by The Huffington Post News Team [courtesy of Politics on HuffingtonPost.com]

OMAHA, Neb. — Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, fresh from an Iraq trip with Democrat Barack Obama, said the presidential candidates should focus on the war's...

by TBogg [courtesy of Firedoglake]

While Barack Hussein Adolph Obama prepares to give a speech in Germany at some massive totalitarian-inspired venue that just reeks of Nazism and invading Poland, Straight-Talking semanticist John McCain was to make an appearance on an oil rig where he was expected to wear a hard hat which would have projected an air of youth and ruggedness for the ninety two year-old who usually only wakes up to give speeches and watch Golden Girls reruns. But God, who hates John McCain, sent a rain of frogs into the gulf (as foretold in the Book of Magnolia 8:2) and so McCain had to go to Plan B ...

by The Huffington Post News Team [courtesy of Politics on HuffingtonPost.com]

BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Republican John McCain pushed back on Wednesday against Democratic criticism that he misstated when the troop buildup ordered by President Bush began,...

by The Huffington Post News Team [courtesy of Politics on HuffingtonPost.com]

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — Republican John McCain on Wednesday credited the recent $10-a-barrel drop in the price of oil to President Bush's lifting of a presidential...

by The Huffington Post News Team [courtesy of Politics on HuffingtonPost.com]

Democrat Barack Obama outraised Republican John McCain by nearly $500,000 in Florida in June, validating his decision to rebuff limited public campaign financing for the...

by Laura Flanders [courtesy of Firedoglake]

Clash, spar, duel, compete… Read the headlines and you’d think the two candidates for President had dueling Afghanistan policies. Sadly not. Here's the difference: Republican John McCain says that in his view, the troop escalation worked so well in Iraq, that we need another like it in Afghanistan. Democrat Barack Obama, meanwhile, opposed the so called surge, but says the problem was that military resources that were needed in Afghanistan were misdirected to Iraq.

by The Huffington Post News Team [courtesy of Politics on HuffingtonPost.com]

KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine — Republican John McCain worked on Monday to wrestle the spotlight from rival Barack Obama's tour of Iraq by insisting he was right...

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Like Cubs or White Sox fans booking their World Series seats at the All-Star Break, Illinois residents are snapping up tickets to celebrate Barack Obama's...

by The Huffington Post News Team [courtesy of Politics on HuffingtonPost.com]

The romantic notion that Barack Obama will compete seriously in the states of the old Confederacy has not been abandoned altogether. But a big batch...