AFL-CIO Hosts Cliff Schecter, Author of ‘The Real McCain’

by Seth Michaels, May 28, 2008

Cliff Schecter, blogger, author and activist, has closely followed the career of John McCain—and finds it bears little resemblance to the media’s image of the senator from Arizona. Schecter has just published a tough, well-researched profile of the likely Republican presidential nominee in his new book, The Real McCain: Why Conservatives Don’t Trust Him and Why Independents Shouldn’t. 

Schecter will join us this Friday, May 30, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Gompers Room here at the AFL-CIO, to discuss issues like McCain’s support of more tax cuts for the wealthy, his relentless backing of the Iraq war, his flip-flopping from opposing torture to voting to allow water boarding and more. We’ll have copies of The Real McCain available and we plan to post video clips and a podcast from the event in case you’re out of town or can’t make it. Schecter will be joined by blogger Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake, and a complimentary beer and wine event follows.

Schecter, whose political blog appears on Firedoglake at http://cliffschecter.firedoglake.com/, is a journalist and frequent guest on cable news programs, where he takes apart Bush McClone commentators.

If you’re in D.C., Friday evening, stop by for the fireworks.

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