Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with mccain www.salem-news.com 2010 Since the turn of the 21st century, religion has become a more serious concern for the American people because the assumed authority of President Bush comes from his belief that he is God's Active Voice and refers to himself as “The Decider.” He has used his belief to confront Islam in the Middle East with the hope of imposing upon it what he calls Freedom that can be interpreted to mean Free Choice in religious terms, under a democratic label. America's strength is presumed to be God given, and an obligation to convert the Middle East to democracy. It is an echo of a by-gone era when the "white man's burden" was to impose Civilization [another word for Christianity] upon the lives of lesser peoples wherever they may reside. But Moslems sees it as another Crusade by Christianity to impose its will on Islam and resists as it has for centuries. http://salem-news.com/articles/november132008/religion_1_kr_11-13-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november132008/religion_1_kr_11-13-08.php Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:16:00 PST Most people accept the religious definition that heaven is a wondrous and happy place which is the after-death reward of good and devoted followers who don’t question that definition, but I felt compelled to seek the truth for myself. Hawaii, for example, is touted as paradise, but I prefer the Caribbean. I assume, therefore, that paradise is not the same to all persons, and it occurred to me that what is true of an earthly paradise might also be true of heaven. All my life I had been told so-called truths only to learn much of what I had been given to believe as true was not. So, I decided to consider life's mysteries logically to reduce my confusion rather than add to it. I recognized my limitations, and freely admitted that truths exist beyond the bounds of reason. Since there was little I could do about them, I decided to believe only that which is believable. If I could not rationalize my way out of a mystery, I would ignore it for the moment and deal only with what I could handle. From this beginning I developed a thesis which accepted that man is composed of two essential parts; his subconscious, and his conscious being. Or, to put it another way, man brain is product of his reality and his unreality. http://salem-news.com/articles/november122008/heaven_earth_11-11-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november122008/heaven_earth_11-11-08.php Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:11:00 PST Now that the election is over, the Party can be perceived for what it is, a reign that falls mainly on the plain people; i.e. its base that consists of traditionalists, evangelicals, the super-rich, and wannabes who try to be like others if only in their imagination. Traditionalists come from families who have voted Republican for generations, still do, and always will. Evangelicals fall easily into the traditionalist-mold because they tend to believe Evangelists who pretend to speak for God, but who often misinterpret the New Testament and embellish their preaching to suit their purpose. Rod Parsley says it is God’s will that American-Christians destroy Islam, and that may explain the Iraq fiasco. http://salem-news.com/articles/november082008/repub_reigh_kr_11-8-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november082008/repub_reigh_kr_11-8-08.php Sat, 08 Nov 2008 14:29:00 PST After more than two decades covering the political landscape, including five governors, four presidents, and hundreds of house and senate races, I could finally sit and let the wave hit me. There were no lights in my eyes, no microphone in hand, no producer in my ear, counting the seconds to the moment the camera would go hot. Instead, a new era in America was about to dawn and I was nothing but a quiet observer. On this, the most historic of all election nights in my 48-year-old life, I stood shoulder to shoulder with The Throng and just let the high-voltage moment flood my soul. http://salem-news.com/articles/november072008/eric_obama_11-7-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november072008/eric_obama_11-7-08.php Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:06:00 PST The polls on the east coast had only been closed for a couple of hours when it became clear that Barack Obama would be the next President of the United States. Just seconds after the polls on the west coast closed at 8:00 PM, CNN called the race for Obama. "Nobody knows how to behave, this never happens to us," one Democratic voter at a Salem election party said just after the announcement. Flags flew and televised tears flowed from live cameras at rallies all over the nation in the moments following the word that the race would go to Obama. November 4th 2008 will go down in history as the day that the United States achieved the unexpected; and set a course to steer the nation away from eight years of fiercely dominated Republican policies and decisions. http://salem-news.com/articles/november042008/obama_victory_11-4-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november042008/obama_victory_11-4-08.php Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:05:00 PST The United States is just hours away from electing a new President. Political polls have shown Democratic Senator Barack Obama leading the race over Republican Senator John McCain. Americans have learned by now though that polls can be deceiving and some say the numbers do not always show an accurate picture. Barack Obama's past association with Pastor Jeremiah Wright and a professor remembered as a domestic terrorist of the 1960's, William Ayers, have been his sticking points. McCain has been attacked for his switch stance position on issues ranging from support for the current U.S. President George W. Bush to abortion. Many hard right GOP members had a hard time coming to terms with McCain as a presidential choice, but the party found unity in support of this "maverick" man from Arizona. http://salem-news.com/articles/november042008/elections_tonight_11-4-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november042008/elections_tonight_11-4-08.php Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:20:00 PST It seems like everyday we hear about the soaring cost of energy and how it threatens to cripple the American economy, which is already suffering. There is no question that our next leaders will face some big choices regarding energy and the economy as a result. That's why it is so important to understand that we can have a strong economy and a clean environment. These two things are not mutually exclusive. Salem will soon be home to a solar plant, which will bring hundreds of more jobs into the area. Developments like this solar plant can help bring up the economy, and in order to get more of them, we need to take a stronger stand against climate change. http://salem-news.com/articles/november042008/global_warming_11-4-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november042008/global_warming_11-4-08.php Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:10:00 PST I have been contacted by many people over John McCain's war record. Many believe important facts about the senator's history are being overlooked while his campaign speaks of integrity and honor. This is not something to tread upon nonchalantly, but the amount of questions from viewers led us to research many facts and theories. Some findings have been shocking, others not so much. Either way, it is information worthy of your knowledge. Recognizing that John McCain has used his former POW status as a platform for his election campaign, it seemed only fitting to shine a light on McCain's other accomplishments, the ones that are less than flattering. The list of less than faithful actions by McCain tend to make former President Bill Clinton's indiscretions look tame. http://salem-news.com/articles/november022008/mccain_pow-11-1-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november022008/mccain_pow-11-1-08.php Sun, 02 Nov 2008 08:52:00 PST The three great stock market crashes (1929, 1987 and 2008) have happened at the end of long periods of Republican presidencies. 1929 happened at the end of eight, 1987 after six, and 2008 after seven years of Republican rule. So it's hard to argue that Republicans have some magical touch when it comes to the economy. The problem, as former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan acknowledged recently to Congress, is that banks and investment houses don't automatically act to ensure the safety of their investors. So, with regulation loosened or missing as it has been during several Republican presidencies, some financial institutions exploited public trust with greedy and fiscally unsound schemes that worked only for salespeople and corporate officers—like, oh, say, $516 TRILLION dollars in outstanding derivatives worldwide. http://salem-news.com/articles/november012008/gop_economy_11-1-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november012008/gop_economy_11-1-08.php Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:04:00 PDT The smear campaign by John McCain, Sarah Palin and their supporters reached a new low this past week with their attacks on Democratic nominee Barack Obama for his former ties with Palestinian American scholar Rashid Khalidi. This is just one of a series of desperate guilt-by-association tactics by the Republicans to make the staunchly pro-Israel Obama appear to be anti-Israel and may be designed less to harm the Democratic nominee's chances of election as to limit politically his options for addressing urgent matters of Israeli-Palestinian peace upon becoming president. Unlike education professor and former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers, Obama and Khalidi and their wives actually did have a social relationship back when they both taught at the University of Chicago and their kids attended the same lab school. It is ironic that Khalidi -- a U.S.-born graduate of Yale and Oxford who formerly served as president of the Middle East Studies Association -- has become the focal point of these attacks, however. Indeed, the political orientation of this highly regarded scholar, who currently has an endowed chair at Columbia University, has been absurdly mischaracterized. http://salem-news.com/articles/november012008/khalidi_11-1-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november012008/khalidi_11-1-08.php Sat, 01 Nov 2008 14:34:00 PDT First it was Iraq, Iran and North Korea, but Palin implies that now it is Obama, Pelosi and Reid, leaders of the Democratic Party, and adds that an election-sweep that gives Democrats a true ruling majority in Congress would inactivate the U.S. agenda. What is known of the U.S. occupation of Iraq is this; the U.N. Mandate legalizing the occupation ends this year, a Security Pact between Iraq and the U.S. would replace the Mandate, without which continued occupation would be illegal; Iraq’s Parliament won’t agree to the Pact because Iraq wants to be rid of the occupation force, but U.S. has no intention of leaving. Instead it implies chaotic consequences should Iraq not agree that reveals McCain’s obscure excuse for being in Iraq until “the war is won, and the troops can be brought home with honor.” What is he talking about? http://salem-news.com/articles/october292008/iraq_kr_10-29-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october292008/iraq_kr_10-29-08.php Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:20:00 PDT Fight, fight, fight! His entire campaign is devoted to fighting, as has been his life. But why fight when there is no need? Of course America needs a strong military, not to intimidate others, or to fulfill misguided ambitions, but to preserve the peace. Wars diminish wealth, as if Americans need to be reminded, peace accumulates it. Yet, McCain’s over-riding theme is now and has forever been, to fight and win to prove superiority, even when it is unnecessary. http://salem-news.com/articles/october282008/mccain_kr_10-27-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october282008/mccain_kr_10-27-08.php Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:33:00 PDT Al Hayward, a Chinese trade expert, says “you can drown by tipping the canoe too far in either direction”, and he is worried that what he calls Barack Obama’s “socialistic promises” are tipping this country too far toward communism. “What bothers me very much is the fact that Obama’s campaign is based on ‘do less, work less, get more’, and the reality of this is it doesn’t work that way,” Hayward said. Al Hayward has lived, worked, and done business in mainland China and other communist countries for decades, and he is currently working on a 20 billion dollar “City of Tomorrow” project near Macau. http://salem-news.com/articles/october272008/hayward_102408.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october272008/hayward_102408.php Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:00:00 PDT I find it amazing that the people who cry out loudest about Barack Obama raising taxes are the same people who support Bush, McCain and the war in Iraq. Our nation has squandered hundreds of billions of tax dollars waging a lethal operation that has cost thousands of lives and is no success story, to put it mildly. Bush's reign has disrupted and destabilized the entire world. September 11th was tragic but it didn't have a darned thing to do with Iraq. I have been to Iraq and I have seen the instability. With a world coalition of partners, the former President Bush spent billions invading Iraq during Desert Storm and then left Saddam Hussein in power. He was a far more experienced politician and he knew that destabilizing a nation like Iraq was far too risky. The currently administration has not only played bully with the world, it has substantially abused our military and we as a society will deal with the fallout from this for decades to come. http://salem-news.com/articles/october232008/tim_politics_10-23-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october232008/tim_politics_10-23-08.php Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:02:00 PDT Back in the 1950s, at the height of the McCarthy era, simply being friends with someone suspected of being a Communist could ruin your career. It became known as "guilt by association." During this year's presidential campaign, however, it's been extended to guilt by spatial proximity, which could appropriately be called the "cootie effect." If you sit on the same board, have appeared at the same event or otherwise have been in close physical proximity of someone deemed undesirable, you therefore must have been infected by their politics or, at minimum, have no problems with things they may have done in their past. Republican presidential nominee John McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin, building upon a line of attack originally used by Hillary Clinton during the primary campaign, have raised alarms over the possibility that Barack Obama may have picked up radical terrorist cooties from Bill Ayers, a professor of education at the University of Illinois in Chicago who was active in the Weather Underground during his youth nearly forty years ago. http://salem-news.com/articles/october212008/zunes_obama_10-21-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october212008/zunes_obama_10-21-08.php Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:50:00 PDT One hour before the final presidential debate of the 2008 campaign, fourteen members of Iraq Veterans Against the War marched in formation to Hofstra University to present questions for the candidates. IVAW had requested permission from debate moderator Bob Schieffer to ask their questions during the debate but got no response. The contingent of veterans in dress uniforms and combat uniforms attempted to enter the building where the debate was to be held in order to ask their questions but were turned back by police. The IVAW members at the front of the formation were immediately arrested, and others were pushed back into the crowd by police on horseback. Several members were injured, including former Army Sergeant Nick Morgan who suffered a broken cheekbone when he was trampled by police horses before being arrested. http://salem-news.com/articles/october202008/ivaw_arrests_1-20--08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october202008/ivaw_arrests_1-20--08.php Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:34:00 PDT McCain is being touted as the candidate with the most experience, and he in turn says Sarah Palin is fully qualified to be President of the U.S. because, as he says, she was a member of the Wasilla PTA, is a reformer, and “mavericky.” John McCain’s campaign was mired in confusion before the fecund Voice of Rove’s managers took the reins that have guided his campaign since. Sarah Palin got a crash course in the art of Right-Wing rhetoric from the same team that moved both from apparent ineptitude to being downright offensive. The “Voice,” not the candidates, decides Party rhetoric it hopes will fertilize the credulity of the Republican base; McCain and Palin do the dirty-work of spreading it around. Colin Powell endorsed Obama in part because he objects to the ”over the top” [shameful] tactics of his Party and its candidates, including accusations and innuendo unbecoming the Party of his recollection. http://salem-news.com/articles/october202008/ramey_10=20-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october202008/ramey_10=20-08.php Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:16:00 PDT Tonight's Presidential Debate was a little more aggressive, a bit more poignant, even angry and pathetic at times, but it failed to bring about a much needed revival for Senator John McCain as polls continue to show support shifting toward Senator Barack Obama. McCain repeatedly stated that a vote for Senator Barack Obama would lead to increased taxes, but Obama's plan as he has described it, would cut taxes for 95 percent of Americans, while raising the burden for a small part of the nation's richest citizens. Obama says McCain's plan would leave the average American behind, giving tax breaks to oil and gas companies. http://salem-news.com/articles/october152008/debate_3_10-15-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october152008/debate_3_10-15-08.php Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:08:00 PDT If there was any doubt that Senator John McCain is as bad as President Bush or worse on Social Security – out the window of the 'Straight Talk Express' it went at his recent town hall campaign event in Denver. When asked about his position, McCain said "Americans have got to understand that we are paying present-day retirees with the taxes paid by young workers in America today. It's an absolute disgrace." An "absolute disgrace?" http://salem-news.com/articles/july142008/letter_editor_7-14-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july142008/letter_editor_7-14-08.php Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:23:00 PDT