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John McCain
Buncha Whiners
So Phil Gramm, who supports John McCain in November, says, "We have sort of become a nation of whiners."
A good response from John McCain would have been something like, "Damn straight! And it's time to wean the American people from their dependence on the government, restore their civil liberties, get them back in the driver's […]
Blame Schieffer, Not Clark
Have you heard the thing about General Wesley Clark allegedly denigrating the value of John McCain's military service? You might want to look into it further.
The real problem is not what General Clark said, but how it was reported. In the original interview, Clark was explaining that having on-the-ground military experience does not translate into […]
“Personal Faith and Moral Clarity”
It's worrisome that conservative presidential candidates still think they need a seal of approval from Billy Graham—and now his son Franklin:
Franklin Graham issued a statement after the meeting praising the Arizona senator's "personal faith and his moral clarity."
Personal faith and moral clarity are vague, nebulous qualities that have little objective correspondence with the world. Not […]
Don’t Be a Sucker
John McCain says: "Senator Obama’s word cannot be trusted. . . . But the fact is that I’ll keep my word to the American people and you can trust me."
Okay, now that you're done chuckling at how childish and transparently "political" that sounds, read "McCain's Flourishing Flip-Flop List."
And watch this video: "John McCain vs. John McCain."
This is how […]
Vote for the Future, Not for Fear
I'm not a conspiracy theorist or anything, but it sure seems pretty weird that John McCain has an advisor who thinks (probably correctly) that a terrorist attack would drive paranoid voters to take shelter under his hawkish, Republican wings in November and now he is claiming that he'll not leap ahead of Barack Obama until […]
