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Hillary and wood stock don't surprise me!!
Pork Barrel Expert is her calling! Anybody need a bridge out there?
If so contact Hillary Rodham Clinton and she is a speciliast in The Big Boys Barrel of Pork. Also in Bucks for the lobbist and special interest. So lets vote for the independant person who can get out of the pork barrel the clintons so love to be in. Time is past due for Taxation with representation by those who pay the bill and how about getting congress and the president on Social Security that is the norm for those they represent. Or are they better than those that employ them and pay there wages. Term limitations are a must.
Wake up AMERICA! Change is in order!!
Vote Independant for the man an to hell with the dems and repos.
Independant from Iowa

McCain is speaking out of both sides of his mouth, he says he is going to be another Reagan who was one of the biggest spenders in presidential history and he is complaining about Hillary's proposed $1 million for Woodstock...what is the big deal...pork is pork and I would rather the pork be for the US citizens than to other countries who hate the United States

Makes perfect sense to me. Consider this. Hillary as commander in chief would be like having a girl that you don't want to play on your football team – not only run the team, but change the rules. It would ruin the lives of many(men)and thus the country as a whole will be miserable and weak. This is not a slam against women as a whole – just a slam against Hillary's character – she is not a person who's charcter is worthy of my support. Converesely, if a woman of high character – like Oprah for example were to run – I would support her almost without question ...

McCain can't deliver this promise becasue Giuliani murdered the line-item veto, and they both know it.

He says he'll cut wasteful spending
he also says he's for expanding the GWOT
"bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb iran"

so which is lest wastefull spending or trillions more spending

What sickens me is that Republicans attack Demos for spending money in our nation, but don't questioning a penny that goes to the war in Iraq or any other bloodbaths abroad. A few billion here a few billion there for bombs and guns and Halliburton. Heck, they don't even mind if the oil companies rape our treasury through their subsidies! Good job Bush and all the people who supported him!

Hillary Clinton wants to spend $1M on a Woodstock museum. But John McCain tried to get more than $10M to open a "William H. Rehnquist Center" at the U of Arizona Law School. Pot, meet kettle.

I agree with McCain that earmarks are out of control – but this is just another hypocritical attack from Mr. "Straight Talk".

Stick a fork in him – he's done.

Woodstock was a national cultural milestone, and it deserves a museum. Its an important piece of history in NY state. Its small peanuts in the budget, that is less money than the milltary spends on a couple toilet seats. The museum would undoubtably make a profit in any case.

What amuses me about these stupid political attack ads is they go on and on about wasteful spending and how they will be better than their opponent. They look like schoolchildren saying nanny boo boo while their fingers are wiggling next to their ears! None of them are any good. They are all crooks and liars. I don't care if they are Rep or Dem (I'm neither) They should fire the whole bunch of thieves in Congress/Senate/White House and put REAL people in Congress with values and morals and pay them reasonable salaries and stop letting them rob us blind. I know it'll never happen but lord how I dream.

Sophie from Louisiana,

McCain has spend his entire political life fighting against pork-barrel spending. In these 30-seconds answer debate, he does not have time to go through all his achievements. Do you also want him to explain what he did when he was a POW and how he refused to be go home early because he cannot leave his other POWs behind? What about he was beaten over and over because he refused to sign a North Vietanese propaganda letter against his own country? Should he go into details for those as well?

He said over and over again that anyone can look at his record and that mean you can too! It is the government job to be transparent, but it is our duty to be informative citizens.

McCain is repeatly praised by budget watchdog groups, such as Citizens Against Government Waste and Citizen Taxpayers for Common Sense. He is the top 5 congressmen in term of fiscal responsible according to CAGW.

If you want a single real story, here is one: military base closture in a responsible way which allow taxpayers to save some money, but most importantly rellocates the needed money for real military use. Did you know we used to have naval bases in the Midwest? You did think a naval base should be next to ocean....

Yes, special earmarks attached to spending bills and pet projects are wasting billions of tax payer dollars. Also, how about that 471 BILLION dollar pentagon budget passed while social programs take more cuts? What kind of message are you sending to us, our kids and the rest of the world? Well Senator McCain, we voters are about to send all of our congressmen and women a message next election.

Will John McCain please exit to the right. John will not get the nomination. He forfeited his chance in 2000 when he refused to go toe to toe with Bush. Once a candidate has been vetted to the American public and fail, there is no reruns(same circumstance for John Edwards). Though John McCain is an honorable man, not even his Mom can save him. Rudy will win the nomination and lose to Hillary Clinton in the General.

Wayne from Greenville

If you pay any attention to their voting record syou won't even ask that uninformative question. McCain has help save a lot of taxpayer's money into pork barrel projects. There are plenty other senators trying to fund selfish projects for reelection and frankly McCain cannot stop them all.

Most recently, McCain is able to stop that stupid Woodstock project in New York. The Woodstock earmark was slipped inside the education and health spending bill. When that hidden earmark was found, the money was redirected for a maternal health care program. There are plenty more pork barrel bills.

As anyone know, Presidents do have line-veto power, so any president will either have to sign the entire education spending or veto the entire bill.

I don't care who gets the credit for this here, but this stuff has to stop!!!

Let's get on board, Ms Pelosi, isn't this part of YOUR campaign promise?

What has McCain done in the senate to try to prevent this "outrageous government spending." If he really wanted a vote he'd mention how he fought for things to be stopped instead of how others did not. I'm disappointed in all the candidates this year except for Ron Paul.

Spending is as spending does.

Defense Department recently added a $100M budget request for a Hyperspace Bomber to deliver 10,000 pound "payloads" (death from 60,000 feet) to anywhere in the world within 2 hours.

Remember, this was the same Hypersonic Transport Reagan came up with, clear back in 1984, allegedly as America's answer to the Brit Concord, but really just more Defense welfare.

DoD contractors milked this program for TWENTY YEARS and $5,000 MILLION before Congress forced DoD to actually come up with a hypersonic test plane. Two flights. One failed catastrophically right after launch, the next allegedly succeeded, at least on the classified monitors no reporter was allowed to observe, and which any 10-year old could create the CGI for.

$5,100M down the rathole of John McCain-space, and just one defense welfare sci-fi grift among $T's.

It makes Silverado Savings and Loan look like a cheap date at Disneyland.

Y'know, John, in 21st century money a million isn't very much. Anyone in construction or finance can tell you a million is about two or three minit marts. You should get out more, read some trade rags. It isn't the spending of one senator that has put this country on its back; it's your chimplike appointed president.

This man is a very old loser!

Hillary 2009!

Both sides say they'll cut spending, but as we've seen with President Bush's little spending spree, both parties fall prey to special interests. I say just give us our tax money back and that should take away the argument.

While true, some sides want to raise taxes and increase spending, others want to lower taxes and try to maintain spending off of the economic growth.

People vote based on party, not issues anymore.

And how much did this ad cost you? McCain you talk about wasteful spending, you'd easily spend that in a few days...lord have mercy.

Both sides say they'll cut spending, but as we've seen with President Bush's little spending spree, both parties fall prey to special interests. I say just give us our tax money back and that should take away the argument.

"I’ll stop wasteful spending by Congress and restore Americans’ trust in their government," McCain says in the ad.

And HOW MANY YEARS has McCain been in teh Senate? And how much "wastful spending is HE responsible for?

You always know a front runner when no one even bothers making a comment on his boards.

Sorry dude.

THATS VERY GOOD MR. MCCAIN BUT THE DEMO'S WANT EVERY CENT WE MAKE AND WIIL SPEND IT ALL ON GIVE AWAYS! ANYTHING FOR A VOTE AND DOWN WITH THE COUNTRY. SALUTE TO OUR BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN WHO ARE FIGHTING FOR OUR COUNTRY AND FREEDOM.

It's about time that people stop and listen to John McCain's message.

As my ancestors would say, he speaks the truth, he does not speak with a forked tongue. He isn't the front runner yet, but he should be....

Why don't we just put summaries of our non-covert government spending online so that taxpayers can access the data and make our own conclusions?

While we're at it we could make all political donations public (making exceptions for individuals contributing say $2000 or less).