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    Ten Things You Should Know About McCain

     
    1. John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday
                 in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now he says his position has
                 "evolved," yet he's continued to oppose key civil rights laws.1

    2. According
                 to Bloomberg News, McCain is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq, Russia and
                 China. Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan says McCain "will make
                 Cheney look like Gandhi."2

    3. His reputation is
                 built on his opposition to torture, but McCain voted against a bill to
                 ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that
                 ban.3

    4. McCain opposes a woman's right to choose. He said, "I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned."4

    5. The
                 Children's Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress
                 for children. He voted against the children's health care bill last
                 year, then defended Bush's veto of the bill.5

    6. He's
                 one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires. The
                 Associated Press reports he and his wife own at least eight homes! Yet
                 McCain says the solution to the housing crisis is for people facing
                 foreclosure to get a "second job" and skip their vacations.6

    7. Many
                 of McCain's fellow Republican senators say he's too reckless to be
                 commander in chief. One Republican senator said: "The thought of his
                 being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He's erratic. He's
                 hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me."7

    8. McCain
                 talks a lot about taking on special interests, but his campaign manager
                 and top advisers are actually lobbyists. The government watchdog group
                 Public Citizen says McCain has 59 lobbyists raising money for his
                 campaign, more than any of the other presidential candidates.8

    9. McCain has sought closer ties to the extreme religious right in recent
                 years. The pastor McCain calls his "spiritual guide," Rod Parsley,
                 believes America's founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls
                 a "false religion." McCain sought the political support of right-wing
                 preacher John Hagee, who believes Hurricane Katrina was God's
                 punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church "the
                 Antichrist" and a "false cult."9

    10. He positions himself as pro-environment, but he scored a 0—yes, zero—from the League of Conservation Voters last year.10

    This list was from viewers of Move-On.org

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