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	<title>Comments on: McCain&#8217;s Flip-Flopping Thuggery On Campaign Finance Reform</title>
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		<title>By: emteebee</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/07/mccains-flip-flopping-thuggery-on-campaign-finance-reform/#comment-1376863</link>
		<dc:creator>emteebee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;To Pingree’s credit, she hung in there, and only left Common Cause when an open seat for Congress emerged back home in Maine. &lt;a href=&quot;https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/entity/17915&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;You can support her campaign at ActBlue&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chelliepingree.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;check out her site here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oh, and here’s &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtube.com/watch?v=RnkQ7YWBwVI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jim Hightower endorsing Pingree for Congress!!!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Can you tell I’m a fan?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To Pingree’s credit, she hung in there, and only left Common Cause when an open seat for Congress emerged back home in Maine. <a href="https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/entity/17915" rel="nofollow">You can support her campaign at ActBlue</a> and <a href="http://www.chelliepingree.com" rel="nofollow">check out her site here</a>.</p>
<p>Oh, and here’s <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=RnkQ7YWBwVI" rel="nofollow">Jim Hightower endorsing Pingree for Congress!!!</a></p>
<p>Can you tell I’m a fan?</p>
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		<title>By: RevBev</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/07/mccains-flip-flopping-thuggery-on-campaign-finance-reform/#comment-1376832</link>
		<dc:creator>RevBev</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Yes, and excusing himself because he was tired/long day seems to hint that he just doesn’t get it that is really NO excuse.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, and excusing himself because he was tired/long day seems to hint that he just doesn’t get it that is really NO excuse.</p>
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		<title>By: JohnJ</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/07/mccains-flip-flopping-thuggery-on-campaign-finance-reform/#comment-1376716</link>
		<dc:creator>JohnJ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;You have to wonder whether McBush was shown that WE torture too? Just light a firecracker near a VietNam vet and watch what happens (if you survive, that is). Just think what happens when the big dick offers to show McBush the new techniques they have developed? Does that help him tow the line?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am sorry to say that, although I look at McBush as someone who deserves our sympathy, FAILING YOUR MISSION (getting shot down) and getting captured does NOT make you a hero, just a victim (and deserving of every post service benefit we can bestow on our veterans!). Didn’t McBush also somehow launch a missile on deck, killing a bunch of crewmen and badly damage the carrier? &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Where are the heroics a la Kerry jumping into the water to save someone?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you measure heroics as to the DANGER they put themselves into; that would make every crewman on the flight deck a bigger hero than the pampered pilots. (Please don’t take this as a put down to pilots, what those guys do is astounding. Their job just isn’t as dangerous as the guys that get them on and off the deck!). Unless he was a “wild weasel” or the like, he was just a pilot. Being a pilot is the glamorous job (why else would Chimpy’s Dad buy him that job?). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;McBush maybe a veteran, but I have seen nothing that makes him a “hero”.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You have to wonder whether McBush was shown that WE torture too? Just light a firecracker near a VietNam vet and watch what happens (if you survive, that is). Just think what happens when the big dick offers to show McBush the new techniques they have developed? Does that help him tow the line?</p>
<p>I am sorry to say that, although I look at McBush as someone who deserves our sympathy, FAILING YOUR MISSION (getting shot down) and getting captured does NOT make you a hero, just a victim (and deserving of every post service benefit we can bestow on our veterans!). Didn’t McBush also somehow launch a missile on deck, killing a bunch of crewmen and badly damage the carrier? </p>
<p>Where are the heroics a la Kerry jumping into the water to save someone?</p>
<p>If you measure heroics as to the DANGER they put themselves into; that would make every crewman on the flight deck a bigger hero than the pampered pilots. (Please don’t take this as a put down to pilots, what those guys do is astounding. Their job just isn’t as dangerous as the guys that get them on and off the deck!). Unless he was a “wild weasel” or the like, he was just a pilot. Being a pilot is the glamorous job (why else would Chimpy’s Dad buy him that job?). </p>
<p>McBush maybe a veteran, but I have seen nothing that makes him a “hero”.</p>
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		<title>By: jackie</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/07/mccains-flip-flopping-thuggery-on-campaign-finance-reform/#comment-1376703</link>
		<dc:creator>jackie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;sorry OT, but the shit is hitting the fan.. going to be a rough few days.&lt;br /&gt;
We need to watch Israel and their ‘In case of ‘Attack’ war preparation/practice..&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;BAGHDAD - Hundreds of people fled fighting in Baghdad’s Shiite militia stronghold Monday as U.S. and Iraqi forces increased pressure on anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who faces an ultimatum to either disband his Mahdi Army or give up politics.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080407/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....mi_ea/iraq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>sorry OT, but the shit is hitting the fan.. going to be a rough few days.<br />
We need to watch Israel and their ‘In case of ‘Attack’ war preparation/practice..</p>
<p>BAGHDAD &#8211; Hundreds of people fled fighting in Baghdad’s Shiite militia stronghold Monday as U.S. and Iraqi forces increased pressure on anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who faces an ultimatum to either disband his Mahdi Army or give up politics.<br />
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080407/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq" rel="nofollow">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200&#8230;..mi_ea/iraq</a></p>
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		<title>By: STTPinOhio</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/07/mccains-flip-flopping-thuggery-on-campaign-finance-reform/#comment-1376690</link>
		<dc:creator>STTPinOhio</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Putting aside for a moment his POW status, what else has he done that is even remotely distinguished or laudable in his career?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hang on to a senate seat? Please.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;His trophy wife’s family bought him that.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;He’s an older Dubya with a worse temper.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Putting aside for a moment his POW status, what else has he done that is even remotely distinguished or laudable in his career?</p>
<p>Hang on to a senate seat? Please.</p>
<p>His trophy wife’s family bought him that.</p>
<p>He’s an older Dubya with a worse temper.</p>
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		<title>By: solai</title>
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		<dc:creator>solai</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I’m thinking that, besides all his other ‘qualities’, McCain is dumb. I think his lobbiest/advisors are telling him that he’s not making decisions based on their advice (which enriches their clients) that he is making those decisions based on his personal beliefs. And he believes them.&lt;br /&gt;
Then they walk away and laugh.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It’s like Rummy saying that you have to present your opinion to the pres as being a “Big idea”. McCain’s lobbyists are playing him. And he’s not bright enough to realize it.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I’m thinking that, besides all his other ‘qualities’, McCain is dumb. I think his lobbiest/advisors are telling him that he’s not making decisions based on their advice (which enriches their clients) that he is making those decisions based on his personal beliefs. And he believes them.<br />
Then they walk away and laugh.</p>
<p>It’s like Rummy saying that you have to present your opinion to the pres as being a “Big idea”. McCain’s lobbyists are playing him. And he’s not bright enough to realize it.</p>
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		<title>By: Frank33</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/07/mccains-flip-flopping-thuggery-on-campaign-finance-reform/#comment-1376674</link>
		<dc:creator>Frank33</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kerry is one of them. This is real human garbage folks. I wonder, do we really want to be in such a club? Would we want a member representing us?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Kerry was doing purgatory yesterday on Fox Noise, but he did well in condemning Insane McCain. Better late than never.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,347034,00.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,347034,00.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;In fact, in ‘03, John McCain said the war would be brief and the oil would pay for it. He was wrong. Last month he said that Muqtada al-Sadr was losing his influence. He was wrong.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In January he said Basra is not a problem. He was wrong.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In fact, on the 100 years war issue, John McCain is being disingenuous, because what he said in that interview was as long as there is no violence — which indicates a fundamental misunderstanding of Iraq itself.&lt;/p&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Kerry is one of them. This is real human garbage folks. I wonder, do we really want to be in such a club? Would we want a member representing us?</p>
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<p>Kerry was doing purgatory yesterday on Fox Noise, but he did well in condemning Insane McCain. Better late than never.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,347034,00.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,347034,00.html</a></p>
<blockquote><p>In fact, in ‘03, John McCain said the war would be brief and the oil would pay for it. He was wrong. Last month he said that Muqtada al-Sadr was losing his influence. He was wrong.</p>
<p>In January he said Basra is not a problem. He was wrong.</p>
<p>In fact, on the 100 years war issue, John McCain is being disingenuous, because what he said in that interview was as long as there is no violence — which indicates a fundamental misunderstanding of Iraq itself.</p>
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		<title>By: Oilfieldguy</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/07/mccains-flip-flopping-thuggery-on-campaign-finance-reform/#comment-1376673</link>
		<dc:creator>Oilfieldguy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I like “Twitchy” mo’ betta!  Much more subtle and yet infinitely more powerful.  Listen to him speak.  Yeah, he’s “twitchy” alright.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I like “Twitchy” mo’ betta!  Much more subtle and yet infinitely more powerful.  Listen to him speak.  Yeah, he’s “twitchy” alright.</p>
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		<title>By: BooRadley</title>
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		<dc:creator>BooRadley</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;No, missed the C-Span appearance. I’ll be looking for it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I saw him last year?? on CNN??/MSNBC?? as the liberal opposite some “cons.” He didn’t just play good defense, he attacked.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>No, missed the C-Span appearance. I’ll be looking for it.</p>
<p>I saw him last year?? on CNN??/MSNBC?? as the liberal opposite some “cons.” He didn’t just play good defense, he attacked.</p>
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		<title>By: Bustednuckles</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bustednuckles</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;But but, we needs more earl!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Good to see ya OFG, I just dropped by yer place earlier today for a gander.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But but, we needs more earl!</p>
<p>Good to see ya OFG, I just dropped by yer place earlier today for a gander.</p>
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