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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-07-08 06:21 PM
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How many of you have read the book McCain wrote back when he had some integrity?
Edited on Mon Jul-07-08 06:27 PM by blm
Back before he sold his soul to Bush?

Faith of My Fathers

If you haven't read it, you should or at least listen to the audio version. There are a LOT of ads that can be made from that book, and using McCain's own words.
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Liberal Veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-07-08 06:23 PM
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1. Well, I guess I'd have to get the audio version because I don't read sanskrit.
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ray of light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-07-08 06:25 PM
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2. Youtube is our friend. Maybe someone could put them to a video and post it there.
Or is that a copyright issue?
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-07-08 06:28 PM
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6. Great idea. McCain's a public figure running for president, I don't see how he could fight it.
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-07-08 06:25 PM
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3. Before the Keating 5 scandal was perhaps the last time
he could claim some integrity.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-08-08 08:10 AM
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12. His speech about the religious right in 2000 was a strong moment, but, he sure turned
on that one, didn't he?
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beachmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-07-08 06:26 PM
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4. Like this story?
Sometimes McCain was attacked by his fellow-senators and sometimes by witnesses. He was the lightning rod. I was told by a member of the committee staff that when Kerry and McCain were sitting near each other on the senators' dais, Kerry would, at such moments, unobtrusively move his hand over to McCain and place it on his arm and leave it there, a quiet gesture of what was becoming absolute mutual support. I asked McCain if he had been aware of Kerry's touch. "Yes," he replied. "He did that several times, and I'm glad he did. I'm grateful to him."


Or this admission?

"During deliberations of the committee," McCain told me, referring to the end of the process, "John Kerry felt it was very important to have everybody—all the Republicans, all the Democrats—sign on to that report, because, if one or two people didn't, then the radicals would leap onto that person. A couple of times, I had very spirited exchanges, to say the least, with a couple of senators—in-your-face kind of exchanges. John Kerry—to his everlasting credit, and to my everlasting discredit, O.K.?—constantly said, 'Let's discuss it. Let's talk about it.' He was very mature in handling this—more mature than I was."


http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1996/10/21/1996_10_21_130_TNY_CARDS_000377420?currentPage=7
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-07-08 06:33 PM
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10. Exactly. And why I believe McCain is loathe to have to square off with him.
Kerry knows ALL of McCain's vulnerabilities and trigger points.
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DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-07-08 06:26 PM
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5. .... wrote back when he had some integrity?
I tried, but those stone tablets were too heavy.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-07-08 06:29 PM
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7. hehe....and why I used the word SOME.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-07-08 07:14 PM
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11. A DUzy for you?
Edited on Mon Jul-07-08 07:15 PM by blm
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-07-08 06:29 PM
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8. Trick question.
McCain never had integrity.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-07-08 06:31 PM
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9. He ALMOST left the GOP after Jeffords. Daschle was close to getting him switched.
I think BushInc has some blackmail photos they used to stop him. Maybe of McCain and that lobbyist he was said to have an affair with last year.
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