Thanks Teddy. Important topic. Important facts.

John McCain hates America

I’m mad as hell, and I am NOT going to take it anymore!

I want these people held accountable for their LIES!

McCain received a “D” from the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America for his votes on veterans issues. The Disabled American Veterans reports that he voted for legislation benefitting veterans only 20% of the time.

But he CLAIMS to have an A+ from all those groups.

Excellent post Teddy. I am astonished every time I read about McCain and veterans.
The “low information voter” needs to be fully informed of McNasty’s shameful record.

What was that one going around the Toobz?

“John McCain spent 5 1/2 years in a Vietnamese prison. So did Gary Glitter and I wouldn’t vote for him for president either.”

Teddy, it’s always been a puzzlement to me that McCain has voted so dogmatically against Veterans, but then he “has his” because his service (1) predated the changes in veterans rights/benefits brought in after 1980 and Reagan and (2) he’s “connected” so well that any facility denying him care or anything else would be uncomfortably scrutinized by his office (sitting Senator and all).

He has voted 90% of the time with his mentor and BFF, Beloved Glorious Leader who also hates vets and servicemen and womens unless they are backgrounds for photo-ops. No surprises, just amazement that a “man” like McCain can forget where he came from until it’s time to give a speech.

Noun, verb, POW!. It’s not just an idea, it’s a fact.

Jo Fish, it pisses me off that he collects $58,000 in disabled vet benefits every year.

He claims to love America it is Americans he hates.

Mr.Cbl

Don’t forget a SS check also.

Mr.Cbl

That measly amount wouldn’t even buy Cindy a pair of earrings.

The “low information voter” needs to be fully informed of McNasty’s shameful record.

“As people do better, they start voting like Republicans – unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.”

Karl Rove.

More symbolism at work here. Note that Adam Kokesh is doing his thing while McCain stands in front of the photo of Walter Reed Middle School instead of Walter Reed Medical Center. What a pitiful excuse for a candidate and a campaign.

It’s great to tell the truth to us here, but it’s much more important to tell this to everyone else. Is that going to happen?

booyah! Watch John I am the only POW worth caring about McCain rip this woman apart during a senate committee hearing about…POWs. What an effing jerk. I’m posting it alot today.

McCain’s position on treatment of vets and POWs very consistent over time.

The Geneva Conventions DO APPLY, and Cheney is guilty of war Crimes.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRA…..kl.01.html

KING: They specifically said, though, it was Guantanamo. They compared it to a gulag.

D. CHENEY: Not true. Guantanamo’s been operated, I think, in a very sane and sound fashion by the U.S. military. Remember who’s down there. These are people that were picked up off the battlefield in Afghanistan and other places in the global war on terror. These are individuals who have been actively involved as the enemy, if you will, trying to kill Americans. That we need to have a place where we can keep them. In a sense, when you’re at war, you keep prisoners of war until the war is over with.”

So this is the war without end, and these prisoners will be held forever?

This is why McCain doesn’t want to talk about it.

Hey there, Betsy. I’m just so tired of the GOP’s “support the troops” lies. Chanting “USA!” to drown out a veteran who was truth-telling about McCain was kind of the last straw for me.

Well, it’s very inexpensive to fund when you consider that he is the only one allowed and entitled to collect it.

Hi Tex.

Thank you, Ted. Have forwarded this post to all in my addy list.

That convention center is hermetically sealed to keep reality out. Adam somehow breached the seal.

http://www.warcrimeswatch.org

Published on Friday, November 3, 2006 by The Nation
War Criminals, Beware
by Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith

On November 14 a group of lawyers and other experts will come before the German federal prosecutor and ask him to open a criminal investigation targeting Donald Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzales and other key Bush Administration figures for war crimes. The recent passage of the Military Commissions Act provides a central argument for the legal action, under the doctrine of universal jurisdiction: It demonstrates the intent of the Bush Administration to immunize itself legally from prosecution in the United States, even for the most serious crimes.

The Military Commissions Act of 2006, which the President promoted and recently signed into law, provides retroactive immunity for civilians who violated the War Crimes Act, including officials of the Bush Administration. Such an attempt to provide immunity for their crimes, it will be argued, is in itself evidence of an effort to block prosecution of those crimes. Indeed, according to Scott Horton, chair of the International Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association, when Yugoslavia sought to immunize senior government officials, the United States declared the act itself to be evidence of such a conspiracy.

“The United States declared the act itself to be evidence of such a conspiracy.”

“The United States declared the act itself to be evidence of such a conspiracy.”

“The United States declared the act itself to be evidence of such a conspiracy.”

me too Teddy. me too.

That was an amazingly stupid mistake, the Walter Reed foulup, but it wasn’t as damning as Lindsey Graham earlier in the evening, proclaiming the great Success of The Surge™ in front of a screen full of graves at Arlington National Cemetery.

When Yugoslavia sought to immunize senior government officials [from war crimes prosecutions], the United States declared

the act itself to be evidence of such a conspiracy.

Thanks for this Teddy. Cbl and I have been telling veterans about this for months. It really gets there attention and REALLY pisses them off.

Several weeks ago Cbl talked to an older vet about McCain’s record but also mentioned that our Congress critter, Carter, whose district includes Ft. Hood voted in lock step. He was apparently a big repub donor because he got said congress critter on the phone and chewed his ass. He returned to Cbl long enough to let her know he would be jumping ship.

O/T slightly but Thomas Friedbrain is on Nice Polite Republicans this afternoon absolutely tearing down the repubs for their votes on all things energy. “What planet are they on?” He does not stop there. Talks about how their insistence on maintaining an oil economy is helping the terrist. Beautiful.

Mr.Cbl

Ask USS Liberty veterans (survivors) how they feel about John McCain AND his father:

ISRAEL’S ATTACK ON “LIBERTY”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/margolis12.html

Why did Israel try to sink a naval vessel of its benefactor and ally? Most likely because ‘Liberty’s’ intercepts flatly contradicted Israel’s claim, made at the war’s beginning on 5 June, that Egypt had attacked Israel, and that Israel’s massive air assault on three Arab nations was in retaliation. In fact, Israel began the war by a devastating, Pearl-Harbor style surprise attack that caught the Arabs in bed and destroyed their entire air forces.

Israel was also preparing to attack Syria to seize its strategic Golan Heights. Washington warned Israel not to invade Syria, which had remained inactive while Israel fought Egypt. Bamford says Israel’s offensive against Syria was abruptly postponed when ‘Liberty’ appeared off Sinai, then launched once it was knocked out of action. Israel’s claim that Syria had attacked it could have been disproved by ‘Liberty.’

MC CAIN’S ROLE IN THE COVERUP:

Liberty Cover-Up and John McCain’s Conscience

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is the “Conscience of the Senate.” Nevertheless, he won’t come clean about what really happened to the USS Liberty, at the hands of the Israelis.

One of the Navy bigwigs pushing hard for a sanitized Liberty inquiry was none other than Sen. McCain’s father, Admiral John S. McCain, Jr., Commander-in-Chief, Naval Forces Europe. He wanted the investigation done in less than a week. Boston said a “proper inquiry would take at least six months.” Admiral McCain also wouldn’t permit Admiral Kidd to travel to Israel or to contact any potential Israelis witnesses. In fact, according to Boston, the written affidavits of 60 witnesses from the Liberty itself, who were hospitalized at the time of the restricted Inquiry, were also excluded from the final report and not considered as part of the evidentiary record. Boston is convinced, too, that the Israelis’ machine-gunning of the Liberty’s lifeboats, while the crew was trying desperately to assist their colleagues that were seriously wounded, was “a war crime.”

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/…..es0712.htm

In an interview with Woodward about his new book, he said that the increase in troop size (known as the surge) was not responsible for the decrease in violence in Iraq; rather, it is because of some supersecret new method of detecting, tracking, and killing insurgents and other undesirables. So…that blows a big hole in McCain’s “the surge was my idea and it worked and we are winning” BS…

When the Decider announces his reams of signed pardons, he will pretend that the Lord inspired him so there is no reason to think about the implications.

In the second video McCaint says to his interrogator, “I don’t know what version of my record you are looking at” or something similar. He’s not used to being challenged on veterans issues — or any issues, for that matter. I don’t think McCain — and certainly not the Thrilla from Wasilla — will be doing lots more unscripted town hall meetings.

The crowd at that town hall seemed oddly unsupportive of McCaint’s attempts to shut the guy down. I wonder how many folks afterwards sought out that VietNam war vet to ask for more details.

Part of that is retirement

Thanks for that reminder. Woodward just tipped his hand, but certainly enough for your point.

McCain cares more about bureaucrats than POWs.

this is an excellent vid from Vets Against McCain.

CNN “debunking” the book banning story re Sarah Palin. They say no one has shown that any books were banned.

Hey, Sit! Wolfie and Abby Tatton, that’s not the issue. The issue is whether as mayor, on multiple occasions, Palin tried to exert pressure on the Wasilla librarian to ban books if Palin wanted. That librarian was reportedly fired.

If you’re in the debunking business…get your facts straight.

Other nicknames for her”

Wasilla the Hun
Mooselini
and my favorite, Palinocchio (click here for the graphic)

I had forgotten about that. Jon Stewart is the only one I’ve seen point out the Graham screw-up. That one really points out how blatantly they are exploiting those who have been lost in the war. I would think that everyone who has a family member in Arlington should write a letter to the RNC shaming them for this.

To me, the biggest, most unforgivable thing McCain has done is his support of tortureenhanced interrogation methods. As a victim of torture, if he can’t make Bush,Cheney and Addington abandon torture, he is not fit to lead anything.

My contribution has been
The Trollop with a Wallop
(h/t John McCain: “At least I don’t plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you c***)

oh i missed that one!

Duh. The point was that Caribou Barbie raised book banning policies AT ALL. Double Duh to CNN.

this message approved by Book Lovers for Obama/Biden.

It only works for them because Conglomerate-owned media outlets provide the cover and hide the lies and distortions. I’m hoping that one of the main things that comes out of this election season is that enough people change their behavior, and drop their cable/dish subscriptions, and give just a percentage of that money to New Media outlets each month. We need to grow our numbers both in people and money by 10, 20, or more times to really have an impact on Conglomerate Media.

Marginalizing BigMedia, and loosening the stranglehold they have on public discourse, needs to be issue #1 for us in order to restore the Constitution. It will require behavioral change on a mass scale.

People like McInsane, Sarah Flailin, Shrub and so on would never be elected if there was actual journalism in BigMedia.

VoteVets.org has an action today. They request an investigation into the leaks of Track Palin’s deployment, which violate operational security.

Co-Sign Our Letter on Leaks About Track Palin

No matter how you feel about the election, we can all agree that the safety of all of our troops is one of the most important things we must protect. In the past few days, important classified details about the deployment of Track Palin, son of Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, have found their way into the media. The Pentagon must investigate the leaks, and find the source. The Defense Department must prosecute, too, if necessary. Co-sign this letter that we sent to the Department of Defense. Together, we can ensure that our troops and security are protected.

more here

So…you know the 90 innocent civilians, including 60 children, killed by US bombs….well, the Pentagon investigated themselves and decided it wasn’t true, because of a key witness…an embedded “journalist”….forking Oliver North!!!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/…..661/591235

Done

I think it was a producer of the Daily Show that said they get the same B-roll as all the news outlets. They just choose to show different stuff. It’s all in the editing!

Siun was on this earlier today

He also draws Social Security. Like he needs it. VA disability payments are, in theory, to enable a disabled veteran live a reasonably normal life because they can no longer work due to their disability. A real review of his status would very likely result in his percentage being lowered to 0% which would allow him to be treated as a disabled vet but receive no financial assistance.

Like it? Digg it here, please

This is perfectly with the Republican stance of supporting the rights of the unborn…until birth.

Thanks! I hadn’t seen that.

Yes, the before life and the after life are all that matters. Actual life, not so much.

veteransagainstmccain is a hate site run by Jim Kiley. Kiley has a personal beef with McSFB and focuses primarily on his service. I’ve had some email exchanges with Kiley and I won’t link to his site. Just another scumbag.

Ian upstairs with an alternate Palin for VP

I wonder how Adam got his poster into the auditorium. No one was allowed to bring in homemade posters — all those on teevee were made en masse and left on seats before the opening gavel. So was it on mylar and folded up really small, do you think?

Kokesh is the ex-Marine who sat in Alberto Gonzales’s Senate hearing and tallied the number of times he said “I don’t recall.”

Hard to keep a good grunt down, particularly one on a mission.

Good job, Teddy! That 20% rating from DAV was also the lowest rating on that entire list of Congress Critters! How on earth can he justify it? Here’s my take on McSame’s woeful track record…!

New Christy a couple of flights upstairs

I wonder what he said to all those republican suits that surrounded him. He must have said something, because he was allowed to stay there with his signs for 5 minutes or more. I imagine he threatend those poor GOP thugs with bodily harm if they touched him. I was expecting Republicans being thrown from the upper deck where he was holding forth. Adam is an American hero. We need more fearless souls like that. That is one thing those right wingers fear most, getting their asses kicked.

Zing!!!

Someone from TAPPED interviewed him right after. He said he got in on a pass given to him by a Ron Paul alternate delegate.