Obama has a voting record going back to 1997, but McCain has a voting record going back to 1983

[bluestateguy]

An opposition researcher's wet dream.

I'm sure Obama has plenty of votes in Illinois and in the US Senate that he will have to explain, but McCain surely has many more that go back to the days when Michael Jackson was actually a normal person.

[babylonsister]

1. What's your point? We know McCain is a dinosaur who's been in the

Senate for years, he's also a warmonger. Obama can beat him on that, and age, and a host of other things.

[Skittles]

3. the point is

the longer the voting record, the more potential for ammunition

[XemaSab]

4. Yah

That's where you get stuff like "McCain voted AGAINST teaching children to read" when really it was a $10,000 early-literacy fund stuck as a rider to a bill authorizing the invasion of the Soviet Union. :P

[Skittles]

7. yes and there is much, much more where that came from

isn't it something that McCain has been around forever but people know so little about him? Obama (likely) needs to really, really let people get to know not just him but McCain too :o

[mrreowwr_kittty]

2. Eggs Zactly!

Let's not forget his problems with the S & L disaster, Keating, and his wife's little issue with drugs and embezzling.

[Window]

5. Which wife, Cindy or his first wife?

Cause if it's Cindy, I'd like to get her for mocking Michelle today. LOL!




Peace:thumbsup:

[Skittles]

8. out of the loop here, what did Ms. McCain say?

I find that kind of stuff extremely poor form. Especially since, well, that gal has some major baggage.

[Window]

11. It was about Michelle's remark " for the first time in my adult

life, I'm really proud of my country."

At a rally today Cindy said, "I don't know if you heard those words earlier, but I've always been proud of my country."



Peace:thumbsup:

[momster]

13. Cindy

First wife got dumped within a few years of his coming back from Vietnam. She'd had 3 children (2 from a former marriage, 1 by John) and had been a model. While he was gone, she was in bad car accident and wikipedia says she was 'four inches shorter and...considerably heavier." Also from Wikipedia, "During their time in Jacksonville, the McCains' marriage began to falter. McCain had extramarital affairs, and he would later say, "My marriage's collapse was attributable to my own selfishness and immaturity more than it was to Vietnam, and I cannot escape blame by pointing a finger at the war. The blame was entirely mine." His wife Carol would later echo those sentiments, saying "I attribute more to John turning 40 and wanting to be 25 again than I do to anything else."

Considerably heavier? How dare she? :sarcasm:

Cindy is 17 years younger than him, rich from Daddy, and was quite the beauty. But he was still married to Carol when he pursued her! Ah, gotta love them Republican Family Values! Oh, and just adore the 'immaturity' line when he was 'over 40' at the time. Just more youthful indiscretions.

[Window]

17. Thanks for the info.

That old fart is a real charmer. NOT.



Peace:thumbsup:

[Neecy]

18. Here....

This is a little rundown on Cindy McCain's somewhat sordid history:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/2/20/64612/4690/438/460265

[Lone_Star_Dem]

6. His gun voting record alone is causing all kinds of hell for him.

The local Republicans are in a fit over his "liberal" gun votes in the past. They're on the cusp of an all out head-spinning-projectile-vomit-spewing fit over how he's pro-regulation. Which every good Republican knows is code for a "Gun Grabber" since that's what their party has been telling them for ages now.

And then there's his temper. I don't know if anyone else here remembers him going off on TX Senator Cornyn (R) last year, but Texas Republicans have not forgotten it. I've been hearing Republicans calling him Insane McCain ever since that. :rofl:

Oh, I almost forgot immigration and the fact that he wants to let those brown people steal Americans jobs.

This election is going to be a really tough one for a lot of the Republicans to bear.

[johnnydrama]

9. more than his voting record

it's his flip flopping and out and out lies caught on TV.

I'd play the one where he tells (Russert I think), that he never said he knows nothing about the economy, where he's on tape saying it at least twice.

Get him on Guantanamo, on his torture backtracking, on his Iraq backtracking...

[ossman]

16. He switched his gay marriage position on Hardball in 10 minutes

On gay marriage. He answers one way.... they go to commercial... he switches back.


Hilarious.

[Eurobabe]

10. How do we very politely point out that McBush is nuckin futs?

[Skittles]

12. you get the voters to really KNOW McCain

once they really KNOW him that would be the inevitable conclusion

[TheWatcher]

14. On Second thought, let's not go to McCain's Voting Record.....

It is a Silly Place.....

[Vinca]

15. The 100 years of war remark was the death knell for McCain. nt

[Window]

19. As well it should be.

Whoever our nominee is must absolutely beat him over the head with this one.



Peace:thumbsup:

[Occam Bandage]

20. Mac's about to find out why long-serving Senators find it hard to win the Presidency.

It'll be fun bringing up the past "maverick" stands he no longer agrees with.