[Anyone] 10 things to know about McCain

Sat Apr 5 18:17:40 MDT 2008

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> Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 23:51:03 +0000
> From: totem at laplaza.org
> To: anyone at laplaza.org
> Subject: [Anyone] 10 things to know about McCain
> 
> 
> For all the coverage this week of Senator John McCain's background, there
> are some important things you won't learn about him from the TV networks.
> His carefully crafted positive image relies on people not knowing this
> stuff--and you might be surprised by some of it.
> 
> Please check out the list below, and then forward it to your friends,
> family, and coworkers. We can't rely on the media to tell folks about the
> real John McCain--but if we all pass this along, we can reach as many
> people as CNN Headline News does on a good night.
> 
> Click here to tell us how many people you can pass it on to--and to see
> our progress nationally:
> 
> http://pol.moveon.org/mccain10/?id=12407-371942-7hqpV_&t=242
> 
> 10 things you should know about John McCain (but probably don't):
> 
> 1. John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of
> Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now he says his position has "evolved," yet
> he's continued to oppose key civil rights laws.1
> 
> 2. According to Bloomberg News, McCain is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq,
> Russia and China. Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan says McCain "will
> make Cheney look like Gandhi."2
> 
> 3. His reputation is built on his opposition to torture, but McCain voted
> against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for
> vetoing that ban.3
> 
> 4. McCain opposes a woman's right to choose. He said, "I do not support
> Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned."4
> 
> 5. The Children's Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in
> Congress for children. He voted against the children's health care bill
> last year, then defended Bush's veto of the bill.5
> 
> 6. He's one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires.
> The Associated Press reports he and his wife own at least eight homes! Yet
> McCain says the solution to the housing crisis is for people facing
> foreclosure to get a "second job" and skip their vacations.6
> 7. Many of McCain's fellow Republican senators say he's too reckless to be
> commander in chief. One Republican senator said: "The thought of his being
> president sends a cold chill down my spine. He's erratic. He's hotheaded.
> He loses his temper and he worries me."7
> 
> 8. McCain talks a lot about taking on special interests, but his campaign
> manager and top advisers are actually lobbyists. The government watchdog
> group Public Citizen says McCain has 59 lobbyists raising money for his
> campaign, more than any of the other presidential candidates.8
> 
> 9. McCain has sought closer ties to the extreme religious right in recent
> years. The pastor McCain calls his "spiritual guide," Rod Parsley,
> believes America's founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a
> "false religion." McCain sought the political support of right-wing
> preacher John Hagee, who believes Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment
> for gay rights and called the Catholic Church "the Antichrist" and a
> "false cult."9
> 
> 10. He positions himself as pro-environment, but he scored a 0--yes,
> zero--from the League of Conservation Voters last year.10
> 
> John McCain is not who the Washington press corps make him out to be.
> Please help get the word out--forward this email to your personal network.
> And if you want us to keep you posted on MoveOn's work to get the truth
> out about John McCain, sign up here:
> 
> http://pol.moveon.org/mccaintruth/?id=12407-371942-7hqpV_&t=243
> 
> Thank you for all you do.
> 
> --Eli, Justin, Noah, Laura, and the MoveOn.org Political Action Team
>   Saturday, April 5th, 2008
> 
> Sources:
> 1. "The Complicated History of John McCain and MLK Day," ABC News, April
> 3, 2008
> http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/04/the-complicated.html
> 
> "McCain Facts," ColorOfChange.org, April 4, 2008
> http://colorofchange.org/mccain_facts/
> 
> 2. "McCain More Hawkish Than Bush on Russia, China, Iraq," Bloomberg News,
> March 12, 2008
> http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&amp;sid=aF28rSCtk0ZM&amp;refer=us
> 
> "Buchanan: John McCain 'Will Make Cheney Look Like Gandhi,'"
> ThinkProgress, February 6, 2008
> http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/06/buchanan-gandhi-mccain/
> 
> 3. "McCain Sides With Bush On Torture Again, Supports Veto Of
> Anti-Waterboarding Bill," ThinkProgress, February 20, 2008
> http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/20/mccain-torture-veto/
> 
> 4. "McCain says Roe v. Wade should be overturned," MSNBC, February 18,
> 2007
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17222147/
> 
> 5. "2007 Children's Defense Fund Action Council(R) Nonpartisan
> Congressional Scorecard," February 2008
> http://www.childrensdefense.org/site/PageServer?pagename=act_learn_scorecard2007
> 
> "McCain: Bush right to veto kids health insurance expansion," CNN, October
> 3, 2007
> http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/03/mccain.interview/
> 
> 6. "Beer Executive Could Be Next First Lady," Associated Press, April 3,
> 2008
> http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h-S1sWHm0tchtdMP5LcLywg5ZtMgD8VQ86M80
> 
> "McCain Says Bank Bailout Should End `Systemic Risk,'" Bloomberg News,
> March 25, 2008
> http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aHMiDVYaXZFM&amp;refer=home
> 
> 7. "Will McCain's Temper Be a Liability?," Associated Press, February 16,
> 2008
> http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=4301022
> 
> "Famed McCain temper is tamed," Boston Globe, January 27, 2008
> http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/01/27/famed_mccain_temper_is_tamed/
> 
> 8. "Black Claims McCain's Campaign Is Above Lobbyist Influence: 'I Don't
> Know What The Criticism Is,'" ThinkProgress, April 2, 2008
> http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/02/mccain-black-lobbyist/
> 
> "McCain's Lobbyist Friends Rally 'Round Their Man," ABC News, January 29,
> 2008
> http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4210251
> 
> 9. "McCain's Spiritual Guide: Destroy Islam," Mother Jones Magazine, March
> 12, 2008
> http://www.motherjones.com/washington_dispatch/2008/03/john-mccain-rod-parsley-spiritual-guide.html
> 
> "Will McCain Specifically 'Repudiate' Hagee's Anti-Gay Comments?,"
> ThinkProgress, March 12, 2008
> http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/12/mccain-hagee-anti-gay/
> 
> "McCain 'Very Honored' By Support Of Pastor Preaching 'End-Time
> Confrontation With Iran,'" ThinkProgress, February 28, 2008
> http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/28/hagee-mccain-endorsement/
> 
> 10. "John McCain Gets a Zero Rating for His Environmental Record," Sierra
> Club, February 28, 2008
> http://www.alternet.org/blogs/environment/77913/
> 
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