McCain is a phony

John McCain, the so-called "straight talker" is talking crooked again! He accused Senator Barack Obama of voting "to deny funds to the soldiers who have done a brilliant and brave job" in Iraq. McCain was referring to a 2007 piece of legislation which was to pay for the Iraq war. Obama opposed it because it failed to include a timetable for troop withdrawal.

Obama said at the time that this bill would provide President Bush with "a blank check to continue down this same, disastrous path."

McCain, being the "dirty talker," made Obama's vote sound like he was against our men and women in service.


It is just fascinating and quite disturbing to find once again that the MSM, this time in the form of Beth Fouhy and Devlin Barrett writing for the Associated Press, give McCain a free pass. They write that Obama changed his mind about the need for a troop withdrawal deadline, which seems to me a reasonable thing to do, while at the same time fail to mention McCain's numerous votes in the Senate that can only be classified as hostile to our people in uniform.

While Obama's negative vote was largely symbolic, McCain's votes hit directly at the hearts of those serving out country. As pointed out in the post, "McCain's brain drain," McCain voted over and over again against increasing assistance to veterans and just recently voted against providing the GI bill to those returning home from service in the Middle East.

In fact, the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America gave him a "D" grade in response to his lack of interest in the needs of our service men and women.


But, the Main Stream Media, instead of taking McCain to task for his lousy support of our troops, references a modest and understandable change of mind on the part of Obama; a change an Associated Press article claims, with absolutely no evidence to back it up, was the result of "pressure from the Democratic Party's liberal wing." Note also the intended slam at "liberals," as if being liberal is a bad thing.


Listen carefully: if it wasn't for the liberals over the past 60-70 years, this country would be in much worse shape than it is now. It is the liberals that gave us Social Security and Medicare, and the GI bill, and all those other social programs which have helped our middle income citizens share in the American dream.

It has been the so-called conservatives that have fought all of these liberal programs tooth and nail for the past 60-70 years! They've had their most success in destroying the middle class, and increasing the wealth of the ultra rich in the past 7 and 1/2 years under the G.W. Bush administration.

David Neiwert of Firedoglake tells how in some California cities we now have "Middle-Class Hoovervilles for the 21st Century." In Santa Barbara, "12 parking lots ... have been set up to accommodate the growing middle-class homelessness." These lots are made available for people working at low-income jobs but do not make enough to rent an apartment to sleep in their cars.

He tells of Harvey, working part-time for $8 an hour. She does draw Social Security but her income is still insufficient to rent a place to live. She sleeps in her car and hopes to be able to afford enough gas to drive to her job.

Something similar to this happened in the late 1920s, and the places people lived were called Hoovervilles. Neiwert suggests we call these 21st century homes for those unable to afford even the cheapest apartment, Bushvilles.

This is what the conservatives have wrought. And John McCain is as "conservative" as they come. He is not a "maverick," nor is he a "straight-talker." He has not only not supported our troops in the Middle East, he has consistently voted against measures that would have provided proper care for their medical, mental health and housing needs!

McCain is a con artist and a flip-flopper who is abysmally ignorant as to the Middle East and the Iraq War, and thus will only make the Middle East mess worse. Furthermore, because he promises to follow Bush's economic policies, he will continue to decimate the middle class even as the number of Bushvilles increase in the cities across our fair land.