DINAN
Only at The Washington Times: Stephen Dinan blogs on the latest news about politics.
Latest Blog Entries
Obama's big (carbon) footprint
When it comes to greenhouse gases, Barack Obama is dirtier than John McCain.
McCain campaign goes flat
Let the metaphors begin — after having one campaign event canceled because of rain, John McCain's SUV suffered a flat tire on the way to his next event in North Carolina.
Palin finally speaks on immigration, supports path to citizenship
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says she supports John McCain's position on immigration, including a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants.
"Donate it to the Smithsonian"
John McCain says Barack Obama's already-written draft inaugural address belongs in the Smithsonian next to "Dewey Defeats Truman" newspaper.
Drill, baby, drill
Michael Steele's words of wisdom follow John McCain's campaign
Obama gaffes have written McCain stump speech
At this point John McCain's standard campaign stump speech is almost entirely based on gaffes by Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
McCain campaign events need a droopy-drawers rule
Young men in N.H. this morning with M-A-V-E-R-I-C-K spelled on their chests had a droopy drawers problem.
Bringing the surge back into the discussion
A third-party group expands its attacks on Barack Obama and the war on terror to Colorado and Ohio.
McCain's Hispanic strategy failing
A new poll of Hispanic voters finds Barack Obama is clobbering John McCain.
Joe the Plumber for Congress?
Despite being arrears in taxes and potentially in violation of license laws for being a plumber — or maybe because of that — some folks say Joe the Plumber, real name Joe Wurzelbacher, is needed in Congress.
Would the GOP disenfranchise Joe the Plumber?
The Ohio Democratic Party says a Republican lawsuit to try to clean the voter rolls in Ohio could end up snaring Joe the Plumber.
'Joe the Plumber' is here to stay
John McCain wasted little time in further elevating "Joe the Plumber," taking the newest unlikely political star's case to voters in Pennsylvania today.
McCain and Keating: 'Till death do us part'
In 1986 John McCain wrote an apology note to Charles H. Keating Jr. for his Senate campaign having overstepped its bounds. Keating responded with a handwritten note — addressed to "senator," seven months before McCain won his Senate seat — telling him not to sweat it, "I'm yours till death do us part."
"Barack Obama's friend tried to kill my family."
The McCain campaign has released a statement from John M. Murtaugh, who as a child had his house firebombed by the Weather Underground and who links the group's founder, William Ayers, to Barack Obama.
McCain also said U.S. troops killed civilians
John McCain in 2000 said because of tactical decisions U.S. troops were put in the position of killing civilians in Kosovo — something awfully similar to the comments for which he's now attacking Barack Obama.
