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Let's put AIG bailout into perspective, then bend way over...

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More about the false war against Iraq

Of course, Katharine Gun was free to have a conscience, as long as it didn't... more

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Palin's Witch Doctor

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Q: Is it true John McCain voted with George Bush 95 percent of the time?

The Obama campaign keeps claiming McCain has voted with President Bush 95 percent of the time. Is this true? Is this significant?

A: Yes, it's true, according to Congressional Quarterly's assessment of McCain's voting record.

Sen. Barack Obama has attempted to use the Arizona senator's voting record against him in statements like this:

Barack Obama (June 3): It's not change when John McCain decided to stand with George Bush 95 percent of the time, as he did in the Senate last year.

The claim is true. According to Congressional Quarterly's Voting Studies, in 2007 McCain voted in line with the president's position 95 percent of the time – the highest percentage rate for McCain since Bush took office – and voted in line with his party 90 percent of the time. However, McCain's support of President Bush's position has been as low as 77 percent (in 2005), and his support for his party's position has been as low as 67 percent (2001).

Democrats are, of course, attempting to make the case that a vote for McCain is a vote to continue the policies of Bush, whose approval ratings are, to put it charitably, not a political asset for McCain.

Is 95% "Significant"?

As for whether voting with Bush 95 percent of the time last year is "significant," that's a matter of opinion that we leave to readers to determine for themselves.

When doing so, they may wish to consider that Obama's votes were in line with the president's position 40 percent of the time in 2007. That shouldn't be terribly surprising. Even the Senate's Democratic leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, voted with Bush 39 percent of the time last year, according to the way Congressional Quarterly rates the votes.

The McCain campaign points out that Obama told a local TV interviewer recently that "the only bills that I voted for, for the most part, since I've been in the Senate were introduced by Republicans with George Bush." Obama was actually wrong about that. In 2006 he voted alongside the president 49 percent of the time, and in 2005, the year before Democrats took control of the Senate, Obama voted with the president only 33 percent of the time....

More at link. Q: Is it true John McCain voted with George Bush 95 percent of the time? The... more

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McCain Must Release His Health Record!

John McCain has not yet released his medical records to the public. McCain is 72 years... more

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Local Reporter takes it to Mccain

A tough interview with a Maine reporter yesterday, in which McCain speaks on... more

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mcCain has more, you have less...

http://TheRealMcCain.com/ The REAL John McCain is a multi-millionaire who owns ten... more

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mcSame taking the low, Rovarian road to winning friends and influencing people!?

"What's worse than John McCain's dishonest ad? Finding out he had... more

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Pathological liar - John McCain

"We have to spread the truth about McCain ourselves because it's clear the... more

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The 5 McCain videos everyone needs to see

McCain campaign was trotting out lie after lie at the Republican National Convention.... more

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Mrs. Beady = Sarah Palin? Sarah Palin = Mrs. Beady?

My kids watch "Back at the Barnyard" on Nickelodion all the time, and I... more

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Former POW says McCain is "not cut out to be President"

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Massive police raids on suspected protesters in Minneapolis

We are indeed living in a police state.

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If enough people see this video, McCain is finished.

This nine and a half minute video, taken from jedreport.com, is truly staggering. It... more

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TPMtv: Dazed and Confused

TPM has put together a powerful video on John McCain's consistent mental... more

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Republicans and miltary men on John McCain

Spine-Chilling Video -- Needs to Go Viral

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John McCain Is So Old, He Can't Even Remember The Lies He Told Five Minutes Ago !

Senator John McCain is like an old wooden ventriloquist doll, who obviously is being... more

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John McCain's oil lobbyists

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Terrorists for Obama

Earlier this week, Republican presidential nominee John McCain dipped into the old GOP bag o' tricks and essentially called Democratic candidate Barack Obama a traitor. On Tuesday, at a town hall meeting in New Hampshire, McCain claimed he was different from his opponent, because Obama would "rather lose a war" than an election.That's right. Obama's super-secret plan is to win over voters in the Midwest by serving up American troops in the Middle East. It's pure political genius!But the real punch line to this absurd claim is that McCain, whose campaign has constantly slandered Obama with scurrilous charges so voters might question whether he has America's best interests at heart, actually had the gall to charge the Illinois senator with politicising national security.Can someone please enlighten McCain as to the definition of the word irony?For it is McCain - ripping a page from the playbook of his bosom buddy President Bush - who has sought since the beginning of the general election to use a combination of recess-level rhetoric and a constant stream of distortions to turn every aspect of American foreign policy into a campaign prop. Regardless of how it affects the safety of Americans in the Middle East and throughout the remainder of the globe.In late April, utilising McCain's own flapping gums - during what must have been a riveting conference call with conservative bloggers - the McCain camp made the outlandish charge that "it's very clear who Hamas wants to be the next president of the United States."Terrorists for Obama! - or so we are to believe. Did the McCain campaign think about how a charge like this might effect US policy with Israel, the Palestinians or the rest of the world, should Obama become president? One assumes not, or least not until long after they took a look at the electoral map and pondered where such slander might benefit them among Jewish and evangelical Christian voters.But not content to stop there, deputy campaign manager Christian Ferry sent out an email at the same time, entitled "Hamas weighs in on US presidential election". The missive contained such nuggets of wisdom as: "We need change in America, but not the kind of change that wins kind words from Hamas, surrenders in Iraq and will hold unconditional talks with Iranian President Ahmadinejad."Uh oh, the trifecta!McCain, more recently, decided he was not satisfied with simply politicising our foreign policy in the Middle East, so his handlers decided to take a page out of the cold war playbook. This time, they used another longtime GOP tactic, placing Obama side by side with longtime Cuban dictator Fidel Castro in a web ad. How might this affect our relationship (or lack thereof) with Cuba or numerous parts of Latin America where Castro is viewed in a much different light?Who cares! They have South Floridian, geriatric Cuban voters to try and scare into voting for McCain! Duplicity is but a necessity.The British novelist and poet W Somerset Maugham once said "hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job."Luckily for John McCain, he seems to have a lot of time on his hands.Earlier this week, Republican presidential nominee John McCain dipped into the old GOP... more

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