tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20372724.post4644146226706267678..comments2023-09-01T09:38:54.262-04:00Comments on Dumb Looks Still Free: Left in the desert of his own creationA Jacksonianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07607888697879327120noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20372724.post-14656949133570735492008-01-24T16:14:00.000-05:002008-01-24T16:14:00.000-05:00Mr. Z - I remember the strange anomoly of voting a...Mr. Z - I remember the strange anomoly of voting against one's President, and the 'Peace Dividend' and the lovely Keating 5 that no one wants to bring up... I have that all scattered across a number of articles, but thought it was time to bring them all together. You do *not* get to cut DoD, recommend reduced readiness for 1/3 of the forces, and then say how great you supported a 'surge' in 2003 when the US was lacking forces to do anything of the kind and the trust in Iraq to do that, too, come to think of it.<BR/><BR/>At every turn when it has been a choice between raising or lowering taxes he wants them *raised* and to make it damned difficult to *ever* lower them. Whenver the Congress looks at rights, he wants less for individuals and more for government.<BR/><BR/>Pretty much a 'tax and spend Republican' who talks a good game on DoD, but when push came to shove he was the one saying 'cut more'.<BR/><BR/>I will never, ever vote for the man as I do not trust him... from his early contacts with Keating and his pro-pork views to his transforming into a higher tax, lower civil rights individual today. That is not a combo I want in the President's office.<BR/><BR/>To me there is no functional difference between him and HRC - she will just do whatever is opportunistic to exacerbate identity politics. Note that he has been doing that for *decades* as his support of the LSC shows. <BR/><BR/>And somehow BNL/BCCI has just never been fully examined... and via Mr. Keating, John McCain had contact with that lovely thing that also had OBL, Saddam, Monzer al-Kassar, Noriega... just about every major criminal, dictator and terrorist you can name as part of its roster.<BR/><BR/>No *wonders* it never got looked into: too many politicians associated with it.<BR/><BR/>Like John McCain.<BR/><BR/>I happen to remember these things, so finding their sources wasn't hard. Lots of folks want that water to be long under the bridge, while I see the effects of that rising water to this day. If it does not go unaddressed then we will soon not have a bridge.<BR/><BR/>America needs to start clearing house, politically. It is impossible to run away from one's past. It can be explained but John McCain has never attempted *that*... just wanting to be a 'reformer' for a few decades. He is still running from explaining. And yet those past ills are still there, causing trouble to this day.<BR/><BR/>We are one Shays away from the entire thing going up in our faces.A Jacksonianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07607888697879327120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20372724.post-42923820393858401722008-01-24T15:56:00.000-05:002008-01-24T15:56:00.000-05:00Holy Mother of God, AJ, where do you EVER find the...Holy Mother of God, AJ, where do you EVER find the TIME to make such DETAILED and specific posts packed with such horrific amounts of FACTS??!!?<BR/><BR/>(And I thought I had McCain pegged just a weentsy bit!)<BR/><BR/>BZBloviating Zeppelinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01359816456769157176noreply@blogger.com