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A Small Anti-McCain Video Gallery

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Next we have a video that emphasizes McCain’s remarkable fondness for military force. McCain is one of those Dolchstoss nuts from the Vietnam War era who still believes that killing yet another million Vietnamese would have successfully installed the never-popular South Vietnamese government. This video is quite chilling. It brings out the dangers of having another President who wants to be a war-time President — including a few you may not have thought of:

Here’s one I find particularly moving. It points out how McCain has consistently been cheerleading the Iraq War but it does so not in a gotcha way but in a look-how-tragic-this-is way.

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    • Its pretty good overall but I dont like the line that they campaigned together while our soldiers died. It just doesn’t make any sense. How is campaigning while our soldiers dying out of touch? Kerry and Edwards did the same thing, Obama and McCain are doing it now. Also I think it would alienate people in the heartland since I don’t believe that McCain and Bush are indifferent to casualties I just believe strongly that they are misguided in justifying them.

  2. The candidate we still don’t know.”

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    So why isn’t Obama romping? The obvious answer – and both the excessively genteel Obama campaign and a too-compliant press bear responsibility for it – is that the public doesn’t know who on earth John McCain is. T

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    Americans feel they hear too little about him. It’s past time for that pressing educational need to be met.

    What is widely known is the skin-deep, out-of-date McCain image.

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    He strenuously opposed the execution of the Iraq war; he slammed the president’s response to Katrina; he fought the “agents of intolerance” of the religious right; he crusaded against the G.O.P. House leader Tom DeLay, the criminal lobbyist Jack Abramoff and their coterie of influence-peddlers.

    With the exception of McCain’s imprisonment in Vietnam, every aspect of this profile in courage is inaccurate or defunct.

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    McCain never called for Donald Rumsfeld to be fired and didn’t start criticizing the war plan until late August 2003, nearly four months after “Mission Accomplished.” By then the growing insurgency was undeniable. On the day Hurricane Katrina hit, McCain laughed it up with the oblivious president at a birthday photo-op in Arizona. McCain didn’t get to New Orleans for another six months and didn’t sharply express public criticism of the Bush response to the calamity until this April, when he traveled to the Gulf Coast in desperate search of election-year pageantry surrounding him with black extras.

    McCain long ago embraced the right’s agents of intolerance, even spending months courting the Rev. John Hagee, whose fringe views about Roman Catholics and the Holocaust were known to anyone who can use the Internet. (Once the McCain campaign discovered YouTube, it ditched Hagee.) On Monday McCain is scheduled to appear at an Atlanta fund-raiser being promoted by Ralph Reed, who is not only the former aide de camp to one of the agents of intolerance McCain once vilified (Pat Robertson) but is also the former Abramoff acolyte showcased in McCain’s own Senate investigation of Indian casino lobbying.

    Though the McCain campaign announced a new no-lobbyists policy three months after The Washington Post’s February report that lobbyists were “essentially running” the whole operation, the fact remains that McCain’s top officials and fund-raisers have past financial ties to nearly every domestic and foreign flashpoint, from Fannie Mae to Blackwater to Ahmad Chalabi to the government of Georgia. No sooner does McCain flip-flop on oil drilling than a bevy of Hess Oil family members and executives, not to mention a lowly Hess office manager and his wife, each give a maximum $28,500 to the Republican Party.

    While reporters at The Post and The New York Times have been vetting McCain, many others give him a free pass.

  4. “McCain frequently forgets key elements of policies, gets countries’ names wrong, forgets things he’s said only hours or days before and is frequently just confused.” Most Americans still don’t know it is precisely for this reason that the McCain campaign has now shut down the press’s previously unfettered access to the candidate on the Straight Talk Express. “

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