NUMBER 3 PRIORITY-Universal Health Insurance
June 6, 2008
NUMBER THREE PRIORITY: Universal Health Insurance
Advice for McCain: Rethink strategy
June 6, 2008
In an Ideas piece, Feehery suggests McCain ditch the long speeches, be funny, and lose the tie .
McCain bumbles the delivery
June 6, 2008
Campaign strategists and GOP operatives agree that when it comes to the oratory, John McCain is no Barack Obama.
Jack Lucas Dies at 80; Earned Medal of Honor at 17
June 6, 2008
Mr. Lucas lied his way into the military at 14 to serve in World War II and became the youngest marine ever to receive the Medal of Honor.
Clinton, Obama meet to discuss unity
June 6, 2008
Hillary Rodham Clinton and likely Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama met privately Thursday night to talk about uniting the Democratic Party.
“Senator Clinton and Senator Obama met tonight and had a productive discussion about the important work that needs to be done to succeed in November,” their campaigns said in joint statement.
Both Clintons bitter over loss
June 6, 2008
Failed Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton and her former President husband are bitter over her loss to Barack Obama and angry at Democratic leaders they feel abandoned her, party sources tell Capitol Hill Blue.
$21.5 Million Is a Record for McCain
June 6, 2008
The campaign’s best month yet is a sign its effort to work in tandem with the Republican National Committee is yielding dividends.
National Briefing | West: Hawaii: Missile Test Is a Success
June 6, 2008
The military intercepted a ballistic missile in the first such sea-based test since a Navy cruiser shot down an errant satellite this year. The military fired the target, a Scud-like missile with a range of a few hundred miles, from a decommissioned amphibious assault ship near Kauai.
National Briefing | Mid-Atlantic: West Virginia: Senator Byrd Released From Hospital
June 6, 2008
Senator Robert C. Byrd, left, Democrat of West Virginia, was released from the hospital after being treated for a mild infection. Mr. Byrd, 90, was admitted Monday night after he began feeling ill at home. He had cast a vote on the Senate floor that day and started running a fever and feeling lethargic.
British Judge Sets Hearing on Evidence for Detainee
June 6, 2008
The evidence bears on accusations by a prisoner at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, that he was tortured during interrogation in Morocco.