Do The Facts Support John McCain? (An Email To Read & Share)

[ihavenobias]

NOTE: The election is fast approaching, yet an astounding number of people aren't aware of some critically important facts. Hopefully this email can change some of that, if we share it with enough people. I ask that you don't assume that just because you may know these facts that most potential voters do. BTW, I'm going phone banking tonight so I believe that we need to do EVERYTHING we can to win, and that includes getting this information into millions of homes via email!

1)-If you make less than $112,000 a year as an individual (not household income, individual income) you will pay a lot less in income taxes under Obama's proposed tax plan than under McCain's. You make up part of the 80% of Americans in this category.

If you make between $112,000-$227,000 a year as an individual you will still pay less taxes under Obama's plan then you do right now.

If you make between $227,000-$603,000 a year as an individual you will pay $12 (twelve dollars) more per year than you do right now.

2)-If you get your health insurance through your employer John McCain wants to treat your benefit as taxable income. That will push many Americans into a higher income bracket meaning you could pay thousands per year more in taxes.

3)-If you think corporations don't pay enough taxes you aren't alone. According to the non-partisan GAO about 2/3 of US Corporations paid no taxes at some point between 1998-2005. Despite this John McCain wants to cut the corporate tax rate by a whopping 10% in addition to increased first year write-offs which will ultimately cost us about 1.3 trillion dollars.

4)-If you think oil companies aren't paying their fair share, you aren't alone. Exxon Mobil just recorded the highest profit for any corporation in history (again). Despite this fact John McCain wants to slash their taxes by 10% and not take back the 14 billion dollars in tax payer subsidies that the Republicans in Congress fought to give oil companies.

5)-If you think Republicans are not fiscally responsible you aren't alone. Over 70% of our National Debt was created by just 3 Republican Presidents. Republican Ronald Reagan borrowed more money than all presidents before him, from George Washington to Jimmy Carter, combined. Now George Bush may borrow even more more than Reagan. Democratic president Bill Clinton is the only president in the last 30 years to not only not create any debt, but to finish with a budget surplus.

6)-If you think borrowing trillions of dollars from foreign countries to put on a Giant National Credit Card is a bad idea, you're not alone. We pay hundreds of billions of dollars in interest only payments on our debt each year, meaning our tax dollars are flushed down the toilet for things that no longer benefit us, assuming they ever did. Higher debt means our money is worth less which makes gas, food and just about everything else more expensive. A conservative estimate is that the US dollar has lost over 27% of it's value since the year 2000.

7)-If you think middle class families do better financially with a Democrat as president, you aren't alone. According to research out of Princeton, real middle class wage growth is double when a Democrat is president compared to when a Republican is president.

8)-If you think focusing on which (current and former) candidates wear a flag pin is a waste of time that distracts us from real issues, you're not alone. After all, why should it bother you that Hillary Clinton and John McCain don't wear a flag pin?

9)-Some people say you can judge someone based on the company they keep. That's interesting, because John McCain went out of his way to get the endorsement of Reverend Hagee. Most people have never heard of Hagee, possibly because according to a non-partisan study, while the media has in fact spent more talking about Obama (than McCain) most of that time has been spent saying negative things about him.

How else could you explain that fact that so few people know that McCain's Reverend Hagee referred to the Catholic Church as "the great whore" or that he believes and is on tape having said that "Hitler Was Fulfilling God's Will For Israel"? And that's in addition to the inflammatory comments he's made regarding many other groups including women.

Also, McCain aids, advisers and fundraisers have made about $1 BILLION DOLLARS from corporate sponsors. I guess that explains why McCain's policies mostly benefit the richest and most powerful among us?

10)-Finally, many people believe you can judge a man by how he treats his family, and adultery is incredibly serious to people (and of course it's the topic of The 7th Commandment). Some people are aware that John McCain cheated on his first wife Carol with his current wife Cindy (who was 18 years younger and quite wealthy), but they aren't aware that John's wife Carol was in a horrible, disfiguring car accident shortly before the affair began.


In light of all of this information you have to ask yourself: If the facts don't support John McCain, why should you?

[fascisthunter]

1. Damn.... great Work

I'll look at this closer and then email it to as many as possible. Off to the front page!

[ihavenobias]

23. Thanks, but I just noticed I wrote "then" rather than "than" in a sentence

As usual I noticed AFTER the editing period expired!

[fascisthunter]

24. lol..... that's it!!! I Take it all BACK!!!!!!!1111!!!!

[theFrankFactor]

45. I Hate When That Happens ;-)

[Enthusiast]

58. I caught that! lol! nt

[mwb970]

60. I guess you can't fix the misspelling of "its" either.

(In #6) A small thing, but a it's a pet peeve of mine and it trips me up whenever I see it. But who cares? The letter is great and hits all the right points with all the right links. If liberals were inclined to forward e-mails to each other the way the wingnut echo chamber does, this would be in every American's inbox this morning!

Having said that, I have undying faith in the total ignorance and stupidity of the American voter. Drill here, drill now! Go mccain! He can't lose.

[ihavenobias]

62. Yeah I know. I read it over twice but was just too excited to get it out there...

Of course people can always make a few changes before they email it to everyone they know!

[FLAprogressive]

2. "but he was a POW."

[ihavenobias]

67. Shoot, I forgot to mention that

[pleah]

3. A K&R for ya! Thanks ihavenobias!

[Jim__]

4. John McCain was a POW.

[Just-plain-Kathy]

42. Was he a POW? ...I haven't heard.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Great work!

If only we could get the MSM to cover this...


K&R

[ihavenobias]

72. If enough people see it we won't need the MSM! But yes, it would be nice n/t

[matthewf]

6. Good job, sir!

[mzmolly]

7. K and R and Bookmarked.

Thanks for your continued contributions and hard work IHNB.

[ihavenobias]

77. Thanks. I really want this info out there. And I'm continually amazed at what some people

decide NOT to rec.

And this isn't about me considering my name/username are not in the message body. When people copy and paste this into email I have nothing to do with it.

It's about the information! Apparently a lot of people think this information is unimportant or widely know.

[Solly Mack]

8. already K&R'ed

[grantcart]

9. excellent work

have you added it to the research file?

[ihavenobias]

39. Research File? n/t

[Lasher]

52. grantcart might have been thinking of the Propaganda Debunking Group

Here's the link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[ihavenobias]

81. Thanks, I wasn't even aware that existed. I'll have to check it out n/t

[CherylK]

10. I wold give this 100 Recs if I could!!!

You will have to settle for 1 though.

[lark]

11. Excellent!

Thanks Tom, I will definitely use these very salient points.

[toddGA]

12. New DUer here...

..and i'm lookin' for a clue about how to email this post. any help?

[Kaleko]

49. Copy and paste into your email, using your personal list.

That's what I did anyway. Hello there, new person



Thanks Tom. You did a lot of work!

[ZombieHorde]

75. Welcome to DU toddGA!

[toddGA]

79. Thanks for the welcome...

i'm doing what i can here in GA for the cause. people (young people i work with--i'm a college teacher) are hopeful this time. this red state might just go blue...

[ihavenobias]

80. Welcome!

[yellerpup]

13. K&R!

This belongs on the home page. Thanks for this excellent compilation.

[kevinmc]

14. K&R .... I am sending this and posting it on blogs right now

[navarth]

15. k & r Nice goin' Tom!!

I know a few that should read this one....

[DeepModem Mom]

16. Excellent! K&R!

[Disturbed]

18. McNasty was a POW then, now he is an ASSHOLE!

John McCain embraces GW Bush & his failed policies.

The short list

For overturning Rove v Wade

Iraq,

Top end tax cuts

Privatization of Social Security

Unraveling employer based health care,

Cuban embargo.

Illegal Spying on Americans

Busholini Policy of Torture

Against new GI Bill

Offshore oil drilling

Big Tax Breaks for Oil Corps

Denying Habeous Corpus

[theFrankFactor]

17. Outstanding Tom!

[cliffordu]

19. K&R with all my might. Excellent work!!!

[alfredo]

20. thank you. I just mailed it out to people I know will forward it.

I also noted that when Reps send stuff out about Obama they don't send links that support their claims, Democrats do.

[ihavenobias]

82. Right, the links are really important

I don't expect anyone to take what I say at face value. The links give credibility to the information presented.

[alfredo]

84. I've gotten some positive feedback. I rec'd DU to the recipients

Saying this site is a great resource for this election.

This is worth reading and passing on:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

She's a damn good writer.

[ihavenobias]

85. Thanks, I K & R'd

[alfredo]

88. Gustav might change the debate on off shore drilling.

[ihavenobias]

90. Yeah, it'll be interesting to see if it in fact changes the debate n/t

[alfredo]

91. Mitch McConnell has made it a centerpiece of his reelection campaign.

[ihavenobias]

92. Makes sense n/t

[alfredo]

93. His arguments make sense until it bumps into reality.

[hootinholler]

21. kick for later...

True dirt.

-Hoot

[LaStrega]

22. k to the r ... You rock! n/t

[trthnd4jstc]

25. Very Nice.

Thanks for the post.

[VP505]

26. K&R

[redwitch]

27. Thank you Tom.

I plan to print this and leave it everywhere!

[ihavenobias]

83. If you print it, you should probably take the extra step of either footnoting or copy and pasting

the links for each item next to the item.

I'm not sure I worded that well but you get the idea.

[Window]

28. As usual, great work!

[G_j]

29. K&R

excellent

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

30. Excellent list!

Thanks for sharing!

[AZBlue]

31. NICELY DONE!

Kicked & Rec'd!
Also, bookmarked and copied to a word doc for easy access to use often!!

GREAT WORK - THANK YOU!

[lonestarnot]

32. Share share share! And share alike!

[ba5500]

33. RE:

Mccain = GWB III.

Nuff said

[OhioChick]

34. Nice Job!

K&R

[Journeyman]

35. Excellent work. Kicked and recommended. . .

bookmarked so I can send it to others. . .

[autorank]

36. You "havenobias" except the truth! k*r - rokken

[BeHereNow]

37. Superb! Thanks for the PM about it!

I'm going to use it, if you don't mind.



BHN

[Minnesota_Lib]

38. If you think returns on stock investments are better under a...

...Democratic President, then you are not alone.

According to their paper, entitled, "The Presidential Puzzle: Political Cycles and the Stock Market" and published in the October issue of the Journal of Finance, stock market returns are on average about 5 percent higher when the White House is run by a Democrat than during Republican rule.

Looking at the 72-year period between 1927 and 1999, the study shows that a broad stock index, similar to the S&P 500, returned approximately 11 percent more a year on average under a Democratic president versus safer, three-month Treasurys. By comparison, the index only returned 2 percent more a year versus the T-bills when Republicans were in office.


http://money.cnn.com/2004/01/21/markets/election_demsvr... /

Feel free to add that little nugget.

[Lasher]

53. And McSame wants to continue the policies of the president who has presided...

over the worst S&P 500 performance ever.

[Just-plain-Kathy]

40. Happy to give the 50th rec...

...But tell me what if you're married making around that $112k mark?


Edited to say, I found my answer at Obamataxcut.com

http://alchemytoday.com/obamataxcut/

[HughBeaumont]

41. I could sure send this out to some Refuckedlicans that need edumuhcatin'.

It's just like Obama said: you can literally replace the name "Barack Obama" with ANY democratic candidate's name, past or present, and you'll find that no matter WHO the candidate is, the same talking points just keep following them like a rabid dog after a zooming car; they've been recycled over and over and over again and the memes and e-mails are popular enough to scare up the "share the same brain" crowd.

Unfortunately, America's stopped believing in that old line of thinking.

[Oldtimeralso]

43. K & R & passed on

[theFrankFactor]

44. Posted and Making the MySpace Rounds

[Bennyboy]

46. Beautiful work ,thanks alot.

This will come in handy.

[AuntPatsy]

47. Bookmarked for printed material to pass around, thank you so much for your work

[D23MIURG23]

48. Thanks friend; this is excellent.

K&R, and Bookmarked for future dissemination.

[Douglas Carpenter]

50. RECOMMENDED!!! FANTASTIC POST!!! GREAT TO SHARE WITH EVERYONE!!!

[mackdaddy]

51. I think that item 5 may have an error as stated.

I think that this is great, but any errors could be used to disparage the entire document.(ask Dan Rather)

I do not have references, and someone smarter than me should chime in, but I believe that Clinton did add to the overall national debt, although at a declining rate each year through his presidency, and showed a small surplus during the last couple of years. But for the entire 8 year period he did have a net increase to the national debt. He added much less to the debt than any other recent president, but still made it larger.

A little more nit-picky, I think that when you add the borrowing against the Social security trust fund and some other "off the books" items, the government did not reach a true overall "surplus", although it is still usually referred to as a surplus.

Anyone with access to the "stats"?

[Lasher]

54. Yes, here is a graphic that supports what you say.

Hit this link for a larger version of this chart and links to source data.

[Sherman A1]

55. Well Said!

Thanks for the workup on this one....

[Lasher]

56. Note on item 10:

Carol McCain was not in a car accident shortly before the affair with Cindy began. Her accident occurred on Christmas Eve, 1969. John would be released from POW captivity three years later.

John's affair with Cindy began in May 1979, when the two met at a military reception in Hawaii.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/specials/mccain/articles/...

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-di...

BTW, good work.

[NM Independent]

57. K&R

Outstanding!!!!!

[laylah]

59. Sending this far

and wide...good job! Thanks for the compilation

[NoSheep]

61. excellent job! Thanks for posting this!

[wryter2000]

63. Bookmarking

Just waiting for my right wing blowhole friend to send me one of those e-mails. Snap!

[mlevans]

64. A request...

Do you mind if I use this as the basis for a letter to the editor of our local paper? I think all these points really hit home, but I would not want to be accused of plagiarism. Message me about it? Thanks.

[ihavenobias]

65. I'll PM you but I'll also say here that YES, of course. The point is to get this Info out there!

People should post it and send it everywhere and anywhere. And of course make changes if, for example, you don't think it should include the stuff about McCain's wife. Or as someone pointed out you can remove the adjective "shortly" regarding Carol McCain's car accident relative to when John's affair began.

[Wapsie B]

66. Excellent!

Great post!

[Lorien]

68. Nice, but not something that can be copied and sent. The links don't copy

Posting another version with links that will copy into an email would help.

[ihavenobias]

70. Actually, they links *do* copy if you have gmail. I guess it depends on what email service you use!

You can try this and see if it makes a difference: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/29/12345/0074/37/5...

I'm slapping myself for picking such a horrible time to post this at DailyKos. It was pushed off the homepage in literally about 10 minutes so basically 3 people got a chance to see it. Very disappointing.

[B Calm]

69. I forwarded this to all my e-mail contacts. Thanks!

[AuntPatsy]

71. For those that missed this pass it around

[dchill]

73. K & R.

[newtothegame]

74. Reccommended

and emailed.

[ZombieHorde]

76. K&R jerk.

Congratulations, you have found the hidden text!

[AuntPatsy]

78. A friendly reminder that this can help people let other people know the truth

[HCE SuiGeneris]

86. Great post!

[CherylK]

87. Bump!

[Karenina]

89. . .