Straight Talk Express Takes Bush/Cheney Track

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"Straight Talk" Express Takes
the Bush/Cheney Track

A picture is worth a thousand words. While posturing for an adoring media as an independent maverick Senator, Republican presidential candidate John McCain has flip-flopped on numerous issues and openly embraces virtually all of Bush and Cheney's disasterous economic, domestic, and foreign policies.

By Michael Castellano

The campaign of Republican presidential candidate John McCain is publicly dening rumors that he received a large contribution from Deckers Corporation, the makers of the popular "Flip Flop" brand of thonged shoes.
According to Rick Davis, McCain's chief strategist and advisor, "We have not received a penny in contributions from Decker Corporation. This is just another example of disinformation from the Obama campaign." An Obama spokeperson immediately fired back, saying "John McCain gets it wrong again. We never said that Decker Corporation contributed to Senator McCain's campaign. Quite the contrary, what we said was that with all the flip flopping going on in his campaign, McCain should be sending Decker Corporation a bill for all the free publicity he's giving them."
Notable McCain Flip Flops
So is it fair to say that Senator McCain is a flip-flopper? Below is a partial list of McCain's more notable chnages of opinion. You be the judge.

The Flip

The Flop

1999 - 2007:

"In the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade.” 2008:

"I'm for a constitutional amendment banning abortion, with some exceptions for life of the mother, rape and incest.

2002:

"Jerry Falwell is an agent of intolerance.” 2006:

McCain makes the commencement speech at Falwell's Liberty University.

2002:

McCain accuses Texas businessmen Sam and Charles Wyly of being corrupt and files a campaign fiance law complaint. 2006:

McCain reaches out to the Wylys for support and contributions for his presidential campaign.

2003:

McCain cosponsors the "McCain-Feingold-Shays-Meehan" campaign fiance reform bill. 2006:

McCain withdraws his support for his own bill.

2006:

McCain opposes use of torture on POWS and at the Guantanemo prison. 2006:

McCain reverses his position and supports the Bush "torture" bill.

2000:

McCain condemns Bush for speaking at Bob Jones University, which bans interracial dating. 2006:

McCain reverses his position and says he would speak at Bob Jones University.

2001:

McCain opposes the Bush tax cuts saying they were primarily for the wealthy. 2006:

McCain votes to extend the Bush tax cuts he formerly opposed.

A Maverick Who Wears the Bush Brand?
Given Senator McCain's craven capitulations to the Bush/Cheney agenda, one has to wonder how he seems to have maintained his ill-deserved reputation as a "maverick" politician? Perhaps it's because McCain is, in reality, a mythical character created by a right-wing leaning media and moulded in the John Wayne tradtion. According to the myth, the hero is the perenial bigger than life, tough guy/military figure with an inner heart of gold who always arrives in the nick of time to slay the bad guys.
Once created, no one dare stick a pin in this mythical baloon, a myth all of us were raised and encouraged to believe in. When McCain was shot down by the Vietnamese over Hanoi, he was John Wayne captured and torured by the godless commies. Nobody promoting this myth cared to know that McCain's mission that day was a civilian target -- the Hanoi Water Works -- or that the war was undeclared, immoral, and illegal.
By the way, in case you're wondering about where the term "maverick" comes from, it apparently originated in the days of the Wild West and open range cattle ranching, a maverick being a cow or calf that has separated itself from the herd and wandered off on his or her own.
Far from being a maverick politician, Senator McCain more closely resembles a runaway that has been rounded up and brought back into the Bush/Cheney herd, a submissive and emasculated critter with a large "B/C" brand name seared permanently onto his butt.

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