wealthy and the suburbs

The most wealthy are still more likely to vote for GOP candidates, particularly in red states, where it is the rich, not the working class, who are most reliably Republican. Affluent suburbs that were once solidly Republican have edged toward a split or turned Democratic, threatening to put big states out of the GOP's reach for good.

McCain is wrong again on Iran

McCain's argument that talking to Iran would only embolden it ignores the fact that 7 1/2 years of refusing to do so have left Iran stronger and closer to a nuclear bomb.

republicans already attacking Iran

Funding for the covert escalation, for which Bush requested up to $400 million, was approved by congressional leaders, according to the article, citing current and former military, intelligence and congressional sources.

Clandestine operations against Iran are not new. U.S. Special Operations Forces have been conducting crossborder operations from southern Iraq since last year, the article said.

These have included seizing members of Al Quds, the commando arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and taking them to Iraq for interrogation, and the pursuit of "high-value targets" in Bush's war on terrorism, who may be captured or killed, according to the article.

But the scale and the scope of the operations in Iran, which include the Central Intelligence Agency, have now been significantly expanded, the article said, citing current and former officials.

republicans play fear card

A top adviser to Sen. John McCain, Charles Black, injected the fear of terrorism into the campaign, by stating that a terrorist attack in the United States would be a political benefit to the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.

John McCain's campaign has been determined to have a debate about terrorism which polls have shown to be the only issue where he has any meaningful edge over Barack Obama. It was deliberate.

Black, who has drawn criticism for his long lobbying career and his representation of controversial foreign governments. McCain has been criticized for surrounding himself with top advisers who were lobbyists. This guy is still a chief advisor to McCain which means that they meant to play the fear card.

McCain, up and personal

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McCain is a self-centred womaniser who effectively abandoned his crippled [first] wife. In recent months I've also read that McCain snubbed the Vietnamese peasant who saved his life and is rude to his (second) wife in public

McCain flipflops

McCain has either reversed himself or significantly amended his positions on immigration, tax cuts for the wealthy, campaign spending (as it applies to use of his wife's corporate airplane) and, most recently, offshore drilling.

In the more distant past, he has denounced then embraced certain ministers of medieval views and changed his mind about the Confederate flag, which flies by state sanction in South Carolina only, I suspect, to provide Republican candidates with a chance to choose tradition over common decency.

Republican Family Values

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On one of Cindy McCain's visits to Washinton, McCain proposed over drinks. They had "known" each other less than a year, but Cindy accepted immediately. He was 41 she was 24.

First, McCain had to deal with his current marriage. He had met his then current wife, a former fashion model, before he went to Vietnam. They had two sons from an earlier marriage and together they'd had a daughter. In 1969, while McCain was a POW, Shepp was nearly killed in a car accident. The wreck left her with permanent injuries.

His first wife now says, "The marriage soured because of John turning 40 and wanting to be 25 again,

McCain lying again, check it out

One of many examples of McCain lying:

McCain put out a statement declaring that in his quarter-century congressional career, he “has never violated the public trust, never done favors for special interests or lobbyists.” But that simply isn’t true. On example of why that is NOT TRUE:

McCain helped one of his early financial backers, wheeler-dealer Charles Keating, frustrate oversight from federal banking regulators who were examining Keating’s Lincoln Savings and Loan Association.

At Keating's urging, McCain wrote letters, introduced bills and pushed a Keating associate for a job on a banking regulatory board. In 1987, McCain joined several other senators in two private meetings with federal banking regulators on Keating’s behalf.

Two years later, Lincoln collapsed, costing the U.S. taxpayers $3.4 billion. Keating eventually went to prison and three other senators from the so-called Keating Five saw their political careers ruined.

McCain drew a Senate reprimand for his involvement.

McCain, a say anthing flip-flopper

While George W. Bush may be unpopular as an individual, fear and hatred in this country have never gone out of style. McCain now favors making the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy permanent. With his new found opposition to his own attempts to reform immigration policy and campaign finance, McCain is perhaps the first candidate in history to stump against two bills bearing his own name.

Democrats for veterans

In a very rare reversal of opinion, the Republican administration withdrew its long-held objections to a new GI Bill that would fully fund the cost of a public college education for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.

The bill, pushed by Democrats, includes the entire World War II-style GI Bill that IAVA has been championing for over a year. The final bill will also allow service members who stay in the military to transfer their education benefits to their spouses and children.

This is another great step toward providing our veterans with the benefits they have earned.

McCain?

Read today: Who is this guy McCain? Well, he graduated 894th in his class of 899. He was a wrestler his teammates called McNasty!

Watch for him and his right winger backers to spread fear and racism, They made the word swiftboating their campaign. That is the republican way since it worked before.

His only redeeming feature is that he was a POW in Vietnam having been born into privilege just like the George Bush's.

republicans for big oil profits

Senate Republicans yesterday blocked a proposal to tax the windfall profits of the nation's biggest oil companies and eliminate some of the firms' tax breaks. The bill would have used the revenue to create an Energy Independence and Security Trust Fund, tasked with reducing U.S. dependence on foreign and "unsustainable" energy sources and reducing the risks of global warming.

The bill also would have instructed the Justice Department to pursue members of OPEC for alleged price fixing and required oil traders to put up more cash on futures exchanges to address speculation, which many observers believe is contributing to the unprecedented run-up in world crude oil prices.

republicans want 60 year Iraq war

High-level negotiations over the future role of the U.S. military in Iraq have turned into an increasingly acrimonious public debate, with Iraqi politicians denouncing what they say are U.S. demands to maintain nearly 60 bases in their country indefinitely.

"The Americans are making demands that would lead to the colonization of Iraq," said Sami al-Askari, a senior Shiite politician on parliament's foreign relations committee who is close to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. "If we can't reach a fair agreement, many people think we should say, 'Goodbye, U.S. troops. We don't need you here anymore.' "

why McCain is unelectable

McCain is unelectable as he supports an unpopular war and is tied by supporting Bush's economic polices to the economy. And then the endless lying, like telling people in New Orleans that he had voted for every Katrina bill, which is true except for ALL OF THEM! He just looked at those people and lied to them. He is unelectable.