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* McCain is both for and against earmarks for Arizona.
* McCain believes his endorsement from radical televangelist John Hagee was both a good and bad idea.
* McCains first mortgage plan was premised on the notion that homeowners facing foreclosure shouldnt be rewarded-- for acting irresponsibly.-- His second mortgage plan took largely the opposite position.
* McCain vowed, if elected, to balance the federal budget by the end of his first term. Soon after, he decided he would no longer even try to reach that goal.
* In February 2008, McCain reversed course on prohibiting waterboarding.
* McCain used to champion the Law of the Sea convention, even volunteering to testify on the treatys behalf before a Senate committee. Now he opposes it.
* McCain was a co-sponsor of the DREAM Act, which would grant legal status to illegal immigrants kids who graduate from high school. Now hes against it.
* On immigration policy in general, McCain announced in February 2008 that he would vote against his own legislation.
* In 2006, McCain sponsored legislation to require grassroots lobbying coalitions to reveal their financial donors. In 2007, after receiving feedback-- on the proposal, McCain told far-right activist groups that he opposes his own measure.
* McCain said before the war in Iraq, We will win this conflict. We will win it easily.-- Four years later, McCain said he knew all along that the war in Iraq war was probably going to be long and hard and tough.--
* McCain said he was the greatest critic-- of Rumsfelds failed Iraq policy. In December 2003, McCain praised the same strategy as a mission accomplished.-- In March 2004, he said, Im confident were on the right course.-- In December 2005, he said, Overall, I think a year from now, we will have made a fair amount of progress if we stay the course.--
* McCain went from saying he would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade to saying the exact opposite.
* McCain went from saying gay marriage should be allowed, to saying gay marriage shouldnt be allowed.
* McCain criticized TV preacher Jerry Falwell as an agent of intolerance-- in 2002, but then decided to cozy up to the man who said Americans deserved-- the 9/11 attacks.
* McCain used to oppose Bushs tax cuts for the very wealthy, but he reversed course in February.
* On a related note, he said 2005 that he opposed the tax cuts because they were too tilted to the wealthy.-- By 2007, he denied ever having said this, and insisted he opposed the cuts because of increased government spending.
* In 2000, McCain accused Texas businessmen Sam and Charles Wyly of being corrupt, spending dirty money-- to help finance Bushs presidential campaign. McCain not only filed a complaint against the Wylys for allegedly violating campaign finance law, he also lashed out at them publicly. In April, McCain reached out to the Wylys for support.
* McCain supported a major campaign-finance reform measure that bore his name. In June 2007, he abandoned his own legislation.
* McCain opposed a holiday to honor Martin Luther King, Jr., before he supported it.
* McCain was against presidential candidates campaigning at Bob Jones University before he was for it.
* McCain was anti-ethanol. Now hes pro-ethanol.
* McCain was both for and against state promotion of the Confederate flag.
* McCain decided in 2000 that he didnt want anything to do with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, believing he would taint the image of the Straight Talk Express.-- Kissinger is now the Honorary Co-Chair for his presidential campaign in New York.
Posted by nullifidian at 2008-07-01 12:52 AM | Reply
