The elite 3% have again found a candidate they can control. McCain is just another Bush wrapped in POW clothing. McCain's current remarks show him following the same path of destruction the GOP has followed for the past 8 years, more wars and the destruction of our Constitution and huge budget deficits, with the financial cost to the United States now $275 million a day and is expected to exceed $3 trillion, we have borrowed from the Chinese and others as our national debt has now climbed above $9 trillion-- by far the highest in our national history- mortgaging our nation and threatening our future stability. The Clinton Democrat Administration left us a budget surplus of $559 Billion.

With the dollar now rapidly losing value, the U.S. is essentially "on sale." The first nine months of 2007 saw foreign acquisitions of U.S. corporate firms hit $257.4 billion. Communist China now has controlling interest in and essentially owns Chase Manhattan Bank.

McCain supports the same path of destruction Bush has followed, derailing of personal freedoms and protection by ignoring Constitutional rights and disobeying the laws of the land. McCain will commit our troops to further middle east conflicts as his ignorant rantings and ill informed remarks show. McCain is keeping up the propoganda and wants to invade Iran and escalate this murderous, illegal, nonsensical war against Iraq.

Wasn't he the person who, on the eve of the Iraq War, said that the Iraqis would welcome us with open arms when the war started?  This proves that he is lousy at foreign-policy.  The man cannot even predict what others are going to do!

How grueling...we have to listen to McCain's war stories, what a patriot he
is....I wonder if he will tell us all of the story.  He would like to speak
quietly (probably on tons of prozac) and project himself as such a
statesman, but what about the dark side of this man....if we are going to
examine each candidate and scrutinize Barack and Hil, dear John deserves the
same interrogation..... What exactly was John McCain's role in the so-called
Keating Five scandal,  McCain says his involvement in the scandal "will
probably be on my tombstone." What exactly did McCain do?  With the young
voters jumping into the process they all need to have all of the facts on
dear old John.  They were not old enough to understand who or what the
Keating Five were all about.

In early 1987, at the beginning of his first Senate term, McCain attended
two meetings with federal banking regulators to discuss an investigation
into Lincoln Savings and Loan, an Irvine, Calif., thrift owned by Arizona
developer Charles Keating. Federal auditors were investigating Keating's
banking practices, and Keating, fearful that the government would seize his
S&L, sought intervention from a number of U.S. senators.

At Keating's behest, four senators--McCain met with Ed Gray, chairman of the
Federal Home Loan Bank Board, on April 2. He attended a second meeting at
Keating's behest on April 9 with bank regulators in San Francisco.

Regulators did not seize Lincoln Savings and Loan until two years later. The
Lincoln bailout cost taxpayers $2.6 billion, making it the biggest of the
S&L scandals. In addition, 17,000 Lincoln investors lost $190 million.

In November 1990, the Senate Ethics Committee launched an investigation into
the meetings between McCain and the regulators. McCain, along with 4 others
became known as the Keating Five.

(Keating himself was convicted in January 1993 of 73 counts of wire and
bankruptcy fraud and served more than four years in prison before his
conviction was overturned. Last year, he pleaded guilty to four counts of
fraud and was sentenced to time served.)

McCain defended his attendance at the meetings by saying Keating was a
constituent and that Keating's development company, American Continental
Corporation, was a major Arizona employer. McCain said he wanted to know
only whether Keating was being treated fairly and that he had not tried to
influence the regulators. At the second meeting, McCain told the regulators,
"I wouldn't want any special favors for them," and "I don't want any part of
our conversation to be improper."

But Keating was more than a constituent to McCain--he was a longtime friend
and associate. McCain met Keating in 1981 at a Navy League dinner in Arizona
where McCain was the speaker. Keating was a former naval aviator himself,
and the two men became friends. Keating raised money for McCain's two
congressional campaigns in 1982 and 1984, and for McCain's 1986 Senate bid.
By 1987, McCain campaigns had received $112,000 from Keating, his relatives,
and his employees--the most received by any of the Keating Five. (Keating
raised a total of $300,000 for the five senators.)

After McCain's election to the House in 1982, he and his family made at
least nine trips at Keating's expense, three of which were to Keating's
Bahamas retreat. McCain did not disclose the trips (as he was required to
under House rules) until the scandal broke in 1989. At that point, he paid
Keating $13,433 for the flights.

And in April 1986, one year before the meeting with the regulators, McCain's
wife, Cindy, and her father invested $359,100 in a Keating strip mall.

John McCain is the GOP nominee because he was the lesser of all evils.  We
can't allow the media to place this man upon a pedestal.  John McCain is 72
years old, has been in the political process long enough to make a
difference.  He has added to the problems and if elected we are looking at 4
more years of the same.

There are many layers to this guy and each one has to be peeled back like the skin on an onion.  Right now he is having fun, appearing on Letterman, going back to his old high school, reminiscing about being in the front yard with his father when a Naval officer stopped the car and shouted that Pearl Harbor had been attacked.  Good gosh!!!!.....I don't want a president who is so old he can remember Pearl Harbor.   His life is much like that of GW, I am ready for a smart, young and energized president who understands the America we know today. 

Once McCain is on the hot seat, being asked about his snafu's we will see the real John, a man with a short fuse and little knowledge of what is really going on.  It makes one wonder how anyone could vote for this old guy, even a republican.

A few days after saying the war in Iraq was won and the US were only doing some peacekeeping there :

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080515/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_governing_style

I believed the man to know better about war. He definitely lost his bearings.