McCain Fails to Come Clean on Katrina Record
By Bill W. Wednesday Jun 04, 2008 11:00am
Unlike last month's photo-op where the media let him get away with his make-believe Katrina record, Maya Rodriguez with the New Orleans CBS affiliate news brought a dose of reality to McCain's town hall in Baton Rouge on Wednesday:
Rodriguez: Senator, my understanding is you have voted twice against the creation of commission to investigate the levee failures around New Orleans, and my question is: Why have you voted against that creation of that commission?
McCain: I've supported every investigation and ways of finding out what caused the tragedy. I've been here to New Orleans. I've met with people on the ground. I've met with the Governor. I'm not familiar with exactly what you said but I've been as active as anybody in efforts to restore the city. ...
Despite his claims otherwise, the reporter was correct, and McCain's record on Katrina is not at all what he would have you believe.
- McCain Voted Twice Against Establishing A Commission To Study The Response To Hurricane Katrina. [ 9/14/2005, 2/2/2006]
- McCain Opposed Granting Financial Relief To Those Affected By Hurricane Katrina. [9/15/2005]
- McCain Voted Against Five Months of Medicaid For Hurricane Katrina Victims. [11/3/2005]
- McCain Voted Against Emergency Funding Bill, Including $28 Billion for Hurricane Relief. [5/4/2006]
And as for McCain's: “I’ve been here to New Orleans. I’ve met with people on the ground,” ThinkProgress notes that "until traveling there one month ago, McCain had “made just one public tour of New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina touched down in August 2005.”"
The truth is, until Bobby Jindal won the Louisiana Governor's race in Oct. and McCain began trying to remake his Katrina image out of pixie dust and media complacency, his gulf coast record hadn't changed much since the day the hurricane made landfall.
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Oh man, the media is going to be all over this!
PRIMERRRRRRO!
McBains Finished!
Arrrrgh! Segundo!
Bad McBush! No prunes for you!
this in it's self could take him down several notches.......it was a disgrace.....some of those people will never forget or forgive
"50 permanent bases in Iraq/Bush set to declare victory"
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/revealed-secret-plan...
Surprise!
John McCain has failed to come clean on a whole host of issues domestic (Katrina) and foreign (Iraq).
Which makes John McCain, once again, so much like Bush. even has adopted Bush's anti-abortion stance, something he's flip-flopped on for the nomination.
Hey, give me another break. I'm old, and don't forget that I was a tortured war hero...all for you! Besides those "people" were black looters anyway.
McComb over
John McCain is now at war with Roe v. Wade.
Oh,oh. McBush is going to have to start screening who is allowed into these open town hall meetings.
And, he could care less about the people hurt by Katrina.
The GREAT thing about Obama? he'll point all of this out.
Republikan = Liar. You can't be a good knuckle-dragger unless you lie.
This fool is taken seriously by whom ? The GOP is just letting him take the point into a November massacre.
McCain is a shameless liar. The ultimate salesman who will say or do anything to sell death for the military industrial complex.
The MSM is owned by them, so McCain or any of their hired liars (Republicans and many Democrats) will never get investigated for fraud.
"Oh man, the media is going to be all over this!"
I assume that was sarcasm but seriously, if the media doesn't start picking up these stories then THEY, not we, are doomed.
Their is some guy on a hunger strike right now in front of John McCains office, the only thing he is asking for is to allow Stephen Jones and some other professer to show the facts surrounding 911. LIKE MACAIN COULDN'T LOOK INTO HIMSELF! This is big, if Obama will meet with the quy and save his life by talking to him, the election for John McCain is over.
Scy @ 11:
especially the new version designed by newt...neocon
getalife @ 6:
A secret deal being negotiated in Baghdad would perpetuate the American military occupation of Iraq indefinitely, regardless of the outcome of the US presidential election in November.
How else can Shell, Texaco, Exon etc. get their oil supply ?
Cheney only did what the American public needs. More and more fuel for their unending need to consume.
Blue Lensman @ 14:
that's a good point they may not especially people are suffering with other issues like let see foreclosure/fuel prices/food prices/lay offs.....might be too negative even for them
" But the accord also threatens to provoke a political crisis in the US. President Bush wants to push it through by the end of next month so he can declare a military victory and claim his 2003 invasion has been vindicated."
And Bush most likely will get his way. He is the most powerful and least popular President at the same time. Thanks to the military industrial complex and the stupidity and mental lethargy of the majority of Americans.
Can we just please repeatedly show a split screen of McCain and Bush partying on McCain's birthday while people in New Orleans were drowning in their homes, dying in the stadium, held in the worst parts of the city at gunpoint by Blackwater mercenaries, and dead bodies were left in the streets?
EVERYONE else in America knew what was going on in New Orleans, there is NO excuse for Bush and McCain partying while an American city was dying. They both had the power to do something to help and they did worse than nothing, they partied in public.
Let's also keep in mind that while they ignored New Orleans and partied, Al Gore, who was no longer an elected official, was quietly arranging for doctors and patients to be evacuated from a hospital.
Gore stepped in and saved lives while McCain and Bush were partying. Now McCain and Bush want to revise history to make it seem they were leaders, but the truth is they have both tried to kick the citizens of New Orleans while they're down AND profit off of their misfortune.
And Gore has never once tried to get credit, praise or political mileage out of his genuine life-saving actions.
That's the difference between a real leader and self-serving political hacks.
They must not be allowed to get away with this.
An abbreviated McCain Fails would have worked for just about any "Git Off Mah Lawn" post, too.
"The US has repeatedly denied it wants permanent bases in Iraq but one Iraqi source said: "This is just a tactical subterfuge." Washington also wants control of Iraqi airspace below 29,000ft and the right to pursue its "war on terror" in Iraq, giving it the authority to arrest anybody it wants and to launch military campaigns without consultation."
How else can Americans get the oil they need? Oil, oil, oil!!!!!!!!
15 trillion dollars in the ground in Iraq. Why do you think Bush murdered all the people in the WTC?
The Bush crime family has killed many more people for alot less than that!
I don't understand why this picture hasn't been posted far and wide. This is what McSame and McBush were doing while people were drowning and thirsting to death and baking in the heat. Eating cake. http://vasavana.blogspot.com/2008/04/where-were-you-on-morning-of-august...
I really think that McSame doesn't comprehend that he can't make these lies without them being instantly refuted by the facts. And I'm sure Obama will have no problem with doing just that.
Oh - also, in the quote in the original posting...it's spelled LEVEE, not LEVY.
Tell me again - why is this clown even considered as being eligible to run for the highest public office in the country?
"Mr Bush is determined to force the Iraqi government to sign the so-called "strategic alliance" without modifications, by the end of next month."
Time for Obama and Clinton (they still have Senatorial responsibilities) to get all over this. They can use their public appearances to bring this center stage and to show congress what their job is! Time to stop Bush NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They can force the MSM now to cover this, because the MSM needs them to sell their soap products!!!!
go_obama_go @ 23:
Doh! Fixed it.
go_obama_go @ 23:
remember there are people in that extreme right of their party neocons that makeup their own truths and reality otherwise they couldn't sleep at night. one of their mantras is that dems want to help everyone...no we want to help everyone that needs real help.. big difference...ie.katrina
mccain: I’m not familiar with exactly what you said but I’ve been as active as anybody in efforts to restore the city...
umm, johnny, isn't this an admission that you actually aren't as active as others?
#22
It isn't just the oil, the amount of money to be made in war-profiteering "defense contracts" is in the billions, if not trillions. Our defense budget is larger than the GDP for most of the other countries in the world. It's hard for some of us to comprehend, but for some people, (Bush's base), getting in on that kind of cash is more important than peace, more important than the children we kill, or the wars we start, or the troops whose lives are destroyed.
It's greed to the nth degree. Until we really accept how much they don't care about the deadly results of what they do, we won't do what it takes to stop them.
and LIEberdouche is the chairman of the committee and LIEberdouche quashed a proposal to investigate the dissappearance of $2Billion in Katrina contracts. fuck the both of them
#30 - yeah, and Harry Reid still thinks Liberman is a good Dem. Yikes.
Terrible @ 24:
Old, rich, white, male.
Samson- @ 28:
If McCain even halfway cared about Katrina like he now pretends, he'd have been doing something like this with his private jet fleet instead of having cake with dubya.
Terrible @ 24:
who better to orchestrate the neocon "bread and circus routine" .....but a hypocritical clown
"Different Anonymous Says: Oh man, the media is going to be all over this!"
Sadly we won't hear another word about it from the media.
McCain said he's voted for every investigation into Katrina and that is all he has to say. It is our obligation to make sure that the media reports that what McCain is saying is simply a lie. But we have no outlet for countering McCain's lies so he will continue to lie everytime he is asked about something of concern. McCain knows that he can simply lie about his record and have no accountability for his record or his lies. It is that simple.
kerplunk @ 35:
rooth hussein @ 29:
MoveOn.org.........do your thing
If Katrina isn't a lobbyist, Angry Grandpa don't care.
it bears repeating
McCain was against the investigations of the levee failures before he was for them.
The permanant campaign will continue to hold onto power.
w will declare victory in Iraq again to make McCain a war hero again.
June 5th, 2008 at 9:38 AM - PDT 30 BaScOmBe against Bitter Elitist Appeasement Bullshit Says: and LIEberdouche is the chairman of the committee and LIEberdouche quashed a proposal to investigate the dissappearance of $2Billion in Katrina contracts. fuck the both of them
Quote This Comment June 5th, 2008 at 9:39 AM - PDT 31 rooth hussein Says: #30 - yeah, and Harry Reid still thinks Liberman is a good Dem. Yikes.
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I can't register enough disgust through typing.
39 Bob Says: McCain was against the investigations of the levee failures before he was for them.
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he is still not for them. he just says he is. he'll be absent from the next vote.
McCain was celebrating his birthday with George W. Bush while Katrina destroyed New Orleans. A true leader would have asked Bush to focus on Katrina and New Orleans rather than celebrating his birthday. McCain is no leader. He is simply another imbecile the Republicans selected to put up in front of America and sell as a President. Sadly America will probably buy the product once again. A warning to America, the product is full of lead and just considering it will make you sick and eventually kill you.
23 Go_O_Go--Seems U R correct. Maybe McSame won't catch on for awhile, so that his blunders, gaffes, misrepresentations, obfuscations, and lies can be spread far and wide. By us bloggers, of course. Hardly worth it to expect the 'liberal media' /snark/ to call him to account
22 Underground Pirate, you should read this....
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/11818067/the_low_post_the_hop...
getalife @ 40:
that's the deal that's what scott mcclellan is talking about no check and balance..........just full steam ahead we know better than the american people
Either McCain is lying or his mental facillities are too diminished to make him an effective leader. Either way, he is unfit to be president.
Just keep posting the picture of McSame and his hero George W. Bush partying it up on McSame's birthday, Aug 29, the same day that Katrina hit Louisiana.
Even George Bush, with his momentery glance at New Orleans during a fly-by as AirForce-1 was heading back to Washington from a fund raiser, paid more attention to Katrina than McSame did.
What time did the levees fail?
What time did McBush and Bush celebrate the geezer's birthday all smiles?
Grandpappy McSame is being shown to be just another 'pathological liar'. What doesn't he get about telling the truth about his record? He deserves to be swiftboated from here to kingdom come for his lies and his level of corruption and fraud. By the end of the campaign, it will be "McCain Who?" in this country. We neither need a grandpappy leader nor a sychopantic liar whose integrity has been compromised by Bush's blackmail.
karl Says: kerplunk @ 35:
“Different Anonymous Says: Oh man, the media is going to be all over this!”
Sadly we won’t hear another word about it from the media.
McCain said he’s voted for every investigation into Katrina and that is all he has to say. It is our obligation to make sure that the media reports that what McCain is saying is simply a lie. But we have no outlet for countering McCain’s lies so he will continue to lie everytime he is asked about something of concern. McCain knows that he can simply lie about his record and have no accountability for his record or his lies. It is that simple.
rooth hussein @ 29:
#22
It isn’t just the oil, the amount of money to be made in war-profiteering “defense contracts” is in the billions, if not trillions. Our defense budget is larger than the GDP for most of the other countries in the world. It’s hard for some of us to comprehend, but for some people, (Bush’s base), getting in on that kind of cash is more important than peace, more important than the children we kill, or the wars we start, or the troops whose lives are destroyed.
It’s greed to the nth degree. Until we really accept how much they don’t care about the deadly results of what they do, we won’t do what it takes to stop them.
MoveOn.org………do your thing
Sadly MoveOn.org has been cast as a radical liberal movement against American values (in particular their Religious and Patriotic values). That is how easily the Republicans cast progressive organizations or people in a "scary" light and America buys it everytime. MoveOn.org, Michael Moore, George Soros, are all code words used by the Republicans to instantly get America's attention and scorn and America buys it. Americans are quite fearful people.
Turk Meister @ 49:
Don't know the actual amount of time but I do recall that it took "FOUR DAYS" for this clown to even get water to the dying people of New Orleans. This is the "greatest american abomination" and abuse of power ever in our history. It's shameful and McSame has his fingerprints all over doing the absolute "wrong thing" for these people whose lives were regarded as not important from the outset.
Let the swiftboating of Grandpappy Liar McSame begin!! There will be so much legitimate "dirt" on his voting record which he chronically lies about as well as digging into his actual war history and the USS Forestal nightmare which he and his father caused that he'll be in hiding before the end of the general election.....factor in his trysts with Vicky Iseman who, BTW, is AWOL right now and the fact that he cheated on his first wife with Botox BeerHeister Cindy....and he's just another typical bigoted womanizer whom we do not need in the white house.
TheToonGuy Says: Either McCain is lying or his mental facillities are too diminished to make him an effective leader. Either way, he is unfit to be president.
He's perfect Republican Presidential material. It has nothing to do with the person and everything to do with the Republican machine that allows their candidate to win everytime. Until Progressives have something similar in place, even putting Jesus himself up as President wouldn't win.
If I were Obama regarding McSame's allusion to "town hall meetings" as though he is attempting to imply that it's a Obama weakness...hell...just take a look at his last pathetic speech! This man screwed up even while reading a teleprompter. He doesn't have a candid, original thought in his senile mind at this point. He's going to get chewed to smithereens by Obama once the debates begin and he knows it. He's already a laughinstock and produces daily work for all of the comedy shows.
Johnny Grandpa McSame - The Typical Republican Robot
kerplunk @ 54:
he really is perfect for them right now especially since mccain wants to be part of that neocon club so bad. his feelings got hurt in 2000 he almost decided to label him self an independent......the guy has been in the government his entire life....he is known for full-time pandering...he has been in the government healthcare system his entire life....you know the one we can't have he is an over achieving elitist
When a slimey Reslug is caught in a factual truth the first thing they are taught to do is LIE, Deny and Lie somemore.
I think Gramps was right with his response. She clearly asks why he voted against investigating the levee failure twice and you show he voted against investigating the government response to the disaster twice. Not the same thing (as in one is cause, the other is response). Did he vote against the leeve invetigation once? Twice? Ever? Don't know because whatever that bill was isn't referenced.
It would be nice if the reporter had her information straight when asking the question. It's not hard to expose his shit record on Katrina. Look it up (it sucks) then ask the question. Don't screw up the wording and give him a chance to turn your question into an attack.
Sticking to the facts is all the ammuntion anyone needs to sink that clown. According to your info above, the reported was not correct. Maybe you want to correct that part of your post.
stop everything...when are we going to start talking about THE GROWTH ON THE SIDE OF JOHN MCCAINS HEAD? it's growing daily. it looks like an octopus has been used as a skin graft. it's as big as his hand people! does no one else see it? there's an elephant in the room and it's sitting ON MCCAINS FACE!
Just run that photo of McCain and Bush sharing birthday cake as Katrina hit. That's all you need to do to tie the two fellows and their policies together.
Echoman@60..
The only elephant in McSame's world is George W. Bush.
Bush will overshadow anything McSame does, says, reads, announces or grows on his face.
McCain:
Later, coming across a body lying face down with five bullet wounds to the back of the head, McCain said he supported multiple investigations into whether the death were murder or suicide.
kartina a big payday for blackwater....
katrina sorry
Once again McCain doesn't actually answer the question he was asked. Is anyone keeping a list of these? Oh yeah, and also whatever he says turns out not to be true.
Grampa McSame is a liar, and I can't wait to see this old geezer debate somebody who actually DOES know his ass from a hole in the ground.
The shameless way he is whoring himself in New Orleans is reminiscent of the way he whored himself to the likes of Falwell.
The deals that busco and mc same are doing BEYOND their office, will be stopped when Obama takes the Whitehouse...count on it.
I’m not familiar with exactly what you said but I’ve been as active as anybody in efforts to restore the city.
He sounds remarkably Reaganesque when he has these little memory lapses. I wonder if it's deliberate.
"Well, there you go again, asking me about something I can't remember. Katrina Commission? Gee, no, sorry...can't hear you. The helicopter's here. Gotta go now."
The media loves John McCain, no doubt. But what they tend to love more is a scandal and that deer in the headlights look of a major public figure caught with their pants down. I am sooooooooo hoping that Obama learns from what happened to Kerry and puts out an assertive campaign that makes the press want to question McCain. If the momentum starts, it won;t stop.
Katrina was a huge freaking flood
And mccain couldn't come clean with that?
Time to change the Depends more often granpa.
The change you can Depends on.
Hey, here's a video with scenes of the Katrina destruction - and a great shot of Bush viewing it - from Air Force One. The response to katrina was the most inept thing most of us have ever seen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWhlytQgcpk
It's up to Obama's campaign to exploit his hypocrisy to the hilt. Obama needs to come in with specific facts. Also, it wouldn't hurt to run that video of Bush handing McCain a birthday cake on McCain's birthday which took place on the 4th day of the Katrina catastrophe and juxtapose it with the bodies that were floating through the streets on that very same day.
Both videos are not available for viewing anymore.
[I just checked the two we posted and they work fine-Sitemonitor]
translated McCain..."hmm... black people...didn't the gooks make them irrelevant?'
We need to start creating 'fact sheets' on McCain for 'each' state. Explaining in truth and detail, how his votes affected people in 'that' state....We 'can' do this, without going negative, we 'can' do this, without the smear and gossip...
Let's mobilize and spread the word, without 'bashing' him....
Let's be the change we want to see in the world, while helping Americans see McCain for who he 'really' is and what he's 'really' done for and/or to America....
Peace and Love
Sarah in Tucson, AZ
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