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- inactive, on 06/13/2008, -6/+70Mr. Straight Talk I bet wishes he understood a little better how the Internet works. He is campaigning like it's 1959 and only a handful of people have access to that type of information. Poor old man.
- angusm, on 06/13/2008, -1/+40In the words of Jon Stewart, "Don't they know we're taping this stuff?"
- retr0grade, on 06/13/2008, -6/+37ha ha epic fail. Doesn't he realize the internet is a giant anti-memoryhole? Nobody ever forgets anything anymore... except, apparently, old senile men like John McCain.
- AtHomeBoy2000, on 06/13/2008, -7/+37Privatizing Social Security
2004: "Without privatization, I don't see how you can possibly, over time, make sure that young Americans are able to receive Social Security benefits."
06-12-08: "But I'm not for quote privatizing Social Security, I never have been, I never will be."
Bush Tax Cuts
“Sen. McCain once knew better. He said that he couldn't vote for the Bush tax cuts in good conscience because they were too skewed to the wealthiest Americans. But now he wants to make those same tax cuts permanent and now give even more to those same folks."
Tax Cuts During War
"Later, John McCain said it was irresponsible to cut taxes during a time of war because we couldn't afford them. But now he’d continue running up hundreds of billions of dollars in debt while spending billions of dollars a day in Iraq. There’s nothing conservative about that. There’s nothing fiscally prudent about that.”
527s
March 2008: McCain Says He will Try to Stop all 527s
June 2008: "I can't be a referee of every spot run on television," McCain told the Herald in an exclusive interview. "I admire Sen. Obama and his accomplishments, but we all know there are groups who want to attack me."
A Third Bush Term??
June 2005: “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.”
June 2008: "You will hear from my opponent's campaign in every speech, every interview, every press release that I'm running for President Bush's third term. You will hear every policy of the president described as the Bush-McCain policy. Why does Senator Obama believe it's so important to repeat that idea over and over again? Because he knows it's very difficult to get Americans to believe something they know is false."
Jerry Falwell
McCain criticized TV preacher Jerry Falwell as “an agent of intolerance” in 2002, but has since decided to cozy up to the man who said Americans “deserved” the 9/11 attacks. (Indeed, McCain has now hired Falwell’s debate coach.)
Abortion
In 1999, the “moderate” version of John McCain said that overturning Roe v. Wade would be dangerous for women and he would not support it, even in “the long term.” Here’s McCain in the San Francisco Chronicle:
"But certainly in the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade, which would then force X number of women in America to [undergo] illegal and dangerous operations."
Now: I don’t think a constitutional amendment is probably going to take place, but I do believe that it’s very likely or possible that the Supreme Court should — could overturn Roe v. Wade, which would then return these decisions to the states, which I support.
Intelegent Design
In 2000, McCain declared that the teaching of "intelligent design" was a matter for local school boards to decide, in contrast to then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush's position that creationism should be taught in classrooms.
As The New York Times reported on August 3, 2005, however, McCain expressed more openness to the idea of intelligent design that year, saying that "different schools of thought" about the origins of mankind should be presented to students. The later statement mirrored what President Bush had said just three weeks earlier, when he defended the teaching of intelligent design by saying, "I think that part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought." - jbdobd, on 06/13/2008, -4/+28I'm not sure if McCain realizes that they came out with this invention called "video"...
- Kavalier, on 06/13/2008, -5/+23Jeez, how dare the man have ANYTHING to say about social security if he continues to have his supporters host crap like this.
http://blog.indecision2008.com/2008/06/13/billiona ... - Terr01, on 06/13/2008, -2/+11"Government goodies"? SS is something you PAID for.
- inactive, on 06/14/2008, -2/+10But, but he wants to deliver hot bottled water to dehydrated babies.
- ryanmm, on 06/13/2008, -2/+10I think one of the big differences between old politicians and younger ones, is the older ones come from an era where every single word you said wasn't recorded, distributed and scrutinized. Politicians used to be able to be fast and loose with their words (at least to a greater extent than they are now), but that practice is beginning to hurt them more and more.
- alapoet, on 06/13/2008, -7/+15[Old Man McCain voice]
"All o'them wiseacre flaming liberals on the interwebs are onto me, dang it!" - frankingeneral, on 06/13/2008, -5/+12Yeah but the content of the article is factual. McCain flip flopped on Social Security privatization...
- varmit, on 06/14/2008, -0/+7Well, he did say he doesn't use a computer so I would say its most likely he doesn't know a damn thing about the Internet. He probably thought the information superhighway was an actual road he could put billboards up on to advertise his presidency.
- rawg, on 06/13/2008, -4/+11McCain is in trouble. This is just a taste of what's ahead for him if he continues to do these town halls. His campaign wrongly thinks that they would do better in a town hall format against Obama based on the incorrect belief that McCain has been successful with them to date.
The reality is that the town halls were only successful because the media wasn't paying attention to McCain during the Hillary/Obama primary battle. He could get away with saying anything in those early town halls to cater to the audience. That strategy isn't going to play as well now that the general election campaign is under way. Not with the cameras keeping him honest. - inactive, on 06/13/2008, -5/+11Makes you wonder. Especially when you start seeing the same submitters of Huff Po articles over and over again.
- jbrand45, on 06/14/2008, -0/+5Wait a second . . . McCain switched stances again? What are the odds of that?
Good grief. - frankingeneral, on 06/13/2008, -5/+10Can anybody point me towards a video, or some type of proof when the last time McCain actually gave us some "straight talk"? I'd be surprised if it was anytime in the last 8 years...
- swrostmore, on 06/14/2008, -0/+4Being Kerry's Running Mate:
2004: Held a private meeting with Kerry, "I'd absolutely consider it."
2007: "I never met with Kerry"
2007: "No living American doesn't know that [I met with Kerry]" - tcbishop12, on 06/14/2008, -0/+4Well researched, much appreciated, thanks.
- AndrewDB, on 06/14/2008, -2/+6"This bile" is factual truth.
- Terr01, on 06/14/2008, -2/+6The problem is a demographic bump, yes. The general fund has been borrowing from the SS fund, yes.
But that's still specious logic.
You might as well say that all banks are swindling you because you're not withdrawing "your money" because "your money" was lent to somebody else and you're actually getting "their money". - inactive, on 06/14/2008, -1/+5Yes, what we really need is a politician who'll stand behind his comments. You know, like Obama's plan to bring the combat brigades home from Iraq in 18 months:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kFrFIFizkU - jinsundo, on 06/14/2008, -1/+4The only thing that could possibly explain McCain's contradictory remarks on social security is that he has a evil twin brother. There's gotta be 2 McCain's running amok. There's just no other explanation.
- jab46, on 06/14/2008, -1/+4Your kidding right?
Have you ever held a job? - inactive, on 06/14/2008, -0/+3Jesus was a socialist.
- inactive, on 06/14/2008, -2/+5You son of a bitch
- jchrome, on 06/14/2008, -0/+2You had me until the /Clinton '08 part.
- elipabst, on 06/14/2008, -0/+2Obama is not a billionaire. He and his wife just paid off their student loans a few years ago. In fact they averaged about 200k per year until he started getting royalties from his books in the last few years.
- inactive, on 06/13/2008, -9/+11I have to agree with McCain about Social Security, no matter how big of a CFR shill he is. The government has NO mandate to provide it, and it should be left in the hands of the free market which by definition will make it as efficient as possible. Ron Paul is the ONLY candidate that understands this.
RP '08 - Carv, on 06/14/2008, -5/+7When is McCain going to get that if he says something, we can go back and read/watch/hear it later. It's really not a tough concept...
- inactive, on 06/14/2008, -2/+4McCain will never, ever be President.
- AndrewDB, on 06/14/2008, -1/+3How are we advertising the better candidate, and informing the uniformed public of McCain's mistakes?
If you're so upset about it, untick the political filter button, and you won't see anything about the political race ever again on digg, then re-enable it after the election. - inactive, on 06/14/2008, -1/+3Don't fool yourself. Obama is just as connected as any other politician.
- DamnLogins, on 06/14/2008, -0/+1"Intelegent Design"
I like what you did there :) - jp12380, on 06/14/2008, -0/+1Oh what? It makes you upset when McCain is exposed for what he is?
I don't think he has to be paid, he just has to care enough about who the next president is and what he stands for. - inactive, on 06/14/2008, -0/+1Well we could have Obama and the Baby Mama. Are they more palatable billionaires. Casue no matter which way you slice it, thats what they are. All politicians.
Ron Paul included. - elipabst, on 06/14/2008, -0/+1As opposed to McCain who keeps talking about being "The Right Kind of Change" and then proceeds to say that he is basically not going to make any substantiative changes from Bush's policy train wreck. At least Barack legitimately has plans for change. McCain on the other hand supports all the major tenets of the Bush administration that the majority of Americans realize to be the wrong direction...the war in Iraq, the economy, Iran.
- elipabst, on 06/14/2008, -1/+2Sure. How many videos of Obama saying that his campaign doesn't accept money from Washington lobbyists or Political Action Committees would you like me to post? 10, 20, 30? And they haven't changed that. In fact he forced the DNC to give back money from those groups once Barack became the nominee. John McCain on the other hand is owned lock, stock and depends. But let's hear him talk more about campaign finance reform and transparency in Washington, while he's got his greased hand out under the table.
- inactive, on 06/14/2008, -1/+2Can you provide that for any politician, Obama included.
- ngmcs8203, on 06/14/2008, -0/+1POTUS on XM had this improv group on the other day. They were pretty damn funny.
- elipabst, on 06/14/2008, -1/+2Ha, ha, ha. You libs are soo stupid. He's not senile. This is simply another of illustration of how John McCain is going to bring change to America. Sure Barack Hussein Obama talks change, but John McCain *IS* change. Remember what he said about Social Security last week...BAM, that's changed this week to something completely different. John McCain is bringing so much change to your face, you don't even know where he stands anymore. Next week he'll be fist-bumping Cindy and getting ghetto on your ass. Barack Hussein Obama is going down in the fall when he goes up against John Sidney McCain...a man who stands for everything and nothing...all at the same time.
- jp12380, on 06/14/2008, -0/+1You are right, I think that is what our nation needs, someone is not afraid to flip.... I mean change their mind... every week.
- TypeEE, on 06/14/2008, -0/+1Ron Paul's concept doesn't fit, at least it didn't fit my belief. The gold stardard crap can minimize inflation, but it can cause real recession of negative growth every 8 to 10 years as the government lost the flexibility to print money. I rather have inflation than recession. You just have to play the game right and invest your saving. After we learned to print money, we only have technical recessions which have negative 1-3% growth. Before that, there was very steady recession cycle of 8-10% negative growth once every 8-10 years
I agree that government does jobs without market competition, it'll be lousy. We need free market to drive price down and privatizing SS properly can save money. - VengeanceNight, on 06/14/2008, -0/+1I've never understood how anybody could be against this. To me it's a complete no brainer with a ton of positives and very few negatives. Yes there will be up front costs to implement this (though I don't have a clue how he is baking the numbers to get a trillion) but the benefits are enormous. But then the government couldn't control the money so we have to bring out the evil stock market crashing and losing all our money. Speaking about fear mongering.
- Babazoz, on 06/14/2008, -0/+1Really. As much as people like to cluck over Fox News, I see HuffPo, Rawstory and the like being spammed all over the place here.
- elipabst, on 06/15/2008, -0/+1Yes because his Presidential bid has increased sales in his books last year. This is what he declared in the last few years:
2000 - $240,505
2001 - $272,759
2002 - $259,394
2003 - $238,237
2004 - $207,647
2005 - $1,655,106
2006 - $983,826
Frankly a modest income for a lawyer and a hospital administrator. So get off your high horse and stop pretending that he is some kind of silver spoon rich kid. He's not a billionaire, he's barely a millionaire and he's earned every nickel of it. - Bob24, on 06/14/2008, -0/+1What you should have said is "McCain SHOULD never, ever be President"
Saying that he WILL never, ever be President is pretty bold. Americans voted for 2 Bush terms. - jab46, on 06/14/2008, -0/+1Great comments peabrain!
I've been trying to think of what/who "Mrs. McCain" reminds me of thanks for your help you are 100% right! - inactive, on 06/14/2008, -0/+1It's a figure of speech, Sparkie
200k is a nice chunk of change, 4.3 million is even better
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., Democratic presidential candidate.
Earned income: $4.3 million. - johndi, on 06/14/2008, -0/+1The problem is everyone is misspelling it. It's actually the "Strait Talk Express." As is both narrow minded and a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs.
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