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...leave the stage. But when it comes to Obama, the comics are still groping. Greg Geraldo, a club stalwart whose material was filled with anti-Bush gibes a few years ago, has moved on to Obama, but mostly to execute a deft pivot - like a bit on John McCain's befuddlement at how to combat his Democratic foe during the presidential campaign. "How the f___ am I losing? I'm a war hero!" he imagines McCain thinking. "He came this close to saying, 'He's black!' " Ted Alexandro gets a big laugh by harking back to white America...
...Senator John McCain, a torture survivor from his days as a captive during the Vietnam War, says his private comments about harsh interrogation methods were misrepresented by the Bush Administration in a recently released legal document intended to justify a six-day course of sleep deprivation for one CIA detainee in November 2007. (See TIME's photos: "Do-It-Yourself Waterboarding...
...newly declassified memo by the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel mentions a secret briefing McCain and other members of Congress received sometime before Oct. 17, 2006. The memo says the lawmakers were told about six CIA interrogation techniques, including prolonged sleep deprivation...
...million last year, according to R.L. Polk & Co.--but this time they went scrap-happy. In just over a week, the program ran through most of its $1 billion in funding. The House of Representatives quickly voted to allot an additional $2 billion. In the Senate, opposition from John McCain and other deficit hawks slowed passage but appeared unlikely to stop it. "I always thought that cash for clunkers would be an effective stimulus, but it seems to have exceeded expectations," says Princeton University economist Alan Blinder, an early booster of the idea. "It would be a shame...
...million for his Senate run, compared with the less than $500,000 raised by Rubio. Crist won the 2006 primary in a landslide as a moderate - not all that difficult, given Florida's reputation as one of the nation's most politically centrist states - and his endorsement of John McCain helped that moderate Republican win Florida's presidential primary last year...