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McCain Using Loophole To Skirt Limits of Federal Financing
washingtonpost.com — With backing from the Republican National Committee, McCain has taken advantage of loopholes such as "hybrid" television advertisements and joint fundraising committees. It effectively means he is getting an $84m subsidy on our dime for his campaign through public financing. Even though he isn't really following the laws governing public financing.
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- diggstown, on 09/17/2008, -5/+1Good for him. Shame on Obama for not taking advantage of the same loopholes to put himself in a far superior financial position.
- marabout40, on 09/17/2008, -1/+1What loopholes is Obama taking advantage of? Opting out completely? You call that a "loophole?"
- diggstown, on 09/17/2008, -0/+2Obama isn't taking advantage of the system, that's my point. If he accepted public funding and played the same game as McCain, he'd be getting both public and private money.
- marabout40, on 09/17/2008, -1/+1What loopholes is Obama taking advantage of? Opting out completely? You call that a "loophole?"
- psy333che, on 09/17/2008, -1/+1I know this is totally of course but I cannot separate Bush and McCain because they are the same and listening to the spin and all the lies is really getting to me... Bush and McCain represent the same policies and institutions( oil and corporations) McCain not only has lobbyists managing him and working for him He also has the support of the corporations he rants about .... he is dishonest and I have lost all respect for him because of how he has lied and continued to deceive the people of this country.. just like Bush
Again hiding the truth and spreading lies...What the republicans are good at....
These people are capable of anything and all they seem to to is lie and deceive all of the people about who they really are and what they really represent have seen them lie about everything as if it is nothing.. how is this honor or integrity?
Bush and Cheney should be charged with war crimes along with national security breaches ( exposing people at security level)that to me and my understanding is treason should be charged with all that they have done
Republicans all the corruption, spending and blunders
Let make e make a list...
War Mongers( Bush and Cheney should be charged with war crimes and they both should be impeached) Again lied to and created a war because of their own agenda and have continued to lie from day one ... to toady.. You cannot believe a word that they say... there is not any truth at all it is a lie to cover a lie and so on
Our country under Republicans has put our country into debt, ruined relationships with other countries, lied and created a war when we should have never been in and kept us from completing what we needed to do in Afghanistan and are just now getting back there
The Republicans do not care at all about the people they care about Oil and Corporations and all their friends and lobbyists that are involved in their interests
1.Mismanage country... and the mortgage it off to China..??? Can you believe this?? The way Bush has talked about China being so EVIL and he has mortgaged us because of his false war(destroying our country from their inability to manage assets)
We have a job loss growing every day and white collar crime in banks and corporations that are placed as a burden to the taxpayers and not the people who made money and walk away with fortunes while people lose their pensions.. and it just keeps on happening.. Our schools need funding and we pay billions to a war that we never should be in at all. We should have been in Afghanistan and completed that instead of creating a lies becausse of his personal agendas with his father..... Therapy once a week a would have been better
McCain already shows that he is out of touch and unable to understand the plight of true Americans and what has happened these last 8 years
2..Dismantle our Constitution to fit their own personal agendas. Crimes to the people also are growing as Bush's administration continues to try and change misuse to fit his agenda rights of privacy and freedom of speech are spit back to make people sound like they are criminals when it is Bush and McCain that are really the ones
What a pompous idiot he is.. not only has he bankrupt our country ..he is trying to take it apart at it center by what this country was built upon
A man with his magical thinking instead of a rational leader and his inability to govern ...
3.Religion and Separation of Church and State
Both McCain and Bush a total loss of understanding other countries ( Iraq and all relationships with other countries) and not an iota of knowledge of what our country was built on .. religious freedom and separation of Church and state
McCain has also shown that his pandering to religious zealots and what he and Palin have lied about in their speeches
He has alienated portions of his own party.. "the part that actually was sane and stable and prudent with money.". Instead he continues to rally to the religious right who wants our rights taken from us as they push their archaic belief system on us
Did you know that they do not believe in science and are trying to push their religion in the guise of Intelligent Design as an alternative to Darwin's theory?
Religion being separate from state and what my ancestors came her for is religious freedom and and also the separateness of Church and state that was very important to our founders .
Some moral religious groups continue to try to push their belief system on us and are attempting to take everyone's rights away by again pushing their belief system in an area that they should not be in at all "my rights" and continue to push its way into our laws
4. Hillary and Palin... A woman is just a woman... Palin is not at all like Hillary and their attempt to sell that Hillary people went to her is just such a lie and hysterical to any woman who actually is a feminist ( Palin is not a feminist at all just because she works and is a woman)
I guess I understand their need for banning books and how they think it works " if you hide the knowledge then no one can learn about and that way if we ban and burn all the books then it does not exist ".. Is this what we will have as a choice for governing partner ..one who bans books and controls what we read along with trying to control other rights of mine..
Many of this group also believe the word is flat and that they cling to creationism and Dismiss Darwinism Their reality is limited and filled with insane values that only a person who is uneducated, alienated from society and unable to accept his neighbors religion so they go about trying to make theirs the only one
We cannot go backward anymore as we have and we cannot allow a group of fanatics to dictate and take our rights away
McCain is allowing this to happen and he made a choice of a woman who for a short period of time blatantly misused her power and is now trying to hide this fact and desperately keep this from coming to light.
5. McCain and his inability to make wise choices and being out of touch so out of touch with the people ...Choosing a woman who you continue to lie about what she has done and now you are covering up what she has done
The whole reason in choosing a woman and to actually think she is anything like Hillary really shows again how out of touch he is with people and women...and he actually served with her.. how crazy and unbelievable is it that he tried to sell Palin as Hillary
Palin in my eyes is not a good mother because of the choices she has made and to expose her children to all of this but it is about her needs and not her children and for what I have read is not
Lets also not forget that parents who work always have a problem of balancing home with work.
If I had just had a child with special needs and found out that my oldest was pregnant.. I would reel it in and be a mother first and to get to the heart of what is needed instead of walking out the door and taking on more responsibilities..
I don't care how much family you have.. You personally make a decision to have children and it is your responsibility to at least be there for the first 6 months of his life instead of leaving him immediately in the care of others... out of sight..out of mind
A really good mother will agree with me ....as far as I can tell Your daughter getting pregnant gave you an instant babysitter and you really made a very private family affair for her a public event and for that I think you came first and not your daughter or your family
I would never do that to my daughter..
Unfortunately Palin does not believe in or allow sex education as an alternative
A good heart to heart on sex education with her daughter and a realistic alternative nor had a rational talk with her daughter about sex..I bet she did not wait to have sex "FIRST DUDE ".... If she had been given an education about sex and about safe sex she may not have been in this place
I think it is ignorant to think kids at her age and obviously without parental supervision along with,raging hormones can "Abstain from Sex"..
Obama has talked a great deal about the need for education and teaching kids about safe sex instead of children having children This would also be the answer to an abortion. Parents really need to talk to their kids and have a relationship good enough that they cannot expect kids to be perfect and to prepare for what is for most inevitable
Lets see where are we.. Bush, Cheney , McCain, Palin.. all have lied and continue to lie to cover their lies and all have misused their power and misrepresented who they are to the people That takes up a lot of energy lieing tot he people instead of really focusing on what we need here
I could go on and on... so much corruption and so much to hide They continue to divert so we cannot see what they are doing..
Is this what you want ?more of the same lies....- beamster, on 09/18/2008, -0/+1"I could go on and on"
You did go on and on.
- beamster, on 09/18/2008, -0/+1"I could go on and on"
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