Once upon a time, there was a fiscally and socially responsible senator named John McCain. Despite his presidential ambitions, the Republican from Arizona spoke out against the economic royalism of his party's leadership in the White House and Congress, and simply said no.
He rejected the Bush tax cuts in 2001 because they provided an unearned bonanza for America's wealthiest citizens while giving a pittance to the middle class and nothing to the working poor. To him, as a long-standin ...
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Posted by: Robert Conner
Comment: #1
Fri Jun 20, 2008 2:37 PM
That hazy "once upon a time" must have been in another lifetime, Joe. Or don't you recall McCain's cozy relationship with sleazeball Charles Keating, a fellow Navy pilot, who paid McCain and company a paltry $112K to help undo S&L regulations? That little episode of social and fiscal responsibility cost the American taxpayer $2 billion for one lousy S&L. McCain's recklessness and lack of insight should have stopped his political career right there. McCain started out as an elected lobbyist, has been an elected lobbyist, and will always be an elected lobbyist. So if you're sick of lobbyists running the US government, stop electing jerks like McCain. That simple.
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Posted by: USMCMOE
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Wed Jun 25, 2008 9:05 PM
Interrity & character ... Obama has neither. However he is well acquainted with Taxes. I never knew so many gullible people existed in this Country until I saw crowds of mice listening to the B. S. spewed by the Pied Piper Obama. A vote for this person would be the same as hiring someone to put a roof on your house without knowing his background concerning the work and not knowing if he even has the ability to do the work and there are no examples to see that qualify him for the job.
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