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yourguide Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 10:45 AM
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Is McCain stupid enough to politicize Gustav when he voted against every relief bill for victims
Edited on Sun Aug-31-08 10:47 AM by yourguide
http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/04/8059_john_mccains_mi.html

But McCain's record on Hurricane Katrina suggests that he was part of the problem, not the solution. McCain was on Face the Nation on August 28, 2005, as Katrina gathered in the Gulf Coast. He said nothing about it. One day later, when Katrina made landfall in Louisiana, McCain was on a tarmac at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona, greeting President Bush with a cake in celebration of McCain's 69th birthday. Three days later, with the levees already breached and New Orleans filling with water, McCain's office released a three-sentence statement urging Americans to support the victims of the hurricane.

Though McCain issued a statement the next week calling on Congress to make sacrifices in order to fund recovery efforts, he was quoted in The New Leader on September 1 cautioning against over-spending in support of Katrina's victims. "We also have to be concerned about future generations of Americans," he said. "We're going to end up with the highest deficit, probably, in the history of this country."

That attitude was borne out in McCain's actions and votes. Forty Senators and 100 members of Congress visited New Orleans before he did; he finally got there in March 2006. He voted against establishing a Congressional commission to examine the Federal, State, and local responses to Katrina in med-September 2005. He repeated that vote in 2006. He voted against allowing up to 52 weeks of unemployment benefits to people affected by the hurricane, and in 2006 voted against appropriating $109 billion in supplemental emergency funding, including $28 billion for hurricane relief.

Shortly after the disaster in New Orleans, McCain did introduce a bill that sought to improve communications mechanisms for first-responders and authorities. The bill failed to go anywhere, and McCain later voted against other bills that had similar provisions.

McCain may talk sympathetically about New Orleans' recovery this week, but the record shows that when it mattered most, McCain failed to act. His passion for fiscal conservatism blinded him to a city and a region in need, and his Time for Action is simply too late.
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hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 10:47 AM
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1. There's a script for an excellent campaign ad!
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yourguide Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 10:49 AM
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3. I hope he does
and the Obama campaign points this out. This is outrageous.
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No Elephants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 10:48 AM
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2. Why, yes, McCain is that stupid 896 in a class of 900, crashed two planes. Never got a thing on his
own.
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GreenTea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 10:57 AM
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4. McCain took credit for passing Vets benefits & didn't vote for it & got away with it too.....
Edited on Sun Aug-31-08 11:21 AM by GreenTea
in the corporate mainstream media, only some liberal sites & KO made some noise about his duplicity (lies).

Of course McCain will jump on it- It'll be a complete turnaround from Katrina the republicans are going to pull out ALL the stops....it'll be big news!

Americans are stupid and uninformed, purposely, whatever they see on TV is fact to them....McCain Bush & Palin will put on a BIG show in New Orleans for Gustav!

Count on it!
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vi5 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 10:57 AM
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5. No, but he's smart enough to realize that in doing so..
..that nobody in the media will call him out on it, and that even if they did the majority of cluebags in this country won't even care.
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Chloroplast Donating Member (723 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 11:02 AM
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6. Of course McCain's that stupid!
Edited on Sun Aug-31-08 11:03 AM by Chloroplast
McCain and Palin are going to be in the Gulf Coast to see how things are going. And Graham said this morning that the GOP may make the Convention's first night a tele-a-thon for relief efforts. I didn't think McCain could stoop so low; I hope he and Caribou Barbie are politically destroyed for pulling this stunt.
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 11:13 AM
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7. Yes. He's probably thinking that if they go to the Gulf,
she'll put on a swimsuit and he can check her out a little closer.
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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 11:19 AM
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8. Its Pandering and I predict it will look like it to Americans
McCain's Birthday Cake meeting with Bush is gonna be played
showing his hypocritical voting record on support for Katrina victims.

This is gonna backfire.
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yourguide Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 11:26 AM
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10. I hope so...
but it appears that it will be up to the Obama camp to point it out, not the media.
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ellie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 11:19 AM
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9. Yes,
because he's done lost his mind!
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 11:32 AM
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11. Rec'd~ This needs to be spread far and wide about mccain
voting against Relief bills for the Victims of Hurricane Katrina..that fucker needs to down with his abuse of power, polar bear hatin', palin pick.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 11:35 AM
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12. Was he stupid enough to lie to a Veteran about his record on Veteran's issues right to his face?
Yeah, he was.

So yeah, he is stupid enough.
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Imagevision Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 11:45 AM
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13. The day Katrina hit NO. McCain was cutting birthday cake with Bush while people began
to show up dead floating in the streets of new Orleans.
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azmouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 04:27 PM
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14. kick
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AntiFascist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 04:41 PM
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15. McCain plans to give his acceptance speech via satellite from the Gulf Region !

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080831/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_convention_rdp


In an interview with NBC, he said it was possible he would make his acceptance speech not from the convention podium but via satellite from the Gulf Coast region.


This would be a perfect opportunity for the Obama campaign (or MoveOn) to play a commercial illustrating that McCain was partying with Bush during Katrina.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 04:42 PM
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16. #896 out of 900, Yes. LOL
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