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John McCain 2008 Presidential Campaign (view source)
Revision as of 16:32, July 17, 2008
, 16:32, July 17, 2008Just put in McCain's statements regarding the economy
Focus on the Family chairman [[James Dobson]] criticized McCain's opposition to passing a Constitutional Amendment banning same-sex marriage and also cites McCain's moderate family positions as detracting factors.
Focus on the Family chairman [[James Dobson]] criticized McCain's opposition to passing a Constitutional Amendment banning same-sex marriage and also cites McCain's moderate family positions as detracting factors.
In January, McCain stated, "As far as putting additional money in taxpayers pocket, that's fine, because a lot of it is psychological. Because I agree the fundamentals of our economy is still strong."<ref>http://youtube.com/watch?v=6aHJT1Ol0iE&v3</ref> In April, he stated, "I’m very concerned about it, Neil. And obviously the way it’s been going up is just terrible. But I think psychologically — and a lot of our problems today, as you know, are psychological — the confidence, trust, the uncertainty about our economic future, ability to keep our own home. This might give them a little psychological boost. Let’s have some straight talk, it’s not a huge amount of money."<ref>[http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/19/mccain-a-lot-of-our-problems-today-are-psychological/ McCain: 'A lot of our problems today are psychological']</ref>
During a speech on July 14th, 2008, he expressed concern over Russia "reducing the energy supplies to Czechoslovakia." Czechoslovakia hasn't existed for nearly twenty years.<ref>[http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0708/Remembering_Czechoslovakia.html Remembering Czechoslovakia]</ref> His campaign sent out a statement on the issues, which quoted McCain saying "Czech Republic" twice. But the following day, in another speech, McCain made the same gaffe again stating, "And I regret some of the recent behavior Russia that has exhibited, and I’ll be glad to talk about that later on including reduction in oil supplies to Czechoslovakia..."<ref>[http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/07/16/mccain-again-cites-current-events-in-czechoslovakia/ McCain Again Cites Current Events in Czechoslovakia]</ref>
During a speech on July 14th, 2008, he expressed concern over Russia "reducing the energy supplies to Czechoslovakia." Czechoslovakia hasn't existed for nearly twenty years.<ref>[http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0708/Remembering_Czechoslovakia.html Remembering Czechoslovakia]</ref> His campaign sent out a statement on the issues, which quoted McCain saying "Czech Republic" twice. But the following day, in another speech, McCain made the same gaffe again stating, "And I regret some of the recent behavior Russia that has exhibited, and I’ll be glad to talk about that later on including reduction in oil supplies to Czechoslovakia..."<ref>[http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/07/16/mccain-again-cites-current-events-in-czechoslovakia/ McCain Again Cites Current Events in Czechoslovakia]</ref>