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May 5, 2008

What John McCain Told Me, and What it Says About How Far He's Fallen

At a dinner party in Los Angeles not long after the 2000 election, I was talking to a man and his wife, both prominent Republicans. The conversation soon turned to the new president. "I didn't vote for George Bush" the man confessed. "I didn't either," his wife added. Their names: John and Cindy McCain.

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Yeah, I kinda liked him back then...

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McCain's "straight talk express" has derailed.

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Kimbefly wrote:
Yeah, I kinda liked him back then...
I agree. I liked that John McCain as well. Maybe he will return...
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FORCE DNC CONVENTION VOTE NOW

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John McCain has never been nor will he ever be a conservative. He is not well liked in the republican party or by many conservative voters. He's only saying he's conservative to rally the republican base.
BETTER WATCH THIS

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Better watch this..

www.audacityofhypocrisy.com/

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McCain is a FlipFlop.
Go Obama.
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huffington post ficticious source is laughable!

this soros funded hate site makes millions for obama and threw hillary under the bus!

huffingtin is as far left-liberal-socialist-communi st-antiChristian-pro gay/nambla as any can get!!!! uncle soros will lie & spend all it can to get little racist obama elected "king fool" of the socialist party!!!!

bend over America, uncle soros and his geek boy are ready to socialize you & raise your taxes to record highs!!!!!!!!!!

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Expect more and more of this sort of thing. Yes, McCain's no Reagan, but you are going to hear lots of attempts by the media to reinvent McCain before the election. They have to convince the short attention span crowd that McCain is a rabid right winger before November, after spending the last eight years painting him as the ideal Republican, a maverick, nearly ready to switch parties, and Bush's biggest enemy in the GOP.
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Decision 2008 wrote:
McCain is a FlipFlop.
Go Obama.
Kind of ironic when you could switch the names and still get the same meaning.
Really pathetic is that there is no one to vote for this election.

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McCain is a Total American. He would sell his soul for money, power or greed, and then, he will go on TV afterwards and condemn those that are doing the same. The words God Bless America are so apt. Is there even one person there(and worldwide) that remembers what a MORAL is??

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Azjaeger wrote:
Expect more and more of this sort of thing. Yes, McCain's no Reagan, but you are going to hear lots of attempts by the media to reinvent McCain before the election. They have to convince the short attention span crowd that McCain is a rabid right winger before November, after spending the last eight years painting him as the ideal Republican, a maverick, nearly ready to switch parties, and Bush's biggest enemy in the GOP.
Somebody has an agenda here and didn’t bother to read the whole story. The point is not that “McCain's no Reagan” but that he is no McCain. And as for media attempts “to reinvent McCain”, how about some facts to counter what was in the story?

“The John McCain the media fell in love with in 2000 isn't on the ballot in 2008. And the proof has all but jumped up and grabbed the media by the throat: the ring-kiss of ‘agents of intolerance’ Falwell and Robertson; the decision to make permanent tax cuts he twice voted against, saying he could not ‘in good conscience support’ them; the campaign finance reformer replaced with a candidate whose campaign is run by lobbyists and fueled by loophole rides on his wife's jet; the hard-line stance against torture replaced by a vote allowing waterboarding; the guarded-by-a-battalion stroll through the ‘safe’ neighborhoods of Baghdad; the use of Karl Rove as an advisor... and the embracing of the disastrous policies of a man he so abhorred he would not vote for him.

“What will it take for the Swift Boat Media to realize that John McCain jumped the shark a long, long time ago?”

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jimmy farter wrote:
huffington post ficticious source is laughable!
this soros funded hate site makes millions for obama and threw hillary under the bus!
huffingtin is as far left-liberal-socialist-communi st-antiChristian-pro gay/nambla as any can get!!!! uncle soros will lie & spend all it can to get little racist obama elected "king fool" of the socialist party!!!!
bend over America, uncle soros and his geek boy are ready to socialize you & raise your taxes to record highs!!!!!!!!!!
A little truth about Soros:
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker wrote in 2003 in the foreword of Soros' book The Alchemy of Finance:

"George Soros has made his mark as an enormously successful speculator, wise enough to largely withdraw when still way ahead of the game. The bulk of his enormous winnings is now devoted to encouraging transitional and emerging nations to become 'open societies,' open not only in the sense of freedom of commerce but - more important - tolerant of new ideas and different modes of thinking and behavior."

A start to more at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_soros

Paul Volcker, by the way, was the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank before Alan Greenspan, and not given nearly the credit deserved for his part in turning the economy around in the aftermath of the mid seventies oil embargo.

Just a little more for people who don’t like to follow links:

“Currently, he is the chairman of Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Institute and is also a former member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations. According to his own website, Soros claims his support for the Solidarity labour movement in Poland, as well as the Czechoslovak human rights organization Charter 77, contributed to ending Soviet Union political dominance in those countries. His funding and organization of Georgia's Rose Revolution was considered by Russian and Western observers to have been crucial to its success, although Soros said his role has been "greatly exaggerated." In the United States, he is known for having donated large sums of money in a failed effort to defeat President George W. Bush's bid for re-election in 2004.”
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McCain is a crook just like Bush ,Clinton, and Obama!
It's time for the people of the United States of America to take this government back from the crooks by any means!
It's time for a bounty on ALL dirty politicians! Sooner or later it's going to be dog eat dog thanks to crooks like BOTH BUSHES!
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Huffington is such a scumbag.

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Consider the source. Why would McCain tell Huffington this...of all people?
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So what is the proble if McCain did not vote for Bush? Or if he is a crook like Bush Clinton or Obama. He is qualified to be the president of America as any of the above.That he is loyal to Israel as any American president should be.And loyalty to Israel is the first and ultimate requirement to be the president of US of A
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kocukrihnan wrote:
So what is the proble if McCain did not vote for Bush? Or if he is a crook like Bush Clinton or Obama. He is qualified to be the president of America as any of the above.That he is loyal to Israel as any American president should be.And loyalty to Israel is the first and ultimate requirement to be the president of US of A
It's time for Israel to support itself!
It's time for America to re-group,re-think, and realize that it is time to take care of Americans and the United States and to hell with the rest of the bottom feeders of the world. We do not need imports we need to re-build our manufacturing base and become self-sufficient once again and EXPORT our products! The only thing this country exports is our raw materials,technology and information for a few crooks who are traitors not traders!
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DiRtE PoLiTiCiAnZ wrote:
<quoted text>It's time for Israel to support itself!
It's time for America to re-group,re-think, and realize that it is time to take care of Americans and the United States and to hell with the rest of the bottom feeders of the world. We do not need imports we need to re-build our manufacturing base and become self-sufficient once again and EXPORT our products! The only thing this country exports is our raw materials,technology and information for a few crooks who are traitors not traders!
Wishfull thinking.Do you think America or Americans are free enough to rethink or regroup or realise or do any other thing as you want? Yours is the most bonded nation in history.Your freedom stops with your freedom to chose your toothpaste, soap, car and criticism of your fellow Christians.The other serious matters that affect America as a nation are decided by AIPAC and the "lobby". You can't even open your mouth against certain people just as Carter or Mel Gibson find out. Just think over what I mentioned. In essance you are living in Argo City. If you have not heard of Argo City, find out.Your president, whoever he may be,is its overseer
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jujubee editor wrote:
This man was the real nonpartisan candidate in 2000. The irony is overwhelming...
Why have we sat idly by and allowed Bush to destroy OUR COUNTRY AND OUR VALUES?
No one can destroy your values for you but you. Bush may have had a poor handling of politics, but he cannot possibly be single-handedly responsible for destroying the country. I'd prefer he'd never of been in office, though. He has terrible skills in domestic and foreign relations. That fact alone shows that it took many more than he to destroy our country and its values. If you'd wake up, the country was already in a consistently worsening state when he stole office via the Supreme Court.
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