Economics 101 for John

Here is a great new video from the Campaign for America's Future

Wow - John The Shear Volume Is Impressive

So it finally hit me, John gets no scrutiny from the MSM over his flip flops because there are so many they just cannot keep track. The Carpetbagger does a great job of documenting the lot of them.

 

Here’s a few of them(out of 70).

 

National Security Policy

1. McCain thought Bush’s warrantless-wiretap program circumvented the law; now he believes the opposite.

2. McCain insisted that everyone, even “terrible killers,” “the worst kind of scum of humanity,” and detainees at Guantanamo Bay, “deserve to have some adjudication of their cases,” even if that means “releasing some of them.” McCain now believes the opposite.

3. He opposed indefinite detention of terrorist suspects. When the Supreme Court reached the same conclusion, he called it “one of the worst decisions in the history of this country.”

4. In February 2008, McCain reversed course on prohibiting waterboarding.

5. McCain was for closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay before he was against it.

6. When Barack Obama talked about going after terrorists in Pakistani mountains with predators, McCain criticized him for it. He’s since come to the opposite conclusion.

Foreign Policy

7. McCain was for kicking Russia out of the G8 before he was against it.

8. McCain supported moving “towards normalization of relations” with Cuba. Now he believes the opposite.

Military Policy

14. McCain recently claimed that he was the “greatest critic” of Rumsfeld’s failed Iraq policy. In December 2003, McCain praised the same strategy as “a mission accomplished.” In March 2004, he said, “I’m confident we’re on the right course.” In December 2005, he said, “Overall, I think a year from now, we will have made a fair amount of progress if we stay the course.”

15. McCain has changed his mind about a long-term U.S. military presence in Iraq on multiple occasions, concluding, on multiple occasions, that a Korea-like presence is both a good and a bad idea.

16. McCain was against additional U.S. forces in Afghanistan before he was for it.

Domestic Policy

21. McCain defended “privatizing” Social Security. Now he says he’s against privatization (though he actually still supports it.)

22. McCain wanted to change the Republican Party platform to protect abortion rights in cases of rape and incest. Now he doesn’t.

29. McCain opposed a holiday to honor Martin Luther King, Jr., before he supported it.

30. McCain was anti-ethanol. Now he’s pro-ethanol.

31. McCain was both for and against state promotion of the Confederate flag.

Economic Policy

37. McCain was against Bush’s tax cuts for the very wealthy before he was for them.

40. McCain said in 2005 that he opposed the tax cuts because they were “too tilted to the wealthy.” By 2007, he denied ever having said this, and falsely argued that he opposed the cuts because of increased government spending.

41. McCain thought the estate tax was perfectly fair. Now he believes the opposite.

44. McCain believes Americans are both better and worse off economically than they were before Bush took office.

69. McCain believed powerful right-wing activist/lobbyist Grover Norquist was “corrupt, a shill for dictators, and (with just a dose of sarcasm) Jack Abramoff’s gay lover.” McCain now considers Norquist a key political ally.

70. McCain was for presidential candidates giving speeches in foreign countries before he was against it.

 

Wow, thought I could just pare it down to few highlights, but my gawd, the man has no soul…………..he has held every position on every topic imaginable, why is the MSM allowing this to slide(my earlier snide remark aside)

 

Batlle Of The Keggler Ad

Not sure who started the "Keggler" War....but easy to see who won!

A Bit Old - But Oh, How Funny

The man walked right into it and never saw it coming, sharp as a tack there John.

Boy was ?e pissed at Timmmah!

McCain - This Is His War

He backed “W” and Dick to the hilt….now he claims he knew better all along.

The man is flat out a liar!

Fixed News - Digging Out The Archive Footage

The GOP propaganda arm is at it again.

Aaaah! To Protect And Serve

 

John Is Just An Ass!

Did you see the look on his face, he was pissed…….and Graham was totally floored.

 

Another McCain Moment - CBS Covers It Up!

This is just beyond the pale!

 

 

 

Read more at the Dailykos, Think Progress and Crooks & Liars.

 

I am not sure which is worse, McCain’s confusion lie moment, or CBS’ blatant attempt to cover his ass.

Does this really surprise anyone?

GOP cyber-security expert suggests Diebold tampered with 2002 election

Spoonamore is one of the most prominent cyber-security experts in the country. He has appeared on CNN's Lou Dobbs and ABC's World News Tonight, and has security clearances from his work with the intelligence community and other government agencies, as well as the Department of Defense, and is one of the world’s leading authorities on hacking and cyber-espionage.

In 1995, Spoonamore received a civilian citation for his work with the Department of Defense. He was again recognized for his contributions in 2004 by the Department of Homeland Security. Spoonamore is also a registered Republican and until recently was advising the McCain campaign.

Spoonamore received the Diebold patch from a whistleblower close to the office of Cathy Cox, Georgia’s then-Secretary of State. In discussions with RAW STORY, the whistleblower -- who wishes to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation -- said that he became suspicious of Diebold's actions in Georgia for two reasons. The first red flag went up when the computer patch was installed in person by Diebold CEO Bob Urosevich, who flew in from Texas and applied it in just two counties, DeKalb and Fulton, both Democratic strongholds. The source states that Cox was not privy to these changes until after the election and that she became particularly concerned over the patch being installed in just those two counties.

The whistleblower said another flag went up when it became apparent that the patch installed by Urosevich had failed to fix a problem with the computer clock, which employees from Diebold and the Georgia Secretary of State’s office had been told the patch was designed specifically to address.

Think about it 80% of the vote in the country counted by one family……power breeds corruption, absolute power breeds absolute corruption.

 

The dementia/lying is apparently contagious.

So Carly you clearly have either caught John’s case of dementia, or your desire to secure a cabinet post or the VP slot has turned you into a liar.

 

From the folks` at thinkprogress.com

This morning on NBC’s Meet the Press, Carly Fiorina, surrogate for Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), defended McCain’s record on Iraq. She insisted he had stood up to President Bush and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld repeatedly, and declared those who say McCain was “aligned” with Bush on Iraq are trying to “change history”:

John McCain stood up against George Bush and Don Rumsfeld in the prosecution of the Iraq war for many years. … To say that John McCain was aligned with President Bush on the prosecution of the war in Iraq is to change history.

It is Fiorina who is trying to change history. >From the very start, McCain has enthusiastically embraced Bush’s Iraq war policy:

“I think that Blix’s report will be fairly definitive. But Mr. Blix has made a lot of reports over the years, and I think the judgment made by the United States of America will — and the president of the United States — will prevail here.” [NBC, 2/12/03]

“I believe as strongly today as ever, the mission [in Iraq] was necessary, achievable and noble. For his determination to undertake it, and for his unflagging resolve to see it through to a just end, President Bush deserves not only our support, but our admiration.” [GOP Convention, 8/30/04]

“The fact is that I have agreed with President Bush far more than I have disagreed. And on the transcendent issues, the most important issues of our day, I’ve been totally in agreement and support of President Bush.” [Meet the Press, 6/19/05]

MR. GREGORY: Do you, do you have confidence in the president and his national security team to lead the war at this stage?
SEN. McCain: I do. I do. I have confidence in the president and I believe that he is well aware of the severity of the situation. [Meet the Press, 8/20/06]

“I’m sticking with the president in this respect [on Iraq]. This is our last chance. The consequences of failure are catastrophic.” [CNN, 2/13/07]

“I am proud of this president’s strategy in Iraq.” [Receiving Bush’s endorsement, 2/13/08]

In fact, just four months ago, McCain declared unequivocally, “No one has supported President Bush on Iraq more than I have.”

 

John, having a little trouble keeping your stories straight?

MADDOW: The McCain campaign is claiming that the Steeler story is an honest mistake. One of many, it would seem. So our choices here appear to be a) Sen. McCain’s memory is so bad that he can no longer be counted on to remember much of anything; or b) he will say pretty much anything to be President, even pander on the very issue that’s supposed to define him: the years he spent in a prisoner of war camp. Which one of those options is politically palatable here?

WOLFF: …What we’re seeing here might be a memory problem, I somehow doubt it. I think this is a… another sign of the exploitation of this compelling story, this compelling piece of John McCain’s life story. And the problem is that the more you repeat this stuff-and where you repeat it in error and in excess-the less powerful that becomes. I mean, the reason in 2000 his aides said he wasn’t trying to talk about his life story-even when he was—was because they knew that it was somehow precious and to be brought out when he really needed it. The problem about bringing it out every time is that it’s no longer powerful.

Maddow gets it, I have been saying it for weeks, when will the Main Stream Media start talking about it, the man is a liar or suffering from dementia, which is it?

Way To Go George!!!

Teen Pregnancy Rate Hits 15-Year High

The teen pregnancy rate is up for the first time since 1991, while the percentage of teens who smoke has hit a 10-year low, according to a report released Friday by the National Institutes of Health.

Between 2005 and 2006, the number of teenage girls between the ages 15 to 17 having babies rose by more than 5,700 to 138,920, from a record low of 133,138, according to an annual report on the health and well-being of children and teens published by the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics.

The 4 percent increase in the teen pregnancy rate is cause for concern among health professionals.

“This is one of the key indicators for the health of the teen population,” said Edward Sondik, director of the National Center for Health Statistics, during a conference call with the media. “Not only does this affect teen health at this point, but their health and well-being for the next 20 to 40 years, and the health and well-being of their children.”

Seems all that money spent on those abstinence only programs is working out well.

The Evil Continues Unabated

EPA won't act on emissions this year

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to announce today that it will seek months of further public comment on the threat posed by global warming to human health and welfare -- a matter that federal climate experts and international scientists have repeatedly said should be urgently addressed.

The Supreme Court, in a decision 15 months ago that startled the government, ordered the EPA to decide whether human health and welfare are being harmed by greenhouse gas pollution from cars, power plants and other sources, or to provide a good explanation for not doing so. But the administration has opted to postpone action instead, according to interviews and documents obtained by The Washington Post.

To defer compliance with the Supreme Court's demand, the White House has walked a tortured policy path, editing its officials' congressional testimony, refusing to read documents prepared by career employees and approved by top appointees, requesting changes in computer models to lower estimates of the benefits of curbing carbon dioxide, and pushing narrowly drafted legislation on fuel-economy standards that officials said was meant to sap public interest in wider regulatory action.

 

Dick and “W” are just plain evil bastards who believe they are the law.

So John which is it - more lies or senility?

From the daily KOS:

Yesterday John McCain did an interview with a Pittsburgh radio station and told a story about his time as a P.O.W. in Vietnam:

When I was first interrogated and really had to give some information because of the physical pressures that were on me, I named the starting lineup -- defensive line -- of the Pittsburgh Steelers as my squadron-mates.

Wow! The people of Pennsylvania and Steelers fans everywhere will eat that story up. Unless of course they’ve read John McCain’s book, Faith of My Fathers, and wonder how he could forget writing:

Pressed for more useful information, I gave the names of the Green Bay Packers' offensive line, and said they were members of my squadron.

Oh, that’s right were not supposed to talk about his age or his inability to keep his story straight.

The Man Is A Nut Job!

McCain's Latest Iran Joke
Sen. John McCain hasn't had good luck joking about Iran. But he tried it again Tuesday.

Responding to a question about a survey that shows increased exports to
Iran, mainly from cigarettes, McCain said, "Maybe thats a way of killing them."

He quickly caught himself, saying "I meant that as a joke" as his wife, Cindy, poked him in the back.

Last time, it was also Iran. His singing about bombing Iran to the theme of the Beach Boy' "Barbara Ann" drew derision from many quarters but a "lighten up" response from McCain.

What a putz………..this guy is so much more dangerous they even “W” and Dick

Evil Is As Evil Does!

The hits keep coming:

Just when you thought you’ve heard it all...

A senior government official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has expressed great interest in a so-called safety bracelet that would serve as a stun device, similar to that of a police Taser®. According to this promotional video found at the Lamperd Less Lethal website, the bracelet would be worn by all airline
passengers.

This bracelet would:

• take the place of an airline boarding pass

• contain personal information about the traveler

• be able to monitor the whereabouts of each passenger and his/her luggage

• shock the wearer on command, completely immobilizing him/her for several minutes

So let’s take this in conjunction with the goof at the tops creative censoring of Thomas Jefferson this weekend to totally transpose the meaning of what Jefferson was writing for his own political purpose.

from bsalert.com

President Bush was at Monticello for a 4th of July celebration and he delivered an address. But it's quite telling that his speechwriters, in quoting Jefferson, cut out an anti-religious statement from a long and famous quote. Here's the way Bush put it:

Thomas Jefferson understood that these rights do not belong to Americans alone. They belong to all mankind. And he looked to the day when all people could secure them. On the 50th anniversary of America's independence, Thomas Jefferson passed away. But before leaving this world, he explained that the principles of the Declaration of Independence were universal. In one of the final letters of his life, he wrote, "May it be to the world, what I believe it will be -- to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all -- the Signal of arousing men to burst the chains, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government."

Now let's look at the full quote, including the part that was cut out...

This is from a letter he wrote to Roger Weightman reflecting on the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence (which, it turns out, was the day both he and John Adams died):

May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government.

The evil of these people is so overt, and so ingrained in their every action that the public has just quit noticing as they slowly yet methodically destroy what this country was meant to be.

You Bet I Question his Integrity or Lack There Of!

Kerry did a great job of deflecting Bob Scheiffer’s baiting, Bob clearly had this planned. Well Damn It, John Kerry can’t say it but I will, Yes I question John McCain’s integrity, his honesty and his ethics or lack of all of these.

 

From crooksandliars:

Transcript below:

Sen. KERRY: …what almost every person in the Pentagon has admitted. I mean, Bob, you’re
smart, you’ve talked to these people in Washington. There are very few people who walk around
and say, `Going into Iraq was the right thing to do and we should’ve done it. I’d do it again if I
had the chance.’ John McCain does. John McCain believes this was the right decision.

SCHIEFFER: Well, let…

Sen. KERRY: He said, you know, you can’t–I have to tell you, Bob, I just came back from the
Middle East. I just met with the king of Saudi Arabia. I met with President Mubarak of Egypt. I
met with others. You know what they said to me? They said, `You, America, have served up to
Iran, Iraq on a platter.’ They are outraged by this sort of, you know, ineptitude of what has been
done by those who decided it was smart to go into Iraq.

SCHIEFFER: Let me just ask you one question here.

Sen. KERRY: And they have turned away–yeah.

SCHIEFFER: Before we–before–because we are going to talk about–are you now challenging
Senator McCain’s integrity?

Sen. KERRY: I’m challenging Senator McCain’s judgment, his judgment that says there’s no
violence history between Sunni and Shia. That’s wrong. His judgment that says this is going to
increase the stability of the Middle East. It hasn’t. It’s made it less stable. The judgment that says
this will, quote “This will be the best thing for America and the world in a long time.”

SCHIEFFER: All right.

Sen. KERRY: It’s the worst thing that we’ve done in a long time.

SCHIEFFER: All right.

Sen. KERRY: And he’s turned his eye away from Afghanistan and al-Qaeda and made America
less safe.

SCHIEFFER: All right.

Sen. KERRY: That’s dangerous for our country. 

 

He Truly Is McSame

Ahhh! The irony of it all………..even in the same city that Bush’s goons removed folks for wearing t-shirts they didn’t like. Now this from McSame.

Finally an honest evaluation of the Bush years

Thanks to the Onion for finally providing a "Liberal Media" look at the last 8 years




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