Obama Chooses Joe Biden As Vice President

  This is what has been reported all over the Net, MSNBC, and others.

   This is a great choice for Obama.

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New Chapter In McCain's " HouseGate " Saga

  It is still bringing forth more fruit for the bloggers and media everywhere.

   Here is a different story about the " straight talker " and a different house that his wife had bought for him.

   East Valley Tribune

How McCain came to live at 921 E. Lamplighter Lane and how he left are both interesting footnotes in his political career.

According to biographer Robert Timberg, in early 1982 McCain needed an East Valley residence, and quickly. Republican Rep. John Rhodes was stepping down from a long career in Washington, and McCain wanted that seat.

But McCain lived in Phoenix, outside the boundaries of what was then the 1st Congressional District. So wife Cindy went to work.

As Timberg states in his book, "John McCain: An American Odyssey," on the very day of Rhodes' news conference announcing his retirement, Cindy bought the Lamplighter house.

And in late 1986, before McCain was voted into his first term in the Senate, a report from The Associated Press revealed he planned to move after the election and wanted that news kept quiet.

A reporter had found permits filed with the city for the remodeling of Cindy's childhood home in north-central Phoenix. Oddly, the permits were submitted under the name "Smith" - the maiden name of Cindy's mother - rather than McCain.

  Kudos to DailyKos for finding this story.

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