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/n.....40512.html
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/2.....st-29.html
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/po.....nspiracies
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.