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The Real McCain
The Truth About The 'Straight-Talk-Express'

Foreign policy is supposed to be his specialty, the reason people might vote for him, especially regarding issues with the Iraq war. But he has so many major facts wrong, it's just astounding, and very dangerous. And he doesn't say the wrong thing once, he does it over and over again.

There are several possibilities as to why he's wrong, all of them bad: he's senile or some other condition, he's simply not very bright, or he's lying. It may be one, or some, or all of these, but in any case, he's clearly unfit to be the next president.

The media has been giving McCain a pass for years. Even McCain calls the media his base, because they fawn over him so much and don't challenge him or ask tough questions, especially follow-up questions.

Here is a list I started on his serious, and very scary errors:

- McCain was a leading cheerleader and architect for the illegal Iraq war, constantly telling the Bush Administration lies about Iraq having WMD's and still claims that's what everyone thought.
- He repeatedly confuses the religions of Al Qaida (Sunni) with Iran (Shia), thinking Al Qaida is in cahoots with the other, a ridiculous proposition, just as it was when Cheney lied linking Saddam to Bin Laden. The Sunni / Shia claim is a major error and should have all but ended his candidacy, but the press (Brit Hume on Fox News) called it a minor blip and a senior moment. The media then stopped covering the story.
- Said the Anbar Awakening was created by the surge when the Anbar Awakening started in 2006 and the surge started in 2007.
- Claimed there is a serious situation on the Iraq / Pakistan Iraq border, a border that doesn't exist. They are over 1,000 miles apart - see map.
- And he often talks about Czechoslovakia, which hasn't existed since 1993.
- Too many people will die if we have another thoughtless ideologue who can't think any better than George W. Bush.

The Real McCain.

• McCain pushed hard for invading Iraq, claiming the Iraq war will be 'easy', and 'not very difficult', with grateful Iraqi's (YouTube video compilation), while lying about claiming he opposed it. McCain was and is a major player in telling lies about Iraq having WMD's and covering up the truth; lies that led to the illegal invasion of Iraq.
• McCain supports Bush tax cuts for richest 1% of Americans, like himself.
• He wants to privatize Social Security. Essentially wants to privatize just about all government services, like the military, education, you name it.
• Opposes providing healthcare like he has for all Americans. He's been kept alive by government healthcare nearly all his life. Wants Americans to find insurance themselves on the open market.
• He cites as his "biggest" legislative victory of that era a 1989 bill that abolished catastrophic health insurance for seniors, a move he still cheers as the first-ever repeal of a federal entitlement program.
• His anti-government fervor was renewed in the Gingrich revolution of 1994, when he called for abolishing the departments of Education and Energy.
• Opposed the recent GI bill that was passed in spite of him. McCain has repeatedly voted against helping veterans while saying he supports them. Incredible. He ended up skipping the vote and didn't show up.
• Voted against preventing the CIA from torturing prisoners. This allows them to waterboard, or whatever else they can dream up.
• Favors the missile defense shield (Star Wars).
• Opposed creation of a Martin Luther King holiday.
• Supports school vouchers, and opposes teacher's unions. He essentially wants to gut public schooling and give the money to private schools.
• Voted against the assault weapons ban and the Brady Bill.
• Favors nuclear power in a thoughtless dangerous way with no clear way of dealing with the complexities of this issue.
• Opposes hate crime legislation.
• Appears to support teaching creationism under the 'Intelligent Design' label in schools.
• Wants just abstinence only sex education taught, not comprehensive sex education and birth control.
• Opposes civil unions for same sex couples that would provide them the same benefits as heterosexual couples, like being eligible for healthcare, or hospital rights. He also opposes gay marriage.
• Supports essentially killing the Estate Tax by raising the minimum to 5 million from 1 million, affecting only the richest 1% of Americans.
• Has shown he doesn't know the difference, (and not just once), between the religions of Al-Qaida (Sunni) and the majority of Iraq and Iran (Shia). So, he doesn't know what the fighting is about.
• While visiting a market in Iraq, he said you could walk freely in Iraq – while wearing a flax jacket and surrounded by soldiers. And said Petraeus goes out in an unarmed Humvee, also untrue.
• Spoke at Jerry Falwell's university after calling him an 'agent of intolerance' in 2000.
• McCain hired Tucker Eskew who smeared him in 2000 in order to help him with his campaign against Obama. The horrible attack Tucker Eskew and Bush hit McCain with essentially ended McCain's bid for the presidency, and is legendary in the history of dirty tricks and smears. At the time, McCain said there was a special place in hell for people like Eskew. Apparently that means working for him now and doing similar things against Obama.
• Was raised Episcopalian and went to those schools, but claimed he was Baptist when campaigning in South Carolina (heavily Baptist), although he's never been baptized at the age of consent, as the Baptist religion requires. Who is this guy?
• Member of the Keating 5 scandal. He got huge contributions and worked to protect Keating, a screwed up prosecution – for instance: the federal conviction was overturned because jurors had heard about his state conviction, and his state charges because Judge Lance Ito (yes, that judge) screwed up jury instructions.
• Wants to overturn Roe v. Wade, in order to outlaw abortions and a woman's right to choose. He would appoint Supreme Court justices who will overturn Roe v. Wade. They will rule for corporations and against the people.
• His Supreme Court appointments would be modeled after Alito and Roberts, who are extreme conservatives and would be a disaster in other areas besides Roe v. Wade. Incredibly, McCain said the recent court decision to uphold Habeas Corpus was one of the worst in history!