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Ten Things You Should Know About McCain

February 17, 2009 | Ft. Myers, Florida | Vetting explained

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  1. John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday
               in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now he says his position has
               "evolved," yet he's continued to oppose key civil rights laws.1

  2. According
               to Bloomberg News, McCain is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq, Russia and
               China. Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan says McCain "will make
               Cheney look like Gandhi."2

  3. His reputation is
               built on his opposition to torture, but McCain voted against a bill to
               ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that
               ban.3

  4. McCain opposes a woman's right to choose. He said, "I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned."4

  5. The
               Children's Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress
               for children. He voted against the children's health care bill last
               year, then defended Bush's veto of the bill.5

  6. He's
               one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires. The
               Associated Press reports he and his wife own at least eight homes! Yet
               McCain says the solution to the housing crisis is for people facing
               foreclosure to get a "second job" and skip their vacations.6

  7. Many
               of McCain's fellow Republican senators say he's too reckless to be
               commander in chief. One Republican senator said: "The thought of his
               being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He's erratic. He's
               hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me."7

  8. McCain
               talks a lot about taking on special interests, but his campaign manager
               and top advisers are actually lobbyists. The government watchdog group
               Public Citizen says McCain has 59 lobbyists raising money for his
               campaign, more than any of the other presidential candidates.8

  9. McCain has sought closer ties to the extreme religious right in recent
               years. The pastor McCain calls his "spiritual guide," Rod Parsley,
               believes America's founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls
               a "false religion." McCain sought the political support of right-wing
               preacher John Hagee, who believes Hurricane Katrina was God's
               punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church "the
               Antichrist" and a "false cult."9

  10. He positions himself as pro-environment, but he scored a 0—yes, zero—from the League of Conservation Voters last year.10

This list was from viewers of Move-On.org

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