[Xenu]

1 - John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Now he says his position has "evolved," yet he’s continued to oppose key civil rights laws.(1)...

2 - According to Bloomberg News, McCain is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq, Russia and China... Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan says McCain "will make Cheney look like Gandhi." ...(2) ...

3 - His reputation is built on his opposition to torture, but McCain voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban...(3)...

4 - McCain opposes a woman’s right to choose... He said, "I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned."...(4)...

5 - The Children’s Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children... He voted against the children’s health care bill last year, then defended Bush’s veto of the bill...(5)...

6 - He’s one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires... The Associated Press reports he and his wife own at least eight homes! Yet McCain says the solution to the housing crisis is for people facing foreclosure to get a "second job" and skip their vacations...(6)...

7 - Many of McCain’s fellow Republican senators say he’s too reckless to be commander in chief... One Republican senator said: "The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He’s erratic. He’s hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me."...(7)...

8 - McCain talks a lot about taking on special interests, but his campaign manager and top advisers are actually lobbyists... The government watchdog group Public Citizen says McCain has 59 lobbyists raising money for his campaign, more than any of the other presidential candidates...(8)...

9 - McCain has sought closer ties to the extreme religious right in recent years... The pastor McCain calls his "spiritual guide," Rod Parsley, believes America’s founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a "false religion." McCain sought the political support of right-wing preacher John Hagee, who believes Hurricane Katrina was God’s punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church "the Antichrist" and a "false cult."...(9)...

10 - He positions himself as pro-environment, but he scored a 0—yes, a flat zero!—from the League of Conservation Voters last year......(10)...

Sources:

1. "The Complicated History of John McCain and MLK Day," ABC News, April 3, 2008
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpu...mplicated.html

"McCain Facts," ColorOfChange.org, April 4, 2008
http://colorofchange.org/mccain_facts

2. "McCain More Hawkish Than Bush on Russia, China, Iraq," Bloomberg News, March 12, 2008
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...tk0ZM&refer=us

"Buchanan: John McCain 'Will Make Cheney Look Like Gandhi,'" ThinkProgress, February 6, 2008
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/06/...gandhi-mccain/

3. "McCain Sides With Bush On Torture Again, Supports Veto Of Anti-Waterboarding Bill," ThinkProgress, February 20, 2008
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/20/...-torture-veto/

4. "McCain says Roe v. Wade should be overturned," MSNBC, February 18, 2007
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17222147/

5. "2007 Children's Defense Fund Action Council® Nonpartisan Congressional Scorecard," February 2008
http://www.childrensdefense.org/site..._scorecard2007

"McCain: Bush right to veto kids health insurance expansion," CNN, October 3, 2007
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/...ain.interview/

6. "Beer Executive Could Be Next First Lady," Associated Press, April 3, 2008
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h...5ZtMgD8VQ86M80

"McCain Says Bank Bailout Should End `Systemic Risk,'" Bloomberg News, March 25, 2008
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...ZFM&refer=home

7. "Will McCain's Temper Be a Liability?," Associated Press, February 16, 2008
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=4301022

"Famed McCain temper is tamed," Boston Globe, January 27, 2008
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/ar...mper_is_tamed/

8. "Black Claims McCain's Campaign Is Above Lobbyist Influence: 'I Don't Know What The Criticism Is,'" ThinkProgress, April 2, 2008
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/02/...lack-lobbyist/

"McCain's Lobbyist Friends Rally 'Round Their Man," ABC News, January 29, 2008
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4210251

9. "McCain's Spiritual Guide: Destroy Islam," Mother Jones Magazine, March 12, 2008
http://www.motherjones.com/washingto...ual-guide.html

"Will McCain Specifically 'Repudiate' Hagee's Anti-Gay Comments?," ThinkProgress, March 12, 2008
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/12/...agee-anti-gay/

"McCain 'Very Honored' By Support Of Pastor Preaching 'End-Time Confrontation With Iran,'" ThinkProgress, February 28, 2008
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/28/...n-endorsement/

10. "John McCain Gets a Zero Rating for His Environmental Record," Sierra Club, February 28, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/environment/77913/



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I found 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 most troubling.

[JSN]

it's pretty sad that this even need to be posted, but i guarantee you it does.

[Xenu]

[Inked]

Well it shows the mentality of foreigners meddling in US affairs.

[TX911]

i said it once and i'll say it again. If you guys think Bush is bad, just wait and see what happens if McCain's old ass gets elected. Hopefully he'll die of old age or cancer or some shit before he gets a chance to be elected. He and Bush are both good ole' fashioned homegrown domestic terrorists. At least the dems are just dumb

i can save the FBI,CIA, and Dept of Homeland security the billions of dollars they're wasting looking for terrorists around the world. I know where the main one is! I heard he's staying at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. It's a big house, white paint, with some pillars in front.

[TX911]

Originally Posted by Xenu

i wonder if they share sleeping bags at Camp David

[retro g]

Some eye openers in there.

[Salbass]

I'm with him on 1, 5, 10 until he backtracked that is. Opposing legislation is almost always the right thing to do.

[TX911]

Originally Posted by Salbass

I'm with him on 1, 5, 10 until he backtracked that is. Opposing legislation is almost always the right thing to do.

personally i don't give a shit about #1 or any other national holiday, I don't know #5 well enough to comment on, but i can't see how opposing legislation that protects our environment can be seen as "the right thing to do"

[sactown1]

#5 and #10 make me like him even more. Just a bunch of liberal talking points, "if you don't agree with our government programs you are a bad person blah blah"