McCain Fun Facts!!

[kpete]

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McCain Fun Facts!!

By observer2 - August 14, 2008, 10:26AM


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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[BonnieJW]

1. How about voting AGAINST

any bill that would help veterans?

[Overseas]

2. Some say it doesn't matter that his name is John Sidney McCain III, he has 7 homes, $520 loafers,

a net worth of $40 million, and an heiress second wife who brings $100+ million more to the family coffers.

I heard some TV pundits saying it didn't matter that JSM III is filthy rich. I think it does. It shows that the windbreaker-wearer really is out of touch with our daily lives.

[Bucky]

3. Nits

* Cindy is only 17 years his junior. When they first hooked up, they lied to each other about their ages.

* There's no proof that he had an affair with Iseman, which is none our business anyway. He did favors for lobbyists, but there's no evidence that those favors included orgasms.

* He called his wife a cunt, not a c**t.

* He's past his prime--this video of his rambling troubles with reciting facts tells the story best.

* He gripes about unfair media attention toward Obama, but the one part of the media he controls the most, his own website, mentions Obama more than McCain himself.

[cyndensco]

4. 894th out of 899th??

And proud of it.

[NatBurner]

5. he's stone deef now...

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/15/campaign-says-mccain-didnt-hear-question-on-attack-book/#comment-1479429

Asked by the Associated Press earlier Friday what he though of author Jerome Corsi's new book, "The Obama Nation," McCain said, "gotta keep your sense of humor."

Those comments were immediately slammed by the Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee, which e-mailed its 3.4 million supporters declaring, "John McCain thinks smears and lies are funny."

"Despite pledging to run a respectful campaign, McCain is just standing by while Corsi and his publisher, former Dick Cheney aide Mary Matalin, poison this presidential race," read the e-mail from DNC Rapid Response Team.

But McCain spokeswoman Brooke Buchanan said later Thursday the Arizona senator actually did not hear the question, and would not be commenting on the book.

[Poiuyt]

6. I think it's a fun fact that McCain is older than Mount Rushmore