John McCain has been using his wife's private jet to fly around the country. How nice. I've never been on a private jet. Have you? Isn't that elitist?
John McCain voted against
1. the health program for poor children (8/2/07: HR 976). (Project Vote Smart)
2. naturalized citizen amendment (9/14/95: HR4). (PVS)
* Although McCain claims he cares about veterans, he has voted against them repeatedly: Veteransforcommonsense.org:
.......September 2007: McCain voted against the Webb amendment calling for adequate troop rest between deployments. At the time, nearly 65% of people polled in a CNN poll indicted that "things are going either moderately badly or very badly in Iraq.....
........May 2006: McCain voted against an amendment that would provide $20 million to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for health care facilities.....
........April 2006: McCain was one of only 13 Senators to vote against $430,000,000 for the Department of Veteran Affairs for Medical Services for outpatient care and treatment for veterans......
.......March 2006: McCain voted against increasing Veterans medical services funding by $1.5 billion in FY 2007 to be paid for by closing corporate tax loopholes.....
......April 2003: McCain urged other Senate members to table a vote (which never passed) to provide more than $1 billion for National Guard and Reserve equipment in Iraq related to a shortage of helmets, tents, bullet-proof inserts, and tactical vests.......
* McCain voted against creating a Dr. Martin Luther King Day holiday (H/T: Oliver Willis: Vote 289, HR 3706, 8/2/83).
* On March 7, 1997, McCain gave a speech to the Annual Conservative Political Action Conference. This is the opening paragraph: (Source: Project Vote Smart)
The topic about which I have been asked to speak is a simple question: Should the United States be the world's policeman? Let me start by giving a simple answer: No, we should not....
Did he flip flop on this? Today, McCain thinks we should remain in Iraq even if it means another 100 years!
> Here is an example of McCain's temper:
