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After all the hell the repugs raised over Clinton’s BJ they have the audacity to endorse McCain whose background is like a barrel of maggots! 

John McCain, Bush clone, fraud, betrayer, womanizer and with crime family connection!

THIS LECHEROUS OLD FRAUD IS THE BEST THE GOP HAS TO OFFER? 

Well, at least he is a true representative of GOP “FAMILY VALUES”!

John McCain III attended a private boarding school, where he was nicknamed “McNasty” for his willingness to fight. Later, at the US Naval Academy, he gained a reputation as a ladies’ man, complained that he was picked on by his commanding officer, and graduated 894th out of 899 in his class.

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  Sex Offenders Collect Financial Aid

Mar 17 02:04 PM US/Eastern
By RYAN J. FOLEY
Associated Press Writer

MADISON, Wis. (AP) – James Sturtz is not your ordinary college student struggling to pay tuition.The 48-year-old rapist is one of Iowa’s most dangerous sex offenders, locked up in a state-run treatment center for fear he will attack again if released. Yet he has received thousands of dollars in federal aid to take college courses through the mail.

Across the nation, dozens of sexual predators have been taking higher education classes at taxpayer expense while confined by the courts to treatment centers. Critics say they are exploiting a loophole to receive Pell Grants, the nation’s premier financial aid program for low-income students.

Prison inmates are ineligible for Pell Grants under a 1994 law. Students convicted of certain drug offenses are also ineligible. But sexual predators qualify once they are transferred from prison to treatment centers.

“This is the most insane waste of taxpayer money that I have seen in my eight years in Congress,” said Rep. Ric Keller, R-Fla., who is pushing to stop the practice. “It is a national embarrassment that we are wasting taxpayer dollars for pedophiles and rapists to take college courses while hardworking young people from lower-class families are flipping hamburgers to pay for college.”

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