03-17-2008, 12:54 PM
Quote:No Quark, McCain is against torture, he thinks that Congress should not be telling the CIA how to conduct it's interogations. He abhors torture, but he doesn't think interrogation techniques should be legislated. Big difference there.
Yes, I'm sure it's everything about government powers and nothing about wanting to pander to the right for something that should not be negotiable.
Anyone willing to believe McCain now is anything like he said he was in 2000 is being delusional. Here's a guy who helped campaign finance reform, right? Too bad he's breaking the rules and getting away with it when it comes to campaign financing. In the middle of a difficult decision, the economic stimulus package, where McCain touted his own plan and then had to weigh in on the measure of the Senate? He didn't vote. How about FISA, where the Senate ridiculously tried to give retroactive immunity to the phone companies for helping the government spy on us? McCain voted to keep the immunity in (Clinton, by the way, didn't vote). At least the House is standing up for us there. McCain claimed Bush's tax cuts were explicitly for the rich and voted against them - now he says he'll make them permanent. He hates lobbying, but his campaign staff is literally crawling with lobbyists.
McCain is a panderer, plain and simple.
Trade yourself in for the perfect one. No one needs to know that you feel you've been ruined!