The McCain Thread

Who will be McCain's runningmate?

  • Mitt Romney (former Governor of Massachussets)

  • Mike Huckabee (former Governor of Arkansas)

  • Rudy Giuliani (former mayor New York)

  • Charlie Christ (current governor of Florida)

  • Fred Thompson (former US Senator of Tennessee)

  • Condaleeza Rice (Secretary of State)

  • Colin Powell (former Secretary of State)

  • JC Watts (former Republican chairman of Republican House)

  • Rob Portman (Director of Office of Management and Budget)

  • Tim Pawlenty (Governor of Minnesota)

  • Bobby Jindal (Governor of Lousiana)

  • Mark Sanford (Governor of South Carolina)

  • Lindsey Graham (US Senator of South Carolina)

  • Sarah Palin (Governor of Alaska)

  • Kay Hutchinson (US Senator of Texas)

  • John Thune (US Senator of South Dakota)

  • Haley Barbour (Governor of Mississippi)

  • Marsha Blackburn (US Tenessee Representative)

  • Joseph Lieberman (US Senator of Connecticut)

  • Sonny Perdue (Governor of Georgia)

  • George Allen (former US Senator of Virginia)

  • Matt Blunt (Governor of Missouri)

  • some other US Senator, congressman

  • some other Governor

  • some dark horse like Dick Cheney


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John McCain understands that our changing economy forces many families to deal with the disruptions that come with a job change. He believes that families should be able to hold onto the health and retirement benefits that they have chosen. He also believes that workers should be able to choose new training that fits their personal situation so that they can build new skills as their careers change.

John McCain is calling for National Commission on Workplace Flexibility and Choice. This Commission would bring together a bi-partisan set of leaders representing workers, small and large employers, labor, and academics. The Commission would make recommendations to the President on how modernizing our nation’s labor laws and training programs can help workers better balance the demands of their job with family life and to enable workers to more easily transition between jobs.

John McCain is calling for National Commission on Workplace Flexibility and Choice. This Commission would bring together a bi-partisan set of leaders representing workers, small and large employers, labor, and academics. The Commission would make recommendations to the President on how modernizing our nation’s labor laws and training programs can help workers better balance the demands of their job with family life and to enable workers to more easily transition between jobs.

The Commission would examine the following issues that John McCain believes are important to workplace flexibility and choice:

Modernizing the nation’s labor laws so that they allow for more flexible scheduling arrangements


Ensuring that the nation’s labor laws don’t get in the way of working at home


Promoting telework so that workers can spend less time commuting


Making health more portable so that workers don’t lose their benefits when they switch jobs


Ensuring that workers can choose retirement plans that best suit their needs


Providing workers with more choice in job training assistance so that they can build the skills they need for new and better jobs
 
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What is with the continuous use of the "My Friends" line? It's bad enough I have to listen to McCain say the phrase every single time he makes a speech, it's even worse when the sanctity of this forum is breached when a poster uses it.
 
Great idea! Bring together a Commission. God that worked so well during 9-11 and after the Kennedy Assassination. They did such a good job no one ever questions their findings, ever.
 
McCain believes we should send a strong message to world markets. Under his plan, the United States will be telling oil producing countries and oil speculators that our dependence on foreign oil will come to an end - and the impact will be lower prices at the pump.

His policies will increase the value of the dollar and thus reduce the price of oil. In recent years, the declining value of the dollar has added to the cost of imported oil. This will change. Americans will have a stronger economy, a stronger dollar and greater purchasing power for oil, gas and food.

John McCain believes we should institute a summer gas tax holiday. Hard-working American families are suffering from higher gasoline prices. John McCain called on Congress to suspend the 18.4 cent federal gas tax and 24.4 cent diesel tax from Memorial Day to Labor Day. Also will repeal the 54 cents per gallon tax on imported sugar-based ethanol, increasing competition, and lowering prices of gasoline at the pump.
 
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I think McCain (and apparently Thinkton) have "Myfriend Tourrettes". It's a compulsive thing where they can't help themselves...it just blurts itself out.

jag
 
I think McCain (and apparently Thinkton) have "Myfriend Tourrettes". It's a compulsive thing where they can't help themselves...it just blurts itself out.

jag
 
I think McCain (and apparently Thinkton) have "Myfriend Tourrettes". It's a compulsive thing where they can't help themselves...it just blurts itself out.

jag

That, or it's copied and pasted from McCain campaign talking points. :huh:
 
What is with the continuous use of the "My Friends" line? It's bad enough I have to listen to McCain say the phrase every single time he makes a speech, it's even worse when the sanctity of this forum is breached when a poster uses it.
Sorry it's a bad habit that I have. You are not the first one to tell me that. I will try to stop using that here.
 
It's copied and paste from his john mccain website. I figure I would post some of it here to get the facts right.
 
It's copied and paste from his john mccain website. I figure I would post some of it here to get the facts right.
I can read McCain website, and have, if you cannot articulate his own stances and record correctly though, it does not speak very well as a supporter.
 
John McCain has proposed a new "HOME Plan" to provide robust, timely and targeted help to those hurt by the housing crisis. Under his HOME Plan, every deserving American family or homeowner will be afforded the opportunity to trade a burdensome mortgage for a manageable loan that reflects their home's market value.

Eligibility: Holders of a sub-prime mortgage taken after 2005 who live in their home (primary residence only); can prove creditworthiness at the time of the original loan; are either delinquent, in arrears on payments, facing a reset or otherwise demonstrate that they will be unable to continue to meet their mortgage obligations; and can meet the terms of a new 30 year fixed-rate mortgage on the existing home.

How It Works: Individuals pick up a form at any Post Office or download the form over the Internet and apply for a HOME loan. The FHA HOME Office certifies that the individual is qualified, and contacts the individual's mortgage servicer. The mortgage servicer writes down and retires the existing loan, which is replaced by an FHA guaranteed HOME loan from a lender.


John McCain will bolster groups like Neighborworks America that provide mortgage assistance to homeowners in their communities.
 
It's copied and paste from his john mccain website. I figure I would post some of it here to get the facts right.

A candidate's website is often a sugar-coated politically spun version of the real thing. If you wants facts and truth, you should visit factcheck.org or ontheissues.org.
 
Nor can Obama for accusing people in America of 'clinging to their guns and religion.'

Scared people do in fact tend to do exactly that. Obama's 'faux pas' essential was telling a Truth. McCain contextually made Arab the opposite of decent.
 
I think we all know what McCain meant; he knew what the woman was implying even though she didnt say it to him and cut her off, I dont think there was any racism in it.

It was ethnic and/or religous intolerance instead of racism. Oh, what a humongous difference that makes!

Hell, she was interviewed afterwards and still insisted that Obama was an Arab!
 
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