Flip Flopping McCain Myth Buster: John McCain and the Gulf Coast »
Posted by: ybdogsct 4 months agoSen. John McCain blasted the Bush administration and all levels of government Thursday for the failed response to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. But McCain voted against an emergency funding bill, including $28 billion for hurricane relief. McCain also voted against passage of the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations of 2006.
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ybdogsct4 months ago
What Flip Flop McCain is saying NOW:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/24/mccain.s...
"Sen. John McCain blasted the Bush administration and all levels of government Thursday for the failed response to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
'We know we didn't have the right kind of leadership ... where government agencies were getting information from watching cable television rather than have a flow of information,' McCain said. 'Never again will there be a mismanaged natural disaster. It will never happen again in this country; you have my commitment and my promise.'
McCain was in New Orleans on the fourth day of a tour through some Democratic strongholds in economically struggling states, trying to convince voters that he's not the typical Republican. McCain and his wife Cindy spent about 20 minutes walking through the Lower 9th."
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ybdogsct4 months ago
Compared to How Flip Flop McCain Voted When It Mattered Most:
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?AC...
"McCain voted against passage of the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations of 2006. It would provide more than $28 billion for hurricane relief, approximately $2.3 billion for pandemic flu preparations and $1.9 billion for border security efforts. [2006 Senate Vote #112, 5/4/2006]
McCain voted against an amendment to provide emergency health care and other relief for survivors of Hurricane Katrina for up to 5 months. [2005 Senate Vote #285, 11/3/2005]
McCain voted twice against establishing a Congressional commission to examine Federal, State, and local response to devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina and making immediate corrective measures to improve future responses. [2006 Senate Vote #6, 2/2/2006; 2005 Senate Vote #229, 9/14/2005]
Flip Flop McCain will say anything to get elected.
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OnionHead4 months ago
Help me out YB Dogged, wasn't JM eating cake with GWB the day the Hurricane hit NO? I seem to remember reading that somewhere.
But I'll never forget the day the clouds moved over Austin, circling overhead all black & purple like a bruise. I thought the vision from Hell must look like that.
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hamy4 months ago
Mostly, I remember "Way to go Brownie!" What a complete and utter failure this administration has proven to be. I will never forget those words falling out of that man's mouth. How he could think that the responses from the US government as one of her major sea ports fell were appropriate is beyond my minds capabilities.
Brown was not capable or prepared for that position, but Bush put him in charge and then hung him out to dry...so to speak. I almost feel sorry for Brown. But I don't because he should have never accepted the position if he couldn't perform the necessary tasks.
My big problem with McCain is that he goes where the polls blow him. He doesn't have stances on issues. He is only telling people what they want to hear.
And his religious backer said that Katrina was caused by homosexuals. McCain should have to make a speech defending that nonsense.
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Goppy4 months ago
MAN ALIVE!!
One day he says hes gointa continue the Bush philosophy, the NEXT day hes raggin on the administrations incompetence!
Hes liek tryin to have things ever witch way.
Dont he know that all us Christian Conservatives are gointa vote for him regardless? I mean, look, we voted 96% for Goerge W. Bush.
McCain should just chill out. With our right wing control of media ... hes in. Hes TOTALLY In. Look at what our Mainstream Media did to Bama and clinton.
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Radiofreeeuropa4 months ago
Hilarious, McSame's handlers told him he should distance himself from Bush yet not really (wink wink nod nod). Criticizing the Katrina response is like saying "I think Hitler was a bad guy" or "dem romans shouldn't uh crucified dat Jeebus guy".
His new friend and endorser dah Rev. who claimed New Orleans was destroyed by Gawd fer bein sinners must not have noticed dat thousands of churches there were destroyed while Burbon St. was untouched. Gawd apparently enjoys some reverie, but doesn't care much for people who claim they speak for him!
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engineer4 months ago
He'll say anything to win whether he means it or not!! Not to be trusted
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Spadecaller4 months ago
Both Bush and McCain know that the McCain platform must distance themselves from the Bush administration in order to win in November. I'm quite sure the Great Decider knows that this is just phony posturing, as most politically aware people know this as well.
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Radiofreeeuropa4 months ago
Duncan Hunter? The theocrat? Good Gawd!!!
I do agree multi party viability would be great. It can't happen now, it's way too late for this election. The 2 parties have a monopoly because it now costs sooo much money to run a viable campaign no competing organization can raise enough dough to compete. (the only way they could would be to pander to the corporations and lobbyists) hence same old sh**. There are real differences in the strengths and weaknesses of the 3 remaining candidates, only one of them claims they will curtail the undue influence of corporate lobbys and PACs. Only one will allow his AG to go after the Bush crimes. Only one is being raked over the coals by the media, The Clinton machine, and The republican smear machine.... and is still winning by any legitimate means of measurement.
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Radiofreeeuropa4 months ago
Has anyone ever believed that any candidate was perfect? Close to it? How about decent? I think that in my life I've always had a candidate I knew was an a-whole and would take us astray, I've never ever felt any politco was truly great and perfect. Some are far worse than others though, and you have to prevent them from handing the country over to greedy corporations or theocrats.
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GHOSTWHOWALKS4 months ago
You are so full of smelly brown stuff it is a wonder you don't leave little brown spots behind you when you walk. Everything in your little attempt has been proven to be what you spout. That would be BS just encase your wittle pea brain can't follow the logic.
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Spadecaller4 months ago
An Israeli doctor says: 'Medicine in my country is
so advanced that we can take a kidney out of one man, put it in another, and have him looking for work
in 6 weeks.'
A German doctor says: 'That is nothing; we can take
a lung out of one person, put it in another, and have him looking for work in 4 weeks.
A Russian doctor says: 'In my country, medicine is
so advanced that we can take half a heart out of one person, put it in another, and have them both
looking for work in 2 weeks.'
The Texas doctor, not to be outdone, says: 'You guys
are way behind; we recently took a man with no brain out of Texas, put him in the White House for eight years, and now half the country is looking for work.'
And McCain supports the continuation of Bush's "economic policies" ... the term should be Bush's "national rip-off."
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ML20074 months ago
The DNC is right on the ball. They need to keep hammering this message home all the way to November. McCain is nothing he advertises to be.
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raats66624 months ago
Another day and another 're-evaluation' of a previous position. We still have nearly 200 days to the General Election. That means we can still have ANOTHER 200 're-evaluations'.
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markoller4 months ago
All third party candidates can accomplish under our system is to help elect the greater of two evils. Ralph Nader got George W. Bush elected. At the bare minimum, we need to abolish the Republican and Democratic parties. Then some new parties with new ideas can arise.
Perhaps, blackmail would work. Threaten to expose our government's involvement in the WTC and Pentagon attacks and other false flag terrorist operations. We could also threaten to reveal why six nuclear armed cruise missiles were misplaced on a B-52. This would permit change without anarchy or a coup d'etat.
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hamy4 months ago
OK. You just negated your own statement. Nader is a third party candidate and it isn't his fault that Gore and Kerry didn't listen to the voters and take in some of his ideas. If they had been smart, the results of the last two elections would have been very different.
I voted for Nader both times and I will do it again. I will keep voting for a third party candidate until we get one elected. That is how a third party becomes viable. And Nader is exactly what we need right now. Someone from outside the system to look at it objectively and change it from the ground up.
Blaming a third party for election results and in the same statement calling for a third party to change the process is a little bizarre.
Put your vote where your mouth is.
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Radiofreeeuropa4 months ago
I wonder... every man they say has a price, if he wasn't bought off, perhaps Cheney has his daughter locked in his basement torture chamber and will only let her out if McCain does exactly what he is told... or some similar scenario..
As something happened to this man. Maybe the Original McCain was replaced with a duplicate...remember the Manchurian Candidate?
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agentX4 months ago
The Flip-Flop express continues to find new ways to set the bar low.
He's flip-flopped on: Taxes (twice) Campaign Finance (4 times), the War on Iraq, War in general (Somalia, anyone?), global warming, children's health care, and gay marriage.
He's running out of things to flip-flop on.
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automan9094 months ago
I would still take McCain over Obama.
This country would be in big trouble with a racist anti-American liar like him in office.
Thank god America finally knows who he really is and will stop his insanity.
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nikkibabe4 months ago
Voting for McCain is equal to voting for Bush & Cheney for another 4 years. Torture is anti-American. Invading and occupying a muslim country for oil wealth is anti-American. Outing the identity of a covert CIA operative is anti-American. Holding people in confinement without charges is anti-American. Tapping in to people's phones and e-mails and is anti-American. Telling lies before UN is anti-American. Firing US Attorneys for political reasons is anti-American.
Guys, Obama has done nothing of these sins. It is Bush, Cheney & McCain & the Republican Party who have done it all.
Anyone deciding to vote for McCain (remember Keating 5 scandal where this guy should have gone to prison!) should have their brains examined.
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nikkibabe4 months ago
Democrats should go all after this "my friend" hypocrite from AZ who is a master flip-flop artist. He is lucky he was checked in to the Gray Bar Hotel in 1908's for his involvement in the Keating 5 scandal. He bilked thousands of small bank depositors out of their life savings.
He made a scary statement that tax cuts is more important than balancing the budget. Yes, you hypocrite. Millions of middle class Americans are already there, thanks to you, Bush and Republicans. Their expenses have gone way beyond their income by paying for gas, food and medicines.
To imagine the very sight of this creature in front of the White House is a scare let alone him getting in.
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SwampFox-82nd4 months ago
I still respect greatly what McCain endured for five-years in the "Hanoi Hilton," that's why I was flabbergasted when learning he reversed his stand on torture. I truly believe that McCain's advisers "advised" him to go the GOP way or he would lose the presidency. I served proudly, and know full well what he endured. I am not making excuses for the man, simply telling you when my tour was over I had a brain that could best described as seven-pounds of C-4 (Composition-4 VHE) ticking in my mental mush. Then they had no fancy name PTSD (Post Traumatic Shock Disorder. Not unlike the stroke I had; in fact, my cool doctors told me I never recovered from what I endured forty-eight years ago. It was the stroke that finally allowed me to accept the deeds done by me towards others.
There is no way on this earth I want to subject myself or others to that garbage again. I actually thought I was serving our country, not some damned political party. 'nuff said.
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Lurch4 months ago
If McCain surrenders so easily on one of the most important issues in his life to a bunch of political hacks, how on earth does he or anybody think Americans can trust the guy to do the right thing with our whole country?
McCain wimped out and capitulated to the extremists. We need a president who can stand up to other politicians, like starting with the ones in his own party. If a candidate does not have the moral courage to do that little effort, how can he/she be trusted with the big questions?
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nikkibabe4 months ago
***** Correction to my earlier post ******
John McCain escaped jail time for his involvement in the famous Keating 5 scandal in the 1980's. Together, they bilked thousands of small depositors out of their life savings. This guy is no solution to clean up 8 years of Bush mess RATHER he is part of it. Electing this guy will be like to pouring gasoline to put out a raging fire.
. he voted against additional funding Katrina victims. Any candidate who visits NOLA during a Presidential campaign is a POLITICIAN looking for votes.
. he voted against Bush tax cuts and now flip flops to support it and even make it permanent.
. He goes to Baghdad with heavy security and military bodyguards, holes himself up in secure green zone. Then comes here and says it is getting safer there.
He says Hamas would like to have Obama elected. Yes, McCain. That Charles Keating would like to have you elected so both of you can bilk more small depositors out of their life savings.
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KATESHER4 months ago
http://politics.propeller.com/story/2008/04/26/...
hMM...Maybe MCCAIN'S RELIGIOUS LEADER'S OPINIONS SHOULD BE THROWN BACK IN MCCAINS FACE..i mean, according to this guy LA deserved it anyway, right??? wonder how come this hasnt come up for mccain like it has been thrown at Obama?
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Popeye20004 months ago
I love the rhetoric. Its pretty funny when you read some of these posts on how biased these remarks are. I will refrain from embarassing anyone from their comments here, but to point out a few major flaws with the opinion of this article:
Both Obama and Clinton voted against the Emergency Appropriations Bill too.
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