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Today is not the 1st Financial Disaster that Sen. John McCain is directly affiliated with:
 
Senate Ethics Committee Video
 
Sen. John McCain Services were  bought.  He Was bribed.    Traded your honor for contributions and benefits.   Your actions are solely responsible for the Savings and Loans Collapse
 
 
John McCain and the Making of a Financial Crisis
 

 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDofbll86dY&eurl=http://
my.barackobama.com/page/invite/keatingvideo
 

The Truth:  Something FOX News will NEVER reveal
 

STOP SUCKING IN THE SPIN AND LEARN SOMETHING FOR YOURSELF.  SEE IT WITH YOUR OWN EYES.
 

 
Reagan 8 yrs.  -  Savings & Loan Collapse
 
George W. Bush 8 yrs. - Complete Collapse of Financial Institutions


any stupid comments posted by somebody who jumped in and spouted off without watching the video will be deleted.  Learn something for crying out loud

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/     Pfotenhauer Claims McCain Has Made The Economy The ‘Fulcrum Of His Whole Campaign’»

 

With close friends like Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) acknowledging that a focus on the economy has been bad for Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) presidential campaign, his adviser have announced a strategy for “turning a page on this financial crisis” in order to stop “talking” about the economy. But on the defensive about trying to avoid the most important issue of the day, senior McCain adviser Nancy Pfotenhauer argued on Fox News today that McCain “has made the economy, and his economic policies, just really, the fulcrum of his whole campaign”

 

 

In reality, McCain has made every effort he can to talk about anything but the economy. In June, Fortune magazine asked McCain what he saw as “the gravest long-term threat to the U.S. economy.” Instead of mentioning an actual economic issue, McCain paused for 11 seconds before saying “radical Islamic extremism“:

 

He’s looking not at us but into the void. His eyes are narrowed. Nine seconds of silence, ten seconds, 11. Finally he says, “Well, I would think that the absolute gravest threat is the struggle that we’re in against radical Islamic extremism, which can affect, if they prevail, our very existence. Another successful attack on the United States of America could have devastating consequences.”

 

McCain’s pivot in his interview with Fortune is similar to the pivot he made during a primary debate earlier this year. Asked about why he was “qualified” to “manage our economy,” McCain said that his military background gave him “the vision and the knowledge and the background to take on the transcendent issue of the 21st century, which is radical Islamic extremism.”

 

Considering that McCain has previously admitted that he knows “a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues,” it’s not surprising that he would often choose to talk about “radical Islamic extremism” instead of the economy. What is surprising is that McCain’s advisers believe they can credibly claim McCain has made the economy “the fulcrum” of his campaign.

WHY IS IT SO MANY VETERANS GROUPS CONTINUALLY SPEAK OUT AGAINST McCain's voting record,  YET PEOPLE CONTINUE TO FALSELY BELIEVE THAT HE IS A FINE OPTION?   One Week After McCain Claims Vets 'Know I'll Take Care Of Them,' IAVA Gives Him A 'D'»

 

During the first presidential debate, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) repeatedly emphasized his love of veterans - and their fondness for him in return. "I'll take care of them. And they know I'll take care of them," he said. McCain frequently exaggerates his level of support for and from veterans groups, claiming to have "received the highest award from literally every veteran's organization in America" and to have "a perfect voting record" on veterans' issues.

 

   

Today, the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America released its congressional scorecard for the 110th Congress, and awarded McCain a grade of "D" for his votes against veterans' priorities. The grade makes McCain one of only four Senators to fall on IAVA's "D List" - and marks a repeat performance for him, after receiving a "D" for his 109th congressional voting record as well.

 

IAVA hammered McCain for refusing to co-sponsor Sen. Jim Webb's (D-VA) 21st Century G.I. Bill. In fact, the IAVA highlighted the weaker alternative proposed by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) - and endorsed by McCain - as "an effort to derail the popular and bipartisan" GI Bill proposed by Webb. "Thankfully," the IAVA writes, "the Senate voted forcefully, 55-42, to kill" the Graham-McCain proposal.

IAVA's score adds to other groups who have criticized McCain's abysmal record on veterans' issues. McCain has received a 20 percent vote rating from the Disabled Veterans of America, while the Vietnam Veterans of America noted McCain had "voted against us" in 15 "key votes."

 

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/

 

STOP LISTENING TO HIS SPEECH AND LOOK AND LEARN AT WHAT HE HAS DONE.  IT IS VERY NEGATIVE TOWARD MILITARY.

 

 

  http://www.votevets.org/index_html        

McCain/GI Bill Ad  (TAKES A WHILE TO LOAD, BUT WORTH IT)  

 http://www.votevets.org/video?id=0012   V

eterans implore Senator McCain to support our troops and veterans, by voting FOR  the bi-partisan Webb-Hagel GI Bill

        PRIORITIES  

Senator McCain has to give America straight talk.  What won't we be able to do, both at home and in the war against al Qaeda, because we're stuck in the endless war in Iraq.

   http://www.votevets.org/video?id=0014      

 

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WHAT THEY DONT WANT YOU TO KNOW

Over the weekend, John McCain's top adviser announced their plan to stop engaging in a debate over the economy and "turn the page" to more direct, personal attacks on Barack Obama.

In the middle of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, they want to change the subject from the central question of this election. Perhaps because the policies McCain supported these past eight years and wants to continue are pretty hard to defend.

But it's not just McCain's role in the current crisis that they're avoiding. The backward economic philosophy and culture of corruption that helped create the current crisis are looking more and more like the other major financial crisis of our time.

During the savings and loan crisis of the late '80s and early '90s, McCain's political favors and aggressive support for deregulation put him at the center of the fall of Lincoln Savings and Loan, one of the largest in the country. More than 23,000 investors lost their savings. Overall, the savings and loan crisis required the federal government to bail out the savings of hundreds of thousands of families and ultimately cost American taxpayers $124 billion.

Sound familiar?

In that crisis, John McCain and his political patron, Charles Keating, played central roles that ultimately landed Keating in jail for fraud and McCain in front of the Senate Ethics Committee. The McCain campaign has tried to avoid talking about the scandal, but with so many parallels to the current crisis, McCain's Keating history is relevant and voters deserve to know the facts -- and see for themselves the pattern of poor judgment by John McCain.

So at noon Eastern on Monday, October 6th, we're releasing a 13-minute documentary about the scandal called "Keating Economics: John McCain and the Making of a Financial Crisis" -- it will be available at KeatingEconomics.com, along with background information that every voter should know.

Watch a preview right now and share it with your friends.

The point of the film and the web site is that John McCain still hasn't learned his lesson.

And this time, McCain's bankrupt economic philosophy has put our economy at the brink of collapse and put millions of Americans at risk of losing their homes.

Watch the video to see why John McCain's failed philosophy and poor judgment is a recipe for deepening the crisis:

http://my.barackobama.com/keatingvideo

It's no wonder John McCain would rather spend the last month of this election smearing Barack's character instead of talking about the top priority issue for voters.