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  • Posted By: 8yearsoffear @ 08/03/2008 11:43:12 AM

    The GOP would rather you like McCain, because he seems so solidly 'old school'...so wonderfully patriotic, after all he has been in Washington for 25 years...he was a pilot (logged a whole 20 hours of flying) during Vietnam. Well, here are some facts, since the GOP doesn't like to deal in those:

    McCain graduated from college at the BOTTOM of his class: 894th out of 899th. That alone makes it easy to see why he can't keep the factions and politics of the middle east strait when talks about them. It also explains why he says he doesn't know much about the economy...I certainly believe it!

    McCain on Family values: After returning from Vietnam, he finds that his wife has been disabled in a car crash. While still married and living with his 1st wife in 1979 he was, according to The New York Times, ???aggressively courting a 25-year-old woman who was as beautiful as she was rich.??? (McCain then divorced his wife, who had raised their three children alone while he was imprisoned in Vietnam, and launched his political career with his new wife???s family money.)

    McCain on the Economy:
    - In December 07 he said, "The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should."
    - In January 08 he said, ???I don???t believe we???re headed into a recession,??? he said, ???I believe the fundamentals of this economy are strong and I believe they will remain strong.???
    - In March 08 he said, "I will not play election year politics with the housing crisis," adding, "I have always been committed to the principle that it is not the duty of government to bail out and reward those who act irresponsibly, whether they are big banks or small borrowers." - Guess it's not his problem if thousands of Americans become homeless thanks to deregulations in the mortgage industry (which were supported by McCain).
    - In April 08 when asked about the state of the economy, "I???m very concerned about it, Neil. And obviously the way it???s been going up is just terrible. But I think psychologically ??? and a lot of our problems today, as you know, are psychological ??? the confidence, trust, the uncertainty about our economic future, ability to keep our own home."
    - In April 08 when asked about why he supported the gas tax holiday, "This might give them a little psychological boost. Let???s have some straight talk, it???s not a huge amount of money"

    McCain on Taxation:
    - In 2001 he argued AGAINST Bush's tax cuts saying, "I cannot in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us, at the expense of middle class Americans who most need tax relief."
    - In 2006 he said, "The tax cuts are now there, and voting to revoke them would have been to -- not to extend them would have meant a tax increase." Even tax-cutting advocates who cheered McCain's reversal could not help but call it what it was: "It's a big flip-flop," said conservative moveme

  • Posted By: Abetterplace @ 08/03/2008 7:09:57 AM

    Mr. Dickey
    Why do you hate the South so much. Where did your "tunnel vision" of it come from? I bet your father looked at the South through the same tunnel as you ,considering his characters in Deliverance.
    I read that you live in Paris France. Is that correct? If so, that is a good place for you. A shame you don't keep your South banging, Bush battering opinions there.

  • Posted By: Jack999 @ 08/03/2008 4:56:56 AM

    Republican reporter can't help resort to this comments on John McCain ...I'M TOTALLY AGREED WITH HIS MOTHER to said publicly that indeed that JOHN McCain is plain Stupid.

    "For a man who will turn 72 this month, he's a surprisingly immature politician,erratic, impulsive and subject to peer pressure from the last knucklehead who offers him advice. The youthful insouciance that for many years has helped McCain charm reporters like me is now channeled into an ad that one GOP strategist labeled "juvenile," another termed "childish" and McCain's own mother called "stupid."

  • Posted By: tc125231 @ 08/03/2008 2:13:07 AM

    "Southerners, said Black, really do not like being told what they ought to want."

    Yep, and the rest of us are really tired of listening to Southerners whine.

  • Posted By: Farmerbob @ 08/03/2008 12:15:57 AM

    What sorry attempt to Balkanize our nation.

  • Posted By: Jack999 @ 08/03/2008 12:14:52 AM

    Republican reporter can't help resort to this comment on John McCain Stupidity.

    "For a man who will turn 72 this month, he's a surprisingly immature politician???erratic, impulsive and subject to peer pressure from the last knucklehead who offers him advice. The youthful insouciance that for many years has helped McCain charm reporters like me is now channeled into an ad that one GOP strategist labeled "juvenile," another termed "childish" and McCain's own mother called "stupid."

  • Posted By: brownsfan72 @ 08/02/2008 10:01:15 PM

    A person from a magazine writes a good article and some of you losers take the time to read it and then complain about it. try writing somethign yourself that isnt full of hate.. Get over it Obama 08!.

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