Your Daily Politics Video Blog: If you're desperate to be John McCain's vice presidential
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: If you're desperate to be John McCain's vice presidential nominee, you better get on TV and start talking up the Surge as the single most important issue in this year's presidential campaign. And if you're serious about getting picked it wouldn't be a bad idea to say John McCain invented the idea of the surge and maybe even coined the word. In today's episode of TPMtv we check in on some of the wannabes to see just how bad they want it.
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Your Daily Politics Video Blog: In the past week John McCain and his surrogates have done
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: In the past week John McCain and his surrogates have done their best to focus the entire McCain-Obama debate on the question of which candidate was right about the troop surge in Iraq. So it was a little surprising to see McCain on the CBS Evening News last night get a basic historical fact about the surge so plainly wrong.
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The UpTake's Chuck Olsen interviews author Irwin Tang about his book, "Gook: John McCain's
The UpTake's Chuck Olsen interviews author Irwin Tang about his book, "Gook: John McCain's Racism and Why It Matters."
McCain first used the work "gook" in the mass media in his 1973 article for U.S. News & World Report. The word appears 12 times in the article and is available online here:
http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/2008/01/28/john-mccain-p risoner-of-war-a-first-person-account.html
Most recently, McCain used the term in his 2000 presidential campaign, as documented by the San Francisco Chronicle:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/ar chive/2000/02/18/MN32194.DTL
To learn more about Mr. Tang's book, which also details McCain's connection to white supremacist groups, visit his web site:
http://irwinbooks.com/
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Your Daily Politics Video Blog: We caught up with San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom at Netr
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: We caught up with San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom at Netroots Nation, where he introduced the closing keynote speaker, environmental and social justice activist Van Jones. In a wide-ranging conversation, we talked about green policy measures he's implemented in his city, his possible candidacy for governor of California, and his wedding coming up this weekend.
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Your Daily Politics Video Blog: With Barack Obama in the midst of a much-hyped trip to the
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: With Barack Obama in the midst of a much-hyped trip to the Middle East and with all the news that came out over the weekend regarding the Iraqi government's positive comments toward Obama's withdrawal timetable, we figured it was only fair to allow John McCain a full episode of TPMtv to explain away the headlines.
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Al Gore speaks out against drilling for oil as a wrongheaded attempt to address America's
Al Gore speaks out against drilling for oil as a wrongheaded attempt to address America's energy crisis at Netroots Nation in Austin, Texas.
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Your Daily Politics Video Blog: Same convention, different name. Last summer TPMtv was on
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: Same convention, different name. Last summer TPMtv was on the scene and video reporting from the 2nd annual Yearly Kos Convention in Chicago, IL. It's that time of year again, but this time for the first time it's called the Netroots Nation Convention and it's in Austin, Texas. TPMtv will be running around, blogging, and bringing you more great interviews and breaking news from the center of the action.
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Your Daily Politics Video Blog: Our question of the day: if a flip flops in the wilderness
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: Our question of the day: if a flip flops in the wilderness but no one hears, did it really flop? Or in other words, if a news story like John McCain's recent shift in position on troop levels in Afghanistan doesn't fit in with the dominant narrative of the campaign, will any news organizations pick up on it?
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Your Daily Politics Video Blog: Two speeches, two very different visions for the futures o
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: Two speeches, two very different visions for the futures of America and Iraq. Barack Obama and John McCain delivered dueling speeches today on foreign policy and America's future course in the Middle East. We bring you the highlights back-to-back in today's episode of TPMtv.
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