Posted on 03/27/2008 5:05:23 AM PDT by lpnykahuna
BEHIND any successful politician lies a usable contradiction, and John McCain’s is this: We love him (and occasionally hate him) for his stubborn individualism, yet his politics are best understood as a decade-long attack on the individual
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Well he ain’t gonna get me....or my vote.
Perhaps the Slimes loves him, but I certainly don’t.
My tagline says it all.
WHAT?!?!? Another reason not to vote for him. I didn't even know this!
I thought he was supposed to be a tough guy. Turns out he's a puss.
I don't care for Utimate Fighting but I wouldn't try to ban it.
You don’t always get what you want McLame. You lost me years ago.
The thought of you makes me ill.
No, he sounds like a typical Washington insider that wants as many people sucking on the nipple as possible in order to "get things done".
He sounds like he's so stupid in matters of history that instead of having an underlying belief in the individual, he thinks GOVERNMENT is the what makes this country great, not the individual.
He gets up reads the Post/Times, watches the Today show and GMA on Tivo and gets a 'feel' for what the American public is "worried" about. Then he just has to get face time and will propose legislation to (insert fad of the moment) in order to protect and serve the American interests.
Of course his butt-buddy, Ted Kennedy and the rest of the dems, are just too happy to be "bipartisan" and "get things done".
Of course raising taxes, failing to secure our borders, getting rid of the department of miseducation, failing to obtain energy independence because of not drilling for oil and believing in pie in the sky pseudo-science are just not really important.
What we want is boxing regulation and wondering if some dumb@ss is injecting himself with steroids in order to play a game and die in his 40's or 50's.
I'd rather let the dems run the bike into the ditch and recover than think this asshat run our country with "bipartisanship".
McCain is going to be the next president, just without my vote.
Hillary is an empty pantsuit that sounds like every man's nightmare b#tch of a 20 former wive's distilled into the absolute essence of a screeching, whining, nagging, sarcastic, know-it-all that will cut your testicles off, mount them on the wall to show her friends and drive him till he drinks himself to sleep every night praying for the Lord to kill him in his sleep.
Obama is the shining pinnacle of a liberal education in race politics and self loathing. He has received the love and understanding of a mixed race family that is still "typically white". So that even his grandmothers love is "just a white woman sucking up for slavery reparations". A man whose wife makes several hundred thousand dollars a year, donates less than 10% to charity and still complains about "the gap between rich and poor" and the failure to reach out to the "little people".
My fellow freepers, I can suck it up and work my tail off for two or four years. I've got skills, education, and a good work ethic. I'm lucky enough to have a healthy family whose children have similar traits. The fact that the government is going to get more nipple people on board, just makes the traits of hard work, punctuality, honesty, self discipline and temperance more valuable.
It should be made clear by the author that he’s speaking for himself because I personally can’t stand the sight or sound of John McCain. I don’t watch TV, so I don’t have to worry about looking at him, but it is a pain to turn off the radio every time I hear his voice.
Good post!
It was reported that NFL and NBC likely will move up the time of the league's season opener so that it would not conflict with presumptive nominee McCain's acceptance speech.
“yet his politics are best understood as a decade-long attack on the individual.”
Yet another reason NOT to vote for him.
“The senator’s ideas for “reform” — taxing cigarettes, banning ultimate fighting”
Two more reasons NOT to vote for him.
“giving the president a line-item veto — typically empower the executive branch at the expense of American citizens and their representatives.”
So he wants to be a dictator.
Published: February 12, 1998
Senator John McCain likes to play on the national stage; that's why many of his constituents were startled January 30 to find him taking off after a local entertainment event. An upcoming match in a blood sport called cage fighting, he declared in a letter to his pal Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley, was "repugnant." Romley wasted no time making sure the owner of the Celebrity Theatre--where the event was to take place--comprehended the senator's sentiments. The next week cage fighting was front-page news here, three days out of four. Days before the event, the state attorney general granted the Arizona Boxing Commission authority to determine whether the event should go on, but the commission chose not to act. It didn't matter. Celebrity Theatre owner Bill Bachand canceled the sold-out show hours before the bell, explaining to the Arizona Republic, "I'm not going to take on the U.S. Senate."
That left 2,600 ticketholders (who will get their money back) and 24 would-be fighters in the grip of profound disappointment, McCain constituents all.
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A quick news database search confirms that for years now, John McCain has railed against extreme fighting, regularly calling for the sport's abolition with appreciable success. McCain labels the sport human cockfighting, and he's taken out after it in his trademark bullheaded fashion. At McCain's urging, many states have banned it.
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Could John McCain be a hypocritical, grandstanding bully? His continuing battle against extreme fighting--which his constituents noticed for the first time only last month--seems to have been proving that theory for years.
Again and again, in interviews, McCain has played loose with the facts. He has vastly exaggerated the extent of the violence associated with extreme fighting, and has refused to acknowledge rule changes and safety precautions that make extreme fighting far less dangerous than it was when he first logged his complaints.
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In 1996, McCain and his colleague Colorado Republican Senator Ben Nighthorse-Campbell wrote to the governors of all 50 states, calling UFC "a brutal and repugnant blood sport . . . that should not be allowed to take place anywhere in the U.S."
State and local politicians joined the senators' crusade. Eventually, by McCain's own estimate, the boxing regulators of 40 states banned extreme fighting. By 1996, profits had plummeted, says Paul Kagan Associates analyst Bill Metti. And UFC sustained a TKO in 1997, when two of the biggest cable distributors--TCI and Time Warner--dropped it.
Players in the cable industry are hesitant to characterize McCain's influence in their arena. As chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, he has tremendous power--theoretically, at least. ("I don't fart without calling McCain," one insider reportedly confided to another.)
What is ten thousand times more repugnant than the UFC is a U.S. Senator that thinks the Federal government has any business legislating about sports or wasting time AND MONEY holding hearings on steroid use. McCain is a disgusting little wannabe with a Napoleon complex.
He sounds like a liberal democrat to me.
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