Politico repeated Cindy McCain's comment about troop-funding vote without noting her husband's own vote
SUMMARY: The Politico repeated Cindy McCain's assertion that "[t]he day that Sen. [Barack] Obama cast a vote not to fund my son when he was serving sent a cold chill through my body," but did not note that Sen. John McCain himself voted against legislation to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
In an October 20 Politico article, staff writer Amie Parnes reported that Cindy McCain "has used her son's service in Iraq to accuse [Sen.] Barack Obama of endangering his life and, by extension, the country's security," and quoted her assertion at an October 17 rally for her husband, Sen. John McCain: "The day that Sen. Obama cast a vote not to fund my son when he was serving sent a cold chill through my body." But the article did not note that McCain himself voted against legislation to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. As Media Matters for America previously noted, Parnes' colleague Jonathan Martin and others reported similar comments by Cindy McCain on October 8 without mentioning John McCain's own vote.
McCain -- along with all but two of his fellow Republican senators -- voted against a March 2007 bill that would have funded the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and would have provided more than $1 billion in additional funds to the Department of Veterans Affairs. On the October 8 edition of NBC's Nightly News, chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell played a clip of Cindy McCain's assertion at a previous rally that Obama's "vote to not fund my son while he was serving sent a cold chill through my body." But, in contrast to Parnes, Mitchell noted: "In fact, Obama voted against money for the troops once, in May 2007 -- he said because the bill didn't include a timetable for withdrawal. But John McCain also voted against a troop-funding bill two months earlier for the opposite reason: because that bill called for a troop withdrawal."
From the October 20 Politico article:
In speeches across the country, Cindy McCain has used her son's service in Iraq to accuse Barack Obama of endangering his life and, by extension, the country's security.
"The day that Sen. Obama cast a vote not to fund my son when he was serving sent a cold chill through my body," McCain, 54, told a rally in Pennsylvania last week, standing beside her husband of 28 years and his vice presidential running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. "I would suggest Senator Obama change shoes with me for just one day. I suggest he take a day and watch our men and women deploying."
"The Politico repeated Cindy McCain's assertion that "[t]he day that Sen. [Barack] Obama cast a vote not to fund my son when he was serving sent a cold chill through my body," but did not note that Sen. John McCain himself voted against legislation to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. "
Of course they didn't. That would be as bad as reminding people of her adultery or her illegal drug use. ;-)
"The Politico repeated Cindy McCain's assertion that "[t]he day that Sen. [Barack] Obama cast a vote not to fund my son when he was serving sent a cold chill through my body," but did not note that Sen. John McCain himself voted against legislation to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. "
Of course they didn't. That would be as bad as reminding people of her adultery or her illegal drug use. ;-)
Not to mention that her son, at the time of that vote, was not deployed to Iraq.
I wonder if Cindybot felt a cold chill through her body at the moment here last human parts were removed to allow replacement with GOP issued circuit boards.
Resistance is futile.
Resistance is futile.
Isn't a cold chill warmer that the Ice Princess's surface temperature?
probably warmer than Grampy's precious bodily fluids. Sorry if I made you think of Grampy sending his cold fluids through Cindybot's chassis.
I think that extreme cold is the only way to keep gramp's package frozen stiff...
Politico is slanted and have had numerous blunders in their brief existence. I wouldn't really expect them to get this right.
I hope Cindy's son and Sarah's son and Joe Biden's son all come home safely. but no thanks to BushCo and McBush for enthusiastically sending them there.
Exactly. Actually, I would have preferred for everyone's sons and daughters to have come home safe, but unfortunately, we're long past that now...
that is all we need, another do nothing first lady . Wonder if she knows enough math to correctly measure drapes.
Of course, if Obama wins, the whole "support the troops" bromide will be turned on its head. Republicans will suddenly discover that it is, indeed, patriotic to criticize the Commander in Chief when we have troops in harm's way. That will suddenly become the only way to "really" support the troops.
Count on it.
the whole "support the troops" bromide will be turned on its head
And the right wing noise machine will repeat it ad nauseum and the sheep will eventually forget their hypocrisy.
This already happened with Clinton and Kosevo. Read some of Hannity's transcripts from back then
Can't wait for Hannity on January 21, 2009........if he still has a job.
Says it all...
October 20, 2008 11:52
Incoherence
Posted by Joe Klein | Comments (26) | Permalink | Trackbacks (0) | Email ThisJohn McCain had a fabulously loony weekend, flipping out charges and attacks like a mud tornado. The truly remarkable thing about McCain's attacks, especially on Obama's economic policies, is that McCain, in each case, is "guilty" of supporting some version of the policies he's attacking:
1. He attacks Obama for increasing "welfare" by providing refundable tax credits--that is giving people the cash equivalent if they don't pay enough in income taxes to reap the full benefit of the credit--but McCain's own $5000 health insurance credit is also refundable.
2. He attacks Obama for spreading "socialism," but McCain supported the bailout that enabled the Bush Administration to partially nationalize the banking system last week. If that ain't a (very mild) form of socialism, I don't know what is.
3. He attacks Obama's tax plan as a form of "spreading the wealth"--the words Obama used when talking to Joe the Unlicensed Tax Dodger in Ohio--because Obama would reduce taxes on the middle class and pay for it by restoring Clinton-era marginal tax rates on the wealthy. And yet, McCain proudly voted for a major tax hike and wealth redistribution scheme in his early days in his early days in Congress. In fact he touts it regularly, including on Fox News Sunday, as bipartisan cooperation at its finest:
In fact, that was an enormous--and necessary--tax increase, but it tilted heavily against working Americans. Payroll taxes have been increased no fewer than seven times since Reagan was President and, so far as I know, never been cut--but large capital gains and marginal rate cuts, and all sorts of corporate loopholes, have been built into the tax system during that same period--a massive redistribution of wealth toward the wealthy.
Finally, McCain had this exchange about his campaign's skeevy robo-calls this weekend on Fox:
Legitimate and truthful? I supposed that's why Susan Collins, one of McCain's closest friends in the Senate, criticized him for this trashball tactic. Oh, and the "same guy" Wallace was referring to is none other than Warren Tompkins, whose name was a synonym for satan among the McCain inner circle in 2000. I can imagine John breaking the news to Cindy, "Hey, honey, great news! Remember that guy who was involved in spreading the rumors about your addiction to pain killers and Bridget being an illegitimate interracial child? Well, we've got him doing that same sort of high-minded stuff for us!"
That "cold chill" Cindy Lou felt was probably the result of her not having a painkiller in the previous few hours.....