McCain Opposed A Bill To Expand Federal Jurisdiction For Hate Crimes. McCain voted against closing debate on the Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Act (S. 625). The bill would add "gender," "sexual orientation," and "disability" as protected classes under Federal law and would expand Federal jurisdiction for the prosecution of people who commit "hate crimes" against federally protected classes. The cloture motion was rejected, 54-43. [1]
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Will John McCain Ever Denounce John Hagee's Views?
Reverend John Hagee today apologized for his offensive comments about Catholics. Despite spending a year courting Hagee's endorsement and refusing to distance himself from the controversial pastor, John McCain reportedly played no role in the apology.
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Michigan Fundraiser Highlights McCain's Radical Friends
What the invitation to a John McCain fundraiser does not say, however, is that Rakolta and Liggett were two of the key backers of an organization that helped finance an ad that compared Democrats to Adolf Hitler in the 2006 election. Rakolta and his wife contributed $10,000 to a group called Voice the Vote, which used the money to buy a newspaper ad that compared Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm and a procession of Democratic presidents to Hitler.
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Dean: Judging From McCain's Judges, He's the Wrong Choice for America's Future
After weeks of pretending to be "a different kind of Republican," John McCain showed his true colors today in his speech about the kind of judges he would appoint as president.
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McCain Myth Buster: John McCain and Right Wing Judges
Today's myth: John McCain will not appoint judicial nominees like George W. Bush.
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McCain's SCOTUS Model, Scalia, on Torture and "Cruel and Unusual Punishment"
John McCain says that, if elected president, he would nominate Supreme Court justices in the mold of Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito.
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Wilcox County, Alabama
John McCain is touring through areas with a history of economic and social justice problems (which Republicans traditionally ignore) to portray the presumptive GOP nominee as "not that kind of Republican." He will visit places Republicans actively vote against the...
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Republican Forgetfulness
Our friends at the RNC on the latest McCain Makeover Tour under the title, "The Forgotten Places of America." His stops in Selma, Thomasville, and Gee's Bend were the first of many unconventional campaign visits where the Senator will spend...
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McCain Stands By Vote Against '90 Civil Rights Act
Forty-years ago, just days after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., President Lyndon Johnson signed the '68 Civil Rights Act. Twenty-two years later, John McCain cast a deciding vote against the Civil Rights Act in 1990. In 1990,...
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McCain Myth Buster: John McCain, Sunnis, and Shiites
Despite the fact that John McCain has made the same mistake FIVE times in five months, his campaign continues to claim that John McCain misspoke when he confused Sunni and Shiite extremists in Iraq.
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Not Just One Vote
There's some distortion by John McCain over his many years of opposition to a King holiday, both at the federal and state level. He's trying to make it sound like this was just one vote, a long time ago.
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Biography Tour
What's been ignored in McCain's "biography tour" is the quarter-century he spent in Congress, casting votes he's now attempting to run away from, such as his vote against the King holiday.
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McCain's Waterboarding Doubletalk
He stands with Bush, yet again.
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So What About John Hagee is John McCain 'Proud' Of ?
In accepting the endorsement of Pastor John Hagee, John McCain said: "I am very honored by Pastor John Hagee's endorsement..." And later said - "I was pleased to have the endorsement of Pastor John Hagee..." Talking Points Memo provided nearly...
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McCain Myth Buster: John McCain and John Hagee
Today's McCain Myth: John McCain has consistently stood up to the right wing of the Republican Party.
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Bittersweet Endorsement?
McCain picks up support of Texas preacher who has some choice words for the Catholic Church: John McCain proudly touted picking up the support of Texas preacher John Hagee at a town hall meeting this morning in Houston. But Hagee's...
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The Debate Begins: McCain vs America
McCain continues his transition to McCain 2.0 with his torture vote, as an LA Times editorial points out
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McCain Confirms It: A Vote for Him Is a Vote for a Third Bush Term
During appearances on Fox News Sunday and CBS's Face the Nation today, John McCain made it clear: a vote for him is a vote for a third Bush term. Echoing his earlier statement that we could be in Iraq for 100 years, he said again that he would continue Bush's never ending civil war in Iraq. "We have to take care of the world's security," McCain said.
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Let’s Take This Outside
Romney-McCain spat continues to heat up over abortion: