McCain Again Votes for Torture
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John McCain voted to uphold Bush’s veto of the latest anti-torture legislation to pass Congress.
McCain also voted against the initial version of this law that would ban waterboarding by U.S. government agents.
McCain also voted for the final version of the Military Comissions Act in September 2006. By giving Bush boundless discretion to define torture, this law effectively guaranteed that the U.S. government would continue torturing.
Has anybody compiled a list of all the times the media has praised McCain for opposing torture, despite his groveling at Bush’s demands for absolute power to punish detainees however he pleases?
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The Infamous Oregon Lawhobbit
Comment on Wednesday 12th March 2008 @ 1:05 pm
Nobody’s compiled a list because numbers don’t go that high. 
Besides, that would presume that the media’s job was to act as an informal check on power, rather than working very hard to be part of the power and supporting same. 
W. Baker
Comment on Wednesday 12th March 2008 @ 2:08 pm
The saddest thing, Jim, is that McCain’s long-rumored trysts with everything that walks by in a skirt will be his November downfall - rather than any inconsistencies on torture. A Clintonesque whisper campaign that insinuates his uncontrollable rage is syphilitic in nature is much closer to the American politics I know.
The idea that McCain is simply a duplicitous, power-hungry madman is just too ordinary for most voters.
Jim
Comment on Wednesday 12th March 2008 @ 2:51 pm
Wes, you might be right….
I hope his past catches up with him before November - or at least before the next war.
W Baker
Comment on Wednesday 12th March 2008 @ 3:16 pm
Given Fallon’s exit stage right, I, too, hope that McCainiac is stopped in his tracks sooner rather than later.
Usual disclaimer for the Stasi, oops, sorry, NSA: ’stopped in his tracks’ refers to a peaceful, political process where no violence is brought to bear upon McCain aside from his ego…
Jim
Comment on Wednesday 12th March 2008 @ 3:22 pm
And be careful about referring to McCain’s ego as a Weapon of Mass Destruction.
The Infamous Oregon Lawhobbit
Comment on Thursday 13th March 2008 @ 10:21 am
I think we’re more likely going to be looking at a Very Interesting October Surprise this year….
Jim
Comment on Thursday 13th March 2008 @ 10:40 am
Shizam!
I hope it doesn’t involve banning Oktoberfest celebrations.
Richard A.
Comment on Thursday 13th March 2008 @ 11:13 am
McCain is a warmonger yet the MSM refers to McCain as a moderate. The MSM is brain dead!
Jim
Comment on Thursday 13th March 2008 @ 5:25 pm
That condition is fairly common among pimps, I have heard.
Dirk W. Sabin
Comment on Thursday 13th March 2008 @ 7:20 pm
I don’t know about you folks but it looks to me that there is some kind of carapace forming over Johnny Boy and his mobility keeps reducing. With a President Gregor Samsa, the metamorphosis to the Dystopic Beaurocracy of Kafka will be complete.
After all, they’ve always said that the insects would inherit the earth.
Do any of you other blokes notice those strange scratchings in your phone receiver and those laments, like the distant murmurings of hissing cockroaches ?
Jim
Comment on Thursday 13th March 2008 @ 7:26 pm
I noticed that scratching sound but I just figured the feds were screwing up the wiretap again.
Mace Price
Comment on Friday 14th March 2008 @ 12:50 am
…Although I reserve the dignity to never vote; consider the present alternative[s] to Killer McCain…yeah…that’s their idea of “Democracy.” Go figure?
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