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Tesla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-06-08 08:34 AM
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An email I recieved today
How to save Save the Government (and us) $5 Million.


A president's pension currently is $191,300 per year, until he is
80 years old.

Assuming the next president lives to age 80, Sen. McCain would
receive ZERO pension as he would reach 80 at the end of two terms as
President. Sen. Obama would be retired for 26 years after two terms
and would receive $4,973,800 in pension.


Therefore it would certainly make economic sense to elect McCain
in November. HOW'S THAT FOR NON-PARTISAN THINKING ???

I sent them this link back..........

http://theiraqinsider.blogspot.com/2008/02/how-much-does-iraq-war-cost-per-month.html
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POAS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-06-08 08:42 AM
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1. I got one yesterday about a
Dr. Wheeler speaking about Obama (trash talk).

I didn't know who this Wheeler is so I did the Google and found some interesting things he had to say about McCain and did a reply all with the quotes:

The number of fellow senators who think John McCain is psychologically unstable is large. Some will admit it publicly, like Thad Cochran who says, "The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine."

Others relate times when McCain screamed four-letter obscenities right in their faces in the Senate cloak room, like Dick Shelby, Rick Santorum or Jim Inhofe. "The man is unhinged," one senator told me. "He is frighteningly unfit to be commander-in-chief."



and this little bit about his POW years:



John McCain, flying his A-4 Skyhawk, was shot down over Hanoi on Oct. 26, 1967. Badly injured from the ejection, he was beaten and abused by his captors. In July, 1968, his father, U.S. Navy Adm. J. S. McCain, was made CINCPAC, commander in chief, Pacific Command, commander of all U.S. Military forces in the Vietnam theatre. Upon learning this, the Vietnamese offered – according to McCain – to release him.

McCain claims he refused, because he demanded all American POWs captured before him be released as well. He thus remained a prisoner when he could have gone home, and was subjected to constant brutal beatings and torture for years: that is the source of the "war-hero" saga making McCain a greater war-hero than any other American POW.

Yet the offer of release would had to have been approved by the GRU overseers of the North Vietnamese – and T does not recall any such offer being made. T admits, however, that this took place before McCain was transferred to Hoa Loa prison, nicknamed the "Hanoi Hilton" by the POWs. T had only direct knowledge of what happened at Hoa Loa, and not the other prisons, where T's father was in charge.

McCain was kept at the Hanoi Hilton from December 1969 until his release, along with all the remaining POWs, in March 1973. During this time, T translated all the Vietnamese interrogators' notes and reports regarding John McCain.

According to T, they reveal that McCain had made an "accommodation" with his captors, and in exchange, T's father saw that he was provided with an apartment in Hanoi and the services of two prostitutes. Upon returning to his prison cell, he would say he had been held in solitary confinement. That may be why so many of his fellow prisoners said later they saw so little of him at Hoa Loa.

The notes and reports written in Vietnamese were sent to Moscow, where T was a now a college student, for T's translation into Russian, then placed into GRU archives. That's where they stayed until 1991. Late that year, as the Soviet Union was collapsing, the CIA and the GRU made a deal for a document swap.

All of what it involved, T doesn't know. What T's father, by now retired but still with substantial contacts within the GRU, did learn (and thus T learned) was that the swap included all of T's translations.

In other words, the CIA has in its possession the notes and reports of John McCain's interrogators at the Hanoi Hilton, in both the original Vietnamese and translated Russian, showing collaboration with his Communist captors. "



I doubt it will even be read.
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crispini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-06-08 08:44 AM
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2. Nice response. Hee.
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berni_mccoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-06-08 08:45 AM
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3. Great Response. I'll remember that if I get that email.
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abburdlen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-06-08 08:54 AM
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4. Not that it matters much
but you might want to pass on to the sender that they're mistaken, the Former President Act of 1958 does not limit benefits to the age of 80.
http://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/98-249.pdf

If he wants a BS reason to vote for McSame, at least he can get the details right.
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