Comment Why Do We Act So Surprised by McCain ? (Score 1) 443
McCain has long been an apparent Maverick.
He has a mercurial temper.
And though he cloaks himself in an aura of public service, he is actually just looking out for himself.
In many respects I often see him as a politician with a wet finger to the wind.
AND
HE IS NO FRIEND TO FREE SPEECH
For example we may view what his supression of campaign spending (McCain-Feingold) did to the constituent groups of your choice. In the end, it was just a way of slamming the door on their free speech. Sure it shut down a number of groups who I am not comfortable with, but I feel that in the end, this is a grave mistake. History will tell.
This new thing of McCain's is more of the same. Frankly, he just sounds like another sellout to the Christian moralist taliban. Great for him, to try to get their votes, but frankly just political pandering.
He is McCain
He does that sort of stuff.
Remember, he is out for nobody but himself.
Frankly I side with the EFF, even if most folks don't much like folks who have been branded for life as sexual predators or whatever term is popular for them, it is insane to do what McCain has proposed here:
essentially to cut off your nose to spite your face
In our modern (seeming) age, we have already given up so much to the cries of "We shall keep you safe" and yet all it gains us is less freedom at the behest and beneath the smothering hand of a burgeoning uber-state.
Sure it is over quoted, but Benjamin Franklin was relevant then and is spot on still: "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."
I will admit here and now that my gut instincts regarding McCain have been uncomfortable for years and years. I just don't trust the man, regardless that he may be a genuine 'hero'. Regardless that sometimes he may espouse something that resonates with me. My gut sense for the whole of the man, is that he is unbalanced and dangerous, and just hides it well enough to fool people.
I am going to add one more quote, this one from Abraham Lincoln: "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
Let's not be fooled by a man who wants us to think he is deeper than he really is.
McCain is not deep waters. Not at all.
Nuff said.
He has a mercurial temper.
And though he cloaks himself in an aura of public service, he is actually just looking out for himself.
In many respects I often see him as a politician with a wet finger to the wind.
AND
HE IS NO FRIEND TO FREE SPEECH
For example we may view what his supression of campaign spending (McCain-Feingold) did to the constituent groups of your choice. In the end, it was just a way of slamming the door on their free speech. Sure it shut down a number of groups who I am not comfortable with, but I feel that in the end, this is a grave mistake. History will tell.
This new thing of McCain's is more of the same. Frankly, he just sounds like another sellout to the Christian moralist taliban. Great for him, to try to get their votes, but frankly just political pandering.
He is McCain
He does that sort of stuff.
Remember, he is out for nobody but himself.
Frankly I side with the EFF, even if most folks don't much like folks who have been branded for life as sexual predators or whatever term is popular for them, it is insane to do what McCain has proposed here:
essentially to cut off your nose to spite your face
In our modern (seeming) age, we have already given up so much to the cries of "We shall keep you safe" and yet all it gains us is less freedom at the behest and beneath the smothering hand of a burgeoning uber-state.
Sure it is over quoted, but Benjamin Franklin was relevant then and is spot on still: "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."
I will admit here and now that my gut instincts regarding McCain have been uncomfortable for years and years. I just don't trust the man, regardless that he may be a genuine 'hero'. Regardless that sometimes he may espouse something that resonates with me. My gut sense for the whole of the man, is that he is unbalanced and dangerous, and just hides it well enough to fool people.
I am going to add one more quote, this one from Abraham Lincoln: "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
Let's not be fooled by a man who wants us to think he is deeper than he really is.
McCain is not deep waters. Not at all.
Nuff said.
