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After Juan McCain's traiterous behavior toward are own Boeing Workers his opinon on earmarks means nothing. He has comprimised are national security for his own vindictive purposes.

This way, it's easier for the repubs to fund the war. Earmarks. Like bridges that go no where and dam's that don't. Pork barrel spending is a repub law, or so it seems. And the Dems have to raise taxes. After the repubs get done waging war, or building bridges, the only way out of a horrendous national debt, is to raise taxes. They cut them, to their buddies, the oil companies, defense contractors, etc., and we have to fix it afterwards. Bush's first words on the surplus Clinton left, was to the effect that 'we know what to do with a surplus'. (not an exact quote) It's that mindset that keeps people in the red, even as they spend our money.

Normally, when people are caught padding their resume, especially padding it over and over, they don't get the job... first it was her vast foreign policy experience (on a USO tour with Sinbad?!), now it's being revealed that "her" SCHIPS program is a big lie, too.

Clinton Role in SCHIP Health Program Disputed
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/03/14/clinton_role_in_health_program_disputed/
WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton, who has frequently described herself on the campaign trail as playing a pivotal role in forging a children's health insurance plan, had little to do with crafting the landmark legislation or ushering it through Congress, according to several lawmakers, staffers, and healthcare advocates involved in the issue.

In campaign speeches, Clinton describes the State Children's Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, as an initiative "I helped to start." Addressing Iowa voters in November, Clinton said, "in 1997, I joined forces with members of Congress and we passed the State Children's Health Insurance Program." Clinton regularly cites the number of children in each state who are covered by the program, and mothers of sick children have appeared at Clinton campaign rallies to thank her.

But the Clinton White House, while supportive of the idea of expanding children's health, fought the first SCHIP effort, spearheaded by Senators Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, and Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, because of fears that it would derail a bigger budget bill. And several current and former lawmakers and staff said Hillary Clinton had no role in helping to write the congressional legislation, which grew out of a similar program approved in Massachusetts in 1996.

"The White House wasn't for it. We really roughed them up" in trying to get it approved over the Clinton administration's objections, Hatch said in an interview. "She may have done some advocacy [privately] over at the White House, but I'm not aware of it."

"I do like her," Hatch said of Hillary Clinton. "We all care about children. But does she deserve credit for SCHIP? No - Teddy does, but she doesn't."

The biggest waste & mismanagement problem, that Americans want stopped, is the occupation of Iraq. All that money could be spent caring for urgent needs of our own (medical care, jobs, infrastucture, education...) Under Bush all the big $$$ have been funneled to special interest no bid contract deals. It would be more of the same with McBomb, despite what he might be spinning now. It would not be much different with Hillary, she owes lots of favors if she can bully her way in. Barack has the right judgement of how we need to steer this bus. I choose to motivated by an enduring hope for a better future. I choose NOT to be motivated by the carefully cultivated fear being spread again.

Senator Obama has released details of his earmarks since he has been in the Senate.  Perhaps Snerator McCain should hire someone to read those any specify which ones he beleives are "pork"  and then ask the citiznes he represents in Arizona if they would like to be deprived of federal funds for worthy projects as well for the next 100 years.

McCain should also take advantage of the race baiting going on between the Democrats by reaching out to minorities.  With PA Democratic Governor Rendell reminding Democratic primary voters that some people will never vote for an African American in a general election, the Clinton campaign is angering a lot of people in the minority community separate and apart from Ferraro's vieled reference to affirmative action by saying that Obama only got where he is because he is black.  Obama, for his part, is acting like an Uncle Tom by failing to call these racist actions for what they are, "racist," because he fears offending white Democrats.  

This is a great opportunity for the GOP, the party of Lincoln, to make significant gains among minority voters while the Democrats are exposed for the hypocrits they are.  If I were McCain, I would make some very visible efforts to reach out to Black Republicans to create a contrast between himself and Hillary Clinton, and even Obama who is afraid to even acknowledge that Hillary's campaign is engaging in a racist campaign.  

There is no argument that much of the pork passing through Congress needs to be elimnated. But McCain needs to get off the earmarks issue, support transparency on such spending as has Obama, and think about bringing home those billions of dollars he is willing to spend on a no-win policing action in Iraq. Then perhaps those State (and Federal) infrastructure projects needing funding could be funded without breaking the bank.

As we build bridges and roads in Iraq our own bridges are collapsing. As we spend millions for military hardware in Iraq our own borders continue to be unprotected. As we rebuild Iraqi cities our own people are losing their homes by the thousands to forclosure. As we build schools in Iraq our own public education system continues to go down the drain.

No one is opposed to aiding Iraq to rebuild what we have destroyed when they become stable enough to ensure that what we do rebuild is not destroyed.

And most importantly, Mccain needs to worry more about getting our troops home because the lives of our troops are priceless. Concerns about earmarks are not even in the same legaue. How about spending more time and showing more concern for getting our troops home and spending a little more tax payer money on rebuilding the US and the lives of US citizens who have suffered job losses and home losses as well as ensuring our kids a little better education by way of an improved educational system.

This guy can barely stand without his wife holding him up half the time. I is rumored the melanoma in his cheek has come back full force. He looks sick.

By his ''usual rant''you are inferring that he is predominantly against pork earmarks while your ''New Era''Dems keep pulling the same garbage.[marking both McCain and DeMint as actual,vice alleged,''Change''persons in Washington]. And to those who are buying into said garbage that earmarks are actually providing a majoral decent function by which the American taxpayer gets what they pay for,go here,and gain knowlage.

www.porkbusters.com[non-partisan]

JOHN MC CAIN, KILL A MUSLIM FOR CHRIST !!


From Mother Jones:

'...McCain's Spiritual Guide: Destroy Islam

Washington Dispatch: Televangelist Rod Parsley, a key
McCain ally in Ohio, has called for eradicating the
"false religion." Will the GOP presidential candidate
renounce him?

By David Corn

March 12, 2008


Senator John McCain hailed as a spiritual adviser an
Ohio megachurch pastor who has called upon Christians
to wage a "war" against the "false religion" of Islam
with the aim of destroying it.

On February 26, McCain appeared at a campaign rally in
Cincinnati with the Reverend Rod Parsley of the World
Harvest Church of Columbus, a supersize Pentecostal
institution that features a 5,200-seat sanctuary, a
television studio (where Parsley tapes a weekly show),
and a 122,000-square-foot Ministry Activity Center.
That day, a week before the Ohio primary, Parsley
praised the Republican presidential front-runner as a
"strong, true, consistent conservative." The
endorsement was important for McCain, who at the time
was trying to put an end to the lingering challenge
from former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, a
favorite among Christian evangelicals. A politically
influential figure in Ohio, Parsley could also play a
key role in McCain's effort to win this bellwether
state in the general election. McCain, with Parsley by
his side at the Cincinnati rally, called the
evangelical minister a "spiritual guide."

The leader of a 12,000-member congregation, Parsley
has written several books outlining his fundamentalist
religious outlook, including the 2005 Silent No More.
In this work, Parsley decries the "spiritual
desperation" of the United States, and he blasts away
at the usual suspects: activist judges, civil
libertarians who advocate the separation of church and
state, the homosexual "culture" ("homosexuals are
anything but happy and carefree"), the "abortion
industry," and the crass and profane entertainment
industry. And Parsley targets another profound threat
to the United States: the religion of Islam.

In a chapter titled "Islam: The Deception of Allah,"
Parsley warns there is a "war between Islam and
Christian civilization." He continues:


I cannot tell you how important it is that we
understand the true nature of Islam, that we see it
for what it really is. In fact, I will tell you this:
I do not believe our country can truly fulfill its
divine purpose until we understand our historical
conflict with Islam. I know that this statement sounds
extreme, but I do not shrink from its implications.
The fact is that America was founded, in part, with
the intention of seeing this false religion destroyed,
and I believe September 11, 2001, was a generational
call to arms that we can no longer ignore.

Parsley is not shy about his desire to obliterate
Islam. In Silent No More, he notes—approvingly—that
Christopher Columbus shared the same goal: "It was to
defeat Islam, among other dreams, that Christopher
Columbus sailed to the New World in 1492…Columbus
dreamed of defeating the armies of Islam with the
armies of Europe made mighty by the wealth of the New
World. It was this dream that, in part, began
America." He urges his readers to realize that a
confrontation between Christianity and Islam is
unavoidable: "We find now we have no choice. The time
has come." And he has bad news: "We may already be
losing the battle. As I scan the world, I find that
Islam is responsible for more pain, more bloodshed,
and more devastation than nearly any other force on
earth at this moment."

Parsley claims that Islam is an "anti-Christ religion"
predicated on "deception." The Muslim prophet
Muhammad, he writes, "received revelations from demons
and not from the true God." And he emphasizes this
point: "Allah was a demon spirit." Parsley does not
differentiate between violent Islamic extremists and
other followers of the religion:


There are some, of course, who will say that the
violence I cite is the exception and not the rule. I
beg to differ. I will counter, respectfully, that what
some call "extremists" are instead mainstream
believers who are drawing from the well at the very
heart of Islam.

The spirit of Islam, he maintains, is one of
hostility. He asserts that the religion "inspired" the
9/11 attacks. He bemoans the fact that in the years
after 9/11, 34,000 Americans "have become Muslim" and
that there are "some 1,209 mosques" in America. Islam,
he declares, is a "faith that fully intends to conquer
the world" through violence. The United States, he
insists, "has historically understood herself as a
bastion against Islam," but "history is crashing in
upon us."

At the end of his chapter on Islam, Parsley asks, "Are
we a Christian nation? I say yes." Without specifying
what actions should be taken to eradicate the
religion, he essentially calls for a new crusade.

Parsley, who refers to himself as a "Christocrat," is
no stranger to controversy. In 2007, the grassroots
organization he founded, the Center for Moral Clarity,
called for prosecuting people who commit adultery. In
January, he compared Planned Parenthood to Nazis. In
the past Parsley's church has been accused of engaging
in pro-Republican partisan activities in violation of
its tax-exempt status...'

McCain is right that taxpayers want waste and mismanagement of their tax dollars stopped. This is the key. Waste and mismanagement. There's nothing wrong with earmarks really as long as there is TRANSPARENCY that shows where the money went. However, he does appear to be talking out of both sides of his mouth; he may be against earmarks, but he's not against lobbyists?  And by the way, MSNBC, I have written many posts here, but they never get posted..I follow the rules, appropriate language, related to the blog, etc. yet I see a lot of ignorant rants and attacks and they get through your moderators. What's up with that?

John,
Please stop your nonsensical comments about the senate being disconnect from the American people. If there is anyone in Washington that is more disconnected with the desires of the American people it is John McCain. (Think, 70% of us want an end to the war!) Earmarks! What about loans from foreign governments that your idol,Dubya has gotten us involved in during the last six years? You never mention those "earmarks", nor what is going to happen you us when those "loans" become due.We probably will never begin to pay off just the interest on those loans. Talk about that John. Billions of dollars have been wasted because of Dubya's war and your supporting it. Show us some balls, and begin to honestly show concern for our financial future. Oh, that's right, you don't know diddly about economics. Have you finished Chaper One yet in your Econ. 101 text?

If the money that we pay through taxes is for the benefit of the people, I, for one, am willing to pay.  Isn't that the point of taxes.  The rich people certainly aren't putting their money forth to pay on the behalf of majority of Americans.  They keep their money in their pockets and re-invest only to further fatten their pockets.

Didn't McCain have earmarks as well?

...... Uhhhh, John ?

How can you SUPPORT continuation of Bush's irresponsible TAX CUTS for the Rich and powerful

Are you 'Santa Claus in a 3 piece suit'  ?

Why CUT TAXES during a WAR ??
Shouldn't the rich sacrifice, too ?
How do we pay for the Iraq war ??


PS
HAven't ear marks GONE DOWN since the Democrats re-took control of Congress ?

Wasn't the Republicans and Geroge Bush who were 'out of control' with ear marks ?

PPS
Please comapre the cost of ear marks to the cost of the Iraq War ?
Bush said Iraq was an 'electivew war'
Bush, you and Hillary 'ELECTED' to go to war
WHY ?
What responsibility do you and Hillary bear for this catastropeh ?
Oh, and what's the value of your 'experience' ?

Your friend,
Sierra, SF

So basically McCain pulled a Bush and complained about congress not doing what he wanted to get done. What difference can we expect from him when he is the president? How is he going to be able to get an earmark bill passed if he can't even pass it now being in the senate? Its not happening now for McCain and it won't happen in the white house. The only way for us to pass the bill which failed is to get the american people involved. Lets get EVERY one of those people who voted against the bill out of the senate including both democrats and republicans. If they are afraid to showing why they are wanting money from the government, then they don't need to be representing us. Change must come from the bottom up. WE must make the difference.

As a lunch bucket, blue collar Democrat with six children under my roof, I can state that if Hillary doesn't get the Dem. nod, I'll vote for McCain.

McCain will run very strong. He's probably the next President.

"McCain criticized the senate's late night last night as unproductive and meaningless."'

You're the poster child.

Maybe when you're prezidunt we can just forget about spending any money at all in this country and just ship it all to Iraq/Iran/Afghanistan/whatever two wars you're going to start. That should take care of "pork."

The way NBC LEE COWAN PRESENT THE OBAMA PASTOR COVERAGE IS BIAS TOWARDS OBAMA.

OBAMA EARMARK REQUESTS: FY 2006 AND FY 2007

Chicago, IL – Senator Barack Obama’s campaign today released his earmark requests for 2005 and 2006 and called on Senator Hillary Clinton to do the same. Last year, Obama’s Senate office released his 2007 earmark requests.
The ’05 and ’06 requests can be seen at answercenter below. The ’07 requests are available on the official Senate website(senate.gov). To date, Senator Clinton has refused repeated requests to disclose her earmark requests.

...Obama believes that there has been too little transparency in Washington, and he has been a leader in reforming the earmark process so that every American can know how the government spends their tax dollars. Barack Obama teamed up with Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) to pass a law that lifted the veil of secrecy in Washington by creating a Google-like search engine that allows ordinary Americans to track federal grants, contracts, earmarks and loans online. The database – known as “Google for Government” – was launched by the Office of Management and Budget in early December and is available at www.USAspending.gov. As president, Obama will give voters the tools they need to track spending so we can stop letting the special interests set the agenda in Washington.



http://answercenter.barackobama.com/cgi-bin/barackobama.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=172&p_created=1205426026&p_sid=TNlxoC-i&p_accessibility=0&p_redirect=&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MSwxJnBfcHJvZHM9JnBfY2F0cz



--
Senator Barack Obama on Thursday released a list of $740 million in earmarked spending requests that he had made over the last three years, and his campaign challenged Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to do the same.

... Obama's presidential campaign also said that only about $220 million worth of his requests had been approved by Congress.
per nyt

GAME OVER. Hillary won.

Obama is unelectable.

Hillary has proven she can win big in the big states that are the must wins for the Dems in November.

In Mississippi, Obama won only 21% of the white vote and 91% of the black vote. It was Obama who chose to continually interject racsism and sexism into this campaign at his own peril.

In Ohio, Obama outspent Hillary 3 to 1 yet won ONLY 5 out of 88 counties in Ohio, those with large black voter turnout at 86% for Obama.

If you can't win in must win states like Ohio, you cannot win the Presidency.

New polls out today show Obama getting absolutely crushed in a match with McCain, while Hillary BEATS McCain.

No question Hillary is the strongest and most electable candidate in the race.

A vote for Obama is a vote for McCain.

Be smart Dems, support Hillary, NOW.

After this campaign debacle is over, Obama won't even be re-electable to the Senate in Illinois. Rezko, "pastor" Wright, the anti-white, anti-semitic, Farakkan supporter, THIS is the  man Obama calls his "mentor" and "long time personal friend"?????? YIKES.

Obama is SO over.

McCain is talking the language the American voters want to hear. If he can stay the course, he could well be our next President..

Trying to keep a Democrat from spending is like trying to tell a woman she can't break in her new credit card at Macy's (or Target or 'Take-your-pick').
I can't wait to hear how BHO/HRC will try to explain how to pay for all the empty promises they've been making on the campaign trail. "Take it from the rich," they'll say. Well, once you handicap the angel investors and big donors, who is going to spur all these green jobs you plan to create or give to your "Global Initiative"?
Oh wait, the government should do that for us.
Would that be the same government that created the 'Welfare State', then pulled the rug from under them?
Would that be the same government that created 'Social Security' then robbed it blind?
Would that be the same govt that built 'Ellis Island' for europeans and the 'Virtual Fence' for south americans?
Yeah. Let's give them more money so they can justify doing something else stupid.

"A lot of that money’s not spent. So ask for it; if you’re against it, say it shouldn’t be spent, and I’m sure we could get it through that they wouldn’t have -- that that money wouldn’t have to be spent."  -- John McCain

Am I missing something or is Senator McCain beginning to sound just like George Bush?  If I didn’t know better, I’d think there was some sort of Manchurian Candidate thing going on ….

I am SO looking forward to the first McCain/Obama debate.  It will be awesome.


Obama/Webb 08

I am surprised that McCain worries about few $Millions while he supports spending hundreds of $Billions on Iraq war. Penny Wise Pound Foolish!

$4 DIESEL TOO-and LEGAL TRUCKERS are being PRICED OUT OF MARKET. . ."so as to pay $5 per hr illegals-while PROFITTING EVEN MORE off OIL MONOMPOLY".

-AND WE'RE DISTRACTED WITH 13% BLACK CANDIDATE-and OBNOXIOUS FEMALE-

JOHN IS IT MITT-LIKE THE CORPORATES WANTED ALL ALONG?

If McCain is so worried about our tax dollars, why  did he vote to waste so many of them in Iraq?  Why does he want to keep wasting them for a hundred years or more?  Why does he want to continue the Bush tax cuts?      

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