Cindy McCain’s Phony Troop Funding Outrage Should Make Even Republicans Mad as Hell

After hearing former drug abuser and thief Cindy McCain portray Barack Obama as a presidential candidate willing to put soldiers in harms way without the proper funding, I couldn’t help but remember those Senate battles and how each side voted no to troop funding for ideological reasons. Here’s the standard line I found in all the stories written about Cindy McCain’s comments about Barack Obama’s no vote against troop funding.

“McCain's wife Cindy took a rare turn on the attack saying she felt "a cold chill down my body" when she heard Obama had voted against funding the troops in Iraq, including her son. Senator Obama should change shoes with me for just one day," Cindy McCain said. Obama did vote against funding in one case because it did not include a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.”

But thanks to Media Matters, and why I’m doing this story, we both noticed what was being left out; McCain’s no vote. Strangely, the cable news outlets mentioned the McCain no votes, where the print media didn’t.

In October 9 articles, The New York Times and The Washington Post quoted Cindy McCain's claim that Sen. Barack Obama's "vote to not fund my son while he was serving sent a cold chill through my body," but did not note that McCain himself voted against legislation to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as Obama pointed out during the first presidential debate on September 26. While both articles noted that Obama voted against troop funding because the legislation did not include a withdrawal timetable, they did not note McCain's vote.

Neither the Times nor the Post noted that McCain voted against a March 2007 bill that would have funded the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and would have provided more than $1 billion in additional funds to the Department of Veterans Affairs -- along with all but two of his fellow Republican senators.

During the September 26 debate, McCain stated that Obama "did the incredible thing of voting to cut off the funds for the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan." Obama responded: "Senator McCain opposed funding for troops in legislation that had a timetable, because he didn't believe in a timetable. I opposed funding a mission that had no timetable, and was open-ended, giving a blank check to George Bush. We had a difference on the timetable. We didn't have a difference on whether or not we were going to be funding troops."



Cindy McCain and the other insane flesh eating Republicans continue to vilify Barack Obama in ways that can only lead to a disastrous end. They are well aware of the threatening comments of violence and murder emanating from their audience members, yet they continue to incite.