Getting to know you: McCain used to be a socialist

Senex ipse loquitur

h/t to Jed L
--the BB

Getting to know you - the series

Reform. Mavericky goodness. Associations.

Well, let's see now. John Aravosis at Americablog had this to say this morning:

As Chris reported earlier, yet another McCain confidant is found to have accepted millions to keep Fannie Mae unregulated. The first time was McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis. The second time was the guy McCain hired to run his entire convention. McCain is in so deep with lobbyists, it isn't even funny. These kind of connections would be bad for the image of any politician running for president during an economic crisis, but McCain has made lobby reform and ethics his number one issue. And now we see yet again how in bed McCain really is with Washington lobbyists.

--the BB

My friends, he really does understand us. Honest.

--the BB

Getting to know you: the series

A Rolling Stone debunking of some John McCain myths:



For an article on McCain as viewed by a fellow POW visit FranIAm to whom I tip the hat for the video as well.

A quote from the article:

"McCain says his life changed while he was in Vietnam, and he is now a different man," Dramesi says today. "But he's still the undisciplined, spoiled brat that he was when he went in."

--the BB

A political fundraiser in San Diego

I saw a "Veterans for McCain" sign while driving through Corrales, NM, last weekend. While Corrales is definitely Republican turf, I still just don't get it. Dems are much better at supporting vets than Goopers. We're not the ones who wanted to cut combat pay, slashed budgets for vets, opposed better body armor, and sent troops in without adequate uparmored vehicles and sufficient bullets. Dems are the ones who pushed for the new GI Bill. McCain postures as a vet (and don't forget, a POW) but veterans give him a very low score for his alleged support.

Nice to see VoteVets speaking up:



--the BB

Getting to know you - the series

Haven't you noticed, suddenly I'm rather truth-free,
Because of all the baseless, untrue
lies I'm telling about you
day
by
day?

[Yes, as a young lad I read Anna and the King of Siam and saw The King and I and got the album and played it over and over and over again and memorized every word of every song. This was the height of my American musical theatre fandom and it was all downhill from there. I really am a rather pathetic queer when it comes to musicals.]

Now, where was I? Oh yes, pondering the McCain campaign and its falsehoods or omissions so egregious they count as falsehoods. Consider McCain's record on opposing higher taxes.



Maverick my ass.

It's not that there are not times when taxes need to be raised or adjusted; it's that they pretend to be champions of lower taxes who would never, ever vote to raise them. Or, as a radio ad I heard today (on the local channel that carries liberal talk shows like Stephanie Miller, Ed Schultz, Thom Hartmann, and Randi Rhodes) put it - "be very afraid of Obama, he'll raise your taxes" -brought to you by the McCain-Palin Campaign and the Republican National Committee. Asshats.
--the BB

Getting to know you

Allora, chi è il vero McCain?



Questions are beginning to arise but he still gets away with, shall we say, astonishing inconsistency.

This YouTube has surpassed 5.5 million views. Way to go, my intertubal chums!

h/t to Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films
--the BB