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John McCain rapping for votes
http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/35676-john-mccain-kicks-it-old-school-mccain-rap
http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/35676-john-mccain-kicks-it-old-school-mccain-rap
Rapping McCain
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April 16th, 2008 - 12:04am ET
John McCain, who from the early 1980s worked hard to establish himself the one of the Senate's shining champions of Vietnam veterans' issues, completed his betrayal of the Iraq-era troops today. Brandon Friedman of vetvoice.com has the details:
Yesterday VoteVets.org delivered a petition with 30,000 signatures to the office of Senator John McCain. Through that petition, we asked him to support Senator Jim Webb's new GI Bill. And less than 24 hours later, we have an answer:
"Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, seemed to give a thumbs down to bipartisan legislation that would greatly expand educational benefits for members of the military returning from Iraq and Afghanistan under the GI Bill...."
The reason for McCain's refusal to support the bill is about the most disturbing rationale one could imagine....Officials in charge of Pentagon personnel worry that a more generous and expansive GI Bill would create an incentive for troops to get out of the military and go to college.
John McCain, who from the early 1980s worked hard to establish himself the one of the Senate's shining champions of Vietnam veterans' issues, completed his betrayal of the Iraq-era troops today. Brandon Friedman of vetvoice.com has the details:
Yesterday VoteVets.org delivered a petition with 30,000 signatures to the office of Senator John McCain. Through that petition, we asked him to support Senator Jim Webb's new GI Bill. And less than 24 hours later, we have an answer:
"Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, seemed to give a thumbs down to bipartisan legislation that would greatly expand educational benefits for members of the military returning from Iraq and Afghanistan under the GI Bill...."
The reason for McCain's refusal to support the bill is about the most disturbing rationale one could imagine....Officials in charge of Pentagon personnel worry that a more generous and expansive GI Bill would create an incentive for troops to get out of the military and go to college.
Republicans are so supportive of the troops it makes me all misty. Just get the bumper sticker, send them off to meaningless deaths, bankrupt the country, and go around accusing everyone else of not supporting the troops and being un-American. I am so fvcking sick of these idiotic ass clowns I am going to puke.
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Thanks. The below was the part I was interested in from your original post. As I figured, the 'reason' has not been reliably (or even at all) attributed to McCain.
Just vague nonsense about 'officials in charge of the Pentagon.'
Now, none of the above would surprise me, but this is the stupid, flimsy rhetoric that permeates an election year.
Hey, how about Cindy McCain copying Food Network recipes and passing them off as 'family' recipes?
Just vague nonsense about 'officials in charge of the Pentagon.'
Now, none of the above would surprise me, but this is the stupid, flimsy rhetoric that permeates an election year.
Hey, how about Cindy McCain copying Food Network recipes and passing them off as 'family' recipes?
Pretty funny if you ask me.
Cindy McCain's recipes exposed as web rip-offs
By Lincoln Archer
April 16, 2008 11:00am
The tantalising aroma of chicken roasting in rosemary wafts through the room as Cindy McCain helps her husband John shrug off another tough day on the campaign trail with one of her tried and true homecooking favourites.
If you too want to eat like a Republican nominee, all you have to do is log on to the official John McCain campaign page, where the vast sum of McCain home dinners is available for to see. Or at least it used to be.
The pages of recipes have since been taken down after it was revealed they were fake. An eagle-eyed web surfer hunting for kitchen inspiration found the recipes had been copied from celebrity chef, TV food show and other gastronomically minded websites.
Ahi tuna with Napa cabbage slaw, farfalle pasta with turkey sausage, peas and mushrooms and perhaps some passionfruit mousse for dessert: it was all lifted from somewhere else.
The McCain campaign has tried to laugh off the foul-up, which still robbed the focus of the day from Senator McCain's attempt to outline his economic credentials.
"Apparently a Web intern added (TV chef) Rachael Ray to our policy team without her knowing it," a spokesman joked. "He was swiftly dealt with, and the page is down for revision."
But on the Huffington Post, one of the first blogs to reveal the gaffe, that excuse was found hard to swallow.
"I'm not sure how an intern can be responsible for messing up the McCain 'family' recipes," wrote David Weiner on HuffPost.
"Did the intern lose Cindy's recipe box only to haphazardly try to replace them with Food Network recipes? If only we could all steal and lie and lay it off on the unpaid help."
The campaign maintained the error was merely a "low-level unpaid staff debacle", but the conduct of wives is often an important part of a US campaign: Barack Obama's wife Michelle has been criticised for comments considered by some to be unpatriotic while Hillary Clinton has been blasted for not appearing "soft" enough.
In his speech on the economy, Senator McCain promised petrol and other tax cuts to ease the pressure of a stalling US economy. The plan was immediately denounced by Senator Obama and Senator Clinton, providing the Democratic contenders a rare moment of agreement.
As their bitter battle continues, so too does the fallout over Senator Obama's "bitter" comments.
Senator Clinton unveiled a new attack ad, which was quickly answered by Senator Obama.
He also told an audience in Pennslyvania, which votes in its primary next week, that suggestions that he is "elitist" are ridiculous given his background in a struggling, single parent family.
