- 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.<SUP>1</SUP>
- 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."<SUP>2</SUP>
- 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.<SUP>3</SUP>
- McCain opposes a woman's right to choose. He said, "I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned."<SUP>4</SUP>
- 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.<SUP>5</SUP>
- 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.<SUP>6</SUP>
- 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."<SUP>7</SUP>
- 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.<SUP>8</SUP>
- 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."<SUP>9</SUP>
- He positions himself as pro-environment, but he scored a 0—yes, zero—from the League of Conservation Voters last year.<SUP>10</SUP>
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Hey Roll Tide, if I cherrypick Obama's record like you did with McCain, would you consider the points to be valid?
Obama always votes the party line and is a party hack.
Obama's associations such as Wright and Ayers are anti_American
Obama's ideology is extreme left socialism
Obama is a draft dodger.
Obama claims "change" but his history is supporting the extreme left party line - he's nothing but a party hack who would be controlled by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.
Etc, etc,
Do you consider these FACTUAL points to be valid? I thought not!
You're nothing but a reactionary moonbat rank and file party hack - a mindless automoton marching lockstep to the party line.
Why don't you try doing your own thinking for a change.
Obama always votes the party line and is a party hack.
Obama's associations such as Wright and Ayers are anti_American
Obama's ideology is extreme left socialism
Obama is a draft dodger.
Obama claims "change" but his history is supporting the extreme left party line - he's nothing but a party hack who would be controlled by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.
Etc, etc,
Do you consider these FACTUAL points to be valid? I thought not!
You're nothing but a reactionary moonbat rank and file party hack - a mindless automoton marching lockstep to the party line.
Why don't you try doing your own thinking for a change.
ope:Really? So leftist tell the truth and righties lie?
Who would have known?
Oh, by the way, the word is "laden."
Rob, do you want to see all the documentation on why Joe Biden
is in the plagiarists hall of shame? Yeah, I didn't think so.
Rob, do you want to see the documentation of Obama's grades
at Harvard, Columbia - or his LSAT scores? Oh wait, you can't
because Obama won't release them. Could it be because his
grades are absolutely abysmal?
