U.S. Senator


Senator John Sidney McCain III


McCain decided to run for United States Senator from Arizona in 1986, when longtime American conservative icon and Arizona fixture Barry Goldwater retired.[69] No Republican would oppose McCain in the primary, and as described by his press secretary Torie Clarke, McCain's political strength convinced his most formidable possible Democratic opponent, Governor Bruce Babbitt, not to run for the senate seat.[69] Instead McCain faced a weaker opponent, former state legislator Richard Kimball, a young politician with an offbeat personality who slept on his office floor[70] and whom McCain's allies in the Arizona press characterized as having "terminal weirdness."[69] McCain's associations with Duke Tully, who by now had been disgraced for having concocted a ficticious military record, as well as revelations of father-in-law Jim Hensley's past brushes with the law, became campaign issues, but in the end McCain won the election easily with 60 percent of the vote to Kimball's 40 percent.[69][53]
Upon entering the Senate in 1987, McCain became a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, with whom he had formerly done his Navy liaison work; he also joined the Commerce Committee and the Indian Affairs Committee.[69] He was a strong supporter of the Gramm-Rudman legislation that enforced automatic spending cuts in the case of budget deficits.[71] McCain soon gained national visibility, delivering an emotional, impassioned speech about his time as a POW at the 1988 Republican National Convention[72] being mentioned by the press as a short list vice-presidential running mate for Republican nominee George H. W. Bush,[72][69] and being named chairman of Veterans for Bush.[73] In 1989, he became a staunch defender of his friend John Tower's doomed nomination for U.S. Secretary of Defense; McCain butted heads with Moral Majority co-founder Paul Weyrich — who was challenging Tower regarding alleged heavy drinking and extramarital affairs[69] — and thus began McCain's difficult relationship with the Christian right, as he would later write that Weyrich was "a pompous self-serving son of a bitch."[69]

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"They must find it difficult...Those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than the truth as authority"

I'll let mccain do the talking.....

YouTube - McCain: 100 years in Iraq "would be fine with me"

YouTube - John McCain Says More Wars

YouTube - McCain is an idiot!

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The Bill of Rights.....Void where prohibited by Law.

We dont have many of these kinda guys left in this world

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"They must find it difficult...Those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than the truth as authority"

dude are u against our military bases in germany?

the ones in Japan? u against those?

we had bases there for almost 60 years my friend, you guys really need to use your melons, i think u guys are just surprised at a man who tells u the truth even though he knows the nit wits wont even understand it and the liberals will try to trick the nitwits in thinking this. i think your just amazed that this man has not lied to you for his own huge benifit. im sure you would like a nice answer from hilary that say "we are getting out asap"!! then when the polls say different she will say "we must stop the terroists in iraq" and the whole time she is plotting in the back room how to further fool you into complete submission so she has full control of where and when u take a shit

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"They must find it difficult...Those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than the truth as authority"

good read. thanks. i'm proud of his service, as described.

of course, those occured 30 years ago. who is he now? why is he advocating this empire building of america? the american take-over of the world? one ruler gets ALL the resources and can decide ALL the laws.

see, i would imagine that having experienced the true horrors of war would angle a man toward peace. if you and i can see that policy failures by american political criminals have brought us to this distablized level of unsafety, why would he advocate to continue the mistake of an interventionist foreign policy?

I see mccain as a 'status quo' guy. elect him and we get 4 or 8 years of the same outragous overspending on our military, the same corporate control of congress and the tanking of our U.S. dollar. he either incapable of understanding these errors of past administrations, or its intentional. more of the same...

wouldnt it have been easier just to post a wikipedia link? POW doesnt equate to good President. I disagree with his views, as do many others in this forum. I could really care less that his legs and arms were broken.

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If your a Democrat you should be happy. John McCain is the best thing to happen to the Dem party in the last 10 years. If he gets the Republican ticket we will have a Democrat president. It doesn't matter if it's Hilary or Obama. McCain could not win a general election. He shot himslef in the foot with the 100 year war bullshit. In a country with close to 70% of the people opposed to a war you can't win it by saying you'll continue it for the next 100 years. He would have no shot, he would get killed...Unless, a major terrorist attack happens right before the election causing the American people, in a state of fear, to elect the candidate with the strongest defense plan? I could defenitely see that happening. Otherwise, I don't know what McCain's plan to win is.

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"The world is yours and everything in it. It's out there. Get on your grind and get it."- Young Jeezy

sweet christ panda posted a whole book worth of info on here macain is a pimp when it comes to his record im sure he could still even pull ladies with his stories, he talks about his resume all the time! but it comes down to him being an alpha male not the one to be with all the non alphas out there i think he leans toward to im right your wrong attitude
i say fuck that weve had that already

OMG. I wouldn't put it past the illuminati.

But if what you say is true, the Illuminati will have arranged Hillary to be the Dem candidate. Then, if no matter who the people choose their covered.

sorry to disapoint but the polls show him winning in the general election against Hilldabeast or Barak Husain Obama

RealClearPolitics - Election 2008 - National Polls


God Bless you Lord Mcain Me Lord

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"They must find it difficult...Those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than the truth as authority"