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Date Posted: 12/13/05 8:50:51am
In reply to:
pa
's message, "btw why the conviction of malversation?" on 12/12/05 9:41:56pm
Hey pa -
McCain is, in words of Holden Caufield, a phoney. Perhaps it is his role in the killing of more than 1 million innocents in Vietnam. ("I am a war criminal; I bombed innocent women and children" 1997) Or his blood lust during the Nato bombing campaign of the former Yugoslavia. ("...[we should] increase the intensity of the bombing, recognizing that that entails civilian casualties. That's the reason why war is so terrible." 1999) Could be his racism towards the people he admitted murdering by referring to them as "gooks" as recently as 2000. Possibly his campaign fund coziness with Keating who cheated millions from joe taxpayer in the S & L scandal of the 80's. Maybe his unconditional support for the illegal war that is currently responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands more innocents and financially and morally bankrupting the nation, etc. etc. etc..
This morning I pulled the following from
http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair11232004.html
St. Clair is no friend of the Democrats in case one might want to dismiss his piece about McCain. Read the whole thing if you have the time. I never knew how little McCain did in the comfort of his cockpit during Vietnam and yet received more medals than swiftboat Kerry. I think it sums up McCain pretty well.
""...that's all part of the McCain profile. He is the senator of the hollow protest. McCain is nothing if not a political stunt man. His chief stunt is the evocation of political piety. From his pulpit in the well of the senate, McCain gestures and fumes about the evils of Pentagon porkbarrel. He rails about useless and expensive weapons systems, contractor malfeasance, and bloated R&B budgets.
But he does nothing about them. McCain pontificates, but never obstructs. Few senators have his political capital. But he does nothing with it. Under the arcane rules of the senate, one senator can gum up the works, derail a bad (or good, though those are increasingly rare in this environment) bill, dislodge non-germane riders, usually loaded with pork, from big appropriations bills. McCain is never that senator. He is content to let ride that which he claims to detest in press releases and senate speeches.
A recent example. In late October, McCain went on 60 Minutes to decry a footnote in the Defense Appropriations Bill of 2004 that transferred billions of dollars from so-called Operations and Maintenance accounts for US troops in Iraq to porkbarrel projects, such as gold mines and museums, in the states of powerful senators. In his stern voice before the cameras, McCain made congressional looting sound like a treasonable offense. But what he failed to disclose is the fact that he actually voted for the bill. Not only that, he was personally approached by each senator who wanted just such a transfer of funds and gave it his seal of approval.
McCain the Maverick is a merely a fine-honed act, underscored by these kinds of casual hypocrisies.""
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