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SuperDem (not verified) says:
You're all missing the point. No one disputes that John McCain served honorably and deserves to be considered an American war hero. As a soldier, he's an undisputed icon.
As a presidential candidate, however, he's a disaster. He's wrong on the issues that most effect ordinary people, and he carries water for the economic elites of this country. I don't care at all about whether a candidate drinks shots or goes trap shooting; it's puzzling to me that we even spend time discussing this crap. Conason is simply pointing out that when you move beyond McCain's military service, the rest of his career is an unbroken record of support for bad policies.
McCain supports the crackpot theories of supply-side economics (drawn up on a cocktail napkin by the lunatic Arthur Laffer); he supported the disastrous Iraq war and wants to continue to throw away lives and money on this travesty. His healthcare plan is an unmitigated disaster. He wants to continue the Bush tax cuts that are helping to bankrupt our country. He favors further deregulation of the financial industry (Gee that's worked really well, hasn't it?). I could go on and on, but it's too easy.
Joe understands that all of the public grandstanding means nothing if you continually make bad policy choices that favor the richest people in our country and refuse to even throw a bone to our veterans. Republicans should be ashamed of their terrible record in neglecting our veterans, sending them into the wrong war, and refusing to admit their mistake. Wearing a flag pin on your lapel doesn't make up for the profound lack of patriotism that your awful policies represent.
You're all missing the point. No one disputes that John McCain served honorably and deserves to be considered an American war hero. As a soldier, he's an undisputed icon.
As a presidential candidate, however, he's a disaster. He's wrong on the issues that most effect ordinary people, and he carries water for the economic elites of this country. I don't care at all about whether a candidate drinks shots or goes trap shooting; it's puzzling to me that we even spend time discussing this crap. Conason is simply pointing out that when you move beyond McCain's military service, the rest of his career is an unbroken record of support for bad policies.
McCain supports the crackpot theories of supply-side economics (drawn up on a cocktail napkin by the lunatic Arthur Laffer); he supported the disastrous Iraq war and wants to continue to throw away lives and money on this travesty. His healthcare plan is an unmitigated disaster. He wants to continue the Bush tax cuts that are helping to bankrupt our country. He favors further deregulation of the financial industry (Gee that's worked really well, hasn't it?). I could go on and on, but it's too easy.
Joe understands that all of the public grandstanding means nothing if you continually make bad policy choices that favor the richest people in our country and refuse to even throw a bone to our veterans. Republicans should be ashamed of their terrible record in neglecting our veterans, sending them into the wrong war, and refusing to admit their mistake. Wearing a flag pin on your lapel doesn't make up for the profound lack of patriotism that your awful policies represent.