The Whoppers of 2008—The Sequel

McCain has not only appeared on Liddy???s radio show but used his home as the site of a 1998 fundraiser. Throughout the years, McCain has received $5,000 in contributions from Liddy, including $1,000 this year alone (With Friends Like These, Chicago Tribune, May 2008).
While Barack Obama has ties to Rev. Wright, John McCain also has ties with controversial pastors, namely Pastor John Hagee and Parsley. Parsley has called for his audience to destroy Islam saying that it is the ???greatest religious enemy to our civilization.??? Hagee called for an unrelenting war against the Catholic Church, calling it ???The Great Whore??? and a ???false cult system.??? McCain sought out the endorsement of both pastors, but has since rejected them due to their controversial remarks.

Within his own campaign, McCain has made some interesting choices as to who to associate himself with. There is Freddie Mac lobbyist, Mark Buse who is now McCain???s Chief of Staff; Rick Davis, McCain???s campaign manager who was the president of an advocacy group that defended Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from stricter regulation requirements; Charlie Black, McCain???s top political advisor who said in June that a terrorist attack in the US would be a big advantage for McCain. Black also worked as lobbyist for Occidental Petroleum, a group that gained infamy in 1998 when its security company was involved with the killing of 17 Columbian civilians
But perhaps the most overlooked aspect of John McCain is his association with the International Republican Institute (IRI). According to the IRI???s website, it is a group that claims to ???advance freedom worldwide by developing political parties, civic institutions, open elections, good governance and the rule of law???.

However, by many they are viewed as a group that advances a neo-conservative foreign policy agenda around the world, and has been involved in the overthrow of democratically elected leaders in countries such as Haiti in 2004, Venezuela in 2002, and Georgia in 2003.

McCain is currently the acting chairman of the IRI and has been since 1993. The cabinet of the IRI has notable figures, including Paul Bremer, who served as the Ambassador of Iraq in 2003, when he disbanded the Iraqi army by sacking 400,000 Iraqi soldiers

Lets talk more about McCains associations One such association is McCain???s ties with G. Gordon Liddy, one of the two masterminds behind the 1972 Watergate scandal. McCain, who has embraced Liddy over the years, appeared on his radio show last November greeting Liddy as ???an old friend.??? McCain said that he was proud of Liddy saying, ???congratulations on your continued success and adherence to the principles and philosophies that keep our nation great.??? While those exact principles and philosophies may be unclear, his actions landed him 4 ½ years in prison for his involvement in Watergate.

Your smear attacks and libel have already been refried, cooked and hashed over and thrown out.

Colin Powell said last week that the ties to Obama, which republicans are trying to make to Ayers, are
"very, very thin" and he did not approve of the McCain campaign dishonorable tactics.

Ayers was a member of some charity boards for education reform at the University of Illinois in the 1990's.
Obama, along with Lawyers, Judges, Grad students, and other professors and faculty were also on some of them ......in the 1990's.

Ayers was voted "Chicago Citizen of the Year" in 1997 and you guys are way, way out of date. So put the whole university, staff, students and passers-by on trial for breathing the same air.
Ayers problems happened when Obama was eight years old, when children are playing hopskotch.

Less discussed, is the fact that McCain voted for deregulation 21 times this year already,
and has voted for deregulation his entire career in the senate,
that he plans to give $4 billion tax cut to Big Oil, when ExxonMobil made the most corporate profits in United States history; McCain has his own oil shares;
McCain voted AGAINST the "Violence against Women" act, ( which was authored by Joe Biden),
McCain voted AGAINST the "Equal Pay Act",
McCain was pro-choice prior to 2004;

McCain chose a VP with ties to a secessionist party, the "Alaska Independence Party", for which she
has given speeches in person and recorded speeches, this year. Her husband was a registered member for seven years. Vogler, its founder, was a raging anti-flag, anti-American.
This would explain why the VP is constantly harping on how "Pro-American" she is in her rallies, and accusing others of NOT being for their country. We get it.

And McCain calls his fellow -senator colleagues "te....ists",
in smears and robocalls and mailings all around this country.
Way to make a national security issue.

But the McDuo does not care. And you cannot make them care.

BREAKING NEWS ALERT....

Obama taped conversation with San Francisco Chronicle states his policies ???will bankrupt coal mining operations that produce gas emissions in states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia and North Carolina
which it will cause energy prices to skyrocket....." .....more info nobody knew until now about what Obama wants to do!!

Why is it republicans can not stop displaying their ignorance. All Rush Limbaugh does is mock others, Sean Hannity insults others, Bill O Reilly degrades others. No wonder all McCains adds are negative. theirs only one intelligent way to rise above this kind of stupid.hyperbolic Right-Wing rudeness and ignorance.
And that happens whenever a demacrat gets elected. I sincerely hope that McCain not only doesn't get elected but that he loses by a landslide.

Comment: Im voting for John McCain Because

I think leaving your sick, dying wife who waited for you while you were MIA for 5 years for for a younger woman shows good moral character

Because his party the republicans has given us the best economical growth ever over the last 8 years

Because he believes in wealth distribution so much that he paid plumber joes child support for him when he couldn't afford to.

Because hes going to live to a ripe old age but if god forbid he kicks the bucket before 76 he has left us a competent substitute. If only she knew her her job title entails

Because I know i'm his friend, he tells me so more times then I count every speech

Because the less money he makes millionaires pay, the more money trickles down to me

Because he mocks celebrities then asks one to speak at one of his speeches, oh my bad that was the only way he could get more then a couple 100 people to show up at one

Because he cares so much about education that hes promised to spend millions of dollars putting new programs in our schools for retarded kids so his running mate can have a place for hers to go

Because hes come up with such a great plan for the economy oh wait he doesn't have one or if he does I dont know because he spends all his time talking about his opponets

Because he wants to give Health insurances compainies a credit for me for 2,500 dollars so i'll only have to pay a extra 200 dollars a month that I dont have anyway instead of 400.( 5,000 is for families)

Because when he gives wallstreet anothr billion in bonuses next year half of them will take their bonuses and start new bussiness with it and create more jobs

Finally when he gives big corparations billions and billions of dollars in tax breaks next year they will stop shipping jobs over seas for cheap labor and open more jobs right here just like theyve been doing with their tax breaks for the last 8 years

Anybody ever notice that all the people who really know how to run the country are republicans on this message board? I wonder why not one of them have one for president yet?

AND YES MCCAIN IS A LIAR. ARE YOU PEOPLE DEATH. EVERY WORD OUT OF HIS MOTH IS A LIE. OH WAIT MOST REPUBLICANS HAVE SELECTIVE HEARING. JUST LIE 13 YEAR OLDS THEY ONLY HEAR WHAT THEY WANT TOO.

A lot of republicans are voting for McCain only because hes a republican. They cant even tell you McCains plan for the country because they don't even know what it is. Like Mccain all they can do is try to smear his opponent. Trying to spread lies and run a negative campain is alll they know how to do. Notica Obama supports simply discuss whats good for themselves and the country instead of soley discussing lies about their opponent. The right wings on here are full of ignorance and spend all their time trying to convince the people who dont share their views to switch their intelligent thoughts to their own republican ignorance. If you want to change another persons opinion you should do so by talking about your opponents ideas and backing it up with facts why their canidates ideas would be good for the country. Trying to change other peoples views by bashing their beliefs is plain stupidity. A lot of the republicans on here are trying to use their perverse ideas of psychology to alter liberals opionion when in reality right wings have never seemed ledd intelligent. Oh great I better watch out, ie gotten so ticked off i'm beginning to sound like one. McCain talks nothing of his ideas or plans of how to fix out economy, he talks only of how bad his opponents iis, and attcking the ideas and plans that he says are his opponents but are nothing but twisted words and qauter truths twisted in a way to try to make his opponent look bad. Thankfully most of america isn't stupid enough to listen. How McCain fought for the country and the five years of life he lost in a pow camp was a courages and honerable thing. McCain once said he would not take the low road to the highest office. Whoever McCain was is not who he is now. The McCain who gives sppeeches is a greedy, cowardly man with no dignity, no plans and speaks nothing but lies, half truths and false hoods. Doing a honerable deed once upon a time means he did just that, a honerable deed. It does not forever make him a honerable man. How anyone could vote for or want a man who behaves the way he behaves in his speeches to represent our country is beyond me. Thanks goodness its beyond most of americans as well. The way the McCain supporters act on here speaks for its self. McCains greatest ememy in the end willl be not Obama but himself. He will defeat himself. .Hes tryingmto win this battle by destroying his opponent but hes only destroying himself. He once had some dignity. Its heartbreaking and sad to watch McCain at his speeches.Its sad to think their are people in this who are like him.

Vote Obama

Right wings its not to late to find whatever dignity you may have left even if McCain has none. You know in your heart you want to vote obama. Even through McCain wont be elected you dont need to waste your vote for someone who will would of only destroyed our great country.

Thank goodness for Obama. A real politician who we can all say with dignity and pride that he is out president!

I've watched this, studied this, disected this and researched this for months now. On October 25th 2008, in early voting. I voted for Barack Obama and Joseph Biden. The Republicans in the current administration are void. The Republicans that are currently in office are liars, cheats, con-men and are lacking in any morals, what-so-ever. The Republicans in office are manipulative, deceitful, hateful if opposed. The Republicans in office are close-minded, war-mongers, war profiteers and definitely do not believe in the American people except for their own benefit. Militarily we are the ONLY super-power in the world. The United States with the current administration has the rest of the world scared s%#t-less, including those that may be our allies. If we keep pushing buttons, the World Trade Center will not compare with what comes out of the corner. Read the Book of Revelations (King James). We owe China trillions, and just how much do we owe to other foreign nations? Our economy is what makes us strong, globally. Right now, we are a joke to the rest of the world. Our military forces and resources have been stretched to nearly the breaking point. Needing "CHANGE", yes we do.

The only way we can judge the two candidates is to look back the their campaign in the last two years.

1) Who run the most disiplined and well orgnized campaign?

2) Who handled the economic crisies whith steady and careful approach?

3) Last but not least, look into how they VP pick and their decision behigned their pick.

Irrespective of your party, you should look beyond race or age and pick a candidate based on thier intelligence and judgement.

In his own estimation, the Arizona senator is straightforward and direct, but impatient.[271] Other traits include a penchant for lucky charms,[272] a fondness for hiking,[273] and a sense of humor that has sometimes backfired spectacularly, as when he made a joke in 1998 about the Clintons widely deemed not fit to print in newspapers: "Do you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly? ??? Because Janet Reno is her father."[274][275] McCain subsequently apologized profusely,[276] and the Clinton White House accepted his apology.[277] McCain has not shied away from addressing his shortcomings, and apologizing for them.[278][279] He is known for sometimes being prickly[280] and hot-tempered[281] with Senate colleagues, but his relations with his own Senate staff have been more cordial, and have inspired loyalty towards him.[282][283]

McCain acknowledges having said intemperate things in years past,[284] though he also says that many stories have been exaggerated.[285] One psychoanalytic comparison suggests that McCain would not be the first U.S. leader to have a temper,[286] and cultural critic Julia Keller argues that voters want leaders who are passionate, engaged, fiery, and feisty.[266] McCain has employed both profanity[287] and shouting on occasion, although such incidents have become less frequent over the years.[288][289] Senator Joe Lieberman has made this observation: "It is not the kind of anger that is a loss of control. He is a very controlled person."[288] Senator Thad Cochran, who has known McCain for decades and has battled him over earmarks,[290][291] has expressed concern about a McCain presidency: "He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me."[288] Ultimately Cochran decided to support McCain for president, after it was clear he would win the nomination.[292]

All of John McCain's family members are on good terms with him,[22] and he has defended them against some of the negative consequences of his high-profile political lifestyle.[293][294] His family's military tradition extends to the latest generation: son John Sidney IV ("Jack") is enrolled in the U.S. Naval Academy, son James has served with the Marines in Iraq, and son Doug flew jets in the Navy.[295][22]