Archive for the 'McCain's personal side' Category

Fred jokes about McCain on Leno: “a good friend… unless, of course, he beats me.”

While the rest of the Republican field was at the University of New Hampshire for the debate on Wednesday, Fred Thompson was - finally - officially announcing his candidacy on NBC’s The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.  (Senator McCain was on the show last week.) 
Here’s what he had to say about McCain.  (Fred was McCain’s national […]

Innovative, video-included fundraising e-mail from the campaign, from McCain’s mother in re his birthday

Here is the text of an e-mail sent out under the signature of the Senator’s mother, Roberta, which was distributed at 12:20 PM on Tuesday, August 28, in advance of the Senator’s birthday on Wednesday.  
A particularly innovative element of the e-mail is the video included within the e-mail.  It is a short video in which Senator […]

McCain to make his 9th (at minimum) appearance on NBC’s “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” tonight (Tues Aug 28)

Senator McCain will be a guest on NBC’s The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, tonight, Tuesday, August 28, at 11:35 PM EDT. 
This will be McCain’s 9th appearance with Jay Leno.  His other appearances, courtesy of the Internet Movie Data Base (IMDB), are listed below.  In spite of its name, it also tracks talk show […]

The New Yorker: McCain “is still an either/or kind of guy” and “regrets the inexorable movement of earlier and earlier primaries”

In the September 3 issue of The New Yorker, Senator McCain was interviewed for the purpose of promoting Hard Call.  Here are some excerpts from the article, titled “Escapist Express”:

Politics is all sports metaphors,” John McCain said the other day. “It’s unfortunately overwhelmed with clichés from sports. It’s sickening, almost.” …
… he spoke with regret about “the […]

San Diego Union-Tribune: “Sign John McCain’s birthday card (oh, and send money)”

On Thursday, John Marelius of the San Diego Union-Tribune’s Newsblog feature had the following to say, about the fundraising e-mail sent out by the official campaign under Cindy McCain’s signature:

Sign John McCain’s birthday card (oh, and send money)

This isn’t the hokiest online fundraising gimmick of the 2008 presidential campaign season.That honor goes John Edwards’ mother hawking […]


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