Arizona's latest Presidential candidate, John McCain, speaking to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, August 1999, "I'd love to see a point where [Roe V. Wade] is irrelevant, and could be repealed because abortion is no longer necessary. But certainly in the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe V. Wade, which would then force x number of women to [undergo] illegal and dangerous operations."
In 2006, as McCain tested the water for this year's presidential race, the Arizona Republican Senator declared that he favors overturning Roe vs. Wade, supports a constitutional amendment that would ban abortion in almost all circumstances. On "Meet the Press," in 2007, Mc Cain said he had "always been pro-life, unchanging and unwavering." In March of the same year, on his "Straight Talk Express," he told a reporter, he would support a tax-supported program for AIDS prevention that included condom distribution, if it were based on an abstinence program that was "being followed." He credited the position to Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn, a conservative doctor who has taken a particular interest in sexually transmitted diseases and has frequently opposed contraception distribution. A few minutes later, apparently after considering the contradiction embedded in his position, he revised his position. "Let me think about it a little bit. I had not . . . I don't know if I would use taxpayers' money." Then, he got a bit cryptic, "I'm not informed enough on it. Let me find out . . . I'm sure I have taken a position on it in the past . . . I have to find out my position on it . . . I am sure I am opposed to government funding. I am sure I support the president's policy on it." Days later, after some research, an aide, Brian Jones, McCain's communications director, clarified the issue for reporters on the bus. "He's consistently voted against taxpayer-funded contraception programs,"
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Gregg
MSM now has the power to control elections since they are owned by big business, and congress has illegally let them consolidate our media so that only a handful of companies now control 98% of what we now hear.
Just to show you how ignorant Americans are....The Bush administration OPENLY lied hundreds of times ON TELEVISION, and it was completely ignored by MSM. We had Condi Rice make this statement ON TELEVISION after 9/11. "We never envisioned them using planes to attack our buildings"....Hmm...I guess she was kept out of the loop that we were training our military for that very scenario ON 9/11!, and that previous intelligence reports to the White House specifically stated that planes attacking our buildings was a threat! Bush also perjured himself numerous times, as did Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell....etc...
Hell, Bush promised a low key foreign policy, and no nation building, and now we are in two more foreign countries for no reason at all! They all lie, and none of them cares about Americans. If they cared, then we would not have shipped our jobs to China, and left our southern border wide open.
Makes me want to poor syrup on him.
That fact is not going to get in the way of the Republican Machine as it does everything it can to discredit Democrats, and the Democratic Party between now and the election.
McCain is campaigning in the regions he has particular strength. He is doing it now because the spotlight is on the Democrats. His strategy is to keep his positions under the radar. He can go to Florida, as he did today, on his "Call to Action Tour." He gives a speech in Tampa tomorrow where he is expect to make his case on health care. That speech will be quietly publicized where it will play well, and it will be ignored every where else, except possibly in the back rooms of Democratic Party offices in 50 states.
This coming election will determine the direction of the US for at least 4 years, and possibly for the next 12 to 16. It was 1992 that the coup that took America away from Americans happened. It was 14 years of Republican domination or control of the Congress before Democrats won a razor thin majority.