Nearly 100 reasons to not vote for McCain
Each reason includes at least one reference article.
1. He finished fifth from last in his class of 899 at Annapolis
http://www.wmsa.net/People/john_mccain/ariz-republic_chap_I_1999.htm
2. During the Vietnam war, wanted to bomb Soviet ships
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/18721308/mccain_resurrected/3
3. During the Vietnam war, said he wanted to bomb more than military targets
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/18721308/mccain_resurrected/3
4 Divorced his wife Carol, who had waited for him while he was in Vietnam, who had been in a horrible car accident, for a multi-millionaire heiress he had met a year before the divorce
http://www2.hernandotoday.com/content/2008/jun/18/mccain-record-shows-flaws/
5. married Cindy one month after the divorce
http://www2.hernandotoday.com/content/2008/jun/18/mccain-record-shows-flaws/
6. admitted and was widely known to being unfaithful during his first marriage
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2008/06/10/2008-06-10_why_mccain_didnt_reup_with_first_wife.html
7. moved to Arizona for political reasons; the day after his predecessor announced his upcoming retirement, Cindy bought a house in the district
http://www.wmsa.net/People/john_mccain/ariz-republic_chap_IV_1999.htm
8. was elected to congress in part due to his friendship with Darrow Tully, publisher of the AZ Republic, who gave him free editorial space
http://www.usvetdsp.com/nov07/mccain_deceit.htm
9. voted against the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday; later said that he didn't know much about MLK at the time, and that "I had not really been involved in the issue."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8ozQz0qe3c
10. did not comment when Tully's numerous war stories about himself (Tully) were revealed to be all lies
http://www.usvetdsp.com/nov07/mccain_deceit.htm
11. was part of the Keating 5
http://www.slate.com/id/1004633/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five
12. Cindy stole prescription medication to feed an addiction for 3 years
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/10/18/drugs/
13. Cindy was accused (never convicted) of threatening an employee to keep quiet about the thefts
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/10/18/drugs/
14. vigorously lobbied to have investigations of his friend Gov. Fife Symington halted; Symington was convicted of bank fraud, to which McCain said that Symington had been running the state well
http://www.wmsa.net/People/john_mccain/ariz-republic_chap_IV_1999.htm
15. When a different governor fell under similar circumstances, McCain went after him
http://www.wmsa.net/People/john_mccain/ariz-republic_chap_IV_1999.htm
16. When it was suggested that he showed preference to Symington that he didn't show to Mecham, said "I really won't answer that kind of insinuation… I do what's best for the state. I do what's best for the country."
http://www.wmsa.net/People/john_mccain/ariz-republic_chap_IV_1999.htm
17. voted to convict Bill Clinton on impeachment charges
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/02/12/senate.statements/mccain.html
18. "I hated the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live."
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/hongop.shtml
19. voted to authorize the Iraq war
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&vote=00237&session=2
20. ate birthday cake with President Bush several hours after the levees at New Orleans broke; later, McCain blasted Bush's tepid and slow response
http://www.newsweek.com/id/133551
21. "I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated." Denied saying this in a primary debate.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/103730/page/2
22. "The issues of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/14/opinion/14krugman.html
23. "I don't have the kind of expertise to know exactly whether he has cut interest rates sufficiently or not."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21221689/
25. debate question, are Americans better off than they were 8 years ago: "I think you could argue that Americans overall are better off, because we have had a pretty good prosperous time, with low unemployment and low inflation and a lot of good things have happened. A lot of jobs have been created."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/30/GOPdebate.transcript/
26. Today show, soon after, when asked the same question: "Oh no. No." Bloomberg TV, same question: "In fact, I think Americans are not better off than they were eight years ago, when you look at what's happened to middle-income Americans."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/25/mccain-on-whether-america_n_98701.html
27. says that he can save $100 billion by cutting earmarks; campaign later denies this claim. Has said saving $100B would not come from military; this would necessitate a 18.5% across the board cut in every other discretionary spending program, including education, veteran's health, highways.
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/the_budget_according_to_mccain_part_i.html
28. favors repealing the alternative minimums tax, 90% of the benefits going to six-figure families; this would cost $1.6 trillion over 10 years; claim of an average of $2000/family mostly weighted by highest earners.
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/the_budget_according_to_mccain_part_ii.html
29. says that Obama and Clinton want to create the largest tax increase since WW2; it would be the fifth-largest and is not even an increase, but merely allowing Bush's cuts to expire.
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/the_budget_according_to_mccain_part_ii.html
30. opposed Bush's tax cuts, supported Bush's tax cuts
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91544414
31. wants to cut capital gains taxes.
http://www.ontheissues.org/SenateVote/Party_2005-347.htm
32. wants to remove federal gasoline taxes
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN3038243520080430
33. claimed that 401ks are taxed by the capital gains tax (they are not) and used this to further his point that "[Obama] obviously doesn't understand the economy."
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/the_budget_according_to_mccain_part_ii.html
34. was revealed along with his wife to owe $100,00-250,000 in credit card debt
http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/mccains-report-more-than-100000-in-credit-card-debt-2008-06-13.html
35. supported ID being taught in schools; now opposes that
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/politics/90069
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/12/mccain-creationism/
36. "Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran"
http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/2007/04/mccain-sings-bomb-bomb-iran.html
37. slept through portions of Bush's 2007 State of the Union address
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/01/24/state-of-the-union-lullaby/
38. having been tortured for five years, joined the party that prolonged his torture and blasted Romney at a debate for supporting torture
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16726577
39. Now McCain himself supports torture
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_02/013122.php
40. Chief Advisor of McCain's campaign, Charlie Black, lobbied for numerous dictators in Asia and Africa; Black said he didn't do anything wrong
http://dir.salon.com/story/opinion/conason/2008/02/22/mccain/index.html
http://www.blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/05/19/mccain-strategist-on-lobbyist-ties-complete-inside-the-beltway-nonsense.aspx?tid=relatedcl
41. Richard Davis is one of McCain's friends, advisers, and campaign chairs; Davis was paid $395,000 to lobby on behalf of the telecom industry; McCain, as chairman of the Commerce Committee, supported a Cablevision bid despite a government report saying that it would lead to higher prices.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0707/4900.html
42. two campaign staffers forced to resign; they had lobbied on behalf of Myanmar's repressive government in 2002
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/12/1009376.aspx
43. Cindy, after an AP article outed her, sells her investments in mutual funds that invested in the Sudanese government
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/cindy-mccain-sells-sudan-investments/
44. describes Roberts, Alito his favorite justices
http://www.denverpost.com/viewpoints/ci_9184303
45. says that Bush's warrantless wiretaps are legal
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/06/aide_says_mccain_backs_bush_on_wiretapping/
46. JON STEWART: There was one comment-- and this could have been taken out of context as well-- you felt that Hamas endorsed Obama? Did they officially-
McCAIN: A spokesperson from Hamas said they wanted Senator Obama, but that's-- that's --
STEWART: Do you feel bad you said that? Because that is-- if you think about it--
McCAIN: A spokesperson said that, and I think --
STEWART: And you take Hamas at their word?
McCAIN: No, but it's indicative of how some of our enemies view America. I guarantee you, they're not going to endorse me.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/05/07/mccain_on_the_daily_show.html
47. says talking to Hamas is naive; two years prior, in an interview with James Rubin of Sky News, said that negotiations with Hamas were inevitable, and the current (Bush) admin had to get used to that; in 2003 had said that even though Syria sponsored and harbored terrorists, it was worth talking to them
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/15/exclusive-video-mccain-wa_n_102031.html
48. was in favor of negotiations with Cuba; no longer is
http://www.fladems.com/content/w/john_mccain_shifts_staggers_on_cuba
49. constantly confuses Shia and Sunni
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/03/18/780688.aspx
50. says that Al Qaeda get training in Iran
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/mccain-misspeaks-on-iran-al-qaeda/
51. insists that Ahmadinejad was the leader of Iran, not Khamenei, despite reality being what it is
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2008/05/iran-mccain-stu.html
52. campaign staff didn't know enough about computers to disable comments on campaign youtube videos, and didn't know enough about computers to disable comments on website store,
53. his campaign stole a recipe from Rachel Ray / the Food Network website for Cindy's website; was called on it; did it again with another recipe from the Hershey's website
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-weiner/re-heat-offender-cindy-ba_b_107428.html
54. campaign actively sought Hagee's endorsement until the "Hitler was a hunter" video came out
http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/2008/05/23/public-opinion-mccain-hagee-and-parsley-vs-obama-and-wright--whose-reverend-problem-is-more-serious.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/29/john-hagees-mccain-endor_n_89189.html
55. actively opposed the GI bill that would increase education benefits to soldiers; was one of three senators who didn't vote on it (one was in the hospital and one was at a funeral; he was campaigning)
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/05/23/mccain_misses_vote_on_a_new_gi_bill_scorns_criticism_from_obama/
56. used a picture of Gen. Petraeus in fundraising material (military members are not allowed to do this)
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/05/mccain-uses-ima.html
57. "That's not change we can believe in."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/03/AR2008060303837.html
58. "The media often overlooked how compassionately [Hillary] spoke to the concerns and dreams of millions." Three days later denied saying this: "I did not [say that], that was in prepared remarks, and I did not [say it], I'm not in the business of commenting on the press and their coverage or not coverage"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/03/AR2008060303837.html
59. when asked if he had an idea of when troops would be coming home, said "No, but that's not too important. What's important is the casualties in Iraq."
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/06/11/timing_of_iraq_troop_withdrawa.html
60. after the Supreme Court ruled that Guantanamo prisoners have some rights, "The United States Supreme Court yesterday rendered a decision which I think is one of the worst decisions in the history of this country," McCain said. He went on to quote from Justice Roberts dissent in the case, rail against "unaccountable judges," and say that the courts are about to be clogged with cases from detainees. Called it a case about "so-called, ‘Habeas Corpus,' suits."
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/mccain-guantanamo-decision-one-of-worst-ever/
61. his daughter did not switch parties from Independent to Republican until 2008
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-06-13-meghan-mccain_N.htm
62. refuses to return money taken from a fundraiser hosted by Clayton Williams, who said of rape, "As long as it's inevitable, you might as well lie back and enjoy it."
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/06/14/mccain_says_no_to_returning_fu.html?hpid=topnews
63. concerning Cheney: "I don't know if I would want him as vice president. He and I have the same strengths. But to serve in other capacities? Hell, yeah."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/11/mccain-on-cheney-in-his-c_n_106503.html?page=5
64. "One of the things I would do if I were President would be to sit the Shiites and the Sunnis down and say, 'Stop the bullshit,’"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/15/mccains-diplomacy-id-tell_n_101989.html
65. McCain refuses to answer a question about whether or not he supports Bush's abstinence-only policy in Africa; when asked if he supported condom distribution, was silent; when asked about his policy on sex ed in the USA, said "I think I support the president's policy;" when asked if he thought contraceptives helped stop the spread of HIV, said "You've stumped me." Asked an aide for his policy paper on the subject; couldn't find it; finished by saying "I've never gotten into these issues before."
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/03/16/mccain-stumbles-on-hiv-prevention/
66. "Still,...McCain has yet to find his voice on domestic issues--his response to a question about crime among teen girls veered from a Little Rock mentoring program to Nicaraguan drug lords to securing the Mexican border to the rural meth epidemic, then ended with the not-so-confident words, "I intend to enlist the help of the people who know these problems best""
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/06/11/can-mccain-come-from-behind-in-pennsylvania.aspx?print=true)
67. "I'm not for, quote, privatizing social security; I never have been, I never will be."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-scher/mccain-lies-about-social_b_106862.html
68. "Without privatization, I don't see how you can possibly over time make sure that young Americans are able to receive social security benefits."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-scher/mccain-lies-about-social_b_106862.html
69. wants to end the offshore drilling ban of 1981 (opponents include Republican Governors Schwarzenegger and Crist)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/16/AR2008061602731_pf.html
70. the description of McCain's autobiography is by the author of The Unmaking Of Americans: How Multiculturalism has Undermined the Assimilation Ethic and Our Oldest Enemy: A History of America's Disastrous Relationship with France
http://www.amazon.com/Faith-My-Fathers-John-Mccain/dp/0375501916
71. Republican John McCain's campaign accused Barack Obama of having a dangerous and naive Sept. 10 mind-set toward terrorism because the Democrat spoke approvingly of the successful prosecution and imprisonment of those responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center bombings.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/17/MNLJ11AMK8.DTL&type=politics
72. suggested that, as a new idea, like divestment from South Africa to fight apartheid, we should divest from Iran; a bipartisan bill presented by Obama and Brownback in 2007 said just that exact same thing; McCain voted against it; one of his main campaign advisers lobbies for an Iranian steel company; McCain opposed divestment from South Africa at the time.
http://www.economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9989861 , http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/04/mccain-divestment/
73. "We have had some success working with the Pakistanis in a low visible fashion. Should they be more helpful? Of course they should be. Should the Saudis be more helpful? Should the Jordanians be more helpful? Should the Egyptians? We are giving billions of dollars a year to the Egyptians, as you know, and they should be more helpful. Should the Mexicans be more helpful? Everybody should be more helpful."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/16/mccain-blames-history-on_n_107438.html?page=4
74. collects $58,000 per year from the government in disability
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-pension22apr22,1,6562984.story
75. Does not know how to use a computer or the internet (in 2008!)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/11/mccain-admits-he-doesnt-k_n_106478.html
76. said that the nation is founded on "Christian principles"
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/01/mccain.christian.nation/index.html
77. according to two anonymous witnesses and a reporter, McCain angrily replied to his wife's comment about his thinning hair by saying "At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt."
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2008/McCain_temper_boiled_over_in_92_0407.html
http://www.toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/tt.pl/article/14818/At_least_I_dont_plaster_on_the_makeup_like_a_trollop_you_c-word__-_McCain_to_his_wife
78. in 89 flipped Sam Nunn the bird
http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/6506.html
79. said to Sen. Pete Domenici, "Only an asshole would put together a budget like this." After Domenici told him no one had ever called him that, McCain said "I wouldn't call you an asshole unless you were really an asshole."
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=4301022
80. in 2000 Sen. Grassley said, "Are you calling me stupid?" McCain replied, "I'm calling you a fucking jerk."
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=4301022
81. screamed "Fuck you" at John Cornyn on the senate floor, followed by "This is chickenshit stuff," when asked about provisions of his amnesty bill.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=4301022
82. "Because I know that as successful as I believe we will be, and I believe that the success will be fairly easy, we will still lose some American young men or women."[CNN, 9/24/02]
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0209/24/lkl.00.html
"We're not going to get into house-to-house fighting in Baghdad. We may have to take out buildings, but we're not going to have a bloodletting of trading American bodies for Iraqi bodies." [CNN, 9/29/02]
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0209/29/le.00.html
"But the point is that, one, we will win this conflict. We will win it easily." [MSNBC, 1/22/03]
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/01/22/sprj.irq.wrap/
"But I believe, Katie, that the Iraqi people will greet us as liberators." [NBC, 3/20/03]
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/351896_jackson20.html
"It's clear that the end is very much in sight." [ABC, 4/9/03]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ilan-goldenberg/saying-it-does-not-make-i_b_101893.html
"There's not a history of clashes that are violent between Sunnis and Shiahs. So I think they can probably get along." [MSNBC, 4/23/03]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ilan-goldenberg/saying-it-does-not-make-i_b_101893.html
83. Voted against the Katrina Commission (twice)
http://www.newsweek.com/id/140233)
84. Voted against extended Medicaid access for Katrina victims
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/04/24/mccain_tours_lower_ninth_ward.html
85. Voted against extended unemployment assistance for Katrina victims
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/04/24/mccain_tours_lower_ninth_ward.html
86. Voted against extending troop deployment times in the USA to match deployment times in Iraq
http://senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00341
87. Voted against repealing a capital gains tax cut which would have funded soldiers
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00008
88. Voted consistently from 2003-2007 against additional funding for Walter Reed Army Medical Center
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00007
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00098
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00090
89. Voted to table a bill that would have provided funding and equipment for Guard and Reserve units
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=108&session=1&vote=00116
90. voted against additional funding for the mental health care of troops
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00343
91. Voted against legal definitions of torture
http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/04/mccain_does_not_know_contents.html
92. Voted against closing a future market loophole that led to the Enron disasters in California; said the market needed less regulation, not more; the money saved from closing this loophole would have reduced medical and pharmaceutical copays for soldiers
http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/2008/051908Leopold.shtml
93. Voted against Everglades restoration
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-campaign7-2008jun07,0,7166658.story
94. Skipped over a dozen votes on Iraq in the senate
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/articleid/9559
95. "There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods today."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/04/60minutes/main2648779.shtml
"General Petraeus goes out there [Iraq] almost everyday in an unarmored humvee."
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0703/28/ywt.01.html
"I meant that there are neighborhoods that are safe in Iraq, and he does go out into Baghdad, and the fact is there has been significant progress..."
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0703/28/bn.01.html
"I'm not say that they [VIPs] could go without protection. The president goes around America with protection. So I certainly didn't say that."
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0704/01/tww.01.html
Unidentified Reporter: "[On 26 Mar] You said there are areas in Baghdad that you can walk around freely."
McCain: "Yeah, I just came from one."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/01/AR2007040100325_pf.html
McCain's escort through Shorja was 100+ soldiers, sniper teams, 10 armored humvees, 3 blackhawk helicopters, 2 apache gunships, predator drone coverage; McCain was wearing a bulletproof vest and allowed to take off his helmet only when authorized
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/05/28/it-takes-two-baby-to-make-a-dr
96. says that Obama can't understand Iraq since he hasn't been there since 2006
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/27/politics/main4127728.shtml
97. "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno." (1998)
http://www.salon.com/news/1998/06/25newsb.html
1. He finished fifth from last in his class of 899 at Annapolis
http://www.wmsa.net/People/john_mccain/ariz-republic_chap_I_1999.htm
2. During the Vietnam war, wanted to bomb Soviet ships
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/18721308/mccain_resurrected/3
3. During the Vietnam war, said he wanted to bomb more than military targets
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/18721308/mccain_resurrected/3
4 Divorced his wife Carol, who had waited for him while he was in Vietnam, who had been in a horrible car accident, for a multi-millionaire heiress he had met a year before the divorce
http://www2.hernandotoday.com/content/2008/jun/18/mccain-record-shows-flaws/
5. married Cindy one month after the divorce
http://www2.hernandotoday.com/content/2008/jun/18/mccain-record-shows-flaws/
6. admitted and was widely known to being unfaithful during his first marriage
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2008/06/10/2008-06-10_why_mccain_didnt_reup_with_first_wife.html
7. moved to Arizona for political reasons; the day after his predecessor announced his upcoming retirement, Cindy bought a house in the district
http://www.wmsa.net/People/john_mccain/ariz-republic_chap_IV_1999.htm
8. was elected to congress in part due to his friendship with Darrow Tully, publisher of the AZ Republic, who gave him free editorial space
http://www.usvetdsp.com/nov07/mccain_deceit.htm
9. voted against the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday; later said that he didn't know much about MLK at the time, and that "I had not really been involved in the issue."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8ozQz0qe3c
10. did not comment when Tully's numerous war stories about himself (Tully) were revealed to be all lies
http://www.usvetdsp.com/nov07/mccain_deceit.htm
11. was part of the Keating 5
http://www.slate.com/id/1004633/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five
12. Cindy stole prescription medication to feed an addiction for 3 years
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/10/18/drugs/
13. Cindy was accused (never convicted) of threatening an employee to keep quiet about the thefts
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/10/18/drugs/
14. vigorously lobbied to have investigations of his friend Gov. Fife Symington halted; Symington was convicted of bank fraud, to which McCain said that Symington had been running the state well
http://www.wmsa.net/People/john_mccain/ariz-republic_chap_IV_1999.htm
15. When a different governor fell under similar circumstances, McCain went after him
http://www.wmsa.net/People/john_mccain/ariz-republic_chap_IV_1999.htm
16. When it was suggested that he showed preference to Symington that he didn't show to Mecham, said "I really won't answer that kind of insinuation… I do what's best for the state. I do what's best for the country."
http://www.wmsa.net/People/john_mccain/ariz-republic_chap_IV_1999.htm
17. voted to convict Bill Clinton on impeachment charges
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/02/12/senate.statements/mccain.html
18. "I hated the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live."
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/hongop.shtml
19. voted to authorize the Iraq war
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&vote=00237&session=2
20. ate birthday cake with President Bush several hours after the levees at New Orleans broke; later, McCain blasted Bush's tepid and slow response
http://www.newsweek.com/id/133551
21. "I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated." Denied saying this in a primary debate.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/103730/page/2
22. "The issues of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/14/opinion/14krugman.html
23. "I don't have the kind of expertise to know exactly whether he has cut interest rates sufficiently or not."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21221689/
25. debate question, are Americans better off than they were 8 years ago: "I think you could argue that Americans overall are better off, because we have had a pretty good prosperous time, with low unemployment and low inflation and a lot of good things have happened. A lot of jobs have been created."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/30/GOPdebate.transcript/
26. Today show, soon after, when asked the same question: "Oh no. No." Bloomberg TV, same question: "In fact, I think Americans are not better off than they were eight years ago, when you look at what's happened to middle-income Americans."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/25/mccain-on-whether-america_n_98701.html
27. says that he can save $100 billion by cutting earmarks; campaign later denies this claim. Has said saving $100B would not come from military; this would necessitate a 18.5% across the board cut in every other discretionary spending program, including education, veteran's health, highways.
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/the_budget_according_to_mccain_part_i.html
28. favors repealing the alternative minimums tax, 90% of the benefits going to six-figure families; this would cost $1.6 trillion over 10 years; claim of an average of $2000/family mostly weighted by highest earners.
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/the_budget_according_to_mccain_part_ii.html
29. says that Obama and Clinton want to create the largest tax increase since WW2; it would be the fifth-largest and is not even an increase, but merely allowing Bush's cuts to expire.
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/the_budget_according_to_mccain_part_ii.html
30. opposed Bush's tax cuts, supported Bush's tax cuts
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91544414
31. wants to cut capital gains taxes.
http://www.ontheissues.org/SenateVote/Party_2005-347.htm
32. wants to remove federal gasoline taxes
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN3038243520080430
33. claimed that 401ks are taxed by the capital gains tax (they are not) and used this to further his point that "[Obama] obviously doesn't understand the economy."
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/the_budget_according_to_mccain_part_ii.html
34. was revealed along with his wife to owe $100,00-250,000 in credit card debt
http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/mccains-report-more-than-100000-in-credit-card-debt-2008-06-13.html
35. supported ID being taught in schools; now opposes that
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/politics/90069
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/12/mccain-creationism/
36. "Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran"
http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/2007/04/mccain-sings-bomb-bomb-iran.html
37. slept through portions of Bush's 2007 State of the Union address
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/01/24/state-of-the-union-lullaby/
38. having been tortured for five years, joined the party that prolonged his torture and blasted Romney at a debate for supporting torture
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16726577
39. Now McCain himself supports torture
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_02/013122.php
40. Chief Advisor of McCain's campaign, Charlie Black, lobbied for numerous dictators in Asia and Africa; Black said he didn't do anything wrong
http://dir.salon.com/story/opinion/conason/2008/02/22/mccain/index.html
http://www.blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/05/19/mccain-strategist-on-lobbyist-ties-complete-inside-the-beltway-nonsense.aspx?tid=relatedcl
41. Richard Davis is one of McCain's friends, advisers, and campaign chairs; Davis was paid $395,000 to lobby on behalf of the telecom industry; McCain, as chairman of the Commerce Committee, supported a Cablevision bid despite a government report saying that it would lead to higher prices.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0707/4900.html
42. two campaign staffers forced to resign; they had lobbied on behalf of Myanmar's repressive government in 2002
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/12/1009376.aspx
43. Cindy, after an AP article outed her, sells her investments in mutual funds that invested in the Sudanese government
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/cindy-mccain-sells-sudan-investments/
44. describes Roberts, Alito his favorite justices
http://www.denverpost.com/viewpoints/ci_9184303
45. says that Bush's warrantless wiretaps are legal
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/06/aide_says_mccain_backs_bush_on_wiretapping/
46. JON STEWART: There was one comment-- and this could have been taken out of context as well-- you felt that Hamas endorsed Obama? Did they officially-
McCAIN: A spokesperson from Hamas said they wanted Senator Obama, but that's-- that's --
STEWART: Do you feel bad you said that? Because that is-- if you think about it--
McCAIN: A spokesperson said that, and I think --
STEWART: And you take Hamas at their word?
McCAIN: No, but it's indicative of how some of our enemies view America. I guarantee you, they're not going to endorse me.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/05/07/mccain_on_the_daily_show.html
47. says talking to Hamas is naive; two years prior, in an interview with James Rubin of Sky News, said that negotiations with Hamas were inevitable, and the current (Bush) admin had to get used to that; in 2003 had said that even though Syria sponsored and harbored terrorists, it was worth talking to them
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/15/exclusive-video-mccain-wa_n_102031.html
48. was in favor of negotiations with Cuba; no longer is
http://www.fladems.com/content/w/john_mccain_shifts_staggers_on_cuba
49. constantly confuses Shia and Sunni
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/03/18/780688.aspx
50. says that Al Qaeda get training in Iran
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/mccain-misspeaks-on-iran-al-qaeda/
51. insists that Ahmadinejad was the leader of Iran, not Khamenei, despite reality being what it is
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2008/05/iran-mccain-stu.html
52. campaign staff didn't know enough about computers to disable comments on campaign youtube videos, and didn't know enough about computers to disable comments on website store,
53. his campaign stole a recipe from Rachel Ray / the Food Network website for Cindy's website; was called on it; did it again with another recipe from the Hershey's website
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-weiner/re-heat-offender-cindy-ba_b_107428.html
54. campaign actively sought Hagee's endorsement until the "Hitler was a hunter" video came out
http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/2008/05/23/public-opinion-mccain-hagee-and-parsley-vs-obama-and-wright--whose-reverend-problem-is-more-serious.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/29/john-hagees-mccain-endor_n_89189.html
55. actively opposed the GI bill that would increase education benefits to soldiers; was one of three senators who didn't vote on it (one was in the hospital and one was at a funeral; he was campaigning)
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/05/23/mccain_misses_vote_on_a_new_gi_bill_scorns_criticism_from_obama/
56. used a picture of Gen. Petraeus in fundraising material (military members are not allowed to do this)
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/05/mccain-uses-ima.html
57. "That's not change we can believe in."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/03/AR2008060303837.html
58. "The media often overlooked how compassionately [Hillary] spoke to the concerns and dreams of millions." Three days later denied saying this: "I did not [say that], that was in prepared remarks, and I did not [say it], I'm not in the business of commenting on the press and their coverage or not coverage"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/03/AR2008060303837.html
59. when asked if he had an idea of when troops would be coming home, said "No, but that's not too important. What's important is the casualties in Iraq."
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/06/11/timing_of_iraq_troop_withdrawa.html
60. after the Supreme Court ruled that Guantanamo prisoners have some rights, "The United States Supreme Court yesterday rendered a decision which I think is one of the worst decisions in the history of this country," McCain said. He went on to quote from Justice Roberts dissent in the case, rail against "unaccountable judges," and say that the courts are about to be clogged with cases from detainees. Called it a case about "so-called, ‘Habeas Corpus,' suits."
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/mccain-guantanamo-decision-one-of-worst-ever/
61. his daughter did not switch parties from Independent to Republican until 2008
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-06-13-meghan-mccain_N.htm
62. refuses to return money taken from a fundraiser hosted by Clayton Williams, who said of rape, "As long as it's inevitable, you might as well lie back and enjoy it."
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/06/14/mccain_says_no_to_returning_fu.html?hpid=topnews
63. concerning Cheney: "I don't know if I would want him as vice president. He and I have the same strengths. But to serve in other capacities? Hell, yeah."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/11/mccain-on-cheney-in-his-c_n_106503.html?page=5
64. "One of the things I would do if I were President would be to sit the Shiites and the Sunnis down and say, 'Stop the bullshit,’"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/15/mccains-diplomacy-id-tell_n_101989.html
65. McCain refuses to answer a question about whether or not he supports Bush's abstinence-only policy in Africa; when asked if he supported condom distribution, was silent; when asked about his policy on sex ed in the USA, said "I think I support the president's policy;" when asked if he thought contraceptives helped stop the spread of HIV, said "You've stumped me." Asked an aide for his policy paper on the subject; couldn't find it; finished by saying "I've never gotten into these issues before."
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/03/16/mccain-stumbles-on-hiv-prevention/
66. "Still,...McCain has yet to find his voice on domestic issues--his response to a question about crime among teen girls veered from a Little Rock mentoring program to Nicaraguan drug lords to securing the Mexican border to the rural meth epidemic, then ended with the not-so-confident words, "I intend to enlist the help of the people who know these problems best""
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/06/11/can-mccain-come-from-behind-in-pennsylvania.aspx?print=true)
67. "I'm not for, quote, privatizing social security; I never have been, I never will be."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-scher/mccain-lies-about-social_b_106862.html
68. "Without privatization, I don't see how you can possibly over time make sure that young Americans are able to receive social security benefits."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-scher/mccain-lies-about-social_b_106862.html
69. wants to end the offshore drilling ban of 1981 (opponents include Republican Governors Schwarzenegger and Crist)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/16/AR2008061602731_pf.html
70. the description of McCain's autobiography is by the author of The Unmaking Of Americans: How Multiculturalism has Undermined the Assimilation Ethic and Our Oldest Enemy: A History of America's Disastrous Relationship with France
http://www.amazon.com/Faith-My-Fathers-John-Mccain/dp/0375501916
71. Republican John McCain's campaign accused Barack Obama of having a dangerous and naive Sept. 10 mind-set toward terrorism because the Democrat spoke approvingly of the successful prosecution and imprisonment of those responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center bombings.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/17/MNLJ11AMK8.DTL&type=politics
72. suggested that, as a new idea, like divestment from South Africa to fight apartheid, we should divest from Iran; a bipartisan bill presented by Obama and Brownback in 2007 said just that exact same thing; McCain voted against it; one of his main campaign advisers lobbies for an Iranian steel company; McCain opposed divestment from South Africa at the time.
http://www.economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9989861 , http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/04/mccain-divestment/
73. "We have had some success working with the Pakistanis in a low visible fashion. Should they be more helpful? Of course they should be. Should the Saudis be more helpful? Should the Jordanians be more helpful? Should the Egyptians? We are giving billions of dollars a year to the Egyptians, as you know, and they should be more helpful. Should the Mexicans be more helpful? Everybody should be more helpful."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/16/mccain-blames-history-on_n_107438.html?page=4
74. collects $58,000 per year from the government in disability
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-pension22apr22,1,6562984.story
75. Does not know how to use a computer or the internet (in 2008!)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/11/mccain-admits-he-doesnt-k_n_106478.html
76. said that the nation is founded on "Christian principles"
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/01/mccain.christian.nation/index.html
77. according to two anonymous witnesses and a reporter, McCain angrily replied to his wife's comment about his thinning hair by saying "At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt."
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2008/McCain_temper_boiled_over_in_92_0407.html
http://www.toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/tt.pl/article/14818/At_least_I_dont_plaster_on_the_makeup_like_a_trollop_you_c-word__-_McCain_to_his_wife
78. in 89 flipped Sam Nunn the bird
http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/6506.html
79. said to Sen. Pete Domenici, "Only an asshole would put together a budget like this." After Domenici told him no one had ever called him that, McCain said "I wouldn't call you an asshole unless you were really an asshole."
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=4301022
80. in 2000 Sen. Grassley said, "Are you calling me stupid?" McCain replied, "I'm calling you a fucking jerk."
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=4301022
81. screamed "Fuck you" at John Cornyn on the senate floor, followed by "This is chickenshit stuff," when asked about provisions of his amnesty bill.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=4301022
82. "Because I know that as successful as I believe we will be, and I believe that the success will be fairly easy, we will still lose some American young men or women."[CNN, 9/24/02]
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0209/24/lkl.00.html
"We're not going to get into house-to-house fighting in Baghdad. We may have to take out buildings, but we're not going to have a bloodletting of trading American bodies for Iraqi bodies." [CNN, 9/29/02]
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0209/29/le.00.html
"But the point is that, one, we will win this conflict. We will win it easily." [MSNBC, 1/22/03]
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/01/22/sprj.irq.wrap/
"But I believe, Katie, that the Iraqi people will greet us as liberators." [NBC, 3/20/03]
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/351896_jackson20.html
"It's clear that the end is very much in sight." [ABC, 4/9/03]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ilan-goldenberg/saying-it-does-not-make-i_b_101893.html
"There's not a history of clashes that are violent between Sunnis and Shiahs. So I think they can probably get along." [MSNBC, 4/23/03]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ilan-goldenberg/saying-it-does-not-make-i_b_101893.html
83. Voted against the Katrina Commission (twice)
http://www.newsweek.com/id/140233)
84. Voted against extended Medicaid access for Katrina victims
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/04/24/mccain_tours_lower_ninth_ward.html
85. Voted against extended unemployment assistance for Katrina victims
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/04/24/mccain_tours_lower_ninth_ward.html
86. Voted against extending troop deployment times in the USA to match deployment times in Iraq
http://senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00341
87. Voted against repealing a capital gains tax cut which would have funded soldiers
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00008
88. Voted consistently from 2003-2007 against additional funding for Walter Reed Army Medical Center
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00007
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00098
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00090
89. Voted to table a bill that would have provided funding and equipment for Guard and Reserve units
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=108&session=1&vote=00116
90. voted against additional funding for the mental health care of troops
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00343
91. Voted against legal definitions of torture
http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/04/mccain_does_not_know_contents.html
92. Voted against closing a future market loophole that led to the Enron disasters in California; said the market needed less regulation, not more; the money saved from closing this loophole would have reduced medical and pharmaceutical copays for soldiers
http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/2008/051908Leopold.shtml
93. Voted against Everglades restoration
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-campaign7-2008jun07,0,7166658.story
94. Skipped over a dozen votes on Iraq in the senate
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/articleid/9559
95. "There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods today."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/04/60minutes/main2648779.shtml
"General Petraeus goes out there [Iraq] almost everyday in an unarmored humvee."
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0703/28/ywt.01.html
"I meant that there are neighborhoods that are safe in Iraq, and he does go out into Baghdad, and the fact is there has been significant progress..."
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0703/28/bn.01.html
"I'm not say that they [VIPs] could go without protection. The president goes around America with protection. So I certainly didn't say that."
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0704/01/tww.01.html
Unidentified Reporter: "[On 26 Mar] You said there are areas in Baghdad that you can walk around freely."
McCain: "Yeah, I just came from one."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/01/AR2007040100325_pf.html
McCain's escort through Shorja was 100+ soldiers, sniper teams, 10 armored humvees, 3 blackhawk helicopters, 2 apache gunships, predator drone coverage; McCain was wearing a bulletproof vest and allowed to take off his helmet only when authorized
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/05/28/it-takes-two-baby-to-make-a-dr
96. says that Obama can't understand Iraq since he hasn't been there since 2006
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/27/politics/main4127728.shtml
97. "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno." (1998)
http://www.salon.com/news/1998/06/25newsb.html