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"And 100 percent, John, of your ads . . . 100 percent of them have been negative."
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"Senator McCain would pay for part of his (health care) plan by making drastic cuts in Medicare — $882-billion worth." |
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"In April, Sen. McCain came out against helping women earn equal pay for equal work." |
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McCain called for less regulation 21 times just this year. |
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McCain is "selectively editing Joe Biden's words...Biden actually said about Barack Obama: 'They're gonna find out this guy's got steel in his spine.'" |
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John McCain's health care plan "won't guarantee coverage of cancer screenings or maternity care." |
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"One percent of the American people make over 21 percent of all the income in America. That wasn’t the way before George Bush became president." |
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"The centerpiece of Senator McCain's education policy is to increase the voucher program in D.C. by 2,000 slots." |
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Under John McCain's health care plan, people get a $5,000 tax credit to buy a $12,000 health care policy, and "that's a loss for you." |
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John McCain "is proposing tax cuts that would give the average Fortune 500 CEO an additional $700,000 in tax cuts." |
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"John McCain voted against funding the troops because of . . . a timeline in it to draw down American troops." |
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McCain intervened on behalf of Charles Keating with federal regulators... that allowed Keating to continue his fraud at an incredible cost to taxpayers. |
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John McCain's health care plan "leaves you on your own to pay McCain’s health insurance tax." |
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"John McCain said...in December he was surprised there was a subprime mortgage problem." |
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Sen. McCain's tax plan provides "virtually nothing to the middle class." |
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John McCain said "he wouldn't even sit down with the government of Spain, a NATO ally that has troops in Afghanistan with us now." |
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Says McCain "voted to let governments charge rape victims" for forensic exams. |
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"There are so many loopholes ... our businesses pay effectively one of the lowest tax rates in the world." |
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John McCain "has threatened extinction for North Korea and sung songs about bombing Iran." |
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McCain "said the other day that he would not meet potentially with the prime minister of Spain, because he . . . wasn't sure whether they were aligned with us." |
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John McCain wants to "give oil companies another $4-billion" in tax breaks. |
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"I introduced a bill that would’ve helped stop the multimillion-dollar bonus packages that CEOs grab on their way out.. (McCain) opposed that idea." |
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Obama says McCain went to Bermuda and "pledged to protect tax breaks for American corporations that hide their profits offshore." |
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"Grateful insurance company executives and their lobbyists" from Bermuda gave McCain $50,000. |
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McCain "has opposed stem cell research." |
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John McCain would "reduce oversight of health insurance." |
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"But if my opponent had his way, the millions of Floridians who rely on it would've had their Social Security tied up in the stock market this week." |
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Obama ad contends that John McCain endorses Rush Limbaugh's comments about immigration. |
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McCain "voted to cut education funding, against accountability standards. He even proposed abolishing the Department of Education." |
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McCain economic adviser Phil Gramm is "the architect of some of the deregulation in Washington that helped cause the mess on Wall Street." |
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John McCain said last year he didn't know of a solution to the mortgage crisis. |
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"When George Bush said we shouldn’t investigate why the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina was so incompetent, John McCain stood with him." |
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"He admits he still doesn’t know how to use a computer, can’t send an e-mail." |
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John McCain's tax plan will give no reduction "for 100-million American families." |
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McCain supports tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas. |
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McCain voted 19 times against a minimum-wage increase. |
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"John McCain has voted with George Bush 90 percent of the time." |
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Three years ago, John McCain said, "Afghanistan — we don't read about it anymore in papers because it succeeded." |
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McCain "said no to higher fuel-efficiency standards for cars." |
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"Today, we import triple the amount of oil than we had on the day Senator McCain took office." |
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McCain’s energy plan is a "single-answer proposition" — new domestic oil drilling. |
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McCain "still thinks it’s okay when women don't earn equal pay for equal work." |
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(McCain) says "we can't have ... timelines to draw down our troops from Iraq." |
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McCain "said he was 'stumped' when asked whether contraceptives help stop the spread of HIV." |
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"John McCain wants to privatize Social Security." |
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Says McCain once said that on "the most important issues of our day, I’ve been totally in agreement and support of President Bush." |
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Says McCain "supported George Bush's policies 95 percent of the time." |
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John McCain has seven houses. |
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McCain, “voted against renewable sources of energy, against biofuels, against solar power, against wind power.... " |
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"Sen. McCain was already turning his sights to Iraq just days after 9/11, and he became a leading supporter of an invasion and occupation of (Iraq)." |
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McCain's attacks on Obama are 'not true,' 'false,' 'baloney,' according to media outlets. |
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"John McCain's top foreign policy adviser lobbied for... the Republic of Georgia, and McCain has mirrored the position advocated by the government." |
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McCain is "raising campaign cash with one of (Jack) Abramoff's closest business partners: scandal-plagued conservative activist Ralph Reed." |
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John McCain worries about nuclear waste in Arizona, but not in Nevada. |
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"McCain opposed a requirement that the government buy American-made motorcycles. And he said all buy-American provisions were quote 'disgraceful.' " |
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John McCain offers "billions in tax breaks for oil and drug companies, but almost nothing for families like yours." |
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John McCain refuses to support a new bipartisan energy bill "because it would take away tax breaks from oil companies like Exxon Mobil." |
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"Big oil's filling John McCain's campaign with $2-million in contributions." |
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John McCain will keep the estate tax at 0 percent, the same as it is now. |
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"McCain got more money from Airbus’ U.S. executives than any other politician." |
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"John McCain intervened, which helped Airbus get that Pentagon contract." |
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"Sen. McCain would occupy Iraq indefinitely, against their wishes." |
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"Sen. McCain's economic plan gives nearly $4-billion in tax breaks to the oil companies but doesn't provide any tax relief to more than 100-million middle-class families." |
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McCain has switched to Obama's position on more troops to Afghanistan. |
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"McCain used to buck his party on immigration by fighting for comprehensive reform. . . . But when he was running for his party's nomination, he . . . said that he wouldn't even support his own legislation if it came up for a vote." |
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John McCain has given erratic and inconsistent answers on when troops should return from Iraq. |
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"McCain will give more tax breaks to big oil." |
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John McCain has changed position on invading Iraq. |
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"The legislation ... that Senator McCain supports would provide the authority for the federal government to surveille American citizens in their own country without any suspicion whatsoever that they're engaging in discussions with terrorists or about criminal activity." |
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McCain "hasn't held executive responsibility." |
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"When he was asked a few years ago whether he could see himself lifting the cap on the payroll tax, (McCain) said, 'I could.' But today he's attacking me for holding the very same position." |
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John McCain "opposed legislation to fund levees and flood control programs, which he considers pork." |
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"McCain lobbied for (a) $10-million pork project honoring conservative justice." |
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John McCain opposed bankruptcy protections for families "who were only in bankruptcy because of medical expenses they couldn't pay." |
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John McCain says he never supported the privatization of Social Security, even though video shows he did. |
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"John McCain decided to stand with George Bush 95 percent of the time (last year)." |
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John McCain "has not led on nonproliferation issues when he had the chance in the Senate." |
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When McCain was questioned about hiring lobbyists to his campaign staff, "his top lobbyist actually had the nerve to say, 'The American people won’t care about this.' " |
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McCain "hired some of the biggest lobbyists in Washington to run his campaign." |
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John McCain, "one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires," says the solution to the housing crisis is for people to get a "second job" and "skip their vacations." |
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"Privatizing Social Security was a bad idea when George W. Bush proposed it. It’s a bad idea today. Sen. McCain’s campaign went even further ... suggesting ... to cut cost-of-living adjustments or to raise the retirement age." |
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John McCain "is one of the few senators of either party who oppose this bill (to expand education aid for veterans) because he thinks it's too generous." |
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McCain "voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban." |
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"The pastor McCain calls his 'spiritual guide,' Rod Parsley, believes America's founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a 'false religion.' " |
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McCain sought the political support of minister John Hagee, "who believes Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church 'the Antichrist' and a 'false cult.'" |
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Eliminating earmarks "would make barely a drop in the bucket with regard to the national debt, the deficit." |
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"For what we spend in just one week in Iraq, 800,000 children could get health insurance for an entire year." |
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"If Senator Clinton or John McCain had stood up in previous years for increases in fuel efficiency standards . . . then we would not be in this same situation in the first place." |
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"McCain has voted repeatedly at least six times against funding for global HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB fund, once as one of only 14 senators." |
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"He’s promising four more years of an administration that will push for the privatization of Social Security..." |
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"John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." |
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"McCain opposes a woman's right to choose." |
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"The Children's Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children." |
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"He positions himself as pro environment, but he scored a zero — yes, zero — from the League of Conservation Voters last year." |
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McCain's "plan for the economy is to extend George Bush’s tax cuts for billionaires and give a $100-billion additional corporate tax cut." |
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John McCain and George W. Bush want to spend "a trillion dollars in Iraq over the next 10 years." |
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McCain and Bush are millionaires who are "for tax cuts for millionaires." |
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Both McCain and Bush favor tax breaks for oil companies. |
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John McCain and George Bush have "absolutely no plan for universal health care." |
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"John McCain says it's okay with him if the U.S. spends the next thousand years in Iraq." |
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"We are bogged down in a war that John McCain now suggests might go on for another 100 years." |
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John McCain has "a consistent pattern of ducking important environmental votes." |
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The DNC says McCain flip-flopped on whether the Iraq War would be easy. |
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John McCain "said publicly that Hillary Clinton would make a good president." |
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John McCain has said the economy is "not his strong suit." |
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John McCain "voted against the Bush tax cuts, both times." |
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"(John McCain) was even mentioned as a running mate with John Kerry." |
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"Gasoline would rise in price by approximately 50 cents a gallon" if the McCain-Lieberman bill became law. |
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"Now, I also support the Bush tax cuts. Sen. McCain voted against them originally. He now believes they should be made permanent. I'm glad he agrees they should be made permanent." |
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Says McCain was a "Hanoi Hilton songbird" who collaborated with the enemy. |
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"You know, Sen. McCain said the other day that we might have troops (in Iraq) for 100 years..." |
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"Sen. McCain says it was not a mistake to vote against the Bush tax cuts ... but now says the tax cuts need to be made permanent." |
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"McCain opposes repeal of the death tax." |
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"McCain Trying to Have it Both Ways on Iraq" |
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"Senator McCain voted against the Bush tax cuts. Now he's for them." |
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"(McCain) was opposed to ethanol. Now he's for it." |
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"(McCain) said he was opposed to overturning Roe v. Wade. Now he's for overturning Roe v. Wade." |
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