John McCain
Meet & Greet / Rally
Cedarsburg, WI 09/05/08

TRANSCRIPT:
JOHN MCCAIN: You know what I enjoyed the most? [Gov. Palin] took the luxury jet that was acquired by her predecessor and sold it on E-bay! [laughs] And made a profit!

LABEL: JM SP MN 09-05 (SD#31) USGK - ClipA - LS

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Garrison Keillor on St. Paul, MN
"ABC World News" 06:55pm
Commentary

TOPIC: St. Paul, Minnesota, RNC

TRANSCRIPT:
GARRISON KEILLOR: [...] Just a little river town here. Used to be a railroad town. This was really the distinguishing feature, the Mississippi [...] It dominates the geography of the city. [...] There's nothing really extraordinary about St. Paul. Though, as you walk around you see that it's a very well-loved city [...] It's a college town, so we will get this flood of new blood and ambition and goofiness that keeps the town interesting. As well as these immigrants groups [...] Somali and Ethiopian people who have settled here. [....] winter, which is not that cold here. But we have a reputation for cold, which keeps away slackers and Texans and people who are looking for lifestyle, which we don't really have here. [...] This is a culture of do-gooders, of people who are interested in the common good. [...] So it's a good place for a political convention [...]

LABEL: Garrison Keillor on St. Paul 09-03-08 18.55 (LR#45)

Keith Olbermann and David Gregory
"Decision 2008: RNC" 10:09am
Analysis

TRANSCRIPTION
KEITH OLBERMANN: In the [Fred] Thompson speech, after giving what was, in many respects, a very moving and detailed explanation of the misery that John McCain suffered as a prisoner of war on behalf of this nation, Fred Thompson actually said, 'Now being a POW doesn't qualify anyone to be president,' and, of course, when General Wesley Clark said something like that, the bus rolled over him kind of quickly. Are those nit-picking points or are they deviations from the standard republican text, David?

DAVID GREGORY: Well, I think these are—this is fodder for some of the debate that will come out of here; just that kind of examination of these remarks and some of the claims that will be made. You know, just—you mentioned the comments of General Clark and Thompson almost going out of his way to say that the biography of McCain—the fact that he was a POW cannot be asserted as itself a qualification. I thought that they went farther to make the point that it's a point of character and that it fills out the biography and I think that was more of the point there and as you say the other point about allies trusting McCain and enemies fearing him, I think, was all to the point of John McCain on the world stage.

KO2 JM 09-02-08 22.09 (JR#455) UAa

John McCain
Speech
Orlando, FL 08/18/08

TRANSCRIPT:
JOHN MCCAIN: Today, as other occasions, I have stated in the plainest, most straightforward terms that the Veterans Health Care Access Card will expand existing benefits. I don't expect this will deter the Obama campaign from misrepresenting my proposals, but lest there be any doubt you have my pledge: My reforms would not force anyone to go to a non-VA facility. That is my pledge. [applause] They will not signal privatization of the VA. And they will not replace any scheduled expansion of the VA network -- including those facilities designed to serve veterans living in rural and remote areas.

LABEL: JM FL 08-18 (EW#14) ACUZZ - ClipJ

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Grover Norquist, ATR
Interview
Minneapolis, MN 09/02/08

John McCain
Speech
Orlando, FL 08/18/08

TRANSCRIPT:
JOHN MCCAIN: Veterans must be treated fairly and expeditiously as they seek compensation for disability or illness. We owe them compassion and hands-on care in their transition to civilian life. We owe them training, rehabilitation, and education.

LABEL: JM FL 08-18 (EW#14) ACUZZ - ClipI

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Mike Allen, The Politico
Interview
St. Paul, MN 09/02/08

John McCain
Press Avail
New Orleans, LA 04/24/08

REPORTER: "Can you talk about a little bit how you feel President Bush failed?"

JOHN MCCAIN: "I think everybody knows how there was a failure. There was unqualified people in charge, there was a total misreading of the dimensions of the disaster, there was a failure of communication, part of that by the way was not a common spectrum to be used by the first responders, those have been well chronicled."

LABEL: JM LA 4-24 (JC#126) TZZ-ClipF

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John McCain
Speech
Phoenix, AZ 08/26/08

TRANSCRIPT:
JOHN MCCAIN: "To promote stability and peace, America must stand firmly on the side of freedom and justice. The next president must bring to office a clear-eyed view of our nation's role in the world, as the defender of the oppressed and a force for peace."

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John McCain
Speech
Phoenix, AZ 08/26/08

TRANSCRIPT:
JOHN MCCAIN: " The Walter Reed scandal was a disgrace unworthy of this nation -- and I intend to make sure that nothing like it is ever repeated. There are other problems as well that have not received as much media attention. And my administration will do the hard and necessary work of fixing them, even when the press and the public are not watching."

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