah Palin stand near the press section of the "Straight Talk Air" campaign plane.

Because Senator McCain's energy plan reads like an early Christmas list for oil and gas lobbyists.

"For John McCain, there is no end in sight to end this war. Fundamental difference: we will end this war, " he said.

Cunningham said later he was angry at McCain for turning on him, and added that he would now support Hillary Clinton for president.

John McCain, freshly returned from the front line, said there were signs the surge is working.

"So let me get this right, " Mr McCain said to Mr Obama, criticising the Democratic nominee's policy on Tehran's nuclear programme.

His main remaining rival , former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee , bowed out of the race, pledging support for McCain .

McCain said he opposed lifting such restrictions during his 2000 presidential campaign run.

"It's been a tougher road for Mr. McCain, because the most vocal opponents to legal immigration are in his party, " Rivlin said.

McCain said he would do this by building 45 new nuclear power plants.

Yesterday, Gallup showed Mr Obama with a 10-point lead over Mr McCain, enough to push him well into landslide territory.

Now Mr Giuliani finds himself a poor third in the Florida polls, and behind to Mr McCain even in his home state of New York.

Mr. McCain does not, clinging to the fiction that the mortgage industry will somehow, someday, voluntarily rework most of the junk loans.

"Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe, thank you, Joe, " McCain said as he introduced independent Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, a close friend.

Mr McCain says that President Teddy Roosevelt is one of his heroes.

Mr McCain promised to fight "to make sure Americans are not deceived by an eloquent but empty call for change" .

In 2007 Mr McCain repudiated his own bill as part of his drive to become he Republican presidential nominee.

She said McCain would stubbornly continue what she termed President Bush's failed Iraq policy.

Unlike some of his rivals (Mr Giuliani embraced the plan; Mr Romney fudged), Mr McCain told Mr Crist to get stuffed.

Many Republicans have praised McCain for suspending his campaign, saying it shows he is willing to put the country's needs above politics.

Mr McCain finds himself in a curious position.

John McCain spotted an opening to frame the election around the experience needed in a commander-in-chief.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain says troop draw-downs must be determined by the military and political situation.

McCain easily won Maryland and Washington D. C. on Tuesday, and survived a strong challenge in Virginia from former Arkansas Gov.

MCCAIN: Senator Obama suspended those requests for pork-barrel projects after he was running for president of the United States.

Less enthusiastic about border fencing than McCain, Obama wants to "consult with local communities" to determine the best approach.

Europeans widely prefer Mr Obama to his Republican rival, John McCain, whom many see as a continuation of George Bush.

Mr McCain is the ultimate insider: the offspring of a naval dynasty, a bad boy turned war hero, the media's favourite Republican.

Mr McCain's next audacious move was his attempt to lead efforts in Congress to pass a financial rescue plan.

During a speech Tuesday in Houston, Senator John McCain called for an end to a moratorium on energy development in coastal areas.

THE last time he ran for president John McCain spent months rolling around New Hampshire in a bus, the Straight Talk Express.

Now, McCain campaign critics of Sarah Palin point out that the questions that Katie Couric asked, in their view, were not out of bounds.

But Democrats did not have Denver all to themselves, as shown by a small group waving John McCain signs outside the convention center.

Meanwhile, after the primaries, McCain began to take a beating.

"If the financial rescue bill fails in Congress yet again, the present crisis will turn into a disaster, " McCain said.

By then a lieutenant commander, McCain was almost killed on July 29, 1967, when he was near the center of the Forrestal fire.

"China is not behaving as a responsible world power, " John McCain, the former Republican presidential nominee, told CNN yesterday.

The McCain campaign states that gay adoption is a state issue and does not endorse any federal legislation.

He said both Mr. Obama and Senator John McCain are "outstanding men. "

McCain retaliated by repeatedly portraying Obama as inexperienced and unfit to be president, dismissing the Democrat as "naive" .

"No doubt, many of those differences remain, " McCain said.

McCain is expected to announce his running mate a few days before the Republican National Convention, which begins September 1.

McCain's team is worried that Palin might be exposed by her lack of foreign policy experience.

Mr. Bush also paid tribute to Senator McCain, saying the American people will always be grateful for his lifetime of service to the nation.

"McCain was behind going in and he is behind coming out, " said John McIntyre, co-founder of RealClearPolitics. com, an election website.