Of course McCain is doing this. Isn't it a requirement for being a Repug.?

On another note, read "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" by John Perkins

McCain has discovered, to his dismay, that an enormous amount of money is required to run in a presidential election--more than any people except deep-pocket special interests will give to any Republican.

We should thank John for his efforts with McCain-Feingold, but elect Obama to be president.

Well, yeah, screw McCain. The man is a nutjob in a dime-store superhero costume. Obviously.

But isn't there something woefully pedestrian about appropriating an explosive book title for the sake of grabbing attention for your own tossed-off article, and then failing to even mention the author's name? At the very least, it seems to me, if Sirota is going to swipe a title, he could pay more respectful homage to its originator:

http://www.johnperkins.org/

Then again, there's McCain's 100 year occupation, the saunter in a Bagdad market with 100 troops and 3 helicopter gunships making it look normal and his "Bomb Iran" rendition.

Straight Talk Express, indeed.

This is a man of empire.

I saw John McCain as the best of both parties when he ran for pres the first time. I still believe he would have been a good one - then. Since that fiasco, I've watched him, and saw the gradual change-over. Now I look at him and get the same sick feeling in my gut that I got the first time I saw G.W. Bush.

Big surprise, not, that McCain has sold out in an all out effort to become pRESIDENT. The downside is that there isn't enough difference between him and Clinton/Obama to make a difference in the issues that really count. Don't believe it? Just wait until when and if one of them is actually in office.

Lobo Gris

McCain got busted for taking bribes during the 80's Savings and Loan scam. His participation in 'campaign finance reform' was always CYA trying to save his political rear after that. That scandal ended the careers of the four other Senators who got busted, including national\hero astronaut John Glenn. So, McCain obviously was looking at the end of his political career and looking for ways to pull his bacon out of the fire.

McCain\Feingold is a wonderful example of how the political process can be 'gamed'. My memory is that the original bill was pretty good. But just because of that reason, it of course would never pass our corrupt Congress. So, then it got weakened, and loopholes got added. Of course, con-men like McCain are getting still getting mileage from having his name on the bill and touting it like it was real reform. Eventually it was a weak loophole-ridden bill that wouldn't change things.

The last insult to injury was when the Republicans, I think with McCain's backing and support then declared that since they were passing 'reform', a part of the deal had to be big increases in the allowable contribution limits that had been set after Watergate.

So, the end result was a bill that didn't really do much, except open the system even wider to big money than it was before. Some of the money moved around a bit. Some of the contributions now go to independent committees instead of the parties. But, ask yourself, did the bill really change anything? The answers no. Except for now the campaign contribution limits are higher, which only really favors the rich and the lobbyists who bundle the contributions together.

Pretty typical for McCain (and Congress in general) A bill that looks like reform and that has a pretty title. Done mainly as CYA to cover up up the stench of corruption that surrounded McCain in the early 90's. And in the end the bill does more harm than good.

So, why is anyone surprised at what McCain is doing today?

The whole electoral process is so rigged that a person can't be a reformer of political evils and be a candidate. The ridiculous "presidential debates", the status quo of the DNC and the RNC controlled by the right wing nut cases and finally a public that long ago gave up on politicians. A public that gets their info from talk radio or (Gods voice) James Dobson and bumper stickers. Revolutions is the answer but the Public is apathetic so that is "off the table" also.

Of course, while I'm critical of McCain, ask yourself exactly what Hillary and Obama have done from their positions of power to limit the way money dominates our political process. Not a damn thing ... except put their hands out and say 'give it to me'.

Voting for Obama or Hillary instead of McCain won't change a damn thing about this issue. Voting Green, or for some other non-corporate-bought candidate would be a step for change.

For fun reading, go check into the $40 million Obama just reported as having raised. That ain't coming from $20 contributions from grandmothers who only drive on Sundays.

Public is not apathetic. They just don't see a course of action that they can take that would lead to change. And life is getting tough enough for everyone these days that time and resources are short everywhere. So, people focus on surviving.

Same situation in the eastern bloc in the 1980's. But remember what happened. When people saw that they could go out into the streets and create change, suddenly there were millions out in the streets.

The trick is doing all the hard work that leads up to that point.

Read "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" by John Perkins and then vote for Nader.

Warning: DS is not an economic populist as his site http://www.credoaction.com/sirota illustrates. Anyone who doesn't support Obama he BANS. Also, he called a commentator who nailed him for expressing his "write-off" limousine lib feeling to rural America a "rightwing troll". People have even asked him about Nader yet he refuses to answer. Don't be fooled by DS's phoney speeches. He's just another partisan Democratic hack in the end.

P.S.:

http://www.votenader.org/blog/2008/04/03/democrats-are-a-disaster/

After all the crap of the Bush years the Republicans are still in with a good chance of winning again. What is America smoking?????????????

Both Republicrooks and Demicrooks are smoking on the big turd of POWER.

Whoa whoa Whoa! "demanded that Congress oppose new Wall Street regulations in the wake of the credit crisis" is embracing Big Money? Big Money (no underscore, no relation) certainly does want "new" regulations for Wall Street. The current "quaint" regulations have not prevented the bottom 99.9999% of the population from noticing that their lifestyle is deteriorating, while everyone else is doing just fine. Hanky Panky Paulson's recent suggestion of "new" regulations, which in effect leave the Fox in charge of the Henhouse while handing him the Keys to the Tractor, are just what Big Money wants. McCain's a Stooge. He's a patsy. He's the new Kerry. He's gonna take a fall, so that no Good Ol' Boy will be takin' any blame in the White House when 14 quadrillion dollars worth of toxic derivatives crush that bottom 99.9999% like warm butter under a truck tire. He did say that the economy is not his strong suit, did he not?

When the dimnuts win the election they probably will put McCain in charge of the Defense Department in a show of bi-partisanship. Vote Green, the color of life.

The Straight Guy Express

Get on the bus of the don't go bust
voodoo economics is what we trust
don't just de regulate, undo the tax
for the devious deficit bundling crew

The trickle down is just waitin for a drizzle
with some agent orange or agent acid rain

the double talkin straight guy express
out to rob the empty public purse
negative empty or somewhat worse

Get on the buddy bus
it's a jungle trukin juggernaut big Mack
the toxic true two talking express
out to undo.. grime and tidy excess

On another note, I read "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" by John Perkins.

As for McCain - who would ever want another anti-Christ as the Great Desider

No Democratic president can fix what Bush has broken. The best they can do is slow down the process of American self-destruction.

McCain would surely apply more throttle on the engine of state towards the cliff that's looming closer and closer. A Democrat might see another track.

Regardless of how much or how little a president can do about the economy and the state of imperialism, the big issue not discussed will be the Supreme Court. McCain has promised more of the likes of Roberts and Alito. This would seal the destruction of our Constitution and hand all power to the corporatocracy.

That is the urgency of this election. Those who are so fanatical about Obama and Clinton, and say they would vote for McCain over their Democratic rival are deluded.

They are the ones who need to wake up and smell the injustice they would be supporting.

COMarc writes:

"Same situation in the eastern bloc in the 1980's. But remember what happened. When people saw that they could go out into the streets and create change, suddenly there were millions out in the streets."

And remember what Naomi Klein, in "The Shock Doctrine," said was the final outcome of all those people in the streets -- neoliberal economic policies that the people did not want.

It is unlikely the US will or even can play a positive role in the future of humanity, so the focus at this point should be to minimize the harm, i.e. minimize the chance of world war and of the spread of forced neoliberalism. And it seems the best way that progressives can provide pressure on such developments would be through the Internet, so an important focus should be on keeping Net Neutrality and ensuring the Internet can continue to offer opportunities to enlighten and educate. Progressives need to spread as many healthy memes as they can to trip up those who would enslave and conquer through manipulation and deceit.

John Perkins is admirable for that book he
wrote but I don't know about this book:
Shapeshifting: Shamanic Techniques for Global
and Personal Transformation

And what about his:

Psychonavigation: Techniques for Travel Beyond Time

Is this someone we can believe?

*SIGH* Another bit of evidence that "republican" is short for "republicanazi."

I've been hearing the name "Grampa McCain" here and there, but that label is just going to piss off older voters. Sirota's essay suggests a better sound bite:

"Weathervane McCain"

Conservatives are forgiving toward old guys who "mispeak", but they do not tolerate flip-floppers. If we get the "weathervane" image into wide circulation, a lot of them will just stay home on election day.

"The whole electoral process is so rigged that a person can't be a reformer of political evils and be a candidate. The ridiculous "presidential debates", the status quo of the DNC and the RNC controlled by the right wing nut cases and finally a public that long ago gave up on politicians."

Barn Burner, you have a VERY valid point. However, things almost turned around during the debate in which Ron Paul countered the ridiculous Rudy Guilioni and stated that 9/11 was a result of blowback resulting from our foreign policy rather than "them hating us for our freedoms." I believe that the corporate MSM is our BIGGEST enemy right now as they will in the end give the necessary coverage to "their" corporate candidate.

On the issue of revolution...count me in if our ultimate target is the "ruling" elite!

Really? So, DS wanted to "believe" even after:

The Keating Five were five United States Senators, who were accused of corruption in 1989... In October 1989 The Arizona Republic reported that in addition to campaign contributions, McCain's wife and her father had invested $359,100 in a Keating shopping center in April 1986, a year before McCain met with the regulators. The paper also reported that the McCains, sometimes accompanied by their daughter and baby-sitter, had made at least nine trips at Keating's expense, sometimes aboard the American Continental jet."

Or, as McCain said this past Feb: "At no time have I ever done anything that would betray the public trust." He failed to explain his definition of "public trust" however.

"In late 1999, McCain twice wrote letters to the Federal Communications Commission on behalf of Florida-based Paxson Communications... McCain wrote the letters after he received more than $20,000 in contributions from Paxson executives and lobbyists."

No, seriously, DS did say he recently stopped "believing," yes? Really?

"I've never done any favors for anybody — lobbyist or special-interest group."

It's not a lie if you believe it... and repeat it thousands of times with the help of the Big Corporate Media of the fair and balanced sort...

Did McCain CRAHS FOUR JETS before he crashed the fifth in Viet Nam?

Go to VietNam Vets Against McCain and read what they have there. It's eye opening. A friend who was was Marine major helicopter pilot in Nam sent me an article that spells it out. I read further on this web site and there's a lot of very scary stuff there. Some of it may be "Swift Boat " type stuff, but the underlying facts are compelling. There's also a lot of stuff about how McCain is not telling the truth about his stint as a prisoner. Apparently after 3 days of interrogation he told the Vietnamese that he would give them military info if they took him to a hospital. (He had broken both arms and a leg in the crash) They did take him to the hospital and there are pictures to prove it. In his own biography he talks about it. Other POWs who were there say that they have no idea if McCain was actually tortured.
One article on this site discusses McCain's dissing of the Vietnamese man who swam out to his crashed plane (it landed in a small lake) and hauled out the injured flyer who was drowning at the time. It's a sad story - read it. McCain is a liar and a narcissistic bastard - just like the one we have now.
I wonder if the MSM will ever comment on this, but I think some Veterans groups are gearing up to get it out. The MSM will call it "swift boating" and some of it may be, but I believe much of this is accurate.

Confessions of An Economic Hit Man was one of the most insightful books I've ever read. You can get a sense of why many third world countries hate us. Perkins was a Peace Corps volunteer at one time in South America and has been able to see issues from an altruistic side and from a profit side and has a message we should all hear. Rev. Jeremiah Wright was supposed to have damned America for some of our foreign actions. I haven't heard any of his sermons except for the repeatedly shown excerpts the networks run, but he may have hit too close to the truth for some to handle. The only way to turn this ship around is to drastically change the captain and the officers on the bridge. The plank would be too good for W and Dick.

Confessons of a Economic Hit Man, a good book but lacking in details and filled with too much inference. As for McCain, well, true, you can't get elected without money and who has the money but Corporate America. Anyone, other than another Martin Luther King, who aspire to the office of President has to tow the mark. What does that say for our Democracy. What should be apparent is that the People should be able to "dethrone" any person who takes it upon his self to become a ruler rather that a voice for the people. All members of Congress, etc.should be recalled, and we should have the right to recall these liars and thiefs.

McCain is 71 years old and down to the last few years of his life. He doesn't appear to be very bright, a seeming prerequisite to be a Republican. His horrific experience in Vietnam must have turned a screw loose in him somewhere. His admonition that "there will be more wars" must be believed. Elect this man president and, truly, the notion that nothing could be worse than George Wanker Bush will, like so many instances in life where we think we've hit bottom, be proven wrong. Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. We're about to find this out yet again.

just watching lieberman chaperoning mccain on his fealty trip to israel was enough to see who mccain is.
israel fealty means aipac fealty and aipac fealty means big money fealty and there you have mccain in a nutshell

They are already bobbing on the ocean watching the ship dissappear over the horrizon.

and NEVER FORGET that John McCain gave comfort to the enemy while a prisoner in vietnam.

how is it that this man is able to hide these reprehensible facts? or is it that the mainstream media just doesn't like the idea of "swiftboating" a republican?

Meanwhile...no one is paying much attention to the Congress. Congress controls the money and declares war. Iraq is NOT Bush's war - it is Congress's war - or more accurately, it is the Voters' War. 98% of the voters will again vote for the dems/repubs.

Read Confessions of an Economic Hitman, and then give it to someone who needs to read it more than the posters on this site. Imperfect as it may be, it provides information that may be shocking revelations to those who haven't a clue about it. A movie is in the works. Then read The Shock Doctrine by Nami Klein. Where McCain fits in is that in his role in the National Endowment For Democracy (Orwell couldn't have dreamed up a better name), he has been in the thick of serving corporate interests in "developing nations", at the expense of the well-being of the less wealthy 95 per cent. Not that different from the role he promises to continue to play within the United States of America. In a word, a WBush 3rd term.

I have adopted the slogan of "Vote for McCain and get more of the same" Our Country is close to the edge of the cliff and the American economical lower class are so caught up in monetarial survival that they have lapsed into complacency on the issues of politics. Day to day survival takes most of their effort. To add to that fact, they are not only burdened by money problems but are also faced with situation of "voting for the person who will do them the least amount of harm"; not the one that will do them the most good because that person is not going to be on the ballot. Having been in the Military the words "National Revolution" were never allowed in my vocabulary until recently. But I see exactly that as the only possibility of salvaging this Nation.

nothing really matters at this point: we are seeing nothing more than the previously-defucnt political party of the "democratic-repulicans".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic-Republican_Party

also look up "defunct political parties" for a long list of parties the republicans AND the democrats will belong to seperately AND unitarily.

this is quite an irony AND a conundrum.

americans are not only poor monetarilly, but they are poor morally AND spiritually AND financially.

time to throw these despots into the trashbin of history!

"McCain may have presented himself in 2000 as the crusader against corruption and in 2002 as a champion of clean elections, but he was originally a member of the Keating Five-the senators involved in an influence-peddling scheme during the savings and loan meltdown of the 1980s."

And let's not forget that "forgive-me-my-Lord" hug he gave to Bush on stage in front of millions of people after Bush threw him to the wolves for not backing him on the torture issue, where McCain has now switched his position. The guy is a loser!

Did anyone see the NBC interviesw with McCain's 96 year old mother? She is an elegant lady, but I am thankful that she is not MY mother. She refused to think about her son being tortured in Vietnam. She worried that he couldn't brush his teeth. When he got home she and the rest of the family never talked to John about his imprisonment. No wonder he has a temper! He must be really good at repressing horrible memories, or making creative memories that aren't so bad. Not a trait I want in a president. I think the poor man is crazy, justifiably crazy!

McCain is a political schizophrenic and it makes no sense to hold him accountable for hypocrisy.

The only reform that stands half a chance of making this country a democracy at the federal level is full and mandatory public financing of federal election campaigns. Piecemeal reforms like McCain-Feingold have never worked and never will.

Full mandatory public financing is unconstitutional according to US Supreme Court rulings. The only way to change these rulings is to change the makeup of the Court and hope it will overrule previous decisions, or to amend the constitution to specifically provide for the above.

Although both approaches are almost politically impossible, the latter approach would be more enduring and therefore preferable.

At this point, I think most people would favor a constitutional amendment of this kind, if it was well explained and led by a truly reformist president.

OK. Time to move on to lesser fantasies.

mccain should be a cakewalk for obama and a united democratic party in november.

hillary is slitting the throat of her own party mimicking bizarre masonic death rituals. mccain is a hypocrite on election oversight and is very edgy about iraq and iran (despite the fact lieberman had to help him understand the complexity of ME politics at a news conference in the middle east). the repubs, especially in congressional elections, are hurting badly, a nice clean moral nazi momentarily an independent becomes baptized in the waters of nixon and reagan, weeks before the repub convention. mccain introduces him in minneapolis - " i want you to meet my friend, our friend, our new republican friend, our new vice president joe lieberman...." what a way to energize the repub base, while capturing a few misguided racist dems simultaneously a tour de force....

judi April 4th, 2008 3:49 pm

i agree the book was a little cheesy, and if anything apologetic (gee sorry i profited as a consultant to MNC's that worked in conjunction w/ the CIA to oppress people in underdeveloped regions of the world). anyway a few of perkins ideas, like that of the jackals (the assassins that step in and murder politicians that refuse to cooperate) make allot of sense to me (as i listen to a rebroadcast of MLK's last speech in memphis on democracy now). i referred to perkins book on another thread on weds (about jackals). not to be self-referential but threats from an adversary that has access to all of your communications (phone, wiretap, inet etc..) is rather overwhelming - the threat that materialized in j perkins book probably has been used in USA(remember the fascists in power use the same techniques against the resistance internationally and domestically - death squads, torture, illegal rendition, political suppresion,etc...).

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iowablackbird April 2nd, 2008 9:12 pm

the way of bush co. will be the way of mussolini and hitler, although i wish the next president in conjunction with congress would pursue the criminals who've wrought so much damage upon this world.

typically i'm not a conspiracy theorist, but in the back of my mind i see a connection b/w unsupervised warrant-less eavesdropping and congress' hesitancy to pursue impeachment b/c of high crimes and misdemeanors (treason). i would not put death threats beyond the bush co. crowd (or the clinton crowd for that matter). one politicians plane crash (as described in the book confessions of an economic hit man)can be ordered as quickly as we can order a pizza.

i've never personally experienced a serious death threat or political blackmail but i sense it happens and has the desired impact on the politician- especially in light of the spitzer folly, every politician has a little dirt (if not a mistress) under their fingernails. dirt is unacceptable to hygienic puritanical america, especially dirt distilled through MSM splattered across the world within moments on tv.

i suspect the neo-con fascists in this country won't see bars until their unwittingly picked up on the streets of europe or latin america and tried in the international court (ICC) for war crimes (i'd be surprised if bush or cheney travel very much once out of office), at least after they're nabbed they'll receive public trials in europe.

if international institutions fall through, i suspect we will be liberated in 10 or 15 years by troops representing the united states of south america with backing from europe and china.

they'll find a few north americans sipping champaign admiring their stolen art and loot but most of us will be starving as we manufacture more munitions. who knows maybe the brainwashed white supremacists we'll send flocks of 12 and 13 year old children into the streets to fight for the homeland against the brown invaders. they might have to nuke cleveland before we get the point and surrender.

it's a little absurd, but no more or less absurd then imagining these criminals (bush co.) will receive justice in this country….

…peace….

McCain is one of "the Keating 5"

why is he even being considered for president? he has no morals.

This is, of course, the very same John McCain who once denounced right wing televangelists as "agents of intolerance" and is now avidly courting them and supporting their intolerant agenda. I will admit he almost fools me. He's a very good liar. When he talks of his patriotism and moral rectitude, you really want to believe him. But a look at his record tells you he's just another sleazy, Machiavellian hypocrite using the cross and the flag as props to hide his corrupt, militaristic nature. Jingoism and ostentatious piety work well on the Republican base, but it's all style and no substance.

Watch for the McCain/Lieberman ticket...
It will be "McCain isn't a real Conservative anyway and you voted for the other guy in 2000". "He's a psudo-liberal, Clinton is a WOMAN, and Obama's a Ni...". Best go for the psudo-liberal...

one reason that the dems are not that different from the repubs is that both sides are bought and paid for by aipac.
aipac means do what is good for big money and war in the middle east
a third party that doesn't kowtow to aipac doesn't stand a chance.

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.asp?id=N00009638&cycle=2008

The little people. Makes me sigh...

I confess that I almost never read "news" stories, but the headline "Confessions of An Economic Hitman" caught my eye. I read that amazing book last year and met its author John Perkins. The experience he had as an "insider" in our government/corporatocracy, his courage to not only break with the system but actually reveal it as well, and the dedicated and contributive life he now lives are what is really worth writing about. I saw a post from his organization pointing out the inequity of using his title without really discussing the book or acknowledging its author - I agree, and I hope that CommonDreams will soon run a feature on John. He and the world deserve it.

Christina Sukkal, aka "Alorah Inanna"
www.MythicLove.net

I used to feel about McCain the way David Sirota felt for McCain, for the old war horse who could be counted with those few, rare as hens' teeth Republicans, those truthful, honest, modest, wise, competent, informed Republicans who could be counted on a single hand and seemed with those attributes to be the complete opposite to the of a typical member of the party - who could be counted with Lincoln Chafee and Jim Jeffords and Chuck Hagel and Olimpia Snowe(maybe).

Then came the KISS during the 2004 Republican Conversion and my esteem dropped to the bottom of the barrel. I don't think he's become evil like Bush or Cheney or lost or lost his moral bearing, I think he's just become genuinely crazy.

John McCain doesn't have any base in the GOP, much less the country, except for the dwindling minority who still think Bush is a great president. Media Matters nailed it in this quote from Tweety Bird Matthews:

"The press loves McCain. We're his base."
-- Chris Matthews, MSNBC, Sept. 10, 2006.
http://mediamattersaction.org/freeride/myths/

I've watched the 'Big Mac' on C-Span, muddling his way through a speech. The man is, as the saying goes, crawling with neurotic tics, just like Captain Queeg — the rapid eye-blinking, the hand-wringing, the inappropriate jokes that often fall flat, the 'bomb-bomb-bomb-bomb-bomb-Iran,' the hunched prowling back and forth as he talks, without making eye contact with his audience.

If you listen closely to what he proposes in his speeches, it's basically Magical Thinking of the first order: continue to cut taxes for the wealthy — sure, it hasn't worked yet, but maybe in a couple of decades it'll all turn out fine! Let's keep following Bush and Petraeus down the Primrose Path of Failure in Iraq and call it successful, even though every bulletin out of Baghdad says it isn't. (McCain actually said: "I don't care what anybody says, the surge is working!" That 'anybody' would include the US Intel community and the Iraqis, I'd guess.) He doesn't like torture, but he signs bills allowing torture. He's against bailing out homeowners who made a mistake, but has no qualms about using our money to save Bear Stearns and their rich investors. As the months go on, I really want to hear him try to sell this cruel gruel to the voters, even with the media bussing up to his rear end at his Sedona barbeques.

BTW, he also promises to get rid of earmarks without acknowledging what any US Senator should know: the President doesn't have the power to get rid of earmarks — that's entirely the province of Congress. He can only veto bills that contain earmarks, which means he'll be vetoing every piece of legislation that passes his desk, since they all contain earmarks. It might be great to have government at a standstill for awhile, but eventually a budget must be passed so that seniors can get their SS checks and the troops can get VA treatment.

Incidentally, he's in trouble as well with the FEC for defrauding them by agreeing to take public funds for his campaign and now reneging on the deal -- a violation of federal law.

His campaign has been protecting his medical records, openly available in 2000, as if they were the Ark of the Covenant, and he won't release his tax returns. This leads me to believe there is not only something suspect in his general health, but his taxes may reveal income from unsavory sources. Also, his raging temper tantrums are legendary in Washington. Do we really need a president with a hair-trigger temper?

This adds up to a portrait of an aged shaky neurotic spouting empty GOP platitudes that have led to failure and economic collapse, a possibly seriously ill man not fit to be president, and I think this will become obvious in debate with the Dem candidate, if nature doesn't intercede first to compel his retirement.

Here's a question: If McCain is forced to retire from the campaign trail next September, who takes his place as the Republican nominee? Huckabee? Romney?

COMarc (April 4th, 2008 12:33 pm) wrote: "For fun reading, go check into the $40 million Obama just reported as having raised. That ain't coming from $20 contributions from grandmothers who only drive on Sundays."

COMarc, I did and you're wrong. Go to Open Secrets.org and open Obama's page. You'll see he's collected 100 percent of his campaign contributions from individual donations -- not PACs or lobbyists, unlike McCain and Clinton. Plus, the majority of his donations are under $200 dollars. If you have any real evidence to the contrary, then post it or stop spreading this smear.

McCain's opportunism is disgusting. I am surprised Sirota hasn't also mentioned McCain's flip flopping over the "Religious Right." Just a few years ago he was insulting them, and now he is courting them. What a hyocrite!