In the debate Johnny the fraud criticized Barack for his voting record, or his "present" votes when he was in the Illinois State Senate.
WELL, I'm reading a phenomenal book, a quick read too, The Real McCain, which really, if you judged by the title, is an unsolved mystery....There is no REAL McCain.
Anyways. in the first session of the 110th Congress in 2007 the Senate had a pretty full day of voting to do on the floor. John McCain was there all day, and voted on all of the bills, EXCEPT for one. Normal right? No biggie, it was probably a early morning vote, or a late vote when he had to go home to Arizona or something....understood.
But, the vote was sandwiched in between two votes in which this phony voted...at 1:30 in the afternoon. It was a bill to give increased funding to local police departments to better fund their counter-terrorism efforts. Here's the record from the book The Real McCain, by Cliff Schecter.
Vote 109 -- DeMint Amendment # 578 -- to repeal the death tax. 1:13 PM, McCain -- present and voted yes.
Vote 110 -- Biden Amendment #529 -- To increase funding for the COPS (Community Oriented Policing Services) program to $1.5 billion for fiscal 2008. Provide state and local law enforcement with critical resources to prevent and respond to violent crimes and acts of terrorism. 1:32 PM, McCain -- NOT PRESENT NO VOTE RECORDED
Vote 111 -- Bunning Amendment #594 -- Provide a defecit-neutral reserve fund for providing state flexibility with MedicAid. 1:52 PM, McCain -- present and voted yes.
Where did you go J Mac? With his eyes on a run at the presidency in 2008, he knew that a no vote on a bill that would provide funding to state and local law enforcement could be harmful to his campaign. But he couldn't dare vote yes on a Democrat/Joe Biden authored bill, SO, where did he go? He is old enough that it MAY have taken him an hour to go to the bathroom, but the TRUTH (what is that?), is that THE MAVERICK could not have been more NON-MAVERICK.
Someone who says he goes across the aisle (but voted with Bush 94% of the time) should have and wanted to vote yes, but couldn't because he needed the support of his party down the road -- he can't align with a bill he agreed with. It was ultimate politics 101...He's a maverick though right? No, he's a fucking politician who has been in the game for 26 years and plays the same bullshit game where he puts his own interest and politics first. Bottom line.
It's time to break away from the ol' boys network. We don't need a guy who jaked his way through the Naval Academy. Can we please have a Harvard and Columbia educated, brilliant man who is a pragmatist? He thinks things through, and he's brilliant. Every single independent study has said Barack's economic plan is superior to McCain, as well as his health care plan.
But he's black. He's an Arab, he pals around with terrorists. Ask McCain about Marilyn Shannon. Research her yourself.
The point is, it's the policies we need to be concerned about and vote on, but McCain can't win a policy, facts based race.
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