All you need to know about John McCain

Three Facts About John McCain’s Extreme Record on Rural Issues

Oklahoma farmers and ranchers, listen up!

1. McCain repeatedly voted against America’s farmers, opposing the 2008 Farm Bill and disaster assistance bills. Source: Des Moines Register Vote 271, 12/5/06; Vote 439, 9/18/95; Vote 240, 8/4/93; Vote 237, 8/4/93; Vote 238, 8/4/93
2. McCain said ethanol has “absolutely no value whatsoever,” and opposes plans that would allow America’s farmers to help solve our national energy crisis. Source: Vote 139, 6/15/05; Vote 138, 6/15/05; Vote 73, 4/29/04; Vote 203, 6/3/03; Roll Call, 5/2/04; FactCheck.org, 8/8/08
3. McCain has helped large companies instead of small family farmers, opposing country of origin labeling and capped farm subsidies that would help family farms survive against large multinational corporations. Source: Des Moines Register; 12/15/01; Vote 367, 12/13/01; Vote 15; 2/6/02; Vote 15, 2/7/96; Vote 443, 11/6/03; Vote 307; 8/2/07; CNN, 10/3/07

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Counting the lies

John McCain may be trying to sell himself as a “maverick” and a “straight talker” who will tell the truth no matter the consequences, but independent, non-partisan watchdog groups aren’t buying it. But, since he wrapped up his party’s nomination, John McCain has offered more of the same false attacks and smears. To date, independent, nonpartisan fact checkers have published more than 50 fact checks debunking John McCain’s lies and distortions.

The long and ever-growing list will be continually updated until the election, since McCain continues to lie with abandon, despite being called on the dishonesty over and over in the press. He will say anything he feels is necessary to get elected president, honor, truth, integrity be damned!

M.D.s call for release of McCain’s medical records

The McCain Gamble

John McCain’s Washington is just more of the same. It is a rigged roulette wheel. No matter how you spin it, George Bush and lobbyists always win.

McCain campaign awash in Washington lobbyists

McCain’sLobbyists.com is a campaign information resource established by Campaign Money Watch and based on data from the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-partisan organization that tracks campaign finance data.

McCain is no “maverick”

If he ever was (and that’s debatable), he certainly isn’t now.

Ben Stein on Sarah Palin and the economy

Ben Stein is more than a little worried about his money.

“She should have Henry Kissinger babysitting her.”

Ouch!

A fellow Vietnam War POW discusses John McCain’s history and character

A veteran who was a classmate of John McCain and a prisoner with him in Vietnam explains loud and clear that being a POW does not qualify McCain to lead our country.

Dr. Phillip Butler knew McCain as a fellow POW. Watch and listen!

“To see McCain resort to playing the POW card when answering legitimate questions, in my mind, cheapens that experience. And by cheapening his own experience in war, he degrades all of our experiences in war. He turns the horrific incidents we’ve all seen, touched, smelled, and felt into a lame excuse to earn political points. And it dishonors us all.”

– Brandon Friedman, a veteran of both Iraq and Afghanistan

Email from Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films:

John McCain has been exploiting his prisoner of war experience every chance he gets. He has used this story to justify everything from not knowing how many homes he has to his healthcare plan to his marital infidelities to his taste in music. The McCain campaign is even using his POW story in paid ads. But now a veteran who was a prisoner with McCain in Vietnam is explaining loud and clear that being a POW does not qualify McCain to lead our country.

Dr. Phillip Butler knew McCain as a fellow POW. Watch and listen!

We are sure this video will draw an onslaught of right-wing attacks, but we bring it to you because it is our job to continue to convey the truth together and give these issues national attention. As Dr. Butler has said, McCain does not have the temperament to have his finger near the red button. Get this video to everyone you know: friends, family members, coworkers, and especially those who don’t share your political views. The video is designed to reach them. Get it on your social networking sites like Digg. And get it to every blog, newspaper, and TV station that has ever overplayed McCain’s POW story. It is time to fight back with truth!

The mainstream press has already begun to call out McCain for overusing his POW story. And it’s cut across all political persuasions.

• “Whether he’s deflecting criticism over his health-care plan or mocking a tribute to the Woodstock music festival, Senator John McCain has a trump card: the Hanoi Hilton. – Edwin Chen, Bloomberg
• “Noun, Verb, POW” – Andrew Sullivan, The Atlantic Monthly
• “The McCain campaign’s constant invocation of the candidate’s POW past is weird bordering on irrational…” – Ana Marie Cox, TIME
• “I think they are going to it way too many times.” – Howard Fineman, Newsweek

Remember how Joe Biden got the press to refer to Rudy Giuliani as “A noun, a verb, and 9/11“? Well, let’s actually take Andrew Sullivan’s lead here and get the media to boil McCain down to a similar phrase: “A noun, a verb, and POW.” Considering how often the McCain campaign invokes his POW story, isn’t that what they’re already doing?Yours,
Robert Greenwald
and the Brave New team

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John McCain’s third beauty queen (that we know of)