24
Oct
Yes, it’s another example of John McCain’s rank hypocrisy. Turns out John McCain — the man who has spent hours excoriating Barack Obama for his willingness to engage in diplomacy with unsavory governments — met privately with one of the bloodiest Latin American dictators of all time, General Augusto Pinochet of Chile.
According to a declassified [...]
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Foreign Policy, John McCain, Republican lies, Scandal by: Spence
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21
Oct
Yet more bad government from the Alaskan “reformer.”
Gov. Sarah Palin charged the state for her children to travel with her, including to events where they were not invited, and later amended expense reports to specify that they were on official business.
The charges included costs for hotel and commercial flights for three daughters to join Palin [...]
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Alaska, Sarah Palin, Scandal by: Spence
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09
Oct
The Alaska Independence Party is a radical, right-wing party that hates the U.S. government and wants to detach the state of Alaska from the rest of the country by any means necessary. They like Sarah Palin and Sarah Palin likes them.
“My government is my worst enemy. I’m going to fight them with any means at [...]
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Alaska, Republican Morons, Sarah Palin, Scandal by: Spence
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09
Oct
Was John McCain “palling around” with right-wing death squads and Iran-Contra lawbreakers?
In the 1980s, McCain served on the advisory board to the U.S. chapter of an international group linked to ultra-right-wing death squads in Central America.
The U.S. Council for World Freedom aided rebels trying to overthrow the leftist government of Nicaragua. That landed the group [...]
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, John McCain, Republicans, Scandal by: Spence
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21
Sep
The Alaska Daily News has a great editorial today about how Governor Sarah Palin has surrendered the power and duties of the state house to the McCain campaign, allowing it to interfere in state politics and obstruct a legitimate investigation, Troopergate.
Gov. Sarah Palin has surrendered important gubernatorial duties to the Republican presidential campaign. McCain staff [...]
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Alaska, Sarah Palin, Scandal by: Spence
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11
Jul
Ho-hum. It’s Friday so I guess it is time for another anti-gay crusading Republican to be revealed as privately enthusiastic homosexual. In this case, it is the Attorney General of Alabama, a supporter of John McCain and an early favorite to be the GOP nominee for Governor in 2010.
This may come as a shock, but [...]
Posted in Religious Right, Republican Morons, Republicans, Scandal by: Spence
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