What kind of Dirt do we have on John McCain?

[Ioo]

I would like to set up a site on some real facts about John mcCain...

I could really use the help on some facts...

[Kali]

1. Charlie Keating.

[Parche]

2. john mccain

SYNOPSIS: John McCain graduated from Episcopal High School, Alexandria VA in
1954. He attended the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD graduating in
1958.

John S. McCain came from a Navy family. Both his father and grandfather
became Navy aviators, and John III followed in their footsteps. He graduated
from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1958, as his father had in 1931. John III was
later shipped to Vietnam, where he became the third generation of his family
to serve.
"John McCain's grandfather was a gaunt, hawk-faced man known as Slew
by his fellow officers and, affectionately, as Popeye by the sailors
who served under him. McCain Sr. played the horses, drank bourbon
and water, and rolled his own cigarettes with one hand. More
significant, he was one of the navy's greatest commanders, and led
the strongest aircraft carrier force of the Third Fleet in key
battles during World War II."

Born at Carroll County, Mississippi, August 9, 1884, the son of John Sidney and Elizabeth-Ann Young McCain.
He was a student at the University of Mississippi, 1901-02 and graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1906, from the Navy War College in 1929, from Flight Instruction School, 1936. He married Katherine Vaulx, August 9, 1909. Their children were: John Sidney, James Gordon, Katherine Vaulx.

He was commissioned an Ensign, 1906, and promoted through the grades to Rear Admiral, 1941; Vice Admiral, July 1943. He served as Chief of the Naval Bureau of Aeronautics, September 1942-July 1943; Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air, July 1943; Commander, Carrier Task Force 38. Planes under his command took part in action over Peleliu, Leyte Gulf, Philippine Sea, Mindoro, Luzon, Formosa, Ruyukyus and the Japanese homeland. His planes once sank 49 Japanese ships in a single day. Between July 10 and August 14, 1945, his aviators located and destroyed 3,000 grounded enemy planes. He witnessed the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945.

He died on September 6, 1945 and was buried in Section 3 (Grave 4356) of Arlington National Cemetery, among other family members, including his brother, William Alexander McCain, Brigadier General, U.S. Army, and John Sidney McCain, Jr., Admiral, United States Navy.


Photo Courtesy of Dave's War Birds

[babylonsister]

3. He signed off on the Military Commissions Act/doing away w/

habeus corpus. That should be worth a bit.

[Sapphocrat]

4. He used the slur "gook"...

...and refused to apologize for it.

(Yes, I know exactly who he was referring to, but his behavior was completely unacceptable.)

[JeffR]

5. According to some within his own party

He's crazy from his POW experiences, and he sired an out-of-wedlock mixed-race baby...

But seriously, it seems to me his positions and his voting record are enough of an indictment of him. Is anything else really neeeded?

[Erika]

6. Look in the Arizona Republic archives

W and his swift boaters really did a public number on McCain during the 2000 primaries. In his own home newspaper. It was dirty beyond belief. W's attack dogs aimed at the McCain family personally.

The dirt's already been dug on McCain, by his own party.

I left McCain as a follower after he endorsed W. W and his attack dogs tried to destroy all integrity of the McCain family. You don't kiss your enemy who has tried his hardest to damage you and yours.

[yellowdogmi]

7. How about allowing the president to get away with torture of

detainee's even after he was subjected to those sort of practices in vietnam?

[hsher]

8. Well, he made disrespectful use of suicide terminology

He joked about suicide, claiming he'd kill himself if the Dems took the election. So far in the media there's been not a single follow-up peep, so I had Cartoon Jon Stewart do it on my blog. If a Dem had said that, the media would still be moaning and hand-wringing about "disrespect for the many people who have lost close family members to suicide", interviewing those "many people" to extract nuanced condemnations of the Dem who said it, and interviewing the heads of suicide prevention organizations. Not to cross over and become Freeper, but you know, we really ought to stay on his ass about that comment.

Jon certainly will. ;)

<---- goes back to comic to think of more rude references Cartoon Jon Stewart can make to McCain's suicide comment

[Disturbed]

10. Damn! How many times do I need to post these facts?

John McCain Hypocrite
by Doug Ireland

John McCain, the media's darling, has found a clever way around his own campaign finance reform law to take big corporate bucks in furtherance of his political ambitions while carrying water for the corporate mammoth providing the dough. But the national press is ignoring the story.


The Associated Press first ran the story of John McCain's odorous but lucrative Senatorial service to the communications giant Cablevision on the afternoon of March 7. But, while some local papers in McCain's home state (like the East Valley Tribune) have run the story, nothing has as yet made it into the print editions of the New York Times, the L.A. Times, the Washington Post, or any of the half-dozen other big city dailies I checked (although, if one searches the hundreds of AP stories available on the Post's website on its Politics page by clicking on "Latest Wire Reports," one can find it there--but how many readers would bother to do that?) One notable exception: the Kansas City Star.


Here's what the AP's investigation found:


McCain repeatedly intervened on behalf of a policy Cablevision favored -- one which "congressional and private studies conclude could make cable more expensive" -- while his chief political adviser, Rick Davis (who's masterminding McCain's probable '08 presidential rerun) solicited $200,000 in contributions from Cablevision to an institute that promotes McCain and pays Davis a $110,000 annual salary.


The Reform Institute was set up to promote McCain and his issues--especially campaign finance reform, embodied in the famous McCain-Feingold law. This Institute is "a tax-exempt group that touts McCain's views and has showcased him at events since his unsuccessful 2000 presidential campaign," and it "often uses the senator's name in press releases and fund-raising letters and includes him at press conferences," the AP says. And, of course, it provides a cushy sinecure with no heavy lifting for McCain's main man, Davis, as he prepares the pontificating Senator's next presidential run. Cablevision's contributions account for a whopping 15% of the Institute's budget.


http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0309-35.htm



McCain hypocrisy:

The Bushification of John McCain

By Ari Melber, AlterNet. Posted November 15, 2005.

The bad blood between the two men has been infamous since 2000, when Bush's campaign lied about McCain's family and war service, and McCain told Bush to "get out of the gutter."

But during Bush's reelection in 2004, McCain strained to embrace his former rival -- literally. In their first joint appearance, they hugged dramatically before 6,000 soldiers at a Fort Lewis rally. Those events made for great campaign visuals. Yet while most Americans saw McCain's big heart, Republican leaders saw hungry ambition.

Rich Lowry, editor of the conservative magazine National Review, recently described that campaign bear hug as nothing but proof of "the senator's presidential ambitions." Lowry argues it's just part of McCain's scheme to get "the Right to stop loathing him." In targeted moves since the election, McCain has continued his Bushification by changing positions on conservative priorities like creationism, gay marriage and tax cuts.

As the costs of Hurricane Katrina mounted, McCain went on national television and told Chris Mathews the Bush tax cuts must be maintained. But McCain voted against those tax cuts.

In fact, he was one of only two Republicans to oppose Bush's signature 2001 tax cut. Given the surging costs of Katrina, Iraq and Medicare, there is no policy rationale for reversing his position now. The only rationale is political pandering. And that's exactly how some influential conservatives see it. Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, recently said that although McCain has "flip-flopped on a number of issues," he is still "anti-taxpayer" because "he's voted against every tax cut."

Yet the mainstream media is so attached to McCain's maverick image, most journalists didn't cover the tax reversal.


http://www.alternet.org/story/28266 /

[MethuenProgressive]

9. Google "I hate John McCain" (with the quotes) Yikes!

egad...