McCain: Contra-contraception
The Wonk Room (via Kay) has the rundown of why John McCain is just like those very serious anti-contraception folks.
- Voted to end "the Title X family planning program, credited with helping prevent over 9 million abortions."
- Voted against funding teen-pregnancy-prevention programs and ensuring that "abstinence-only" programs are medically accurate.
- Voted for the domestic gag rule, which would have prohibited federally funded family-planning clinics from providing women with access to full information about their reproductive-health options.
- Voted to take $75 million from the Maternal and Child Health Block Grant to establish a new "abstinence-only" program that censors information about birth control.
- Declined to help reduce the need for abortion and improve maternal health by opposing effort to require insurance coverage for prescription birth control, improve access to emergency contraception, and provide more women with prenatal health care.
- Voted against legislation that would have prevented unintended pregnancy by investing in insurance coverage for prescription birth control, promoting family-planning services, implementing teen-pregnancy-prevention programs, and developing programs to increase awareness about emergency contraception
Just something to keep in mind when a pro-choicer you know refers to McCain as a "moderate" or "maverick."
And on a slightly lighter McCain-related note...
(NSFW version here.)
Posted by Ann - June 18, 2008, at 02:11PM
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"Let's see what cunt you call when your campaign needs a private jet."
Ha, classic.
And yeah, maverick my ass.
HAAAAAAAAAAAA!
I love you for posting this video, I swear, I do. Lmao!
- V.
lol awesome vid..... "John McCunt" lol...
on that note, I like the word cunt much better than most words used to describe female genitals (and of course vagina is not equal to cunt)
but john mccain is a total dick for using it as an insult ;)
I hate this. There is as much proof that McCain called his wife a cunt as there is tying Obama to being a Muslim Manchurian candidate.
The cunt story is anonymous hearsay. Let's not stoop to that when Dems have a clearly superior candidate.
What the shit is a trollop?
AHAHA, that was amazing.
God, I love the word trollop. Nobody can take you seriously if you call them a trollop. They'll just giggle.
"I hate this. There is as much proof that McCain called his wife a cunt as there is tying Obama to being a Muslim Manchurian candidate.
The cunt story is anonymous hearsay. Let's not stoop to that when Dems have a clearly superior candidate."
It's a joke. I don't think anyone is seriously suggesting that we should base our votes on an unverifiable incident.
I've always understood the word trollop to be another word for a prostitute or a whore.
IF the cunt story is true, I do think it's important. It further proves how unreliable McCain is at controlling his temper. It makes me nervous from the standpoint that if he can't control himself when his wife teases him in front of reporters, how can we expect him to not blow up a country whose leader pisses him off as well?
The end of that video is great.
Rusty, I think the point of that video is that the news channels runs crap like that about Obama 24/7 (example: calling that reporter "sweetie".) But when McCain does it, no one mentions it!
And not being able to say it on the news is a load. If they can reference the "N" word, they can certainly do the same for the "C" word.
The difference is where the allegiance of the media lays.
What is even more scary than the fact that McCain may have called his wife a cunt is this man's reaction.
(In case the image doesn't show: http://i27.tinypic.com/v4rqxj.jpg)
When I hear of "trollop" I think of the sound a horse makes when it's running.
"trollop-trollop-trollop"
Typical smears from the Liberal Elite Bias Media. John McCain has LOTS of experience with women, and if you're looking for women's issues, John McCain has got TONS of issues! John McCain will win when voters go to the polls in January. Never surrender!
http://www.womenforjohnmccain.com/
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http://www.womenforjohnmccain.com
Are you serious? Is this website serious? If it is serious it is the scariest thing I have seen in a while...especially when it talks about his stance on issues such as abortion and Equal Pay.
Funny vid btw. had me in stiches