SERIOUSLY, WTF?!

We are fucked.

Posted by ryan on 23 Apr 2008 at 02:10 pm

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Yeah, yeah, yeah… “Real American Hero” bladiddy, bladiddy, blah…

You probably know that John McCain got captured in Vietnam and was tortured for 5 1/2 years and now he is one pissed off old coot, but did you also know that he is crazy, panders to racists and is prone to freakishly aggro mood swings? No, well the folks at MoveOn.org have compiled a “Hit Parade” of Ol’ Crotchety’s darker points…

Please to enjoy: 10 things you should know about John McCain (but probably don’t):

1. John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now he says his position has “evolved,” yet he’s continued to oppose key civil rights laws.

2. According to Bloomberg News, McCain is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq, Russia and China. Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan says McCain “will make Cheney look like Gandhi.”

3. His reputation is built on his opposition to torture, but McCain voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban.

4. McCain opposes a woman’s right to choose. He said, “I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned.”

5. The Children’s Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children. He voted against the children’s health care bill last year, then defended Bush’s veto of the bill.

6. He’s one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires. The Associated Press reports he and his wife own at least eight homes! Yet McCain says the solution to the housing crisis is for people facing foreclosure to get a “second job” and skip their vacations.

7. Many of McCain’s fellow Republican senators say he’s too reckless to be commander in chief. One Republican senator said: “The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He’s erratic. He’s hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me.”

8. McCain talks a lot about taking on special interests, but his campaign manager and top advisers are actually lobbyists. The government watchdog group Public Citizen says McCain has 59 lobbyists raising money for his campaign, more than any of the other presidential candidates.

9. McCain has sought closer ties to the extreme religious right in recent years. The pastor McCain calls his “spiritual guide,” Rod Parsley, believes America’s founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a “false religion.” McCain sought the political support of right-wing preacher John Hagee, who believes Hurricane Katrina was God’s punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church “the Antichrist” and a “false cult.”

10. He positions himself as pro-environment, but he scored a 0—yes, zero—from the League of Conservation Voters last year.

Also, I am not sure if you know this but John McCain is old. Like really fucking old. Crypt Keeper old. Just saying…

Now you know! And knowing is half the battle!

*NOTE: for anyone concerned with sources, check out MoveOn.org for footnotes to this list.

Posted by ryan on 07 Apr 2008 at 03:49 pm

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The Washington Post ran George McGovern’s great op-ed on why Bush-Cheney should be impeached. Read it HERE.

Posted by ryan on 08 Jan 2008 at 12:44 am

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In a move reminiscent of Kitty Pryde sending her consciousness back in time to warn the X-Men of impending doom in the classic “Days of Future Past” story arc, Dick Cheney apparently attempted to warn us (by sending his future brain back to his 1994 body) of what would happen if we invaded Iraq. Perhaps the Dick will be overcome with guilt somewhere around 2009 when he realizes that his actions as VP sent the country hurtling towards the brink of destruction and in a final attempt to make good on a life of evil, he will use experimental science (perhaps a future pacemaker) to send himself back in time to undo what he had done.

So now we are the assholes for not listening.

Or perhaps he is just a dangerously destructive and criminally out of touch old-timer determined to take the whole world out with him.

Either way…

Posted by ryan on 15 Aug 2007 at 12:16 pm

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