Contributors

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

He Did and Said....What?

John McCain sure has a lot of 'splaining to do . According to various reports circulating around the web, McCain was at a dinner party in December of 2000 and told Arianna Huffington, Brad Whiteford, and Richarch Schiff that he did NOT vote for Bush in the 2000 election. This comes as no surprise to me after Rove et al fucked him over in South Carolina.

But what I do find very interesting is what he said after that. According to Mr. Whiteford, McCain said that President Bush "doesn’t have the concentration, and you talk for 10 minutes and then the guy wants to talk about baseball. I wanted to tell him how ridiculous and damaging his tax cuts would be to this country."

I am left wondering what a McCain presidency in 2000 would've been like and I suspect it would've been much better than the one we currently have. I think I might have disagreed with the maverick from time to time but he would've been ok and our country would've been in a much better place right now. I also think McCain would've done a better job than the Bush administration on Al Qaeda which would entail actually making an effort against those who attacked us 9-11 as opposed to letting them go.

The McCain of 2008 is old, tired, and desperately trying to be something he is not...pandering to religious conservatives like John Hagee and Rod Parsely and clinging to a failed policy in Iraq. He seems sort of pathetic, really, chomping at the dinner scraps that Bush has left him.

It's a sad thing to watch.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

In April you said that the economy, Iraq, health care, and education were the important issues that should be focused on when you were mad about the democrat debate and now you're focusing on 8 year old rumors and saying McCain has to explain things. maybe mccain could be let off the hook by the lefties if he gets a guy who bombs his own country like Bill Ayers to endorse him and throw a party at his house kicking off his campaign. It's just nice to see that some people have to explain things and some people don't have to.

Hypocrit.

Anonymous said...

Actually, I think he was lamenting the fact that John McCain wasn't our president in 2000 and feeling sorry for him.

Oh, and there should be an e on the end of hypocrite.

Anonymous said...

SW, completely missing the point. McCain is a suck up now and was cool back then. It might gain him votes if he admits that what he said back then was true. His assessment of Bush is quite accurate and our country has suffered because of his ADD.