John McCain needs to just go through the motions before he is passed the Republican torch from G.W. in Minneapolis this summer. Obama and Clinton will continue to slug it out and spend precious resources seeking the Democratic nomination. I am not about to predict a winner on the Democratic side but can say this: McCain will be more of the same and working stiffs like myself will find it hard to endure another Republican administration. The following PowerPoint presentation created by the AFL-CIO is just the beginning of shedding the light on the real McCain and the urgency of working hard to realize a Democratic victory in November.
(Click on the arrows to view the slides)
Here is an additional fact sheet prepared by the AFL-CIO on the real McCain: mccain-facts.pdf
Peace & solidarity,
CHC
McCain also voted to keep corporate tax loopholes instead of increasing funding for Veterans’ health care through the Department of Veterans Affairs.
The vote was 14 March 2006.
We donkeys haven’t forgotten . . .
The knock on Obama is that we don’t know him … so there is a new book ObamaNation that is attempting to “educate” voters.
But with McCain there is a lot we “know” but that we have forgotten.
Your readers may want to read Ted Sampley’s 1992 piece John McCain : The Manchurian Candidate . Sampley may be remembered for his anti-Kerry work in 2004, but before that he had McCain in his cross-hairs.
The 1992 piece virtually calls McCain a traitor. The photo of McCain and one of his “examiners” in a friendly embrace angered Vietnam Vets … “Sen. McCain stunned onlookers at the hearing when he moved forward to the witness table and warmly embraced Bui Tin as if he was a long, lost brother. “Was that hug for Bui Tin, a Vietnamese official responsible for the torture of some American prisoners of war, a message ‘please don’t give them my records?’” one activist questioned at the time.” [SNIP] “Shortly thereafter, as a direct result of Sen. McCain’s lobbying of other Republican Senators, Usry, a distinguished Vietnam veteran, and all other members of the Minority Staff, who had participated in the POW/MIA investigations, were abruptly fired.”
Sampley has been hounding McCain for fourteen years and maintains Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain .