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McCain Fun Facts!!
I was thinking it might be fun to make a big list of things average people didn't know about lil' Johnny McCain.
* When his first wife Carol was in a bad car accident and seriously injured, he dumped her for a blonde heiress 20 years his junior.
* Abandoning his injured wife was a smart move: His new wife had political connections and millions in the bank. This was his path to the Senate.
* He cheated on his heiress trophy wife with a lobbyist. Literally "in bed with lobbyists", namely Vicki Iseman, who lobbied the FCC with McCain's help
* He publicly called his trophy wife Cindy a c**t and a trollop. He infamously told dirty jokes about then 13 year old Chelsea Clinton
* He boasted in 2000 of "hating gooks", and only under pressured retracted the statement
* Even though Karl Rove & Co. slimed his adopted daughter with false and racist rumors in 2000, McCain actually hired the same crew to run his 2008 campaign
* Famous on Capitol Hill as a hotheaded, vindictive grudge-holder. Kicks reporters off his bus who write anything critical.
* Senator McCain opposed the Bush tax cuts for the superrich, while Candidate McCain now supports them enthusiastically
* Senator McCain consistently voted against renewable energy time and again, but Candidate McCain pays lip service to clean energy
* Senator McCain boasts of being the scourge of lobbyists, but Candidate McCain's campaign is actually run entirely by lobbyists
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Did I leave anything out?
Feel free to share these with your friends!
Comments (21)
You forgot that he was tortured in Vietnam.
August 14, 2008 1:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
At least that's what "Songbird" tells us.
August 14, 2008 3:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
While I'm willing to believe the Iseman thing... not really considered to be a fact... unless you just mean the usually lobbyist BS.
Oh btw... he was tortured in 'Nam.
August 14, 2008 2:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Iseman has never publicly denied it.
August 15, 2008 9:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
It would be highly useful to document the sources for these statements, to be used as a hammer when confronting right-wing FauxNews™ fools.
Sharing with friends = preaching to the choir.
I'm interested in bludgeoning the McCain followers.
August 14, 2008 2:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's a good idea. This was just a start.
Feel free to submit more FunFacts!
August 14, 2008 3:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here are some links supporting the above points (sorry I can't edit the original post):
CHEATING (1)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1024927/The-wife-John-McCain-callously-left-behind.html
Robert Timberg about John and Carol's marriage: "The conventional view is that John came home not to the Long Tall Sally of his overheated prison imagings but to a real woman -- older, shorter, crippled -- and before long began to stray."
Source: Robert Timberg, John McCain: An American Odyssey, pages 124-125.
CHEATING (2)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/20/vicki-iseman-who-is-mcca_n_87692.html
Vicki Iseman: Who Is McCain Scandal Figure?
WIFE ABUSE
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2008/McCain_temper_boiled_over_in_92_0407.html
Book: McCain temper boiled over in '92 tirade, called wife a 'cunt'
CHELSEA JOKE
A Joke Too Bad to Print
http://www.salon.com/news/1998/06/25newsb.html
Past: McCain's old Chelsea joke
http://weblogs.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/politics/blog/2008/02/past_mccains_old_chelsea_joke.html
RAPE "JOKE"
John McCain thinks rape jokes are funny
http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/07/15/john-mccain-thinks-rape-jokes-are-funn/
McCain Ape Rape Joke Recalled By Sources
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/15/sources-recall-mccains-jo_n_112955.html?aperape
LOBBYISTS
The Anti-Lobbyist, Advised by Lobbyists
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/21/AR2008022101131_pf.html
McCain Has Had At Least 133 Lobbyists Running His Campaign & Raising Money For Him
http://mccainsource.com/corruption?id=0006
KEATING FIVE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five
RACISM
McCain during the 2000 campaign: "I hate the gooks, I will hate them as long as I live."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/02/18/MN32194.DTL
August 14, 2008 3:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Keating Five and the Rape Joke are two I forgot.
Gee, waht a really honorable good guy this McCain turns out to be! No wonder the MSM can hardly wipe the barbeque off their greasy fingers before running back to the computer to write up some fluff piece.
August 14, 2008 3:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Does his hot headedness have anything to due to the fact that he was tortured for 5 years in Vietnam?
Sure he's mentally stable enough to be a senator,...but between his age and being tortured for 5 years early on,...one must question if he can handle being president for 4 years if not more?
August 14, 2008 4:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
What about his voting record against the veterans. I would love for someone to list those.
August 14, 2008 4:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good point. Does anynoe have some good links on those? Vets and troops don't like this guy, which is why they're overwhelmingly donating to Obama.
August 15, 2008 9:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
Clearly in the first line it states "people didn't know about lil' Johnny McCain. " ...which means you can all stop commenting about Vietnam everyone knows that already - kind of missed the point of the post folks!
good post!
don't vote for mccreepy
August 14, 2008 5:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
I didn't really believe the Iseman affair story when I read about it. Did she ever confirm it? With all the right-wing commentary lambasting Edwards these days it would be interesting to see some solid proof of this affair. Please comment if you have a link to a good article on this story that would convince me.
August 14, 2008 6:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
oops, didn't read the comments before posting - now i see observer2's comments with links - will check it out
August 14, 2008 6:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Another fun fact: She never DENIED it. Only blinky McCain spoke up denying it. And as we've seen with Edwards, Clinton, Larry Craig, etc. denials by politicians mean a lot. It would be nice if the press corp did their job and dug deeper, but apparently only the National Enquirer does that anymore.
August 15, 2008 9:26 AM | Reply | Permalink
When McCain's campaign director in Arizona, Rick Renzi (R-Az) was indicted earlier this year on 35 (yes-thirty five) felony counts for bank/insurance fraud and extortion, the indictment being a public document available in minutes on the internet, McCain said he 'didn't know anything' about the case.
August 14, 2008 8:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Did I leave anything out?"
Yes. You forgot to mention that he believes people "ought to be thrown out of this country" for exercising their right to free speech.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO3jE9EPzd4
August 14, 2008 8:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good find. a President McCain would perhaps return us to the Alien Sedition Act days, since obviously civil society groups aren't allowed to criticize "honorable" public figures.
More classic GOP anti-Americanism.
Republicans = They hate us for our freedom.
August 15, 2008 9:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
You forgot Cindy stealing narcotics from her own charity.
August 14, 2008 9:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
By Bush standards, McCain wasn't actually tortured in 'Nam since he didn't suffer internal organ failure or death, but he did crack under interrogation and twice attempted suicide. Being tortured in 'Nam in no way qualifies anyone to be President, but McCain's history certainly disqualifies him.
August 15, 2008 6:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
That's a good point. Prisoner McCain was opposed to torture, Senator McCain opposed anti-torture legislation. He's voted 95% with the waterboarding, gitmo, Abu Ghraib Bush regime.
August 15, 2008 9:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
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