McCain=92s History On Katrina Doesn=92t Match Campaign Rhetoric
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atch-campaign-rhetoric/
By: Bill W. on Friday, April 25th, 2008
McCain Then and Now:
On Thursday, John McCain toured areas of New Orleans that are still
damaged from Hurricane Katrina and tried to explain how he would have
done things differently had he been President.
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John McCain: Never again will a disaster of this nature be handled in
the terrible and disgraceful way that it was handled. Never again.
Dana Bash: John McCain used these vivid reminders of a stained
Bush legacy to try to distance himself. President Bush famously flew
over New Orleans in the days after Katrina, a mistake McCain said he
would not have made.
John McCain: In all candor if I had been President of the United
States I=92d have ordered the plane landed at the nearest Air Force base
and I=92d have been over here.
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Now, I guess it=92s asking a lot to let something like Katrina spoil his
birthday plans, but if he really would have done things so differently
had he been President, honestly, then why didn=92t he at least say
something along the lines of: =91I=92m flattered you still thought enough
to come, Mr. President, but don=92t you have something more im****tant
you should be attending to?=92 and wouldn=92t he at least have exercised
better judgment than to participate in a laugh-filled photo-op with
the President for the historical record that fateful day?
Despite all the talk at yesterday=92s campaign photo-op, John McCain=92s
actions then and since could not be more stark in contrast:
VIDEO
[] The fact is, McCain has a history of denying the Gulf Coast aid
when it needs it most and a record of outrageous votes to show for it.
Instead of helping the area rebuild after Hurricane Katrina and the
people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast get back on their feet,
McCain actually voted to deny emergency funding to the area, and he
voted against giving victims of Katrina access to Medicaid and
unemployment benefits. []
As if it wasn=92t already baffling enough that McCain would even dare
mention Katrina with a record like that, it=92s especially so right now
seeing as how just this past Tues the radical pastor John Hagee once
again reminded the world that he=92s a nut who literally believes that
Katrina occurred because God damned America, or at least the gulf
coast of it. Hagee has been saying as much for years in his sermons,
but McCain has yet to comment on Hagee=92s offensive beliefs about
Hurricane Katrina and just this past Sun McCain reiterated that he=92s
=93glad to have=94 Hagee=92s endorsement
I haven=92t seen a worse staged photo-op belied of the facts since...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DRO2xi0uLnj8
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