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Scurrilous lies about McCain debunked
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Posted on 02/04/2008 11:58:38 AM PST by connell

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1 posted on 02/04/2008 11:58:40 AM PST by connell
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To: connell
pffffft!
Hahaha!


2 posted on 02/04/2008 12:01:07 PM PST by counterpunch (McCain/Kennedy '08)
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To: connell
His position on the following is far more than enough for me to stand aginst him. None of these are in question:
  1. McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform attack on the 1st amendment
  2. McCain-Kennedy Amnest bill attack on our national soveriegnty
  3. McCain-Lieberman GLobal Warming Sham and attack on our American life-style and economy
  4. Giving terrorists and enemy combatants US legal rights.
  5. Voting against Bush's tax cuts and using liberal, class-warfare language to do so.
Etc.
3 posted on 02/04/2008 12:04:20 PM PST by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: connell

Whatever! Juan McAztlan collaborated with Ted Kennedy, Russ Feingold and the rest of the democratic party. That disqualifies him, by itself.


4 posted on 02/04/2008 12:05:38 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Second To None!)
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To: connell
The Real McCain

SEN. JOHN McCAIN: THE ULTIMATE "RHINESTONE HERO"

SEN. JOHN McCAIN: THE ULTIMATE "RHINESTONE HERO" Part II

John McCain Is No Hero

John McCain: The Manchurian Candidate

JOHN MCCAIN, WARTS AND ALL

The War Secrets Sen. John McCain Hides

John McCain's Skeleton Closet

A number of articles on McCain. (some the same as above)

5 posted on 02/04/2008 12:05:41 PM PST by TigersEye (McCain is unfit for office. See my profile page.)
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To: connell
So who is James H. Warner shilling for?

I never heard these charges before Warner mentioned them

6 posted on 02/04/2008 12:06:21 PM PST by KenHorse (I am Shakespeare of Borg. Prepare to be or not to be)
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To: connell

That’s why I stay out of the personal stuff, like McCain’s military record. His legislative, public record of instability and supporting liberal positions is enough to turn off any sensible conservative.

CAPITOL HILL STAFFERS RATE THEIR BOSSES

McCain got no glory from those who work with him.
“Every election year we survey top aides on both sides of the aisle—administrative assistants, press secretaries, legislative directors, and chiefs of committee staffs—to get their up-close and personal, and anonymous, views. While there may be lots of partisan backbiting among congress members, their staffers seem far more capable of putting politics aside and making honest judgments. It wasn’t unusual for aides in both parties to name one of their own as “spineless” or give the “workhorse” nod to someone across the aisle. “

Worst Follower 2. John McCain (R-Ariz.)

Show Horse 2. John McCain (R-Ariz.)

Hottest Temper 2. John McCain (R-Ariz.) known to snap at staff when the cameras are off

THE McCAIN WAY - ATTACK REPUBLICANS

Defending His Amnesty Bill, “Presidential hopeful John McCain - who has been dogged for years by questions about his volcanic temper - erupted in an angry, profanity-laced tirade at a fellow Republican senator, sources told The Post yesterday. In a heated dispute over immigration-law overhaul, McCain screamed, ‘F— you!’ at Texas Sen. John Cornyn, who had been raising concerns about the legislation. ‘This is chickens—stuff,’ McCain snapped at Cornyn, according to several people in the room off the Senate floor Thursday. ‘You’ve always been against this bill, and you’re just trying to derail it.’” (Charles Hurt, “Raising McCain,” New York Post, 5/19/07)

In 2000, Sen. McCain Ran An Attack Ad Comparing Then-Gov. George W. Bush To Bill Clinton. SEN. MCCAIN: “I guess it was bound to happen. Governor Bush’s campaign is getting desperate, with a negative ad about me. The fact is, I’ll use the surplus money to fix Social Security, cut your taxes and pay down the debt. Governor Bush uses all of the surplus for tax cuts, with not one new penny for Social Security or the debt. His ad twists the truth like Clinton. We’re all pretty tired of that. As president, I’ll be conservative and always tell you the truth. No matter what.” (McCain 2000, Campaign Ad, 2/9/00; www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHoXkCprdL4)

Sen. McCain Repeatedly Called Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) nams. “Why can’t McCain win the votes of his own colleagues? To explain, a Republican senator tells this story: at a GOP meeting last fall, McCain erupted out of the blue at the respected Budget Committee chairman, Pete Domenici, saying, ‘Only an a–hole would put together a budget like this.’ Offended, Domenici stood up and gave a dignified, restrained speech about how in all his years in the Senate, through many heated debates, no one had ever called him that. Another senator might have taken the moment to check his temper. But McCain went on: ‘I wouldn’t call you an a–hole unless you really were an a–hole.’ The Republican senator witnessing the scene had considered supporting McCain for president, but changed his mind. ‘I decided,’ the senator told Newsweek, ‘I didn’t want this guy anywhere near a trigger.’” (Evan Thomas, et al., “Senator Hothead,” Newsweek, 2/21/00)

Sen. McCain Had A Heated Exchange With Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) And Called Him A “F*cking Jerk.” “Senators are not used to having their intelligence or integrity challenged by another senator. ‘Are you calling me stupid?’ Sen. Chuck Grassley once inquired during a debate with McCain over the fate of the Vietnam MIAs, according to a source who was present. ‘No,’ replied McCain, ‘I’m calling you a f—ing jerk!” (Evan Thomas, et al., “Senator Hothead,” Newsweek, 2/21/00)

In 1995, Sen. McCain Had A “Scuffle” With 92-Year-Old Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-SC) On The Senate Floor. “In January 1995, McCain was midway through an opening statement at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing when chairman Strom Thurmond asked, ‘Is the senator about through?’ McCain glared at Thurmond, thanked him for his ‘courtesy’ (translation: buzz off), and continued on. McCain later confronted Thurmond on the Senate floor. A scuffle ensued, and the two didn’t part friends.” (Harry Jaffe, “Senator Hothead,” The Washingtonian, 2/97)

Sen. McCain Attacked Christian Leaders And Republicans In A Blistering Speech During The 2000 Campaign. MCCAIN: “Unfortunately, Governor Bush is a Pat Robertson Republican who will lose to Al Gore. … The political tactics of division and slander are not our values… They are corrupting influences on religion and politics, and those who practice them in the name of religion or in the name of the Republican Party or in the name of America shame our faith, our party and our country. Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan or Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right.” (Sen. John McCain, Remarks, Virginia Beach, VA, 2/28/00)

Celebrating His First Senate Election In 1986, Sen. McCain Screamed At And Harassed A Young Volunteer. “It was election night 1986, John McCain had just been elected to the U.S. Senate for the first time. Even so, he was not in a good mood. McCain was yelling at the top of his lungs and poking the chest of a young volunteer who had set up a lectern that was too tall for the 5-foot-9 politician to be seen to advantage, according to a witness to the outburst. ‘Here this poor guy is thinking he has done a good job, and he gets a new butt ripped because McCain didn’t look good on television,’ Jon Hinz told a reporter Thursday. At the time, Hinz was executive director of the Arizona Republican Party. … ‘There were an awful lot of people in the room,’ Hinz recalled. ‘You’d have to stick cotton in your ears not to hear it. He (McCain) was screaming at him, and he was red in the face.’” (Kris Mayes and Charles Kelly, “Stories Surface On Senator’s Demeanor,” The Arizona Republic, 11/5/99)

Sen. McCain “Publicly Abused” Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL). “[McCain] noted his propensity for passion but insisted that he doesn’t ‘insult anybody or fly off the handle or anything like that.’ This is, quite simply, hogwash. McCain often insults people and flies off the handle…. There have been the many times McCain has called reporters ‘liars’ and ‘idiots’ when they have had the audacity to ask him unpleasant, but pertinent, questions. ” (Editorial, “There’s Something About McCain,” The Austin American-Statesman, 1/24/07)

Is it any wonder McCain has few endorsements from his Congressional piers? http://thehill.com/endorsements-2008.html

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1964284/posts?page=28#28


7 posted on 02/04/2008 12:07:35 PM PST by AuntB (" DON'T LET THE PRESS PICK YOUR CANDIDATE!" Mrs. Duncan Hunter 1/5/08)
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To: connell

I am not so concerned about the commies in Vietnam but that one he is best friends with Hillary.

Oh what are the NEW YORK newspapers holding back on McCain until after he wins the nod?


8 posted on 02/04/2008 12:08:15 PM PST by Just mythoughts (Isa.3:4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.)
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To: counterpunch
In other news:

Is McCain's Blinking Morse Code for "I'm Lying"?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6508735036470525783

9 posted on 02/04/2008 12:08:35 PM PST by E-Mat (Made in China = Arms for Tyrants)
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To: connell

Much of this is in direct contradiction to McCain’s very own words describing his medical treatment because his father was an admiral, the statements he made, including military information, to get medical treatment, etc. I’m not bashing McCain, but this article, if you believe McCain himself, is clearly crap.


10 posted on 02/04/2008 12:09:39 PM PST by Prokopton
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To: Jeff Head
I am not voting for McCain.
However, that article on him (I read it) was a pack of lies on top of lie and fabrication. If the story was true the other pilots in those prisons would have turned on him while he was in captivity and would try to have him brought up on charges after their release. Neither of those occurred.

John McCain is hero and paid a high price in the defense of our Nation. I wish I were half the man John McCain is. However, I am not voting for him because of his political convictions and beliefs.

11 posted on 02/04/2008 12:09:59 PM PST by cpdiii
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To: connell

The people he collaborates with in the good old USA are scary enough for me.


12 posted on 02/04/2008 12:10:12 PM PST by beandog (If exercise is so good for you, why does every bone in my body hurt)
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To: connell
Who needs scurrilous lies? How about a few truths? McCain-Feingold violates our 1st Amendment rights. McCain-Kennedy is an amnesty bill for illegal aliens. The Keating 5 scandal. The "Gang of 14" subversion of the Republican majority. McCain-Lieberman Gun Control laws. Voting against the Bush tax cuts. Dumping his first wife for a rich trophy wife. Embracing "global warming" by co-sponsoring a "carbon cap and trade" scheme that will trash the U.S. economy. Favoring closure of Gitmo. Opposing water boarding as a means of interrogating terrorist suspects. What a guy.

The New York Times is holding yet another financial scandal to torpedo McCain. People of bad character keep repeating their mistakes. They can't help it.

13 posted on 02/04/2008 12:10:37 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: TigersEye

referance ping


14 posted on 02/04/2008 12:10:49 PM PST by Para-Ord.45
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To: TitansAFC; meandog; therut; MARTIAL MONK; Kuksool; freespirited; furquhart; mossyoaks; ...
Written in response to a vicious hit piece from a few days ago.

The McCain List.
15 posted on 02/04/2008 12:11:14 PM PST by Norman Bates
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To: The Shrew; zot
Jim Warner was one of the first three POWs to support the Swift Vets in 2004 (the others were Paul Galanti and Ken Cordier). He stated that his interrogators in Hanoi showed him John Kerry's Senate testimony as proof that the American prisoners should be treated as war criminals. I also worked with Jim later when he was a director of the Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation.

While Jim doesn't have or claim to have perfect knowledge of what John McCain did in North Vietnam, I believe that what he does have to say is true.

16 posted on 02/04/2008 12:11:41 PM PST by Interesting Times (ABCNNBCBS -- yesterday's news.)
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To: onyx

Ping


17 posted on 02/04/2008 12:11:53 PM PST by Norman Bates
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To: Jeff Head

I agree with you. If Johnny MAC was such a leader, send him back to prison where he can lead all he wants. He certainly has shown no leadership skills since he was released.


18 posted on 02/04/2008 12:12:07 PM PST by yazdankurd (Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat)
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To: connell
Recently, I have seen several allegations that condemn Senator John McCain for his behavior as a prisoner of war. I believe that these allegations are false.

Check out the difference between "I believe" and "I know."
19 posted on 02/04/2008 12:12:24 PM PST by aruanan
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To: Jeff Head
I don’t care what happened 40 years go pro or con. Whether is Cotton Hill trying to get some electoral mileage or an enemy trying a smear. I do care about the incontestable facts which you presented. He is unfit to serve.
20 posted on 02/04/2008 12:12:31 PM PST by isrul
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