http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/index.xml News, sports and entertainment from Centredaily.com en-us Copyright 2008 Centredaily.com Politics 60 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:36 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive Workbench support@centredaily.com http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/720871.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/720871.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:35 EDT Republican presidential candidate John McCain pledged Friday to help auto workers rebuild their industry and in the process jump-start the entire U.S. economy. On the day McCain visited one of the areas hardest hit by the economic downturn and rising gas prices, one of his top advisers, former Sen. Phil Gramm gave up his campaign position a week after saying the country was a "nation of whiners" facing merely a "mental recession." http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/722374.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/722374.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:35 EDT Just as Republican John McCain was unloading on his Democratic presidential rival Friday, he was offering warm, effusive words for once bitter foe Mitt Romney. And Romney, the mega-millionaire former Republican governor of Massachusetts, was pledging to help McCain's presidential campaign financially - and in any other way. http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/720959.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/720959.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:35 EDT President Bush and Iraq's prime minister have agreed to set a "general time horizon" for bringing more U.S. troops home from the war, a dramatic shift from the administration's once-ironclad unwillingness to talk about any kind of deadline or timetable. http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/722380.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/722380.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:35 EDT Phil Gramm, a top adviser to presidential candidate John McCain, is resigning from the role as campaign co-chairman after his comments that the United States had become a "nation of whiners" who constantly complain about the state of the economy. http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/722386.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/722386.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:35 EDT How old is John McCain? So old, the jokes about it are getting old. http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/720587.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/720587.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:35 EDT The Army says it's critical to saving the lives of wounded soldiers. Animal-rights activists call the training cruel and outdated. http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/722072.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/722072.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:35 EDT Republican John McCain launched a new television ad Friday that accuses presidential rival Barack Obama of switching positions on Iraq "to help himself become president" just as the Democratic candidate prepared to make a high profile trip to Baghdad. http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/721194.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/721194.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:35 EDT John McCain and Barack Obama vow to reform the nation's defense procurement if elected president, yet each is unwilling to take a firm stand against the skyrocketing cost of a plum White House perk: the new Marine One helicopter. http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/722351.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/722351.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:55 EDT Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows: http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/722327.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/722327.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:35 EDT Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama intends to sit down with European leaders as well as King Abdullah of Jordan, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as part of a campaign-season trip that aides described Friday as substantive rather than political. http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/722303.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/722303.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:05 EDT Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Friday that U.S. intelligence led Mexican forces to a small submarine captured this week packed with 5.8 tons of cocaine. http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/722233.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/722233.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:55 EDT A new U.S.-Iraqi agreement raising the possibility of a withdrawal timeline threatens to complicate the war policies of presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain. http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/722265.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/722265.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:35 EDT The United States and Iraq have agreed to a "general time horizon" for further reductions of U.S. combat troops in Iraq, the White House said Friday, the first time the Bush administration has agreed to set any kind of timeline for U.S. troop withdrawals. http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/720884.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/720884.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:35 EDT IN THE HEADLINES http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/722255.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/722255.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:30 EDT TITLE: "Troop Funding." http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/721282.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/721282.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:00 EDT Rep. John Lewis of Atlanta says a mix up on a terrorist watch list is still wreaking havoc on his air travel five years after the problem arose. http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/721043.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/721043.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:05 EDT President Bush, in the second half of a Southwestern fundraising trip Friday, backed the candidacy of Republican Pete Olson, who is challenging incumbent Rep. Nick Lampson in Texas' 22nd congressional district. http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/721107.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/721107.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:32 EDT Some comments from around Iraq on Sen. Barack Obama's expected visit: http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/721106.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/721106.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:32 EDT There is a Baghdad that Sen. Barack Obama probably won't see. http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/720996.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/720996.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:05 EDT Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that the United States still has conditions for negotiating with Iran even though the Bush administration is sending a senior diplomat to weekend talks with an Iranian nuclear envoy. http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/720985.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/720985.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:54 EDT In some versions of a July 17 story about former Vice President Al Gore's energy proposals, the first name of the president of Securing America's Future Energy, a nonpartisan energy policy group, was misspelled. He is Robbie Diamond, not Robby. http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/720889.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/720889.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:49 EDT The Bush administration is telling a federal appeals court that it has the authority to detain a Canadian who was captured in Afghanistan when he was 15 and is accused of killing a U.S. soldier. http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/720691.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/720691.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:05 EDT John McCain is facing an excitement deficit. http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/720693.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/720693.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:19 EDT An Associated Press-Yahoo News poll found differences in how engaged various groups of voters are in the presidential campaign. http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/720694.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/720694.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:19 EDT The AP-Yahoo News Poll is a unique study that is tracking the moods and opinions of a group of people throughout the presidential election campaign. The fifth wave of this study included re-interviews of 1,759 people between June 13-23 who were originally interviewed in November or early December. The extensive national survey was conducted by Knowledge Networks of Menlo Park, Calif., under the direction and supervision of AP's polling unit. http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/720485.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/720485.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:25 EDT Inferior electrical work by private contractors on U.S. military bases in Iraq is more widespread than the Pentagon has acknowledged, according to a published report. http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/719862.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/719862.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:01 EDT During his tenure at the Federal Communications Commission, Jonathan Adelstein has been a fierce critic of government policies that allow big media companies to get bigger. So it came as a surprise when the Democratic commissioner put forth a proposal that would allow the nation's only two satellite radio companies to merge. http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/719885.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/719885.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:01 EDT It's OK to eat all kinds of tomatoes again, the U.S. government declared Thursday - lifting its salmonella warning on the summer favorites amid signs that the record outbreak, while not over, may finally be slowing. http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/720664.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/720664.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:00 EDT Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman says the German leader will welcome U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama to her office in Berlin next Thursday. http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/720168.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/720168.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:15 EDT European terrorists are trying to enter the United States with European Union passports, and there is no guarantee officials will catch them every time, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Thursday.