Please help me write an email telling the TRUTH about McCain

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

I got the idea for doing this from another thread that wanted to write a smear email. I don't think that is necessary. I think we can use facts to make the argument that McCain isn't fit to be President.

Here's my idea for an email. I'm not that great at writing, so I'd appreciate additions, corrections, and general comments. Thanks!

WILL McCAIN REALLY HELP FIX OUR ECONOMIC CRISIS?

Everyone knows that we are in an economic crisis. The next President will have to deal with it from day one, so it is vital that we elect a person who understands the situation. I don't think John McCain does. In January of this year, he said "Things are tough now, but we're better off than in 2000."

Do you really think this is so?

How much were you paying for gas in 2000? How about now?

How much were you paying for milk and eggs in 2000? How about now?

Are your wages substantially better now than in 2000?

If you are a businessman, how is your business now compared to 8 years ago?

Can we really trust someone to fix our economy who doesn't even remember what it was like 8 years ago?

source: http://www.issues2000.org/John_McCain.htm

[VP505]

1. The lack of economic policy knowledge

is certainly something to think about when considering why McCain is NOT someone that should be President. More important to me, is his call for more war, a much longer occupation in Iraq and support for attacking Iran. We cannot continue the level of DOD spending we now have much less increase it without seriously cutting funding for just about everything else. Do we really want more death, destruction and lost national treasure for reasons most find repulsive?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. An email on Iraq should also be written

I started with the economy because, in my little corner of the world, this is what folks are talking about most. Knowing the audience I'm going for, I'd say that it would be best to start with the economy and then mention Iraq in a second email, tying back to the economy on that one.

Like you, Iraq is number one with me, but I'm trying to be pragmatic and look at the group of folks I'm trying to persuade. I know if I start with Iraq it will turn them off--but if I start with the economy and how it effects them, in another email I can bring up Iraq and show again how it effects them. Sad to have to do it this way, but when you are selling (in this case, selling the Democrats vs the GOP) you have to start with your customer's needs.

[VP505]

6. I guess I wasn't clear

that the two need to be tied together, after all the cost of occupying Iraq is damaging this country almost to the point of being unrepairable, economically, morally as well as physically. I refuse to refer to what we are doing in Iraq as anything other than an occupation. Calling it a war implies something far different that what it really is, IMO.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

10. I see your point

It could be included, but must be done so carefully, strictly from an economic standpoint. Some of the folks I'm thinking of emailing and talking to feel like we need to stay in Iraq, at least for a while. Of course, they have no relatives over there. But they are teetering between McCain and the Democrats, and I want to persuade them our way. That's why that part of the email needs to be worded carefully, stressing, as you suggest, the economic impact on our nation.

[stellanoir]

2. Don't leave out his involvement in the Savings & Loan scandal or the

quotation of him admitting that he doesn't know anything about the economy and that he wants us to stay in Iraq for 100 years.

The media presents him as a maverick when in essence he won't change squat and is just another war monger.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. Good points

however, in tracking down a source citation for his not knowing anything about the economy, I find he's flip-flopped, with the only cited source one that makes strong points for him really knowing something about the economy (it's there at the same source cited in OP)--that's the only reason I left that out.

I need to find the quotes about Iraq for 100 years--I could see that being another email. My plan is to create several emails, each on a specific issue-the first being the economy, the next Iraq, the next possibly reproductive rights. His stance on the latter is curiously convoluted, and I could see where the stances could enrage just about anyone from an ardent anti-abortionist to a pro-choicer.

[stellanoir]

11. "I'll always hate gooks" will not exactly endear us to all the Asians.

You could get into the personal stuff about his marriages but you probably don't want to go there.

[Seabiscuit]

5. Never forget: "Bomb, bomb, bomb... bomb bomb Iran".

[L. Coyote]

7. Sorry, we are not releasing the good stuff until the nomination LOL

[NoPasaran]

8. He once killed the guy in the bunk next to his just for snoring

Not really, but the other thread was locked before I could post

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

9. Funny, but no need

Weren't there documented cases when he got so angry he flew off the handle? Finding those would be good to put into an email, with the title-"Can we trust this man to have his finger on the button?"

[hiaasenrocks]

12. Here you go:

1. Defending His Amnesty Bill, Sen. McCain Lost His Temper And "Screamed, 'F*ck You!' At Texas Sen. John Cornyn" (R-TX). "Presidential hopeful John McCain - who has been dogged for years by questions about his volcanic temper - erupted in an angry, profanity-laced tirade at a fellow Republican senator, sources told The Post yesterday. In a heated dispute over immigration-law overhaul, McCain screamed, 'F— you!' at Texas Sen. John Cornyn, who had been raising concerns about the legislation. 'This is chicken sh*t stuff,' McCain snapped at Cornyn, according to several people in the room off the Senate floor Thursday. 'You've always been against this bill, and you're just trying to derail it.'" (Charles Hurt, "Raising McCain," New York Post, 5/19/07)

2. In 2000, Sen. McCain Ran An Attack Ad Comparing Then-Gov. George W. Bush To Bill Clinton. SEN. MCCAIN: "I guess it was bound to happen. Governor Bush's campaign is getting desperate, with a negative ad about me. The fact is, I'll use the surplus money to fix Social Security, cut your taxes and pay down the debt. Governor Bush uses all of the surplus for tax cuts, with not one new penny for Social Security or the debt. His ad twists the truth like Clinton. We're all pretty tired of that. As president, I'll be conservative and always tell you the truth. No matter what." (McCain 2000, Campaign Ad, 2/9/00; www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHoXkCprdL4)

3. Sen. McCain Repeatedly Called Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) An "A**hole", Causing A Fellow GOP Senator To Say, "I Didn't Want This Guy Anywhere Near A Trigger." "Why can't McCain win the votes of his own colleagues? To explain, a Republican senator tells this story: at a GOP meeting last fall, McCain erupted out of the blue at the respected Budget Committee chairman, Pete Domenici, saying, 'Only an a–hole would put together a budget like this.' Offended, Domenici stood up and gave a dignified, restrained speech about how in all his years in the Senate, through many heated debates, no one had ever called him that. Another senator might have taken the moment to check his temper. But McCain went on: 'I wouldn't call you an a–hole unless you really were an a–hole.' The Republican senator witnessing the scene had considered supporting McCain for president, but changed his mind. 'I decided,' the senator told Newsweek, 'I didn't want this guy anywhere near a trigger.'" (Evan Thomas, et al., "Senator Hothead," Newsweek, 2/21/00)

4. Sen. McCain Had A Heated Exchange With Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) And Called Him A "F*cking Jerk." "Senators are not used to having their intelligence or integrity challenged by another senator. 'Are you calling me stupid?' Sen. Chuck Grassley once inquired during a debate with McCain over the fate of the Vietnam MIAs, according to a source who was present. 'No,' replied McCain, 'I'm calling you a f—ing jerk!' (Grassley and McCain had no comment.)" (Evan Thomas, et al., "Senator Hothead," Newsweek, 2/21/00)

5. In 1995, Sen. McCain Had A "Scuffle" With 92-Year-Old Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-SC) On The Senate Floor. "In January 1995, McCain was midway through an opening statement at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing when chairman Strom Thurmond asked, 'Is the senator about through?' McCain glared at Thurmond, thanked him for his 'courtesy' (translation: buzz off), and continued on. McCain later confronted Thurmond on the Senate floor. A scuffle ensued, and the two didn't part friends." (Harry Jaffe, "Senator Hothead," The Washingtonian, 2/97)

6. Sen. McCain Accused Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) Of The "Most Egregious Incident" Of Corruption He Had Seen In The Senate. "It escalated when McCain reiterated the charges Oct. 10 in a cross-examination, calling McConnell's actions the 'most egregious incident' demonstrating the appearance of corruption he has ever seen in his Senate career." (Amy Keller, "Attacks Escalate In Depositions," Roll Call, 10/21/02)

7. Sen. McCain Attacked Christian Leaders And Republicans In A Blistering Speech During The 2000 Campaign. MCCAIN: "Unfortunately, Governor Bush is a Pat Robertson Republican who will lose to Al Gore. … The political tactics of division and slander are not our values… They are corrupting influences on religion and politics, and those who practice them in the name of religion or in the name of the Republican Party or in the name of America shame our faith, our party and our country. Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan or Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right." (Sen. John McCain, Remarks, Virginia Beach, VA, 2/28/00)

8. Sen. McCain Attacked Vice President Cheney. MCCAIN: "The president listened too much to the Vice President . . . Of course, the president bears the ultimate responsibility, but he was very badly served by both the Vice President and, most of all, the Secretary of Defense." (Roger Simon, "McCain Bashes Cheney Over Iraq Policy," The Politico, 1/24/07)

9. Celebrating His First Senate Election In 1986, Sen. McCain Screamed At And Harassed A Young Republican Volunteer. "It was election night 1986, and John McCain had just been elected to the U.S. Senate for the first time. Even so, he was not in a good mood. McCain was yelling at the top of his lungs and poking the chest of a young Republican volunteer who had set up a lectern that was too tall for the 5-foot-9 politician to be seen to advantage, according to a witness to the outburst. 'Here this poor guy is thinking he has done a good job, and he gets a new butt ripped because McCain didn't look good on television,' Jon Hinz told a reporter Thursday. At the time, Hinz was executive director of the Arizona Republican Party. … Hinz said McCain's treatment of the young campaign worker in 1986 troubled him for years. 'There were an awful lot of people in the room,' Hinz recalled. 'You'd have to stick cotton in your ears not to hear it. He (McCain) was screaming at him, and he was red in the face. It wasn't right, and I was very upset at him.'" (Kris Mayes and Charles Kelly, "Stories Surface On Senator's Demeanor," The Arizona Republic, 11/5/99)

10. Sen. McCain "Publicly Abused" Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL). " noted his propensity for passion but insisted that he doesn't 'insult anybody or fly off the handle or anything like that.' This is, quite simply, hogwash. McCain often insults people and flies off the handle…. There have been the many times McCain has called reporters 'liars' and 'idiots' when they have had the audacity to ask him unpleasant, but pertinent, questions. McCain once… publicly abused Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama." (Editorial, "There's Something About McCain," The Austin American-Statesman, 1/24/07)

[VP505]

13. LOL, from my

perspective those are positive things about McCain, calling Domenici an a-hole, McConnell corrupt, telling Cornyn F U, calling Grassley a f***ing jerk.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

14. Thank you for these

they will be very helpful in writing an email about his temper!