Hi All:
The Rolling Stone magazine, Issue 1063 — October 16, 2008, has a comprehensive article on John McCain which I hope everyone will get a chance to read. The article's full title is:
Make-Believe Maverick - A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a distrurbing record of recklessness and dishonesty
The facts support the following conclusion made in the article:
In the end, the essential facts of John McCain's life and career — the pivotal experiences in which he demonstrated his true character — are important because of what they tell us about how he would govern as president. Far from the portrayal he presents of himself as an unflinching maverick with a consistent and reliable record, McCain has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to taking whatever position will advance his own career. He "is the classic opportunist," according to Ross Perot, who worked closely with McCain on POW issues. "He's always reaching for attention and glory."
In my BO blog on September 24th, I came to the same conclusion:
Here is the bottom line on Sen. McCain's call to delay the Friday debate: He simply cannot be trusted to tell the truth or act consistently in a responsible manner; he is in fact an unprincipled opportunist who is using the economy as means of gaining political advantage, just as Bush and Rove cynically used the Iraq war to get re-elected.
Dave
All Obama Supporters:
I would strongly encourage all of you to post this message wherever and wherever you get a chance to do so.
Tell people to read this book or the views that people have about this book and after they came to know about John McCain ;-
John McCain is known as McNasty because of several reasons. Imagine a person who does not have any respect for his wife and who can stoop to any level to get the work done - what kind of person he is???
A new book, "The Real McCain" by Cliff Schechter has the inside scoop on John McCain. And if you want to know why John McCain was called "McNasty" in high school, read this.
At one point, Cindy playfully twirled McCain's hair and said, "You're getting a little thin up there." McCain's face reddened, and he responded, "At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you c**t." McCain's excuse was that it had been a long day. If elected president of the United States, McCain would have many long days. "
This event was witnessed by 3 reporters and two aides of John McCain, Doug Cole and Wes Gullett.
WOW - what a respectable man Mr. McCain is
Besides being a complete a*****e, which John McNasty is, the issues here are John McCain's temperament and his mental sanity.
Senator McNasty has referred to Republican colleagues as follows. He told Senator Cornyn "F-ck you," said to Senator Grassley "I'm calling you a f--king jerk" and once told Senator Domenici, "Only an a**hole would put together a budget like this."
Perhaps this is why Senator Cochan, right wing Mississippi Republican once said, "The idea of John McCain as GOP nominee sends a chill down my spine."
If a Democrat acted the way John McCain has acted, the press would be calling him mentally unstable, a lunatic, angry, extreme, and unfit for public office. The press would claim that the person should check into a mental hospital.
In John McCain, the Republicans have nominated a 71 year old psycho who calls his wife a c**t and a trollop. This is the same John McCain who refers to Asians as "gooks" and says "I hate the gooks."
Read this review someone written somewhere:
Cliff Schecter's book on John McCain reminds us who this man really is: a panderer who flip-flops and says whatever he thinks he needs to say to climb to the next rung on the political ladder; an extremist supporter of Bush's Iraq policy, who says he would like the US to occupy Iraq for the next 100 years; someone who has dished out so many free martinis and cocktail weenies to the DC media that he calls the media "my base"; a man who defended his immigration policy by claiming absurdly that American citizens would never pick lettuce for $50 an hour -- "You can't do it, my friends" was his response to the many hard-working American wage slaves who tried to take this multi-millionaire up on his offer to pick lettuce for nearly 10 TIMES the current US minimum wage of $5.85 per hour. Racist when he needs to be, pseudo-centrist when he thinks it will suit him, unfaithful to his disabled first wife who he then left to marry his girlfriend, a pill-popping multi-millionaire brewing heiress: John McCain can be a lot of things. But Schecter reminds us who he really is: incompetent, aggressive, pandering, old, and hopelessly out-of-touch.
SO ALL OBAMA SUPPORTS - GO ALL OUT AND SEND THIS MSG ACROSS TO ALL WHO DONT KNOW THE REAL MCCAIN.
http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/39179-mccain-s-youtube-problem-just-became-a-nightmare
Came across this last night in my sleepless wanderings on the intertubes. Every undecided voter and every independent voter should see this one. Send it to your friends and relatives who are sending you e-mails full of lies about Obama. This video shines a light of truth on McCain.
On Thursday, October 18, several people from Placer County, California drove up to Reno to see Sen. Obama at a town hall meeting in Reno. Apparently they had over 2,000 attendees (and were expecting about 1,000). You can actually see me and my wife seated on the top row behind Sen. Obama on the front page of the Reno Gazette-Journal.
After an introduction by a woman who has two children fighting in Iraq, Sen. Obama outlined his foreign policy toward Iran for about 15 minutes, discussing the advantages of negotiation over cowboy politics. He wants to see the USA regain its positive image in the eyes of foreign countries. Then he took questions from the audience about Native American relations, health care reform, higher education reform, and veterans' affairs.
A few months ago, I thought I would probably vote for Sen. Clinton, but after three chapters of The Audacity of Hope, I was won over. His interaction with the audience in Reno continued to motivate me to get involved in making the USA a country I want to live in again. He addressed pertinent issues in each question and differentiated himself between the other candidates.
One of the most important points he made was that no one can call him a flip-flopper. Of the many reasons the American public didn't vote for Kerry in '04, the flip-flopper tag was likely the most damaging. Sen. Obama has been against the war from the beginning, speaking out against the war in Iraq when he was running for Senate. I don't vote for anyone just because I think they're electable (heck, I voted for Jerry Brown in '92), but I am confident that Sen. Obama can take the values issue away from any of the Republican candidates.
