The Debate Begins: McCain vs America
Posted by Mike Gehrke on February 19, 2008 at 12:10 PM
McCain continues his transition to McCain 2.0 with his torture vote, as an LA Times editorial points out:
...Sen. McCain (R-Ariz.) should have voted last week for legislation sponsored by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) that would remove any doubt that CIA interrogators are forbidden to engage in waterboarding and other tactics banned by the Army Field Manual. Instead, McCain squandered some of his moral authority by supporting the Bush administration's position that the CIA should have more leeway than military interrogators.
[...]
In voting to give Bush that inch, McCain has been untrue to his principles.
Comments - 8 »
Comments - 8 «
Why has no one asked if it was good leadership or lack of concern for the people of the gulf coast that Sen. McCain chose to have a birthday celebration with President Bush after we knew the levees had breached and there was devestating damage all along the coast instead of urging him to get to work helping the people of the gulf region?
Posted by BillMiller08 on February 19, 2008 at 12:47 PM
Desparate,weak people do desparate things.He`ll do anything to get it,and the torture applied to McNut has caused him to lose himself and take on this blind pathway.He`s down the rabbit hole now.
Posted by virgo on February 19, 2008 at 02:21 PM
Sorry,by it I meant the nomination.He has kissed w`s ring now and will do his bidding.He knows at his age it`s his last possible chance.
Posted by virgo on February 19, 2008 at 02:24 PM
McCain’s Double Talk Express
In 2000 when John McCain was ridding the "Straight Talk Express" he said:
"If Gearge W. Bush is a reformer I am an astronaut."
In 2004, with his eye on the presidency, McCain campaigned on Bush's re-election bus, and repeated his well-rehearsed line:
''I believe that the president of the United States has led this nation with great strength and clarity, and I believe that he should be re-elected. He is determined to make this world a better, safer, freer place. He deserves not only our support but our admiration."
As an anti-establishment candidate John McCain denounced pandering to the religious extremists of his party as:
"Agents of intolerance;"
To win this years Republican nomination he embraced them :
I believe that the Christian Right" has a major role to play in the Republican Party.
On a woman’s right to choose he said:
"certainly in the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade, which would then force X number of women in America to [undergo] illegal and dangerous operations."
After meeting with Jerry Falwell he said:
"its very likely or possible that the Supreme Court should — could overturn Roe v. Wade, which would then return these decisions to the states, which I support."
Of tax cuts for the rich in war time John McCain said:
"I voted against the tax cuts because of the disproportionate amount that went to the wealthy Americans."
To win the Republican nomination McCain now supports making those tax cuts permanent
In 2006 McCain opposed the passage of the Intelligence Authorization Conference insisting that waterboarding was torture, cruel treatment prohibited by Common Article 3 and conduct that shocks the conscience. He said that the Bush Administration's legal analysis had been dishonest and flatly wrong.
To win this nomination this year McCain voted against the law that banned waterboarding as torture.
In 2005 he introduced the Kennedy-McCain immigration bill, now he says he would not vote for his own bill.
Somewhere on the road to the Republican nomination John McCain’s Straight talk express lost it wheels and stalled in double talk of the old Washington insiders.
Posted by Maziar on February 19, 2008 at 02:39 PM
In short, McCain has no more principles than any other Republican.
Does becoming a Republican cause brain rot?
Or do you have to have brain rot to become a Republican?
Posted by Butte on February 19, 2008 at 05:51 PM
To be honest, I always thought McCain had brain rot. But after seeing McCain kiss up to these war criminals in the White House. McCain doesn't have a prayer of winning the election. All we have to do is show a picture of John McCain hugging and kissing George W. Bush and then say "Do you want four more years of George W. Bush." The ad practicially writes itself. Pandering to these fake Christians is the most terrible thing he could do and I honestly hope McCain loses and the Republican party falls apart. These right-wing religious extremists do not deserve an voice considering the destruction they have caused under the regime of George W. Bush.
Posted by Darien on February 20, 2008 at 07:08 AM
To be fair, McCain is not the hero that he claims to be. Obama and Clinton are genuine American heros!
Posted by bobmac on February 20, 2008 at 09:09 AM
It's a big mistake to under estimate John McCain, just as it was for Democrats to take Ronald Reagan lightly. McCain versus Obama would be a replay of George H. W. Bush versus Michael Dukakis (426 vs. 111 electoral votes). In fact, Senator Obama starts out way behind Gov. Dukakis when looking at blue, red, and battle ground states. It will take Senator Obama's appeal to some independant voters just to do as well as Michael Dukakis. Since 1964, all three winning Democrats for President were southern Democrats. Northern liberals, such as Senator Obama and Gov. Dukakis due poorly in the general election. Why? Most Americans view liberal Democrats as weak on national defense.
Posted by john_mainstream on February 20, 2008 at 09:09 AM
« Hide Comments
Comments are now closed for this entry.