McCain's "Outrageous" Exaggerations: Voted for earmarks he now rails against
My, my. FactCheck.org does what their name implies and finds that one of McCain's recently resurrected talking points, first featured in an aptly titled ad called "Outrageous," is filled with some rather dubious claims.
John McCain’s ad, “Outrageous,” which began running November 12, touts the Arizona senator's long-standing fight against pork-barrel spending. The ad includes three examples of projects that McCain deems unnecessary and claims that “one man” has “the guts to stand up to wasteful government spending.”
But the three examples of spending highlighted in the ad – a “bridge to nowhere,” a study of bear DNA and a museum dedicated to Woodstock – seem chosen more for their impact than for any direct involvement McCain had in attacking them. In fact, he voted in favor of the bill that included the bear study funding; he was absent for key votes on the Woodstock museum (including one on an amendment he co-sponsored); and he never specifically tried to eliminate the bridge earmark and missed some crucial votes on that one, as well.
John McCain exaggerating his record, hoping people won't notice because the establishment media won't report it? You don't say...
(h/t: HuffPo)
So he voted in favor of his self-made infamous bear study bill?
That's just beautiful to me.
Well that does. He voted yea on bears. He'll never get a Colbert bump now.
"John McCain exaggerating his record, hoping people won’t notice because the establishment media won’t report it? You don’t say…"
History shows that this is a pretty safe bet on his part.
not unlike his namedropping the other night...
John Lewis: John McCain's Wise Man?
johnlewis250x200.jpg John McCain says he plans to consult with Democratic Rep. John Lewis when he's president. That's news to Lewis.
http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/08/9293_john_mccain_john_lewis_wise_man.html
Proving once again that John McCain is exactly what's wrong with Washington
Aug. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama accused rival John McCain of backing a ``dictator'' in Pakistan while refusing to support a hunt for terrorists who may be hiding there.
``For all his talk about following Osama bin Laden to the gates of hell, Senator McCain refused to join my call to take out bin Laden across the Afghan border,'' Obama told 3,000 members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Orlando today. ``Instead, he spent years backing a dictator in Pakistan who failed to serve the interests of his own people.''
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a88_M1gxU8Ps&refer=home
How dare you imply that John McCain, a POW, is a hypocrite. He was imprisoned in Vietnam, you know. Really.
Totally off subject but on Who Wants to be a Millionaire the other night I learned that Bush got a 100% raise from what Clinton use to make as President?
Glad the media jumped all over that one!
John McCain let off the hook over blunders
Senator John McCain has been getting an easy ride from the media despite a series of mistakes and confused policy statements by the Republican candidate on the campaign trail, critics claim.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/johnmccain/258...
usa! usa! u ... oh... ... uk...
Obama won't say aword
Why does John McCain hates bears?
the man is showing that he is a ruthless liar who will stop at nothing to achieve the office. that makes him one to fear. Obama has to take off the garment of adulation and quit paying homage to this liar. we didn't select you to represent us so that you could kiss ass. get some balls and say what needs to be said, or quit pussyfootin' and take biden as your running mate now so that he can run interference.
I still say that picketing various or all of the media headquarters with posters and clear criticism of their coverage would call them out. Let's see if they will cover their or the other networks' protests.
At least the blogs would get it out there, and Youtube could have a field day.
McHypocrite!!!!!!
Death by a Thousand Republican Jokes
By Ari Melber 08/19/2008 04:59PM
Sen. John McCain finally found a salient line of attack against Sen. Barack Obama's remarkably resilient public profile. Throughout the campaign, calling Obama a defeatist, elitist or troop-hater has not been so effective. Calling him a joke, however, may be lethal.
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http://www.washingtonindependent.com/view/death-by-a-thousand
katy @ 4:
21 years together in congress and never a word between them.
that's McHypocrite for you!!!!
Woodstock was a dirty hippie anti-war thing.
Studying DNA implies evolution.
But I have no clue about that bridge.
the bear study isnt pork by a longshot, but actually a very important and successful study of the population of grizzly bears in the Northern Continental Divide ecosystem done to manage them in relation to the endangered species act.
http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/index.php/csw/details/mccain_grizzly_...
Hammer him with bear DNA.
McCain is building a mythology about himself that is intended to penetrate further than the incompetent reality.
I find this ironic. The Republican Revolution stared in 1994 by Newt Gringrich started the whole Pork Barrel spending craze. The Repugs knew that bringing home the bacon they could solidify votes. Add the courting of the the Religious right they had formed a new potent voting block. Now after years of raiding the treasury and social security, they now claim to limit spending. What a joke. These fat cats started the K-Street project(includung Sen. Santorum, my former senator,and best bud Abramoff). Now big business and corporations own this country. Mccain and his fellow Repugs will destroy this honorable country with their greed. Vote Democratic people, it is our only chance.
McLiar
well the MSM won't notice. that's for sure. mccain is so much more phony than i thought 2 months ago.
yet his number have gone up.
so i have been educating myself, but the MSM is dumber than ever except for MSNBC.
Rachel....please have SAMMY on!
Lets play a game of hide the child,
how McCain handlers manage children for the sensitive Republican voter...
pic one, 'the full McCain'
pic two, hide the invisible child behind McCain, so she cant be seen by the photographers in the audience.
BTW how many propaganda films did hanoi john make anyways. can we see them?
carefulwiththatAXEeugene @ 25:
I bet they are securely hidden away in Cheney and Roves man sized vault,
only to be released if McCain strays from his orders.
ron @ 18:
so why did McDumb make it a jokey affair in Congress, but then vote for it anyway ?
Tom (Not Tom) @ 7:
Yah and that and a nickel should of gotten him your goverment's Congressional Medal of Honour
ron @ 18:
More hunting trips with Ted Stevens are in McCane's future.
Watching Blitzer today with Tom Ridge....another one of his supporters and in this case a possible VP couldnt even name anything McCain has done in his 26 yrs. on energy.
Seems to me almost all of McCains supporters cant name one thing about McCains record and McCain claims EXPERIENCE?????
Obviously he hasnt made any impression on anyone even those close to him.
McCain warmed his seat those 26 yrs. nothing more. Not even 1 earmark for his own state which he brags about. Just what has he done except play the POW role? The only experience he has is keeping his chair warm and collecting his pay and perks from the Government.
The video on Ridge is below and its toward the end of the interview where Ridge ( a friend of McCains for 25 yrs. ) fails to name one thing.
Misty @ 30:
Misty @ 30:
Unless the O camp politically DESTORYS Multi-Mansion McCain, they will not win!
Perhaps the meme to keep hammering home should be: John "Songbird" McCain -- complete with link.
Pyre @ 33:
thanks!! and from your link, there's this link... http://powwarrior.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/the-measure-of-the-man-why-jo...
Time to get these items out there in the tubes... people need to know that THIS is who McSame really is.
katy @ 9:
Well....since it's twice as easy to do a shitty job vs. a good job he merits twice the pay. Duh.
FeedUp @ 8:
Well.....Since it's twice as easy to do a shitty job vs. a good job W merits twice the pay. Duh.
Did he really start airing these ads November 12? What year?
The CORPORATE CONTROLED MEDIA will put McCain in the White House come November, the Warren TV special is just the bigining of how the CORPORATE CONTROLED MEDIA and there Dirty tricks that are to come. One they had to destroy REV., Wright so Obama has no REV he can turn to and have McCain in a place of Obamas choosing, then they are out to make over McCains Voting Record which they have done. Now they are out saying that Obama is a Scary Guy and cannot be trusted. The DEMOCRATS keep falling into the same trap over and over again the CORPORATE CONTROLED MEDIA is controled by REPUBLICANS and the will never give up that POWER, until the DEMOCRATS quit giving into them and fight just as dirty as they.
ferrofluid @ 27:
Probaby for the same reason Obama talks about freedom and change (worth waiting for) ...and then votes to re-authorise the patriot act!
or...
...probly for the same reason Obama acted outraged at telephone companies who co-operated with the Bush regime to listen to our phone calls. ....but then turns around and votes to give the telecom companies immunity!
I dont know what the reason is...but I dont care...I'm voting independent cuz this two party sysem has been compromised!
Tom (Not Tom) @ 7:
Do you think if McCain actually gets elected President we'll hear much more about him being a professional former POW? It isn't likely that anyone who criticizes him will be called out for being mean to a former POW, is it?
If you are sick of hearing about it now, just think what the next 4 years will like.
P.D. @ 21:
If the Democrats is our only chance, we R f@#$cked
The problem is that McCain will get away with it, because he has a vast anti-American propaganda network campaigning for him. There are too few voices of truth with a forum wide enough to make any impact on the average consumer of mass media.
A free democracy cannot survive without an independent press.
I'm coming to believe that we have moved from a point where we were running out of time to get things right to a point where the window is now closed and the time is passed. Obama is a corporatist to his last breath, and I see no solutions coming from him.
Tom (Not Tom) @ 7:
McCain probably misses the simplicity of Vietnam (snort).
Oh how he must pine for the days of when he sang like a songbird, and gave anti-American speeches on the radio.
I know he does, because he certainly talks about those day a lot. He even makes up stories about them!
That plagiarized 'cross in the dirt' fabrication was ripped off from a Russian author's takes of his imprisonment.
Next thing you know, he'll be arguing with other pow's, saying that HIS Vietcong interrigator could be up the other pow's interrogator.
Are people so stupid that they'll keep falling for this crap?
I'm sorry, this post is ridiculous.
I'm not a McCain fan, but aren't you guys grasping at straws here? Of COURSE McCain voted for bills that have earmarks in them. If he didn't, he would have voted against almost every single bill in the Senate. That would be a "tad" self-defeating, don't you think?
Start putting up real criticisms. This campaign is pissing me off because the left is trying its best to act like the right. Be above the bullsh*t, please.
So McCain voted for Pork before he was against it.
Does that have a familiar ring to it?
woodstock=hippy=liberal=communist=anti-war=obama
McSame's mockery of the bear study is nothing new!
Hey Pastor Rick, you said no stump speeches!
Moreover, the study is not a waste of money-it relates to the endangered species act!http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/index.php/csw/details/mccain_grizzly_bear/
The MSM has shown their bias, so why should St. McCain worry about being outted for lying?
pmb @ 10:
Right you are. Obama will be silent like democratic candidates
before him. Of course they are in a
statistical tie for the lead
because McCain keeps pounding away while Obama is on the
road to defeat. Hillary would have cleaned McCain's clock but
the insults by people who claim to be Democrats in blogs like
C&L killed her. Get ready for President McCain. God-Damn the
American Voter. Losers to the end. Obama boring & silent. :(
Another Republican because of the stupid high road democratic
way. We Democrats suck.
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