Veterans object to McCain's failure to support new GI Bill:
Update: Bonus bash — In 2000, McCain admits he’d be too old to run in 2008
Double bonus: People who have nothing to hide don’t act like they have something to hide — so why is McCain playing games with his health records?
The folks at The Real McCain have done another video. It's a doozy.
Senators who say that they are too old to be Vice President — and one ringer.
Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.)
“No. I’m too old.”
Born: May 7, 1932
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
“I’m too old to be vice president”
Born: September 17, 1933
Sen. John McCain
Wants to be President
Born: August 29, 1936
Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.)
“When I was much younger I would have probably said, ‘Sure, I’ll be glad to accept it,’ but I’m 70 years [old] and they need a younger person for the job.”
Born: December 7, 1937
Crooks and Liars, John McCain's Top 10 Out-of-Touch Moments
Sample:
2. “Great progress economically” during the Bush years. If Americans’ financial woes are all in their heads, John McCain’s assessment of George W. Bush’s economic leadership is pure hallucination. Asked by Bloomberg’s Peter Cook on April 17 if Americans would say they are better off today “than before George Bush took office more than seven years ago,” McCain replied:
“I think if you look at the overall record and millions of jobs have been created, et cetera, et cetera, you could make an argument that there’s been great progress economically over that period of time.”
Mugged by reality, McCain’s firm response to the classic Ronald Reagan question (”are you better off now?”) lasted exactly 24 hours. The next day on April 18, the so-called maverick acknowledged Americans are “hurting badly” and concluded, “Americans are not better off than they were eight years ago.”
Bonus bash: Arizona Republic, n tight Senate votes, McCain not a maverick: When it matters the most, he seldom bucks his own party
And this one really deserves weekly posts of its own: We’ll ‘never’ see the McCains’ tax returns?
Pop-Up Double Talk, Episode 2: Health Care
Bonus double-talk: Compare this statement at TPM:
Slowly but surely, Republican presidential candidate John McCain is putting some distance between himself and unpopular President Bush.
This week it was the ill-timed “Mission Accomplished” banner that the White House hung behind Bush five years ago when Bush declared major combat operations over in Iraq.
“I thought it was wrong at the time,” McCain said in Cleveland Thursday
With this video of what McCain actually said at “the time”:
CAVUTO: … Senator — after a conflict means after the conflict, and many argue the conflict isn't over.
MCCAIN: Well, then why was there a banner that said 'mission accomplished' on the aircraft carrier? … the conflict — the major conflict is over, the regime change has been accomplished.
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