yeah, he’s missed or voted against almost every bill relating to the troops and veterans. Things like longer rest between redeployment, increased in funding on safety equipment for the troops in Iraq, increase in healthcare funding for veterans, etc.
Since your so familiar with this bill why don’t you educate us on the differenses between this bill and the one that he was sponcering and why his shows his mal intent for our troops.
And how many did he miss or vote against?
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I wasn’t mentioning one in particular. I had a really good list that had details on exact bills and amendments, I’ll try to find it again.
[quote]Tiribulus wrote:
An oversimplified version of the oversimplification would be if somebody introduced a bill making it illegal to kill children, but also appropriated 85 trillion dollars for advanced sandbox studies. It is voted against to stop one preposterous article, but is reported as a vote against protecting children from being murdered.[/quote]
yeah, he’s missed or voted against almost every bill relating to the troops and veterans. Things like longer rest between redeployment, increased in funding on safety equipment for the troops in Iraq, increase in healthcare funding for veterans, etc.
Since your so familiar with this bill why don’t you educate us on the differenses between this bill and the one that he was sponcering and why his shows his mal intent for our troops.
And how many did he miss or vote against?
This shit aggravates the livin hell outta me when either side does it. The legislative process is so much more complex than is commonly known and they play on peoples ignorance of that all the time. It’s almost never as simple as “voted for or against__________”.
An oversimplified version of the oversimplification would be if somebody introduced a bill making it illegal to kill children, but also appropriated 85 trillion dollars for advanced sandbox studies. It is voted against to stop one preposterous article, but is reported as a vote against protecting children from being murdered.[/quote]
Yup, I know that is how it happens in quite a few cases.
For an example not like that: an amendment (S.A. 2909) to the military funding bill for 2008 (H.R. 1585)to increase the amount of rest troops got between deployment. He voted against that amendment. I can only assume it was so he could press his amendment which covered similar ground but was mostly about aliens (immigrants).
NBC said tonight that McCain’s speech broke records for viewership of a convension speech. I can’t recall what the numbers were but evidentally there were half a million more viewers than for the Obama speech.
NBC said tonight that McCain’s speech broke records for viewership of a convension speech. I can’t recall what the numbers were but evidentally there were half a million more viewers than for the Obama speech.[/quote]
And, interestingly, the McCain speech was on fewer networks.
McCain: Servant, bring forth a poverty stricken, pro-choice, homosexual, minority from New Orleans, and a sacrificial dagger. The little one is ready for initiation into the Sacred Mysteries of Republikkkanazism.
Did any of you guys catch Fox’s in -depth story on McCain’s career? They’re doing it for Barack as well. One part I thought was pretty good in a pure political sense …
Evidently McCain ran for an open congressional seat on his first foray into politics … had lived in AZ for about a year … bought a house in the district the actual same day that the incumbent announced he was retiring …
Anyway … at the debates his opponent (primary or general?) hammered his lack of time living in the district and said “how long have you lived here?” McCain responded “Well the ONLY address I’ve had for any length of time in my life was the Hanoi Hilton.”
End of campaign.
Kind of cheap actually and I’m a little concerned about how his POW experience does seem to come up anytime he gets criticized (Kerryesque) … but still a good piece of pure politics.
