DINAN

Only at The Washington Times: Stephen Dinan blogs on the latest news about politics.

• Obama's big (carbon) footprint

  By Stephen Dinan — Published October 30, 2008 Comments

  When it comes to greenhouse gases, Barack Obama is dirtier than John McCain.

• McCain campaign goes flat

  by Stephen Dinan — Published October 28, 2008 Comments

  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

  by Stephen Dinan — Published October 26, 2008 Comments

  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"

  by Stephen Dinan — Published October 25, 2008 Comments

  John McCain says Barack Obama's already-written draft inaugural address belongs in the Smithsonian next to "Dewey Defeats Truman" newspaper.

• Drill, baby, drill

  by Stephen Dinan — Published October 25, 2008 Comments

  Michael Steele's words of wisdom follow John McCain's campaign

• Obama gaffes have written McCain stump speech

  by Stephen Dinan — Published October 23, 2008 Comments

  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

  by Stephen Dinan — Published October 22, 2008 Comments

  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

  by Stephen Dinan — Published October 20, 2008 Comments

  A third-party group expands its attacks on Barack Obama and the war on terror to Colorado and Ohio.

• McCain's Hispanic strategy failing

  by Stephen Dinan — Published October 20, 2008 Comments

  A new poll of Hispanic voters finds Barack Obama is clobbering John McCain.

• Joe the Plumber for Congress?

  by Stephen Dinan — Published October 17, 2008 Comments

  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?

  by Stephen Dinan — Published October 17, 2008 Comments

  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

  by Stephen Dinan — Published October 16, 2008 Comments

  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'

  by Stephen Dinan — Published October 9, 2008 Comments

  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."

  by Stephen Dinan — Published October 8, 2008 Comments

  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

  by Stephen Dinan — Published October 7, 2008 Comments

  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.