Did Cindy McCain Suggest That Her Husband Voted To Defund The McCains' Own Son In Combat?
That's the logical conclusion of what Cindy McCain said when she attacked Barack Obama at the big McCain rally today in Pennsylvania.
In a move that's driving today's news cycle, Cindy McCain went on the attack, charging that Obama voted to defund the troops -- one of whom is her son -- with his vote against the 2007 Iraq War funding bill that didn't include a timetable for withdrawal.
"The day that Senator Obama cast a vote not to fund my son when he was serving sent a cold chill through my body, let me tell you," said Cindy.
Here's the thing, though. If Obama's vote against that supplemental can be said to constitute a vote not to fund Cindy's son, as she put it, McCain, too, can be said to have voted to defund his own son.
McCain, of course, also opposed an Iraq troop funding bill in 2007 -- the one that did include a withdrawal timetable -- and voted against passage of the bill in the Senate.
It's important to be as clear as possible about this. If we accept Cindy's implication that Obama's vote constituted a danger to the McCains' son, then John, too, put his own son at risk -- all because the bill he voted against would have brought his son and his fellow troops home and ended the war McCain wants to continue.
In reality, of course, neither man supported "defunding" the troops. The goal of Obama's vote was to impose a withdrawal timetable, and the goal of McCain's vote was to oppose one. Not that reality matters, of course.















That's ripe - send in Cindy, the lady McCain dumped his first wife for, to swing in and try to save the day for her husband...who barely acknowledged her last night after the debate!
Did anyone catch his "Oh yeah, whatever..." hug he gave her??
October 8, 2008 4:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bah! What sent a cold chill through her body was John wanting him some sex.
October 8, 2008 4:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Cindy's getting really worked up. Time to pop some more pills, sweetie!
October 8, 2008 4:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Gotta admit, I've been wondering how many Percocets or whatever she takes to generate a reality distortion field of that magnitude.
October 8, 2008 9:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
No kidding. Who's more drugged out? Cindy McCain or Laura Bush, with her daily mega-doses of Xanax?
October 8, 2008 9:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, these people are not members of the reality-based community and stealing pills from the mouths of babes to pop them in your multi-million dollar mouth sucks. But... can we stop calling women sweetie or dear? She's not your sweetie or your baby or your honey. She doesn't need to go back in the kitchen and cook you dinner, she needs to take off the 280,000 dollar earrings and do something constructive.
Libs make it a big deal when McCain calls Obama "that one" (aka the black guy I can't acknowledge because I'm a rich white admiral's son and this presidency belongs to me). Okay, great. But be consistent. Sweetie, dear, honey, baby were cool when gramps was a kid but outmoded now.
October 8, 2008 9:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
After effects of cold turkey . . .
October 8, 2008 4:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
I prefer cold duck
October 8, 2008 4:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
No, I'm thinking Cindy has fallen off the wagon the past few days. She's making no more sense than her husband.
John
October 8, 2008 7:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
"We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, laughers, screamers... Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get into locked a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon."
-Raoul Duke, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
October 8, 2008 7:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not that it matters much, but wasn't it discovered that McCain actually skipped the vote for that bill? Either way, he was definitely against the bill.
October 8, 2008 4:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe McCain's worried about spoiling his kids. I mean, you give them body armor, soon they're going to want a bicycle or a BB gun.
October 8, 2008 4:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'd like to know how she ever felt *cold* chills...
I wish someone would call her/McCain on this "funding the troops" nonsense. Anyone? Bueller?
October 8, 2008 4:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
On NBC's Nightly News, Andrea Mitchel pointed this out, that by the McCain's definition they both voted against funding the troops.
October 8, 2008 7:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Andrea Mitchell used to annoy me greatly, but I am liking her more and more these days -- she is telling it just like it is.
October 8, 2008 8:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's hilarious!
I hope (but doubt) the MSM will catch on to that one. Utter bullSh!t.
October 8, 2008 5:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
And by the way, this is the lady that yesterday was bitching about dirty campaigns!
October 8, 2008 5:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Clearly she did.
John McCain voted against H.R. 1591. He voted against a supplemental funding bill. He voted against money for the troops. Why? Because the bill had a timeline in it.
What does that do for your spine Cindy?
http://thepajamapundit.com/
October 8, 2008 5:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Cindy,
Those "cold chills" you're feeling isn't fear - it's called DETOX!
October 8, 2008 5:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Does Michelle/Jill attack when on the stump or just push Obama/Biden policy?
October 8, 2008 5:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
They don't attack. Which is why it's unfair that the Right has been attacking her.
October 8, 2008 6:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Which --since Cindy chose to attack along policy lines and not simply give the Nancy Reagan adoring grin and soft focus speech about how much she loves her bashed up, half-crippled, balding, hair transplant needing, snaggle-toothed, grumpy old man -- makes her fair game for policy-related attacks like, oh... maybe insuring that federal mandatory minimums apply to "white collar" "suburban" drug criminals who forge prescriptions, forge signatures, steal federally regulated drugs, like Cindy who got off because she was a politician's trophy wife.
October 8, 2008 6:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
OUCH! and OUCH! and OUCH!
Tell it!
October 8, 2008 7:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
damn today is not a good day for mccain news just in from Gen.David Petraeus who repeatedly today made statements that bolstered Obamas foreign policy proposals and cut against mccains own lines,oh well so much for petraeus being 1 of mccukoo heroes!!
October 8, 2008 5:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oddly enough, every time I look at her I get the same feeling! It's the damnedest thing! For example, last night at the debate she:
October 8, 2008 5:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Take a warm shower and call her in the morning.
If it lasts for more than four hours, call a Canadian doctor.
October 8, 2008 6:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
They're probably trying to get the Obama campaign to attack Cindy so they can re-introduce Michelle's "proud of my country" remarks.
October 8, 2008 5:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
If so, that's pretty lame of them. Michelle Obama never would go attack anyone the same manner Cindy did, and if they did, that would go against Barack who said the family is off limits. (Remember when Palin's daughter announced she was pregnant?)
Apparently, The McCain's don't have even close to the same amount of decency The Obama's have. Same goes for Campaigns.
October 8, 2008 5:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Michelle should simply point out that her favorite First lady was Betty Ford.
October 8, 2008 6:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
It is okay that McInsane voted to defund the spawn of his seed as . . .
HIS KID IS ALREADY BORN and . . .
therefore needs to fend for himself (unlike Johnny-mop who lives off the cast off dollars his wife leaves on his nightstand after . . . well . . . after).
I don't see why other Liberal/Progressive types have so much trouble understanding the recessivist mind (except for maybe the horror of it).
October 8, 2008 5:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Greg, I'm not one of those who parse every word you write about polls and such, but on this one I've got to ask which news cycle you're talking about? I just don't see it.
Sure MSNBC just ran the video of Cindy spouting this drivel. But, the larger context all day as far as I can tell has been the ongoing Wall Street meltdown - and by implication, how screwed the McCain campaign is by this problem.
October 8, 2008 5:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think she is starting to realize that the help is going to win this election.
Well, as long as he can't join the Club.
(Completely unfair considering he record on adoption, I know, I know)
October 8, 2008 5:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Attacking Cindy would be the WORST move Obama or Biden could do right now! She's baiting them - ignore her.
Focus on JOHN McCain's attacks - not hers!
October 8, 2008 5:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why didn't McCain bring up Ayers in last night's debate? Because McCAIN IS ALSO LINKED to AYERS!!!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/08/mccains-trumpets-endorsem_n_132954.html
Second on the list, though her name is misspelled, is Leonore Annenberg, currently the president and chairman of the Annenberg Foundation and widow of ambassador and philanthropist Walter Annenberg. Ms. Annenberg was herself the "chief of protocol" at the State Department under President Reagan.
If the last name sounds familiar, it's because it also graces the name of the Chicago education board where Barack Obama and William Ayers sat in the room six times together.
yet another inconvenient truth for McCain/Palin.
October 8, 2008 5:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Joe - they've barely attacked Sarah Palin. They aren't going to bite on Cindy McCain.
October 8, 2008 5:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, I think it would be OK for the Obama camapign to say, "The McCain campaign says that Obama didn't 'fund the troops' but what they don't tell you is that John himself didn't vote for that bill either". Don't even mention Cindy...
October 8, 2008 6:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Cindy McCain's the new attack dog???
Rolling on the floor laughing my ass off!
October 8, 2008 5:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Can I join you?
October 8, 2008 5:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think America will accept a woman Vice President. They just don't want an angry white woman as first lady. Uppity ingrate.
October 8, 2008 6:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
maybe that chill she felt was due to the fact that she was forced to release her tax records on that day....and the fact that her son HADN'T BEEN DEPLOYED when that vote happened
October 8, 2008 5:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wait is that true?
October 8, 2008 6:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Seems to me that if family is going to be off-limits then maybe they shouldn't be out on the trail throwing haymakers like 'he voted to defund the troops'. Talking about your support of the family member running for office is one thing but attacking the person they're running against is another entirely.
If you want to be considered a civilian you don't go picking up a gun on the battlefield and shooting at the opposing army, right? Otherwise they might start shooting back at you.
Fair is fair.
October 8, 2008 5:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, that does occur to one.
October 8, 2008 5:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
October 8, 2008 5:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Fogu, we miss you buddy. Good to see you back...
Not sure what your comment is referencing, but one would think that command of the english language is important for a president. I speak english and have never considered replacing the word worker with fundamental. There are two different words for a reason. I would go as far to say that I dislike being called a fundamental. It's a stretch to link fundamental to worker, and even if it is connected it brings more questions.
Victory smells so sweet, it's within our grasp, the day dawn is rising, it's good times my friends, good times!
October 8, 2008 5:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
I am tired of this always being misquoted. The fundamentalists in our economy are sound. Take no, fellow prisoners.
October 8, 2008 6:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Jorge,
Palin's the ultimate distraction. Do you honestly think they recruited her for what she can do as a VP?? HELL NO!! She's the campaign distraction to keep people off of McCain's back about real issues.
Now that the novelty has worn off and everyone's losing their 401K shirts, Rove and Steve Schmidt's Alaska jackyl is becoming nothing more than a defensive attack dog because their's nothing else they what to do with her. Dumping her this late is not an option, so she attacks.
So again, leave the chilled pill popper alone, ignore Palin as well (unless she goes overboard) and focus on Grampa McPasty!
October 8, 2008 5:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
You show a surprising lack of faith in the Obama campaign. Of course they're not going to attack Cindy McCain. They've barely mentioned Palin, who's actually on the ticket.
October 8, 2008 5:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm sorry, but this is just silly:
"Change shoes"? Barack? You wear the Manolo Blahniks, and you'll really really understand Cindy McCain.
October 8, 2008 5:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Jeez, sorry for my typos and grammar errors above - brain fart!
October 8, 2008 5:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Fuck that drugged out floozie and the horse she rode in on.
October 8, 2008 5:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Pull no punches, make no apologies. I was looking for a more politic way to say exactly that. LOL!
October 8, 2008 5:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Pull no punches, make no apologies. I was looking for a more politic way to say exactly that. You're right, why bother? LOL!
October 8, 2008 5:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
whoops... boy, hitting the stop button to make a quick edit ain't the way to do it, is it?
October 8, 2008 5:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
No. You think it should, but alas it does not.
I've tried it too.
October 8, 2008 5:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Aye, my sentiments exactly.
Maybe her sudden pissiness is because she's just found out that McLame was lyin again when he told her he was goin to be the President.
October 8, 2008 6:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Their baldfaced mendacity is sickening.
October 8, 2008 5:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's just lie lie lie and lie some more.
that's all the hell the campaign they're running is about anymore.
Jeeez! It's the worst I've ever seen - which is one hell of a contrast with the Obama Campaign, which is the best I've ever seen.
October 8, 2008 5:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Damn Tena! And I was worried I went too far by saying her cold chills were simply her just detoxing! But I love your comment better!!
You go girl! (zig zag snap) ;-)
October 8, 2008 5:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL
Dayum, and so much thought went into that fuck her, too!
October 8, 2008 5:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tena, I bet it's a really nice horse. Thoroughbred.
October 8, 2008 5:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
HAHAHAHA
he's sending his wife out now because he's too much of a coward to say it to obama's face?
October 8, 2008 5:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
OL'Oxy Ho Cindy is now the new Lady macbeth.
Well she doesn't need makeup. She sounded like she was stoned out of her old racist mind on Oxy. She is an OLD CRIMINAL HAGG
October 8, 2008 5:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
I wish they hell they had "defunded" the troops. An army without arms doesn't stay in the field. Unemployment is going to be at 10% by the time either one of these guys can find their own way to the head in the White House and we're bleeding money even faster than we're bleeding jobs. The fact that I can see no end to that giant suckfest in Iraqistaniran or to the global economic collapse is what's giving me cold chills. I wish I had Cindy's walk-in keg chiller.
October 8, 2008 5:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Speaking of thoroughbreds, the Obama campaign hasn't put a foot wrong. And he paces himself perfectly.
October 8, 2008 5:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think Cindy needs to divorce McaLame and marry Rush - aren't they the perfect pair? Matching drug habits, etc.
October 8, 2008 5:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
We have to chillout with the drug jokes, we are much better than that.
On the other hand I wonder if she is connected to reality in anyway.
October 8, 2008 6:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
A hundred million tends to keep reality at a safe distance.
October 8, 2008 7:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe you are, but I'm not.
Please step off and do not try to censor me - I don't like it.
October 8, 2008 7:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dadzo, McCain just told his "fellow prisoners" (yup) that he will balance the budget in his first term.
October 8, 2008 5:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wait, seriously - is this a second time he's said it, or are you still talking about his saying it the one time Josh has posted?
October 8, 2008 5:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
What kind of budgets do prisoners get and how hard/easy would it be to balance that?
October 8, 2008 5:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
We're talkin' whole cartons of cigarettes, my friends.
October 8, 2008 5:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
God you're good.
LOL!
October 8, 2008 6:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Madame X, how revolting, I could not have said it better.
October 8, 2008 5:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
If Cindy doesn't work out, then who does the campaign send out next...I suggest Mary Todd Lincoln. I understand they were good friends!
October 8, 2008 5:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
These people are a bunch of stoned-out zombies. They don't believe in anything except themselves. They're so fucked up it's unbelievable. Amazing how far 100 million dollars will take you.
October 8, 2008 5:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah - straight down to hell. Swear to god!
October 8, 2008 5:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Balance the budget! Ha! He also told the Navy he could fly a plane.
October 8, 2008 5:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Anybody else wanna be in attendance when McCain concedes the race to Obama on November 4th or earlier? That is going to be classic video. The books written about the sheer confusion of this campaign will be very intriguing.
What you see now during the campaign is what you will see during their presidency, only magnified more during their terms.
Which one do you want to see?
October 8, 2008 5:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just how nuts do you have to be, at 72, with a gazillion dollars in the bank, to want to be President right now? Seriously. If that's not the definition of totally effin crazy, I don't know what is.
October 8, 2008 5:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
So I'm curious - has there ever been an election at the end of which the loser didn't concede and congratulate the winner?
October 8, 2008 5:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes. John Adams did not attend Thomas Jefferson's inauguration; he simply packed up his trunk from the White House and headed back to Massachusetts before the ceremony.
And IMO, Adams had every right to do so. Jefferson's longest-lasting contribution to American politics is dirty campaigning.
October 8, 2008 9:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
When (hope springs) McCain concedes, I think you're going to see a very happy and relieved old guy who's just thrilled to be able to go back to his comfy chair and have his jello.
October 8, 2008 5:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
You know, I just think you couldn't be further off on that thought. McLame is going to chew one of his own feet off in pure rage -
he's not going to be happy about losing, especially not to this candidate.
That's pretty fucking obvious - won't look at him, won't touch him, calls him "That One"
Yeah, he's going to be soo relieved to think that for the rest of his life (in his own head) people will be whispering behind his back that he lost to a n*****.
That's my total read on his behavior to date.
October 8, 2008 5:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
He will concede in speech that will hopefully touch the american people the way Gore did. McCain is an ass but he isn't a dick (if you know what I mean than good for you). He will concede because the race will be over, and it is the right thing to do.
October 8, 2008 6:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
You give more credit to McCain's character than I would.
October 8, 2008 6:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
McLame is a total dick - 100%.
Read the Rolling Stone article if you don't believe me.
October 8, 2008 7:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
more likely he will have Cindy go online to Ebay to buy Jeff Gillooly a lead baton and pay him enough to try to kneecap Obama
October 9, 2008 12:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
more likely he will have Cindy go online to Ebay to buy Jeff Gillooly a lead baton and pay him enough to try to kneecap Obama
October 9, 2008 12:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
more likely he will have Cindy go online to Ebay to buy Jeff Gillooly a lead baton and pay him enough to try to kneecap Obama
October 9, 2008 12:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
Dadzo,
It's McCain's ego...same with Obama...same with every single man who's been President and every woman who WILL be President one day (it just better not be Sarah Palin, God Dammit!)
October 8, 2008 5:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Whose idea was this? If it was Cindy's idea, someone should have stopped her. If it was the campaign's -- then they really have run out of ammunition.
Making Iraq personal like this is not a smart move. For every spending bill Cindy McCain can point to, there are a lot of other mothers who can point to McCain's votes on other bills, on body armor, on veterans' benefits, VA medical care, or just the original vote that ended up sending them there to be in the line of fire to begin with. There is something deeply narcissistic about this. Her son isn't the only one serving in Iraq, just as her husband isn't the only living POW.
October 8, 2008 5:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hmmm. I'm picturing Sarah Palin debating Hillary Clinton in 2012 ... Palin's head is rotating on her shoulders ...
October 8, 2008 5:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Try 2016. 2012 will Obama's re-election campaign.
October 8, 2008 6:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Palin can help O get to 400 EV's in 2012. I see Petraeus vs Hill in 2016. Don't ask my why I just do.
October 8, 2008 6:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
O dear.
Sarah Palin will be lost in obscurity by '12.
Nobody will remember her name.
October 8, 2008 6:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Rove's acolytes are running McCain's campaign and apparently his family. I can't imagine telling my wife to stand up and tell a lie in public about another guy to make him look bad. That's not honor we can believe in.
October 8, 2008 6:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
"My fellow Prisoners..."
That has to be the funniest thing I have heard yet from that jackass! He is totally having flashbacks. OMFG!
October 8, 2008 6:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
bvd -- yes, of course, 2016. Anybody remember what was supposed to happen "in the year 2525" or am I just that old?
October 8, 2008 6:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Somebody was still alive -
That's all I remember about the Year 2525 -
October 8, 2008 6:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's almost past my actuarial bedtime.
October 8, 2008 6:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Or was is that hardly anyone was alive? That's all I can remember from that song.
October 8, 2008 6:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
A poster at Salon.com notes:
Once again: on October 14, 1993, because he disagreed with the war in Somalia, John McCain voted to CUT OFF FUNDING FOR THE TROOPS, calling it "a necessary response to a failed policy that had cost the lives of eighteen good Americans."
Other posters point out the ridiculousness of the idea that defunding the war means the troops stay there and fight without support. Nope, they come home.
October 8, 2008 6:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dear Cindy,
no matter what you do to twist the truth, not matter what vile words hiss through your lips, no matter what you have convinced yourself to believe and not matter who you may think is your audience for this slander - nothing will ever change the fact that Obama has been a statesman and gentleman and while he stood-up for himself, he has maintained his integrity and his dignity. Your husband has not, and he will never ever be able to take back his actions. His entire career and public life will be judged by the deceit and slander that he has embraced in an empty, sad, and self-serving campaign. Oh and BTW - you just lied to sick children in a hospital.
October 8, 2008 6:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Cindy...nice attempt at an assist...better late than never...it is really something how a human being can change when the pressure is on...now we have a good idea when it comes to your husband...mccain...well well well
October 8, 2008 6:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm trying to picture Ice Queen Barbie getting a cold chill. That would be one hell of a thermodynamic anomaly.
October 8, 2008 6:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Huzzah!
October 8, 2008 10:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Given that McCain accepted public financing, does that block him from using his own money (or Cindy's) to fund his campaign further?
October 8, 2008 7:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain-Palin are nothing but LIES, HYPOCRISY and FRAUD.
October 8, 2008 7:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Differently, she also reminded me of George Bush's "Saddam tried to kill my father" for his reason to invade Iraq.
Here comes another stupid Busch distributer screaming another pathetic line similar to the stunt, "I always loved my country."
October 8, 2008 7:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
These people are vile. That's the only word I can find that's not an out and out obscenity. And the people that hoot and holler at their rallys are, in their way, vile too.
October 8, 2008 7:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Vile is a good word... scum is another good word... vermin's not bad... puss-sucking swine works... roach-turds has a certain ring to it...
October 8, 2008 7:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
What everyone needs to bring up in response to Cindy's fake ass support of the troop funding is that John McCain voted against providing modern day body armour for our troops not once but TWICE in 2003 (regular troops in one bill and reserves and national guard in another) and not bothering to show up for the vote on the new GI Bill. Now I understand if you don't agree, but man up Johnny Boy - show your face and OWN your vote!
John and Cindy McCain deserve each other - he loves a war and hates the warrior. She, with her glaring diamond lapel pins, is the human equivalent of a "Support Our Troops" yellow magnetic car ribbon.
Neither of them are giving our active duty troops, reservits, national guardsmen, and veterans what they have earned or what they need.
October 8, 2008 10:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
During the republican convention I had cold chills when they painted Cindy as a humanitarian saint, who lives a life of service to make the lives of the poor huddled masses better with her healing touch. blech
October 8, 2008 11:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Isn't Cindy forgetting something rather important?
Her own husband was pushing for the war in Iraq since at least 1998. Bush put their son in harm's way and McCain was his most ardent cheerleader. They were the warmongers, not Obama. They put your son in danger, not Obama.
Obama was against the war. Cindy, your own husband has endangered your own son's life. Not Obama. Obama was against the invasion. If Obama had been in charge, your son wouldn't have had the need for any votes to "support the troops." John McCain, Bush and Cheney are the reasons why your son may die in Iraq.
It's amazing that Cindy McCain doesn't see that. Or, if she does see that, she's so horrified by the truth that she has to lash out at Obama, the guy who would have made it so those funding bills weren't necessary at all.
October 9, 2008 2:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
Palin is in the same position. She's blasting Obama. But it's her own running mate, John McCain, who has put her son in danger. It's the leaders of her party that have put her own son in danger. It is their war, not Obama's.
It's actually incredible that either woman would have the gall to try to blame Obama for what might happen, when the Republican party has cheerleaded this madness on from the start.
If not for Bush/Cheney/McCain and the moronic, chickenhawk neocons, mothers wouldn't have to worry about losing their sons and daughters in Iraq. Obama was against this insanity. Obama was against the invasion, as all sane and rational people were and are.
There is something seriously wrong with a nation that lusts for war when it's not absolutely necessary. There is something truly despicable about anyone who lusts for war unless it's absolutely necessary. Unless there is no way out.
The invasion of Iraq was never even remotely necessary. Not on any level. Not for any reason. There was never the slightest justification for this madness. And Cindy McCain and Sarah Palin have the nerve to try to blame Obama for this?
They truly should be ashamed of themselves.
October 9, 2008 2:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
Let us reflect on the gift that Sarah Palin has given us all:
http://thetruthburns.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/maybe-i-aint-no-genius-but-is-sure-is-smartern-her/
October 9, 2008 6:01 AM | Reply | Permalink