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Hello All, Just got off the phone with our tracker, Kelli, on the ground in Lake Forest, CA. Below are the notes from our call. Big Highlights - McCain cites failure of his 1st marriage as greatest personal moral failure - Says to him, faith means 'i'm saved and forgiven' - w/r/t taxes, jokes that "rich" is defined as $5m, says he doesn't want to tax the rich or anyone, doesnt want class warfare - - Cites offshore drilling as the most significant position he's changed his mind on since 10 yrs ago - says he would support fed. marriage amendment if SCOTUS applied MA marriage law to other states - retells cross story from POW camp but adds "for a minute it was just 2 christians standing there" - says he is "proud of Bush" for SCOTUS nominations - Says his 'most gut-wrenching decision' was not taking early release from POW camp - Says we'll have to 'step up our ability to monitor' in question about natl security vs. rts to privacy Lake Forest, CA: McCain at Joint Values Forum 08/16/08 (Disclaimer: The following are notes, not direct quotes. If you'd like a quotable transcript or video of any part below, please email us.) Background Details - About 100 demonstrators at various locations around Church: mostly pro-McCain; also pro-Paul, pro-Obama; pro-life (pics of dead babies etc) [tracking footage NOT available] - Very tight security: secret service, local police (including the cavalry division, bike cops and cops on segways), and church security guards. - Many guests told their tickets were not good for entrance into the auditorium and instead were diverted to several different tents with screens set up. - Visitors with the correct tickets were turned away if they had large purses, cameras or cell phones. - The street entrances to the church were blocked off by police, audience members and press parked off site and were shuttled in. - Only certain networks were allowed into the event. Others, incl. many local affiliates, put in a cafeteria at the church compound with live audio feed and projection of live video feed onto 2 screens. *Speech Highlights* - 1Q) Leadership. Who are the 3 wisest ppl you know you would rely on heavily in an Administration? - JM: First would be Petraeus, 1 of the great generals, took us from defeat to victory in Iraq. 4th of July a year ago L. Graham and I in Baghdad. Only someone like DP could motivate someone like that. (2) John Lewis - continues to serve and have optimistic view of USA. can teach us about serving selflessly. (3) Meg Whitman - 2Q) What's been your greatest moral failure and the greatest moral failure of USA? - JM: Mine, and i have been a very imperfect person, is *the failure of my 1st marriage.* USA's has been thruout our existence perhaps we haven't devoted ourselves to causes greater than our self-interest, although we've been teh best at it in the world. After 9/11, we shouldnt have told ppl to go shopping but to expand our volunteers, expand our great missions in USA and across the world, esp in Rwanda. And a lil pandering here, the 1st lines in your book are this is not about you and that means serve a cause greater than your selfinterest. - 3Q) An example of where you led against your party's interests and maybe against your own best interests for the good of USA? - JM: By strange coincidence, I wasnt elected Miss Congeniality again this year. Climate change, spending, torture, the list goes on where I've put my country first and reached across the aisle. 1 of the times, probably the most trying, when I was first in Congress adn very dedicated to Reagan--he won the cold war without firing a shot--he wanted to send troops to Beirut in a peacekeeping mission and my knowledge and background told me that was bad. as many know, 100 marines gave their lives for that. it was tough to go against my party and be called disloyal. - 4Q) *What's the most significant position you held 10 years ago that you don't hold today? * - JM: *Offshore drilling.* we gotta drill now and here. I know that there are some here in Cal-i-fornia that disagree with that position. Could i also mention this is a natl security issue? we're sending $700b to countries that dont like us very much, incl. to terrorists. We cannot allow it. Let me say, too, at the town hall mtgs that i have every day energy is what's on ppls minds every day, so let me take a sec. We have to do everything: wind, solar, hybrid cars, hydrogen cars, and it has to include nuclear. Everyone wants to imitate the French. we now have a pro-American president of french. - 5Q) Most gut-wrenching decision you ever had to make and what'd you do to make it? - JM: Long ago and far away in prison camp in N Vietnam. My father was high-ranking admiral and they offered me early release. Code of conduct said we left in order we arrived adn i had a friend Alvarez that had come before. i was not in good physical condition, but i said no. In full disclosure i didnt know the war was going to last another 3 yrs. not only the toughest decision but also i'm the happiest with that decision as any i've made. - 6Q) What does being a Christian mean to you? and what does it mean in your everyday life? - JM:* It means i'm saved and forgiven.* And not just the US but the world. The vietnamese kept us in prison 2-3 or solitary confinement. they would sometimes bind us. 1 night a guard came in adn loosened the ropes. 4 hours later tightened them and left. on Xmas we were lined up outside cell and same guard drew a cross in the sand and then rubbed it out and walked a way. *for a minute, it was just 2 christians standing there.* - 7Q) 40million abortions since Roe v. Wade. For ppl who believe life begins at conception, thats a holocaust. What point is a baby entitled to human rights? - JM: at the moment of conception. i have a 25-year pro-life record, in Cong, Senate and I will be pro-life POTUS with pro-life policies. - 8Q) Ok, define marriage. - JM: Union b/t man and woman, b/t one man and one woman. are we going to get back to SCOTUS or should i here? - FOLLOWUP: was CA Sup Ct ruling wrong? - JM: I believe they were wrong. I believe we should preserve unique status of marriage. It doesn't mean they can't enter into legal agreements. * **If a fed court decided AZ would have to follow same rules as MA, then i'd favor a constitutional amendment. but it's a states decision. * - 9Q) Would you favor fed amendment for embryonic stem cell research given new developmetns in technology? - JM: difficult decision for those in pro-life community but i've come down on side of embryonic stem cell rsch, though i think skin cell rsch will make this debate academic. - 10Q) Does evil exist and should we contain it, ignore it or defeat it? - JM: Defeat it. i will follow bin laden to the gates of hell and i know how to get him. central battleground is in iraq. its not just in AQ, its not just in iraq; theyre establishing cells here in USA too. - 11Q) Whcih existing SCOTUS justices would you NOT have nominated? - JM: with all due repsect, Justices Ginsberg, Breyer, Souter and Stevens. - WHY? - JM: POTUS has enormous responsiblity in picking lifetime appts. Should not legislate from the bench. and btw, Justices Alito and Roberts are 2 fo my most recent faves and* i'm proud of Bush for nominating them. * - 12Q) Would you insist that faith-based orgs not discriminate on faith in order to receive federal funding? - JM: Absolutely not. - 13Q) USA 18th in education but 1st in education. 80(?)% of Americans believe in merit pay. I don't want your stump but-- - JM: Yes yes and find bad teachers another line of work. Choice and compeition (repeats), home schools, charter. I want every American to have same choice as Cindy and I and Obamas had. Charter and home-schools work. Vouchers in DC works. [goes into stump] NYC is reforming, NOLA. We gave everyone chance to go to school but what good does it do to send them to failing school? - 14Q) On taxing, define the rich. Give me a # on difference b/t middle class and rich. - JM: *Some of the richest ppl i know are most unhappy. richness should be defined by home, education and ability to give children a better world. i dont want to tax the rich, i dont want class warfare or redistribution of wealth. t*here are small business ppl working 16 hours / day that some would define as rich. lets give ppl tax credits for health care, let's not have the govt take over. *if youre just talking about income, how about $5M?* seriously--and i'm sure that comment will be distorted--we want to keep taxes low and increase revenue. spending's been the probelm. we spent $3m of your money studying DNA for bears. we laugh about it but we cry. while youre paying at the pump, theyre on vacation. we should stop them and call them back. we cant raise taxes in tough economic times. i want to give working americans a better shot at having a good life. Americans are hurting: unemployment, foreclosure, education, affordable health care. We need to give Americans hope and confidence in the future. and i can inspire, i can lead. - 15Q) [not time for this w. obama] Right to privacy vs. national security? - JM: we must preserve rt to privacy for all citizens, incl. secret ballot for union members. we've had technological advances over 20-30 yrs letting our enemies have remarkable ability to communicate. through cyberspace, etc, ppl can communicate. so* we'll have to step up our ability to monitor. *sometimes within USA sometimes not. Congress needs to address it in bipartisan fashion. our inability to work things out was compromising our ability to ward off terrorist attacks. - 16Q) What's worth risking American lives? - JM:* freedom. natl security. we must temper that with the ability to affect the outcome. *wars have started in obscure places that have later inveloped us. *we cant right every wrong* but we can be a beacon of hope and liberty for the world. there are conflicts we cant settle. the most precious thing we have is american blood. we have shed our blood for freedom of other countries - no other country in world has done that. we've succeed in other ways. *we won the Cold War w/o firing a shot b/c of our ideology. and communism was wrong and evil, and we defeated it jsut as we can defeat islamic extremism.* - FOLLOWUP: What's your criteria for war? - JM: American natl security interest. - FOLLOWUP: What about Darfur? or massive killingi n Georgia? - JM: our obligation is to stop what we can. rwanda. we've got to do more to stop genocide in darfur. we should supply logistics and aid ot help the Africans. we have to be committed to never say 'never again' again? - 17Q) What about Russia's aggressions? - im sad to sit here while such terrible things are happening. 118k are being affected in that country. it was 1 of first christian nations in 14th cent. Saaskishvili was educated in US. in georgia they achieved a revolution, achieved prosperity. and now russians are aggressing. we need a ceasefire. they need to respect territorial integrity. - it's about energy. russians are using energy as weapon against europeans. we need to send a msg to the russians that this behavior is not acceptable in 21st century. - 18Q) Religious persecution- what would you do to put pressure on so-called allies, e.g. china, iraq, that dont allow religious frdm? - JM: bully pulpit is one of President's greatest assets. Reagan called to take down this wall and he was todl not to. our judeo-christian principles dictate that we do what we can to help ppl aroudn the world. in dark corners of world, lil countries like belarus yearn to be like us. but we remain the most unusual experiment in history adn im proud to be a part of it. i know what it's like without it. - 19Q) Would you consider something akin to president's emergency plan for AIDS for children who become orphans? assisting families take in these children? - JM: i think we need to make adoption more available in USA--thats why so many ppl go abroad for it. My great hero T. Roosevelt was 1st to talk about adoption. [anecdote about cindy adopting Bridget from bangladesh. she's 17 and our life is blessed] - 20Q) why do you want to be POTUS? - JM: I want to insipre a generation of americans to serve a cause greater than their self-interest. i think americas best days are ahead of us. but we also face a # of challenges, domestic and foreign -- these past few days have shown us that mroe. i've always put my country first, from military to House of Reps to Senate. America watns hope, optimism, bipartisanship. i ahve record of reaching across the aisle. america thinks its time to sit down together. when i go to gee's bend and meet the Afr-American women there who are lovely and go to other places where they probably won't vote for me, they know that i will be president of every american and i will always put my country first? - 21Q) What will you say to ppl that question me asking you these questions in a church? - JM: I'd like to be in every venue in america. this is an important election. our nation was founded on judeo-chrisitan values. im happy to be in a place where you've done so much good. - [standing ovation] - warren brings them both on stage, they shake hands -- Sara DuBois Tracking / Communications Manager ProgressiveAccountability.org [email protected] 202-609-7681 (office) 410-967-7306 (cell) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "big campaign" group. 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