Election 2008: John McCain Profiles

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Commentary & News

• Peter Scoblic: What Newsweek's Editor Doesn't Get About John McCain
  

   

• Jim Pittaway: Is there more to John McCain's rage than just bad temper? A psychotherapist puts the candidate on the couch.
  

   

• Mary Hershberger: What Is the True Story of McCain’s Wartime Experience?
  

   

• McCain evolved from reluctant warrior to interventionist
  

   

• Jay Janson: U.S. Nuremberg Trials Prosecutor Would Have Proudly Prosecuted McCain As a War Criminal
  

   

• The Questions Raised By Mary Hershberger About McCain's Record
  

   

• Mary Hershberger: Investigating John McCain’s Tragedy at Sea
  

   

• Rolling Stone Mag: McCain's a"Make-Believe Maverick"
  

   

• McCain: In Ordeal as Captive, Character Was Shaped
  

   

• Edward McClelland: Who is the real John McCain?
  

   

• McCain was 'good kisser' says former Brazilian lover
  

   

• Report by Sydney H. Schanberg: McCain, Kerry et al. buried information about POWs left behind in Vietnam
  

   

• McCain's history of hot temper raises concerns
  

   

• McCain's Maverick Nature Would Fuel His Political Climb
  

   

• Eric Alterman: Blind Punditry (Re: McCain)
  

   

• For McCains, a Public Path but Private Wealth (NYT)
  

   

• Noam Scheiber: How Cindy Hensley invented John McCain
  

   

• McCain's Knife-Wielding Captor Leads Vietnam in Rooting for Him
  

   

• McCain has repeatedly cited his Vietnam experience despite claims that he hasn't
  

   

• Ilan Goldenberg: McCain's fatal misunderstanding of the Iraq War is not a gaffe
  

   

• After 2000, McCain Learned to Work Levers of Power
  

   

• Michael I. Meyerson: Is McCain a natural born citizen?
  

   

• A Hint of New Life to a McCain Birth Issue
  

   

• Joe Conason: What John McCain didn't learn in Vietnam
  

   

• Senator recounts McCain dustup with the Sandinistas
  

   

• How war hero John McCain betrayed the Vietnamese peasant who saved his life
  

   

• In 1974 Thesis, the Seeds of McCain's War Views
  

   

• Juan Cole: The Real Question is, Would a President McCain be good for Women?
  

   

• Juan Cole: McCain Confuses Baghdad with Seoul Again
  

   

• Michael Tomasky: Who Is John McCain?
  

   

• Matthew Avery Sutton: McCain’s Ministers of Doom
  

   

• Lawrence S. Wittner: John McCain Discovers Nuclear Arms Control and Disarmament
  

   

• NYT News Story: Taste of Senate Set Capt. McCain on a New Path