U.S. And International Politics

[Jarrett Smith]

It was John McCain who lost.  Badly. His campaign was a complete disaster.  Anyone involved with that campaign should take up a career other than politics.   Trump won twice with the media and political establishment of both parties doing everything possible to defeat him.  No other person in our lifetime has been able to break the stranglehold that this group has on power.  It's likely no one will do so again.  It's an absolute miracle that Trump won with all those forces against him.  Sparing us a Hillary and Kamala administration.  Disasters that would have brought the country to ruin.

McCain was toast when he turned on Bill Cunningham at that rally. Limbaugh and the rest of talk radio bailed, and it was over with a thud.

[John Corbett]

McCain was toast when he turned on Bill Cunningham at that rally. Limbaugh and the rest of talk radio bailed, and it was over with a thud.

I voted for Barack Obama in 2008 for one and only one reason. He was not John McCain. A year earlier when Hillary was the presumptive nominee and it was less than certain that McCain would be the GOP choice, I told my friends that if McCain were nominated, I would vote for Hillary. Voting for Obama was a little less than distasteful than voting for Hillary would have been. I went so far as to say I would vote for Osama Bin Laden before I would vote for John McCain.

Why did i despise McCain so much. The McCain-Feingold Act was the most dastardly, undemocratic piece of legislation that had passed the US  Congress since John Adams' Alien and Sedition Acts. It gave the federal government the power to restrict political dissent. While the Supreme Court has struck down some of the provisions of McCain-Feingold, mainly through Citizens United, there's still some provisions that remain in force.

PS I also didn't vote for George W. Bush in 2004 because that SOB signed McCain-Feingold into law, even though he thought many provisions were unconstitutional. He left it up to the Supreme Court to strike it down. He took an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. He didn't do that when he passed the buck to the Supreme Court.

[Richard Smith]

I voted for Barack Obama in 2008 for one and only one reason. He was not John McCain. A year earlier when Hillary was the presumptive nominee and it was less than certain that McCain would be the GOP choice, I told my friends that if McCain were nominated, I would vote for Hillary. Voting for Obama was a little less than distasteful than voting for Hillary would have been. I went so far as to say I would vote for Osama Bin Laden before I would vote for John McCain.

Why did i despise McCain so much. The McCain-Feingold Act was the most dastardly, undemocratic piece of legislation that had passed the US  Congress since John Adams' Alien and Sedition Acts. It gave the federal government the power to restrict political dissent. While the Supreme Court has struck down some of the provisions of McCain-Feingold, mainly through Citizens United, there's still some provisions that remain in force.

PS I also didn't vote for George W. Bush in 2004 because that SOB signed McCain-Feingold into law, even though he thought many provisions were unconstitutional. He left it up to the Supreme Court to strike it down. He took an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. He didn't do that when he passed the buck to the Supreme Court.

Have to respect McCain's conduct as a POW but not much else.  The typical establishment politician.  In it for himself while spending his entire career accomplishing nothing except to enrich himself.   Even so, I don't think that I could bring myself to vote for Hillary or Obama.  The latter was a nice guy but his policies were a disaster and even then, he accomplished very little except to prove once and for all that the decades long left wing campaign to convince voters that America is inherently racist was nothing but a fraud.  Have to hand it to LBJ.   He made sure that minorities were kept dependent on government handouts.  And to get those handouts, they have to vote for the Dems.  Every American city run by Dems is a complete disaster of crime and poverty in a vicious cycle.   And that is exactly the way they want to keep it because to win a state-wide or national election, the Dems need 80% or more of the minority vote.