If you think John McCain is a straight shooter on the war, wait till you get a load of the video we found from his speeches on the Senate floor. He now claims that withdrawal is unacceptable and that we must stay in Iraq until it is a viable nation that can police itself. He now says he doesn't care if we stay in Iraq a hundred years.
As you will see below this is exactly the opposite of what he argued in Somalia and Haiti when we had a Democratic president. He demanded withdrawal not in an orderly fashion from those countries, but immediately -- damn the consequences. If you don't believe me, watch for yourself:
These politicians drive me crazy. They're all flip-floppers. Their position on any given issue is directly related to who the president is. If he's in your party, you support him no matter how wrong he is and what kind of a disastrous war he's gotten us into. If he's in the opposite party, you demand withdrawal as soon as possible. How do they get up there and make speeches that are diametrically opposed to what they said before and do it with a straight face?
Now John McCain isn't the only one guilty of this but unlike most other politicians he gets a free-ride in the press. They portray him as a maverick and a straight talker when he is nothing of the sort. Look at the video above, if he was a Democrat he would be called the biggest flip-flopper of all time.
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Reader Comments ( Page 10 of 10)
136. Alright, I am sadly a product of the US Public School System, in the 80's and 90's and I would love to comment on this and have an opinion on recent (last 30 years or so) political agendas and war efforts made by my own country but I find that I have little knowledge to draw upon...Up until this current war that is, we never got past WWI (except in a class called WWII and the Development of the West, which did not discuss anything this recent) in any Middle, High School or College class I took and I have 21 hours of History in College. Perhaps the biggest scandal here is that many of us really have had very little unbiased education in this area.
JennySchneider at 6:55PM on Apr 19th 2008
137. How idiotic does a blog manager have to be to put the latest posts fifteen pages behind the subject article. Don't think I'll participate.
RJ at 11:28AM on May 12th 2008