McCain Flip Flops Again -- Praises GI Bill He Opposed

In today's installment of McCain vs. McCain, the "straight talker" claimed credit for passage of the 21st Century GI Bill of Rights he opposed.

When Fighting Dem Jim Webb vowed to give patriots who enlisted after 9/11 the same opportunity for a first-class education offered to the greatest generation after World War Two, McCain said NO.

When dozens of Veterans Service Organization led by Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America and VoteVets.org, and bipartisan Congressional majorities led by Fighting Dem Senator Jim Webb (D-VA), Chuck Hagel (R-NE), Senate Leader Harry Reid, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Congressman Harry Mitchell (D-AZ), pushed to make the 21st Century GI Bill of Rights a reality, McCain said NO.

When Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton endorsed the 21st Century Bill of Rights, McCain said NO -- even going so far as to offer his own watered-down so-called substitute.

But the Fighting Dems beat back the Bush-McCain opposition, the bill sailed through the Congress and now -- rather than admit he was wrong -- McCain is claiming credit for the bill he opposed at every turn. Today in Ohio McCain said:

I'm happy to tell you that we probably agreed to an increase in educational benefits for our veterans that not only gives them increase in their educational benefits, but if they stay in for a certain period of time than they can transfer those educational benefits to their spouses and or children.

Here's the clip:

We?

Well.

I'm happy to tell you that the 21st Century GI Bill of Rights will become law. I just wish McCain had not opposed it so long before he supported it. Our heroes need a President who is an ally not a roadblock in their pursuit of the American dream.

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Comments

[UncleHomer]

I thought I was frustrated with what I believed was a lack of serious reporting in the US media on things that really mattered. That was before I came here and started to see just how much I have underestimated the seriousness of the problem. I've got CNN on now. I read local and national newspapers. I search the news on the internet. This is news. This is important in both a political and personal credibility sense and the fact I don't here a world about it other than here moves me from frustration to outrage.

[kroses98]

Your first problem is that you watch CNN! You should know that you never get the "real" news from them! Your second problem is that you just came here. You should have been here for years. But better late than never. Welcome.

[NoMoFearNoMoHate]

you can't find news anywhere else - as a matter of fact news should have a different name here to distinguish it from all of the crap out there

thanks Christine and thanks Huffpo!

[springsm]

Well gosh, Kroses...if YOU are watching anything what would it be? There is some format of news on in the morning-midmorning segment of CNN. You can not watch Wolfie or Dobbs for news, but some comes on before 1PM. I understand the outrage..I am there too. And sometimes this arena isn't all that fair and balanced either. Try to read foreign newsprint online. You will get some perspective but not alot of the tittering gossipy, snipey slanderous guessing, fearmongering, opinionated tripe that we get on cable or msm. Disgusting.

[vippy]

CNN is as good as any in my opinion. The worst must be FOX, they really do the SPIN!
But one has to evaluate everything they say on the news and then do some research.
I mean, our inflation or unemployment numbers are a good beginning. With employment numbers like that we would not have a problem but be in full employment
and everybody would be happy.
When will America finally wake up?

[MaineJayne]

I agree, there isn't much truly informative televised news currently. So far I've found Democracy Now! on LinkTV and BBC World News America to be the most informative. Other than that, its online news.

[Highwind]

The media will never cover it. They give McCain a pass on everything it's annoying. If this was Obama, as we have seen with FISA and campaign finance, the media would be all over this.

[HAYMONBRANDON]

i agree larry king talk about obama what he did or is going to do and may do in the next week but nothing about mccain or his trying to take credit somethingfor something he didn't sign on too.larry king doesn't like obama any negative or like who will be his vp . john mccain has not picked either but they want to make him pick now .what crab. wolf the old man gets on my last nerve. let talk about lou dobb what a A HOLE.