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Why have the media mostly ignored this statement from the McCain-Obama debate?

October 2nd, 2008 at 07:22am Pat Cunningham

At the presidential debate in Mississippi last Friday night, John McCain said something that’s been strangely overlooked by most of the media in their coverage of the event:

“I know the veterans, I know them well, and I know that they know that I’ll take care of them, and I have been proud of their support and their recognition of my service to the veterans, and I love them, and I’ll take care of them, and they know that I’ll take care of them.”

Barack Obama, for some reason, took a pass on that opportunity to expose McCain’s terrible record of support for American military troops and veterans.

Lest that record remain obscured, VoteVets.org has compiled a LIST OF ISSUES on which McCain has failed the troops and veterans.

It’s overwhelming.

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7 Comments Add your own

1. Roger | October 2nd, 2008 at 8:14 am

Yeah and Obama has done so much for the troops. Right!!
2. Pat Cunningham | October 2nd, 2008 at 10:19 am

That’s right, Roger. Obama’s record of supporting veterans is better than McCain’s. But you’ll continue believing in the fiction that the opposite is the case. Read this: http://www.positivelybarack.com/2008/09/28/obama-vs-mccain-veterans-issues-part-i/
And this: http://www.positivelybarack.com/2008/09/28/obama-vs-mccain-veterans-issues-part-ii/
3. Milton Waddams | October 2nd, 2008 at 10:20 am

Why have the media mostly ignored this statement from the McCain-Obama debate?

Because he spent 5 years in the Hanoi Hilton! Next question…
4. snuss | October 2nd, 2008 at 12:25 pm

And why does the MSM avoid discussing the ACORN/Obama connection?
5. swamprat | October 2nd, 2008 at 2:56 pm

snuss. Probably for the same reason they don\’t discuss the Keating 5, McCain’s womanizing, last in his class, and not showing up for work at his father-in-law’s distributorship.
6. unmanager | October 2nd, 2008 at 4:15 pm

SNuss is just rewinding the RushRhetorical LIE loop that plays in his head….
http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/1214-09.htm

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DECEMBER 14, 2005
10:46 AM

CONTACT: Project Vote
Kathleen Barr, Project Vote, 202-546-4317
Michael Slater, Project Vote, 503-375-9377

One Year Later: Results of 2004 Voter Fraud Investigations Give Vote Groups a Clean Slate
Community Group ACORN Vindicated as Baseless Lawsuits, Investigations Collapse

WASHINGTON - December 14 - Today, Project Vote congratulated the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) on the dismissal of the third and final voter registration fraud lawsuit brought against the group in 2004. ACORN, in partnership with Project Vote, ran the largest non-partisan voter outreach program in the 2004 election cycle, registering 1.15 million low-income and minority citizens in 26 states and contacting 2.3 million through Get-Out-the-Vote efforts. In 2004, several politically motivated law firms brought baseless charges of voter registration fraud against ACORN in an effort to inhibit its work to register low-income and minority voters.

“For twenty years, we have worked with ACORN to ensure the voices of low-income and minority Americans are heard at the ballot box,” said Holli Holliday, National Director of Project Vote. “We have complete confidence in ACORN’s quality control process and are not at all surprised these lawsuits and investigations have collapsed. Today, we celebrate this as a victory for voters.”

One year after the contentious 2004 election, it is clear that politically motivated law firms and organizations leveled unfounded allegations of fraud against ACORN with the goal of tarnishing the community group’s reputation and inhibiting its work. In recent months, three highly publicized legal challenges brought against ACORN staff have been dismissed or withdrawn for lack of evidence. In Ohio, a lawsuit funded by the conservative Free Enterprise Coalition and litigated by the law firm of Shumaker, Loop and Kendrick collapsed on October 28. Two Florida lawsuits, based solely on claims by convicted felon and ex-ACORN employee Mac Start and litigated by Rothstein, Rosenfeldt, Adler of Fort Lauderdale, were dismissed with prejudice. Stuart admitted to making false statements against ACORN.

Facts mean nothing to his type….

What IS ACORN??
http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=12342

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ACORN is the nation’s largest grassroots community organization of low- and moderate-income people with over 400,000 member families organized into more than 1,200 neighborhood chapters in 110 cities across the country. Since 1970, ACORN has been building community organizations that are committed to social and economic justice, and won victories on thousands of issues of concern to our members, through direct action, negotiation, legislative advocacy and voter participation. ACORN helps those who have historically been locked out become powerful players in our democratic system.
7. echo4charlie | October 3rd, 2008 at 9:33 am

ACORN=Voter Fraud. It is that easy.