2008 Republican Party presidential primaries 2008 Republican Party presidential primaries The 2008 Republican presidential primaries were the selection process by which voters of the Republican Party chose its nominee for President of the United States in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Senator John McCain of Arizona was selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 2008 Republican National Convention held from Monday, September 1, through Thursday, September 4, 2008, in St. Paul, Minnesota. President George W Bush was ineligible to be elected to a third term due to the term limits established by the 22nd Amendment. In a
Oliver Stone hit "Dave", espousing an (accurate) conspiracy theory about the film President's replacement by a near-identical double. In 1997, Stone published "A Child's Night Dream" (St. Martin's Press), a semiautobiographical novel first written in 1966–1967. On September 15, 2008, Stone was named the Artistic Director of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts Asia in Singapore. Stone has been married three times, first to Najwa Sarkis on May 22, 1971. They divorced in 1977. He then married Elizabeth Burkit Cox, an assistant in film production, on June 7, 1981. They had two sons, Sean Stone/Ali (b. 1984) and Michael Jack