I don't like John McCain

[murdoch]

I don't understand why all these newscasters and pundits on corporate TV fawn over John McCain all of the time. Back in the 1980s he was down in Nicaragua, trying to get money to the contras down there. He has been on the same warpath ever since, he seems to think the US should be invading all over the world. This doesn't make him different than most Republicans, but the fawning attitude by the corporate media perplexes me.

Peter King is not really so bad for a Republican, but he has the same imperialist attitude. For him I think it is a specific shame - he realized England is an imperial presence in Ireland, yet he supports US imperialism all over the world.

The government is run by and for people like Bush - born with a silver spoon in his mouth and with long-standing connections to oil and the arms business. What they are doing in Iraq and around the world is simply evil. I'm in my 30's, but I remember the lie that the US only was involved overseas due to the supposed worldwide threat of Leninist governments. That is over, and instantly they toss up more BS about terrorism and whatnot. Terrorism meaning Egyptians want the US to leave Egypt alone, Saudis wanting the US to not have military bases in Saudi Arabia etc.

John McCain's support of imperialism is disgusting, and I don't see anything good of him as a Senator. He tells a story sometimes of ejecting from his multi-million dollar plane in Vietnam, and landing in the water. A crowd gathered and they spit on him and kicked him. Nothing could be a clearer metaphor to me of what the average working person in the third world thinks of US imperialism. It is evil, plain and simple, and those supporting it are supporting evil.

[rep the dems]

1. Join the club! nt

[Berry Cool]

2. I sure didn't see Keith Olbermann fawning over McCain tonight!

Where were you during his Special Comment? You ought to catch it; it should be right up your alley. It was sure up mine!

[Hippo_Tron]

3. Bush dodged the draft and McCain served honorably

No matter what you think of McCain's politics, you have to respect that.

But I sure as hell don't want him in the White House.

[DrFunkenstein]

4. They Love Him Because He Makes Good Copy

Not only is McCain an entertaining television guest, he is also known for occasionally bucking the party line - which creates drama.

Drama is the real bias of the media. It has almost nothing to do with ideology. Policy is strictly dullsville, regardless of how many lives it affects and how dramatically.

[oasis]

5. Olbermann slammed McCain tonight in his commentary. He ripped him

on his rapidly shrinking integrity.

I agree 100%.

[snowbear]

6. He's a boring speaker... and he =slurps= when he talks..

He needs retire and play shuffleboard & golf in his golden years..

[GreenTea]

7. McCain is a republican...republicans are ALL shit.

[Telegram Sam]

8. From Heroic Warrior to Poodle

I lost respect for McCain sometime during the 2000 primary when Rove & Co. spewed some wicked (false) personal attacks against him and his family; JM basically took it up the ass then spent the next 6+ years licking Bush's balls and fornicating with the far right. Nice going...should have stuck to his guns; as it turns out, he sort of invested his money on the International Mercantile Marine Company as the Titanic was sinking.

[ellisonz]

9. McCain believes in American hegemony...

As opposed to sincere multilateralism, the effective result of the former as opposed to the later is imperialism vs. liberalism. You're right, McCain was not a grunt, he was a fighter pilot and therefore even though he fought in Nam (more than can be said for Bush), he never saw the war on the ground.

[LeftishBrit]

10. My impression is that he's a bit of an idiot

There are a couple of things to respect about him: (1) he's actually been through the horrors of war, unlike most Republican hypocrites who want it only for other people; (2) he is not George W. Bush!

But he has never seemed to me to be a moderate (and I'm someone who does recognize and respect genuinely moderate Conservatives and Republicans); and when he came to England to the Conservative convention, he struck me and lots of others as plain stupid. He compared David Cameron with Jack Kennedy, and expressed his startlingly America-centric desire to 'spread Republicanism round the globe'.In the UK, by the way, the term 'Republicanism' implies either support for the IRA, or wanting to get rid of the Monarchy. I hope someone with more sense can get elected in 2008.