This is what is wrong with politics. It encourages people to be limit their thought processes. Jut because one side is crap, doesn't mean another side is crap, and one can't have an enclosed object without at least three straight sides.
I am not saying there is something wrong with what McCain did, obviously. I am just saying people who attack McCain as always being wrong are full of it.
McCain was a relatively humble person, who, although not always right, seemed to try to be right. Even when GW Bush, a deserter from the US Military, attacked him, McCain took the high ground. It resulted in the US electing a deserter, but McCain remained in good graces.
Wow. No, THAT is what is wrong with politics, people like you LYING and saying that Bush was ever a deserter.
Now, McCain has learned the political lesson and has changed his position on oil
Only in response to actual changes in our situation. Duh.
Iraq
Wow, this is a big fat lie. McCain's position on Iraq has not changed AT ALL. His position today -- we should leave as soon as we can leave Iraq with a stable government and military that can provide security, that we should increase troops to whatever level necessary to accomplish the job, etc. -- is the exact same position he had five years ago.
and even though he whines incessantly about the fact he was tortured, he all of the sudden understands that torture is necessary
Also a lie. McCain has NEVER come out in favor of torture.
For a frame of reference, consider the classic comeback to the apologist's "but Java runs on so many platforms" argument: "And how did you compile the JVM?".
By writing a ton of platform-specific code, spending hundreds of hours debugging compiler specific problems because none of them support the standards in exactly the same way, and in general spending far too long worrying about the details when there's a bigger picture to be dealt with
... this is a comeback to be used *against* java? o_O
You can't eliminate technology any more than you can erase knowledge.
Maybe not, but one nice thing about nuclear technology is that you can make it *really* hard to hide by sniffing trace isotopes in the air. Eliminating nuclear power generation would help make it much harder to mask clandestine programs.
We must learn to deal with nuclear proliferation
A good way to deal with it is make it very hard to hide, and take away any excuses to be playing around with it. If there were no civilian nuclear power, then there wouldn't be much argument in the world community about taking out Iran's program, because it would be an undeniably belligerent activity. Under that scenario, they would have been much less likely to start their activities in the first place, and we probably wouldn't have this problem at all.
Maintaining the status quo with various countries goofing around with "peaceful research" under the guise of power generation is the real "ostrich approach".
Violating other people's legal rights is not "sharing".
Grow the fuck up, asshole.
Bonus points for using an IT analogy in a car discussion
"Meesa propose to giva' Senator Palpatine immediately emergency powaz!"
Somehow, I did not fail to see the sarcasm in the new Star Wars movies. Of course, the "death" of the Old Republic, happened when the North conquered the South, in a war of aggression (not sure why they call it a civil war, since it was two federations fighting each other, one to conquer and subjugate, the other to maintain the right of its member states to be independent, and the "nation of freedom" was stillborn even in 1791, for the most part because those who created its "founding document" did it with intentional flaws built in. Why, one asks? Well obviously, men who want government, want it only because it benefits them, they love power... but the power is all the more addictive when given up willingly by the dupes who think they need someone else to do their thinking for them. These people were no different. And they WERE the government, and they were fairly certain their progeny would continue to run the show (as they have).
The average plebe, regardless of where, is still just a mindless drone who hates money, hates thinking and most above all, hates getting out of his mental box (or hers, ladies I haven't forgotten about your ability to be equal to men in the endeavor of willful ignorance.) Actually judging by my observations of the "average Joe", I would wager that perhaps people DO need someone else to do some of their thinking for them, since obviously the vast majorities are unwilling to think past the divisive slogans and political campaigns.
The majority of stupid people in this country see no problem with the "us vs them" mentality because they are thinking "americans vs arabs" or "democrats vs republicans"... they don't realize its "parasites versus producers". As it has always been. Too many producers are too busy blaming other producers for their problems, while calling for more parasites, to realize that the parasites aren't necessary. As to which is which I leave it as an exercise to each reader to decide who are the producers and who are the parasites.
I excused myself, went to the bathroom upstairs and laughed uncontrollably into a towel (to muffle the sound) for about five minutes.
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