I think McCain has become demented

[katinmn]

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/index.php?page=local&story_id=082405a8_mccainwmug
McCain: Bush right to avoid Sheehan

'If I was president of the United States, I probably wouldn't' meet with her, Ariz. senator says.

GARY GAYNOR/Tucson Citizen

President Bush is right to avoid a meeting with Cindy Sheehan, the grieving mother who has become a focal point for opponents of the war in Iraq, U.S. Sen. John McCain said yesterday.

Snip:

"Because support for the war is dropping and more anti-war sentiment is felt, they've latched onto her," he said. "I'm not complaining about that. But if there was more support for the war, I don't think she'd have the visibility or gotten the media attention she has."

Well, dah! What does that tell you, McCain? We don't want your stinking war!

[XanaDUer]

1. I'm waaaay fed up with McCain.

...

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. We have too many politicians in this country and no leaders.

That's the prob.

[MichiganVote]

10. Got that right

[aresef]

2. *blink blink*

*scratches McCain off the very short list of Republicans I'd ever in a million years consider voting for*

[katinmn]

6. They have taken this "talking down" to people to new depths.

:grr:

[Laura PourMeADrink]

31. funny ! I thought the same thing. He sold out. Sold his soul. He

must REALLY want to be prez next time !

[EST]

3. Become?

Comes the dawn.

[dogman]

5. Quite possibly the Rove smear was correct?

His traumatic experience has destabilized him?

[ChowChowChow]

7. HE IS AN IDIOT

I never liked him. He is a phoney, and it becomes more apparent as the days go on.

[katinmn]

8. I agree. He is getting worse.

Welcome to DU chowchowchow!:hi:

[ChowChowChow]

27. Thank you Katinmn!

[MichiganVote]

9. McCain is too old for the presidency

[izzie]

11. McCain does seem all over the place.

I would think he would see this is what they said in Vietnam but then you have to recall that his education is to do as he is told and to kill things was his training. I wonder if he could see the mothers of the children he has killed? It is so hard to put the deaths that are going to happen from your mind and a mother would bring it home. How do you reason it is OK? I never could figure it out.How can a American, Iraqi or Russian women feel any different if their children are killed?

[karynnj]

25. Part of it is I don't think McCain ever came to the

conclusion that the other Senate vets came to that Vietnam was a disaster. Kerrey, Cleland, and Hagel have all at some point talked about Vietnam as an unwinable mess. Kerry, of course returned and decried both the logic of the war and its morality. Even in 1984, McCain went to Massachusetts to campaign against Kerry because of his anti-war efforts.

In the early 90s they grew to respect and like each other - but neither changed their assessment of the war. I get the impression that McCain who ran on being a POW never really questioned America's involvement. Last year, he defended Kerry's service once (and hugged Bush often) while saying he still disagreed with Kerry's anti-war efforts. ( Reading Kerry's testimony and Tour of Duty, Kerry probably spent more time thinking of the geo- political consequences and the immorality of things like carpet bombings and free fire zones while writing each journal entry or letter than McCain has done since.

McCain's sense of honor is to conform to the rules of the organization he is in. All the other Senate vets, seem to have a broader view of honor and morality.

[movonne]

12. Well remember when bush was running against him and said

that he was demented because of the Viet. war.

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

13. Lost ALL respect for him long time ago. nt

[Bluebear]

14. Hold me.

[katinmn]

19. bwaaaahhh!!!

They deserve each other all right.

[AtomicKitten]

15. After being butt-reamed viciously by BushCo

during the 2000 Republican primary, he sure has acquiesced and become a Bush butt-kisser. Sick, really.

[madaboutharry]

16. I can not begin to tell

you all how many democrats in Arizona voted for this ass. It drives me crazy. I have come to believe that most people just don't want to see corruption even when they are looking straight at it. Soft spoken politians are the most dangerous.

[AtomicKitten]

18. Hey I have heard people here at DU

saying they'd vote for him. Aaaarrrrggggghhhhh! Same crappola here in Calif when Lumpy Schwarzenegger ran office. I kept saying he's a freakin' Republican and now people are surprised he's acting like one.

[Captain Hilts]

17. As folks in the submarine force say, "typical prima donna aviator!" (nt)

[Libby2]

20. I've said it before, and I'll say it again

any man that let anyone drag his family through the mud, then defend him, can't be wrapped too tight.

edited because I'm not wrapped too tight.

[Cha]

21. Well, mccain is NOT president nor

will he EVER be. bushwa drug is name through the pig stye and mccain is kissing his ass in gratitude.

Damn right mccain wouldn't be meeting with Cindy Sheehan..she could talk Circles around that old coot.

[Nikki Stone 1]

22. So McCain is admitting that there isn't much support for the war

"But if there was more support for the war, I don't think she'd have the visibility or gotten the media attention she has."

[Disturbed]

23. The Corp Media likes this shmuck...

because they know that he will kiss their ass and like doing it.

John McCain, Hypocrite
by Doug Ireland

John McCain, the media's darling, has found a clever way around his own campaign finance reform law to take big corporate bucks in furtherance of his political ambitions while carrying water for the corporate mammoth providing the dough. But the national press is ignoring the story.

The Associated Press first ran the story of John McCain's odorous but lucrative Senatorial service to the communications giant Cablevision on the afternoon of March 7. But, while some local papers in McCain's home state (like the East Valley Tribune) have run the story, nothing has as yet made it into the print editions of the New York Times, the L.A. Times, the Washington Post, or any of the half-dozen other big city dailies I checked (although, if one searches the hundreds of AP stories available on the Post's website on its Politics page by clicking on "Latest Wire Reports," one can find it there--but how many readers would bother to do that?) One notable exception: the Kansas City Star.

Here's what the AP's investigation found:McCain repeatedly intervened on behalf of a policy Cablevision favored -- one which "congressional and private studies conclude could make cable more expensive" -- while his chief political adviser, Rick Davis (who's masterminding McCain's probable '08 presidential rerun) solicited $200,000 in contributions from Cablevision to an institute that promotes McCain and pays Davis a $110,000 annual salary. The Reform Institute was set up to promote McCain and his issues--especially campaign finance reform, embodied in the famous McCain-Feingold law.

This Institute is "a tax-exempt group that touts McCain's views and has showcased him at events since his unsuccessful 2000 presidential campaign," and it "often uses the senator's name in press releases and fund-raising letters and includes him at press conferences," the AP says. And, of course, it provides a cushy sinecure with no heavy lifting for McCain's main man, Davis, as he prepares the pontificating Senator's next presidential run. Cablevision's contributions account for a whopping 15% of the Institute's budget.

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0309-35.htm

[katinmn]

24. That's what he's admitting. But I guess we are just supposed to

STFU so all the Repugs don't have to worry about getting re-elected.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

26. It's more sad than...

...anything else. I'd like to be able to support McCain to a degree and I've heard him speak on issues like campaign finance reform and liked what he had to say, but you're right, he's a half bubble off plumb. Carrying water for Dubya after what he's done to our country, not to mention the way they smeared him, there's definitely something wrong with the man.

[tabasco]

28. It's sad to see this happen to a man.

He has lost his integrity and his courage. All because of greed.

Very sad.

[fujiyama]

29. The breaking point with me

was that disgusting hugging pic with Bush and an article showing how pissed his own daughter was with his endorsement of Bush.

He's a worthless cowardly bastard that sold his family out to be includeed for what? I still don't know? A cushy job at Carlyle when he retires? HA! like that's going to happen....Or better yet is he stupid enough to believe he will ever get the party's nomination?

[katinmn]

30. That photo is in Post #14 Bleeech!

[Skidmore]

32. McCain is a human pretzel....

all twisted into a knot by *.