McCain wants to be President. There is no other reason for him kissing

[cantstandbush]

up to the Bushbots as much as he is doing, especially after what Rove and rest did to him in 2000. I know McCain was a prisoner of war but so were many other men and women. That doesn't give them the right to go along with trashing our Constitution and supporting a fascist regime.

McCain lacks integrity and his constant kissing up to the Bushbots proves it.

[SteppingRazor]

1. OF COURSE McCain wants to be president...

Shit, he's run before, that means the desire's there. It's only a question of whether the desire has left him in the last five years, and why would anyone think that?

[incapsulated]

2. I used to think...

He had some integrity. After 2000, I knew that was bullshit. He was slandered and trashed by Rove and company and still curled up as the Chimp's lapdog, after. He has no center. He is occasionally right on issues, but even a broken clock, etc.

But he is a formadible candidate in a national election and I'm afraid that the repukes might realize this and nominate him. The media adore him.

[RaleighNCDUer]

7. If the media love him, there is something seriously wrong with

him. If the media love him, the media knows he will be a useful tool for the corporatists.

The media keeps saying he is so popular with the Dems -- I haven't met a Dem yet who would back him, so where do they get that?

[incapsulated]

8. Because it's a half-truth

Before he ran, and maybe for a while afterwards, a lot of people admired what they thought was his honesty and independence. I certainly took note of his campaign finance position and his willingness to vote against his own party.

But I think that is firmly in the past, now. He has shown his true colors since then. No democrat is voting for him.

[0007]

9. "Dudge" Did I win? 0'Boy I hope its a new bicyle.

[katsy]

3. pesident of what?

what's going to be left of this country when * is through?

[cantstandbush]

4. Will he be "Swiftboated" for his stance on torture?

I can think of one tactic I would like to see used against him:

"Would you support a man who supported the men who said this about your wife and family?" And then print what appeared about McMcain during the NC and SC primaries etc.

[AndyTiedye]

5. You Need the Illustration to Go Along With Your Post

Don't they make an adorable couple :pals:

:puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke:

[AZBlue]

6. They deserve each other (nt)

[maxsolomon]

10. that photo will prevent him from being elected

that is, if schwietzer/clark can play it properly.

[Vadem]

11. Alright! Where is the picture of McCain hugging Bush (sickening!)..

[rurallib]

12. Can you imagine the BFEE giving the keys to McCain

WAAAY to unreliable. And just a bit too smart (he can tie his own shoes) Oh no they won't let McCain become the head of the Family.

[Disturbed]

13. John McCain, Hypocrite

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