Update September 12: Please consider this an open Reasons Not To Vote for McCain thread.
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There are many more reasons to be wary of Republican stalwart McCain than simply the anti-feminist planks in his platform – don’t forget his attitude to war in Iraq and potentially Iran. John McCain voted with Bush’s line 90% of the time: and you bet he wants a legacy of being a war president as well. Some of what military analysts and generals have to say is downright scary.
H/T Pharyngula.
Categories: culture wars, ethics & philosophy, media, Politics, violence
Related, one of the first times I have ever been proud of the corporate media.
Only very vaguely related, but a “gotcha” of epic proportions:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/tKtl_QDMIX8?version=3&rel=0&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent
[ObAccessible: McCain described Hillary Clinton’s healthcare strategy as “putting lipstick on a pig”.]
D’ye think they’ll ever stop with the melodramatic play-acting?
And for a larf, check out ”Secret video showcases John McCain’s new campaign strategy”.
polerin, that’s an excellent link. Olbermann laid it out beautifully about the Republican’s branding of 9-11TM. ETA: The point that if McCain does actually have a plan for catching Bin Laden and he’s keeping it to himself then that’s enabling terrorism is particularly telling. From the MSNBC transcript:
Unfortunately, the corporate media doesn’t always do so well. They still don’t want to come out and tell the world that John McCain called his wife a cunt in front of the press.
polerin, I turned your link into a post over at Larvatus Prodeo – LP’s been colonised by a few GOP shills lately so it will be interesting to see what reaction it gets.
A couple more good ones:
From factcheck.org reacting to a McCain-Palin attack ad on Obama – McCain-Palin distorts our finding – “Those attacks on Palin that we debunked didn’t come from Obama.”
Obama and McCain – Truth and Distortion – exhaustively fact-checked article that encourages everyone to do the same, and shows how it’s overwhelming the McCain campaign that’s engaging in dirty tricks.
ETA: Whistleblower breaks 15-year silence to allege McCain hid wife’s drug abuse – cover-up city, folks!
Joe Biden shows one reason he was a good pick for VP by Obama: he attacks McCain-Palin for their silence on the issues (from last week):
Speech on YouTube
Transcript on CNN (scroll down towards the bottom of the page)
OBAMA = BETRAYAL
Obama supporters are foolish to think that he will never betray them.
Obama was a close friend of Pastor Wright for TWENTY YEARS.
Obama threw Wright under the bus for personal ambition.
McCain would not betray his country even after 5 years of torture.
You can put lipstick on a traitor, but he’s still a traitor.