Campaign Desk Tuesday, June 24,2008

McCain gambling on offshore drilling

For decades it has been a bipartisan political staple -- the jaunt to the beaches of Santa Barbara to profess opposition to oil drilling at the spot where a massive 1969 spill despoiled sea life and ocean waters, launching the modern environmental movement. MORE>>>

Gov. Schwarzenegger joins John McCain at campaign stop

With Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in attendance, Sen. John McCain stressed environment and energy issues today, his second day of presidential campaigning in California. MORE>>>

Obama's virtues aside, it's politics as usual

Barack Obama's first television spot of the general election campaign is so faithful to the comfy cliches of political bio ads that its appearance seems to be a statement in itself: The candidate who won the Democratic presidential nomination by emphasizing his difference from politics as usual is now calling attention to his sameness. MORE>>>

Campaign '08: Obama Intensifies Attacks On Clinton,s McCain's Plan For Iraq

"Sen. Clinton, Sen. McCain and President Bush have all distorted and derided this position, suggesting that I would invade or bomb Pakistan. This is politics, pure and simple," Obama said. "The same three individuals who now criticize me for supporting a targeted strike on the terrorists who carried out the 9/11 attacks, are the same three individuals that supported an invasion of Iraq -- a country that had nothing to do with 9/11," he said. [MORE>>>]