J Dray12:15PMJun 30th 2008

DAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bonbon2:44PMJun 30th 2008

geez do you think,

glad someone told us,

John McCain is not a friend of the American Military6:29PMJun 30th 2008

John McCain does not know that 9-11 was caused by Osama Bin Laden not Sedam Hussein?

John McCain does not know if Sunnis or Sheits are our enemies?

John McCain missed 10 of the past 14 votes on Iraq?

John McCain in September 2007: voted against the Webb amendment calling for adequate troop rest between deployments?

John McCain July 2007: voted against a plan to drawdown troop levels in Iraq?

John McCain in March 2007 was too busy to vote on a bill that would require the start of a drawdown in troop levels within 120 days with a goal of withdrawing nearly all-combat troops within one year?

John McCain in February 2007 didn’t even bother to show up to vote against a resolution condemning it? For such a strong supporter of the escalation, McCain didn’t even bother to show up and vote for it?

John McCain in June 2006, voted against a resolution that Bush start withdrawing troops but with no timeline to do so?

John McCain in May 2006, voted against an amendment that would provide $20 million to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for health care facilities?

John McCain in April 2006, was one of only 13 Senators to vote against $430,000,000 for the Department of Veteran Affairs for Medical Services for outpatient care and treatment for veterans?

John McCain in March 2006, voted against increasing Veterans medical services funding by $1.5 billion in FY 2007 to be paid for by closing corporate tax loopholes?

John McCain in March 2004, once again voted for abusive tax loopholes over veterans when he voted against creating a reserve fund to allow for an increase in Veterans' medical care by $1.8 billion by eliminating abusive tax loopholes. Jeez, McCain really loves those tax loopholes for corporations, since he voted for them over our veterans' needs?

John McCain in October 2003, voted to table an amendment by Senator Dodd that called for an additional $322,000,000 for safety equipment for United States forces in Iraq and to reduce the amount provided for reconstruction in Iraq by $322,000,000?

John McCain in April 2003, urged other Senate members to table a vote (which never passed) to provide more than $1 billion for National Guard and Reserve equipment in Iraq related to a shortage of helmets, tents, bullet-proof inserts, and tactical vests?

If he believes that we should stay the course for as long as possible he should be willing to support the people he puts in harms way.

John McCain is not a friend of the American Military.

GET OVER IT MOVE ON6:32PMJun 30th 2008

Dear Clinton supporters:

Time to wipe your tears and move on.
The Democratic Party has its nominee.
The Republicans in all their wisdom have theirs.
Now the choice is up to the American people. Your Lies, bloggs, letters, petitions, threats and tears will not change that. In November you will have to choose between. The democratic candidate promising a change from Bush/McCain politics. Or McCain who says he is not running on the Bush presidency. But McCain might want to check his campaign's position papers. In his eternal quest for the Republican nomination, McCain has adopted virtually the entire Bush agenda, often reversing long held positions and compromising core principles. From Iraq, tax cuts for the wealthy, broken promises on the deficit to opposition to SCHIP, tax credits for health care, overturning Roe v. Wade and a right-wing Supreme Court, without question John McCain represents a third Bush term.

So you could be bitter, or you could work to save this nation.

WE WANT HILLARY IN THE WHITE HOUSE1:48AMJul 1st 2008

Show the DNC5:16PMJun 30th 2008

WE WANT HILLARY IN THE WHITE HOUSE3:51PMJun 27th 2008

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/We-Want-Hillary-In-The-White-House


Target:5,000,000Sponsored by: www.HillaryGrassrootsCampaign.comWhether
you believe Hillary will go Independent or not, let's let Hillary know that we WANT her to run for President as an Independent

Hillary Clinton is our candidate and she can win without the Democratic Party. Can the Democratic Party win without her? Help make a statement to the DNC

Petition Hillary to run as an Independent for President. Let's show Hillary that we support her all the way!

WE WANT HILLARY IN THE WHITE HOUSE1:49AMJul 1st 2008

Show the DNC5:16PMJun 30th 2008

WE WANT HILLARY IN THE WHITE HOUSE3:51PMJun 27th 2008

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/We-Want-Hillary-In-The-White-House


Target:5,000,000Sponsored by: www.HillaryGrassrootsCampaign.comWhether
you believe Hillary will go Independent or not, let's let Hillary know that we WANT her to run for President as an Independent

Hillary Clinton is our candidate and she can win without the Democratic Party. Can the Democratic Party win without her? Help make a statement to the DNC

Petition Hillary to run as an Independent for President. Let's show Hillary that we support her all the way!

Step up, Let your Voice be heard!1:50AMJul 1st 2008

Step up, Let your Voice be heard!5:10PMJun 30th 2008

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/pledge-to-vote-against-obama-in-the-general-election


Pledge to vote against Obama in the General Election

We the undersigned will vote for any opponent of Barack Hussien Obama or not vote at all. We believe he is the wrong leader for our country. We do not believe that the future of our nation should be decided by a popularity contest. Remember, each signature is a vote the Democratic Party could have had in November
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MCCAIN’S RECORD ON THE MILITARY11:06AMJul 1st 2008

Murder does not make you the best candidate for president!
John McCain voted to send Americas finest to die fighting the wrong enemy, in the wrong country without sufficient funding.
And when they came home maimed because they did not have sufficient equipment he voted against VA benefits to help them medically.
John McCain has the worst record supporting the American Military.
He has the best record supporting wealthy corporations and the wealthiest 2% if the public.

REPLACE-DEMS-IN-CONGRESS12:05PMJul 1st 2008

IF THE DEMS GET IN --- THING WILL GET WORSE!

Had the DNC and biased media told the truth about Obama BEFORE half of America had voted — he would not be a candidate — Hillary would be.

When Clark was running for President he was using his military experience as a reason that he would make a good president — ‘typical’ political hypocrite.

At one point I had some respect for former Gen. Clark. I no longer have any respect for him. His comment is disgusting. John McCain has more character in his little finger than former Gen. Clark or Obama have combined.

This latest stupid comment by an Obama surrogate highlights another reason why the media poster boy, Obama, is not the one to lead our country.

Clark says we should not vote for McCain, JUST BECAUSE he was a prisoner of war — I say we should not vote for Barack Hussein Obama JUST BECAUSE he is black. Obama has no experience in ‘anything’. His entire campaign has been based on lies.

It’s getting very crowded under the Obama bus. If he keeps going this way, he’ll have to get some more buses.

Let’s see the Obama list of un-Americans that support him is growing….We can now add Clark to the List of Ayers, Wright, Pfleger, Farrakhan, Hamas, Soros, Hezbollah on and on . . .

Vote for John McCain in 2008!

ANYBODY-BUT-OBAMA12:14PMJul 1st 2008

The years of torture John McCain endured produced someone more balanced than the one who sat in a so-called "church of God" for 20 years --- listening to Reverend Jeremiah Wright spew hatred and "God Damn America"!

And eight years of Junior may be enough for you --- but eight years of "Obama-messiah" will be enough for us all --- IF WE LAST THAT LONG!

VOTE FOR JOHN McCAIN IN 2008.

ANYBODY-BUT-OBAMA12:59PMJul 1st 2008

The years of torture John McCain endured produced someone more
balanced than the one who sat in a so-called "church of God" for 20
years --- listening to Reverend Jeremiah Wright spew hatred and "God
Damn America"!

And eight years of Junior may be enough for you --- but eight years
of "Obama-messiah" will be enough for us all --- IF WE LAST THAT
LONG!

VOTE FOR JOHN McCAIN IN 2008.

MORE-OBAMA-LIES1:26PMJul 1st 2008

ABC NEWS' TEDDY DAVIS AND GREGORY WALLACE REPORT: BARACK OBAMA ALIGNED HIMSELF WITH WELFARE REFORM ON MONDAY, LAUNCHING A TELEVISION AD WHICH TOUTS THE WAY THE OVERHAUL "SLASHED THE ROLLS BY 80 PERCENT."

OBAMA LEAVES OUT, HOWEVER, THAT HE WAS AGAINST THE 1996 FEDERAL LEGISLATION WHICH PRECIPITATED THE CASELOAD REDUCTION.

Obama is changing his stance again for political Posturing?

Oh, no, can't be! This is the candidate of “hope” and “change”!

Oh, I get it, he "HOPES" you won't notice how many times he "CHANGES" his position to suit the audience, the polls, the prevailing winds --- or whatever!

This guy is the biggest fraud to come down the pike in the history of this country.

Wake up America!

VOTE FOR JOHN McCAIN IN 2008.

OBAMA-BIN-LIAR1:34PMJul 1st 2008

Remember when Obama said he was going to rip NAFTA apart and then had his employee call Canada and tell their government that he just had to tear NAFTA apart to win the election but not to worry he wouldn’t do in NAFTA?

This is a pattern with Obama. Over and Over again.

He will say one thing and do another.

This guy is the biggest fraud to come down the pike in the history of this country.

Wake up America!

VOTE FOR JOHN McCAIN IN 2008.

iynaroc023:46PMJul 1st 2008

McCain’s real military file is unflattering. To end all the speculation, McCain should authorize the Navy to release all his military record.
In June 2005, seven months after he lost his bid for president, Senator John Kerry signed the 180 waiver, authorizing the release of his complete military service record to the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and the Associated Press. ** Unlike Kerry, McCain shouldn't wait until after the election to do so. The Navy may claim that it already released McCain's record to the Associated Press on May 7, 2008 in response to the AP's Freedom of Information Act request. But the McCain file the Navy released contained 19 pages -- a two-page overview and 17 pages detailing Awards and Decorations. Each of these 17 pages is stamped with a number. These numbers range from 0069 to 0636. When arranged in ascending order, they precisely track the chronology of McCain's career. It seems reasonable to ask the Navy whether there are at least 636 pages in McCain's file, of which 617 weren't released to the Associated Press.
Some of the unreleased pages in McCain's Navy file may not reflect well upon his qualifications for the presidency. From day one in the Navy, McCain screwed-up again and again, only to be forgiven because his father and grandfather were four-star admirals. McCain's sense of entitlement to privileged treatment bears an eerie resemblance to George W. Bush's.
Despite graduating in the bottom 1 percent of his Annapolis class, McCain was offered the most sought-after Navy assignment -- to become an aircraft carrier pilot. According to military historian John Karaagac, "'the Airdales,' the air wing of the Navy, acted and still do, as if unrivaled atop the naval pyramid. They acted as if they owned, not only the Navy, but the entire swath of blue water on the earth's surface." The most accomplished midshipmen compete furiously for the few carrier pilot openings. After four abysmal academic years at Annapolis distinguished only by his misdeeds and malfeasance, no one with a record resembling McCain's would have been offered such a prized career path. The justification for this and subsequent plum assignments should be documented in McCain's naval file.
McCain's file should also include records and analytic reviews of McCain's subsequent sub-par performances. Here are a few cited in two highly favorable biographies, both titled John McCain, one by Robert Timberg and the other by John Karaagac.
Timberg:
"[A]fter a European fling with the tobacco heiress, John McCain reported to flight school at Pensacola in August 1958.... [H]is performance was below par, at best good enough to get by. He liked flying, but didn't love it. What he loved was the kick-the-tire, start-the-fire, scarf-in-the-wind life of a naval aviator. ...One Saturday morning, as McCain was practicing landings, his engine quit and his plane plunged into Corpus Christi. Knocked unconscious by the impact, he came to as the plane settled to the bottom....McCain was an adequate pilot, but he had no patience for studying dry aviation manuals.... His professional growth, though reasonably steady, had its troubled moments. Flying too low over the Iberian Peninsula, he took out some power lines, which led to a spate of newspaper stories in which he was predictably identified as the son of an admiral.... [In 1965] he flew a trainer solo to Philadelphia for the Army-Navy game. Flying by way of Norfolk, he had just begun his descent over unpopulated tidal terrain when the engine died. 'I've got a flameout,' he radioed. He went through the standard relight procedures three times. At one thousand feet he ejected, landing on the deserted beach moments before the plane slammed into a clump of trees."
Adds Karaagac:
"In his memoir, everything becomes a kind of game of adolescent brinksmanship, how much can one press the limits of the acceptable and elude the powers that be....The [fighter jocks'] ethos of exaggerated, almost aggressive sociability becomes an end in itself and an excuse for license. There is a tendency for people, not simply to believe their own mythology but, indeed, to exaggerate it.... Fighter jocks, like politicians around their campaign contributions, often press the limits of the acceptable. It is a type of mild corruption that takes place in a highly privileged atmosphere, where restraints are loosened and excuses made....McCain gives some hint in his memoirs about where he stood in the hierarchy among carrier flyers. Instead of the sleek and newer Phantoms and Crusaders, McCain flew the dependable Douglas A-4 Skyhawk in an attack, not a fighter squadron. He was thus on the lower end of the flying totem pole."
The genius of McCain's mythmaking is his perceived humility amid perpetual defiance. Having been a rebel without cause, and often a rebel without consequences, McCain apparently was not surprised when his Vietnamese captors went relatively easy on him compared to his fellow POWs. The Vietnamese military secretly and frequently filmed the American POWs to learn their propensities. Col. Pham Van Hoa of the Vietnamese People's Army Film Department was in charge of the filming. Asked recently for his dominant impression of McCain, the now-retired Van Hoa said that McCain "seemed superior to other prisoners." How so? "Superior in attitude towards them."
But when Mark Salter, McCain's closest aide and co-author, was asked by the Arizona New Times about the first McCain memoir, Faith of My Fathers, that he was then working on, Salter said "the book will showcase a humble McCain. When I worked on this book with him, he just kept saying, 'Other guys had it a lot worse. I think they took it easier on me because of who my dad was. . . . When they tied me in ropes, they'd roll my sleeve up to give it a little padding between the rope and my bicep, you know, little things I noticed. The only really hard time I had was when I didn't go home, and then it only lasted a week, and sometimes I felt braver, I felt I could get away with more.'"
Is McCain now getting away with more by hiding his official history and by having his national security adviser inflate McCain's resume with a bogus promotion to admiral humbly declined? If so, McCain may be attempting to hide why the Navy was in fact slow to promote him upwards despite his suffering as a POW and his distinguished naval heritage.
One possible reason: After McCain had returned from Vietnam as a war hero and was physically rehabilitated, he was urged by his medical caretakers and military colleagues never to fly again. But McCain insisted on going up. As Carl Bernstein reported in Vanity Fair, he piloted an ultra-light, single propeller plane -- and crashed another time. His fifth loss of a plane has vanished from public records, but should be a subject of discussion in his Navy file. It wouldn't be surprising if his naval superiors worried that McCain was just too defiant, too reckless and too crash prone.
Regardless, McCain owes it to the country to release his complete naval records so that American voters can see his documented history and make an informed decision.

iynaroc023:46PMJul 1st 2008

McCain’s real military file is unflattering. To end all the speculation, McCain should authorize the Navy to release all his military record.
In June 2005, seven months after he lost his bid for president, Senator John Kerry signed the 180 waiver, authorizing the release of his complete military service record to the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and the Associated Press. ** Unlike Kerry, McCain shouldn't wait until after the election to do so. The Navy may claim that it already released McCain's record to the Associated Press on May 7, 2008 in response to the AP's Freedom of Information Act request. But the McCain file the Navy released contained 19 pages -- a two-page overview and 17 pages detailing Awards and Decorations. Each of these 17 pages is stamped with a number. These numbers range from 0069 to 0636. When arranged in ascending order, they precisely track the chronology of McCain's career. It seems reasonable to ask the Navy whether there are at least 636 pages in McCain's file, of which 617 weren't released to the Associated Press.
Some of the unreleased pages in McCain's Navy file may not reflect well upon his qualifications for the presidency. From day one in the Navy, McCain screwed-up again and again, only to be forgiven because his father and grandfather were four-star admirals. McCain's sense of entitlement to privileged treatment bears an eerie resemblance to George W. Bush's.
Despite graduating in the bottom 1 percent of his Annapolis class, McCain was offered the most sought-after Navy assignment -- to become an aircraft carrier pilot. According to military historian John Karaagac, "'the Airdales,' the air wing of the Navy, acted and still do, as if unrivaled atop the naval pyramid. They acted as if they owned, not only the Navy, but the entire swath of blue water on the earth's surface." The most accomplished midshipmen compete furiously for the few carrier pilot openings. After four abysmal academic years at Annapolis distinguished only by his misdeeds and malfeasance, no one with a record resembling McCain's would have been offered such a prized career path. The justification for this and subsequent plum assignments should be documented in McCain's naval file.
McCain's file should also include records and analytic reviews of McCain's subsequent sub-par performances. Here are a few cited in two highly favorable biographies, both titled John McCain, one by Robert Timberg and the other by John Karaagac.
Timberg:
"[A]fter a European fling with the tobacco heiress, John McCain reported to flight school at Pensacola in August 1958.... [H]is performance was below par, at best good enough to get by. He liked flying, but didn't love it. What he loved was the kick-the-tire, start-the-fire, scarf-in-the-wind life of a naval aviator. ...One Saturday morning, as McCain was practicing landings, his engine quit and his plane plunged into Corpus Christi. Knocked unconscious by the impact, he came to as the plane settled to the bottom....McCain was an adequate pilot, but he had no patience for studying dry aviation manuals.... His professional growth, though reasonably steady, had its troubled moments. Flying too low over the Iberian Peninsula, he took out some power lines, which led to a spate of newspaper stories in which he was predictably identified as the son of an admiral.... [In 1965] he flew a trainer solo to Philadelphia for the Army-Navy game. Flying by way of Norfolk, he had just begun his descent over unpopulated tidal terrain when the engine died. 'I've got a flameout,' he radioed. He went through the standard relight procedures three times. At one thousand feet he ejected, landing on the deserted beach moments before the plane slammed into a clump of trees."
Adds Karaagac:
"In his memoir, everything becomes a kind of game of adolescent brinksmanship, how much can one press the limits of the acceptable and elude the powers that be....The [fighter jocks'] ethos of exaggerated, almost aggressive sociability becomes an end in itself and an excuse for license. There is a tendency for people, not simply to believe their own mythology but, indeed, to exaggerate it.... Fighter jocks, like politicians around their campaign contributions, often press the limits of the acceptable. It is a type of mild corruption that takes place in a highly privileged atmosphere, where restraints are loosened and excuses made....McCain gives some hint in his memoirs about where he stood in the hierarchy among carrier flyers. Instead of the sleek and newer Phantoms and Crusaders, McCain flew the dependable Douglas A-4 Skyhawk in an attack, not a fighter squadron. He was thus on the lower end of the flying totem pole."
The genius of McCain's mythmaking is his perceived humility amid perpetual defiance. Having been a rebel without cause, and often a rebel without consequences, McCain apparently was not surprised when his Vietnamese captors went relatively easy on him compared to his fellow POWs. The Vietnamese military secretly and frequently filmed the American POWs to learn their propensities. Col. Pham Van Hoa of the Vietnamese People's Army Film Department was in charge of the filming. Asked recently for his dominant impression of McCain, the now-retired Van Hoa said that McCain "seemed superior to other prisoners." How so? "Superior in attitude towards them."
But when Mark Salter, McCain's closest aide and co-author, was asked by the Arizona New Times about the first McCain memoir, Faith of My Fathers, that he was then working on, Salter said "the book will showcase a humble McCain. When I worked on this book with him, he just kept saying, 'Other guys had it a lot worse. I think they took it easier on me because of who my dad was. . . . When they tied me in ropes, they'd roll my sleeve up to give it a little padding between the rope and my bicep, you know, little things I noticed. The only really hard time I had was when I didn't go home, and then it only lasted a week, and sometimes I felt braver, I felt I could get away with more.'"
Is McCain now getting away with more by hiding his official history and by having his national security adviser inflate McCain's resume with a bogus promotion to admiral humbly declined? If so, McCain may be attempting to hide why the Navy was in fact slow to promote him upwards despite his suffering as a POW and his distinguished naval heritage.
One possible reason: After McCain had returned from Vietnam as a war hero and was physically rehabilitated, he was urged by his medical caretakers and military colleagues never to fly again. But McCain insisted on going up. As Carl Bernstein reported in Vanity Fair, he piloted an ultra-light, single propeller plane -- and crashed another time. His fifth loss of a plane has vanished from public records, but should be a subject of discussion in his Navy file. It wouldn't be surprising if his naval superiors worried that McCain was just too defiant, too reckless and too crash prone.
Regardless, McCain owes it to the country to release his complete naval records so that American voters can see his documented history and make an informed decision.

Valerie7:11PMJul 6th 2008

THE LT COLONEL (27th BSB) IN IRAQ, SENDING HIS TROOPS OUT ON PATROL WITH VERY LITTLE AMMO AND THEY ARE CONSTANTLY RUNNING TOTALLY OUT OF AMMO BEFORE THE END OF THEIR PATROL. My son is currently on deployment in Iraq with the 27th BSB 4BCT unit. He and his battalion soldiers (including JR. officers) are asking their family members to contact their congressmen and senators concerning the hazards and deadly conditions they are being subject to by the Battalion LT Colonel 27th BSB unit. Besides sending them out with insufficient supply of ammo, they are not allowed to wear their boonie caps which protect their ears from the intense sun (LT Colonel states he doesn’t think they look professional) and the LT Colonel has them standing in formation for over an hour everyday which is leaving them open for sniper and mortar attacks. Their ears are severely burnt and bleeding.
Our family members serving in the armed forces are very brave, but this type of deadly conditions is uncalled for. I would greatly appreciate any assistance you can give our family members serving in this battalion. Feel free to contact me concerning this manner.
Thank you

If the president gives a crap this would not happen..I will write congress and whoever will listen..How would Bush like to get a call from his daughters saying they are in distress.These men and women are in grave danger because of a LT.COLONEL..PLEASE HELP..