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McCain, Oct. 12, 2000: [W]e feel, obviously, that wealthy people can afford more.....And I think middle-income Americans, working Americans ... all of the taxes that working Americans pay, I think they – you would think that they also deserve significant relief, in my view....[H]ere's what I really believe, that when you are – reach a certain level of comfort, there's nothing wrong with paying somewhat more.
In fact, the system would remain progressive under McCain's tax plan. His argument with Obama isn't about whether to "spread the wealth," but by how much.Also, as we now know, Joe the Plumber would almost certainly be entitled to a tax cut if Obama's plan were implemented – and a larger one than he'd get under McCain's.
MONTEREY -- An Arizona businessman, with help from Sen. John McCain's office, paid the federal government a mere fraction of the market value when he bought a Fort Ord land parcel in 1999, an Army appraisal obtained by The Monterey Herald shows.
Donald R. Diamond, an 80-year-old real estate developer, lobbyist and top fundraiser for McCain's presidential campaign, bought the land for $250,000, though it was valued at $7.2 million, according to Pentagon appraisals made three years before the sale.
He held on to the parcel for a little more than two years before selling it and the buildings on it for an estimated profit of more than $18 million.
Is Bush going to be our Putin and McCain our Medyadev?
The Monterey Republican Central Committee hosted a viewing party for McCain's acceptance speech in the conference room of it's Salinas office- Thirty or so people turned out.
The Monterey Democrats hosted their own viewing party at the State Theater downtown Monterey-about 1,000 people attended.
And I'd like to add, the Democrat crowd looked more like the rest of America than those attending the Republican Convention this past week.
Most of my life, I have lived among people of every color, religion, and nationality- as a product of a French upbringing sharing a classroom with Arab schoolmates in Tunisia, as a high school student living in a Jewish community in Newark at the time of the the King assassination and the riots that followed, during my Navy service in the late 60's, and during my entire nursing career since the mid 70's- I have always accepted as a given that all men in America have a right to be treated equally and free to pursue their dreams, no matter what their ethnic background.Now, in 2008, in the midst of a heated Presidential campaign between a brilliant grassroots politician of mixed heritage with a unifying and forward-thinking agenda and a white veteran legislator with a conservative stay-the-course agenda, the smear peddlers are out in force. Jerome Corsi is one of many who are trying to enrich themselves by peddling lies to the general public about Barak and Michelle Obama as they did to John Kerry and his wife in 2004. The latest book by Corsi, Obama Nation, full of lies and innuendos, continues to be heralded by the Right as The Truth. The good news is that we are speaking loudly and forcefully to denounce these so-called scholars who use the mainsream media and the web to spread their lies -by doing our own research into the truth, writing to newspaper editors, e-mailing TV network execs, talking to our friends, neighbors, co-workers, and contributing what we can to the Obama Campaign, by any means we can. We may not be able to silence the lies, but we can rise above them and enlighten ourselves and those who are open to the truth.
Yesterday at the Saddleback Civil Forum, in response to Pastor Rick Warren's question of which Supreme Court Justices he wound not have nominated, John McCain named Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Steven G. Breyer, David Souter, and John Paul Stevens.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg of New York was nominated by Bill Clinton and confirmed by the Senate by a 96-3 vote, August 3, 1993.
John McCain voted yeahttp://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=103&session=1&vote=00232
John McCain voted yea
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=103&session=1&vote=00232
Stephen G Breyer of Massachusetts was nominated by Bill Clinton and confirmed by the Senate by a 87-9 vote, July 29, 1994.
John McCain voted yeahttp://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=103&session=2&vote=00242
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=103&session=2&vote=00242
David Souter of New Hampshire was nominated by H.W. Bush and confirmed by the Senate by a 90-9 vote, October 2, 1990
John McCain voted yeahttp://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=101&session=2&vote=00259
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=101&session=2&vote=00259
John Paul Stevens was nominated by Gerald Ford and confirmed by the Senate by a 98-0 vote, December 17, 1975, before John McCain was elected to the Senate
GEORGE BOSTON RHYNES
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