That's what we call hyperbole. It's just for effect and shouldn't distract you from the substance of what I said.
Is it radical to point out that McCain's maverick reputation is pure spin? Or that he's not the bipartisan centrist he paints himself as?
If you're interested in maintaining a balance between left and right in the US, you should be ginning for Obama to win in November. A McCain presidency means four more years of corrupt Republicans entrenched in Washington, using the Federal government to partisan ends (cf Monica Goodling, Alberto Gonzales, Scooter Libby et al).
It also means a Supreme Court that's skewed conservative for the next god knows how many years. This is important since the current conservative minority of Scalia, Thomas, Alito and Roberts dissented against all of the SCOTUS judgements that stood up for habeas corpus in the last while (Hamdan vs US and others). A conservative SCOTUS is not good news for civil liberties, which haven't fared too well in the last eight years as is.
For that reason alone, it's vital the Dems get the White House this year.
But possibly I'm letting my wacky radical anger and bitterness get the better of me.
Meanwhile, in maverickland...
"McCain Hires GOP Operative Who Helped Smear Him in South Carolina in 2000"
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Date: 2008-09-02 01:20 pm (UTC)Is it radical to point out that McCain's maverick reputation is pure spin? Or that he's not the bipartisan centrist he paints himself as?
If you're interested in maintaining a balance between left and right in the US, you should be ginning for Obama to win in November. A McCain presidency means four more years of corrupt Republicans entrenched in Washington, using the Federal government to partisan ends (cf Monica Goodling, Alberto Gonzales, Scooter Libby et al).
It also means a Supreme Court that's skewed conservative for the next god knows how many years. This is important since the current conservative minority of Scalia, Thomas, Alito and Roberts dissented against all of the SCOTUS judgements that stood up for habeas corpus in the last while (Hamdan vs US and others). A conservative SCOTUS is not good news for civil liberties, which haven't fared too well in the last eight years as is.
For that reason alone, it's vital the Dems get the White House this year.
But possibly I'm letting my wacky radical anger and bitterness get the better of me.
Meanwhile, in maverickland...
"McCain Hires GOP Operative Who Helped Smear Him in South Carolina in 2000"
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/mccain-hires-go.html?cid=128664060#comment-128664060
Nice to see he doesn't hold a grudge.
P.