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Is this what it's come to?
Brilliant at Breakfast —
Is this the depths to which we've sunk? That I'm actually applauding Andrew Sullivan? In all the discussion of John McCain's recently recovered memory of a religious epiphany in Vietnam, one thing has been missing. The torture that was deployed against McCain emerges in all the various accounts. It involved sleep deprivation, the withholding of medical treatment, stress positions, long-time standing, and beating. Sound familiar? According to the Bush administration's definition of torture, McCain was therefore not tortured. Cheney denies that McCain was tortured; as does Bush. So do John Yoo and David Addington ...
The sanctity of McCain's marriages (II)
Citizen Crain —
August 21, 2008 The sanctity of McCain's marriages (II) Posted by: Chris After watching the excerpt below from a CNN report on John McCain's life, all I can say is it's about damn time . I have written many times that I do not believe in general that opposition to gay rights makes a person's sex life fair game, simply because the policy issue relates to sex. Civil marriage is a public institution, however, and a basic human right. When a politician opposes allowing same-sex couples access to that basic human right, his own marital history is fair game -- especially when that politician justifies our exclusion as a defense of " the sanctity " of the ...
CNN Exposes McCain-- Serial Liar, Serial Cheater, Serial Adulterer... Not Someone We Can Trust
DownWithTyranny! —
CNN's McCain Revealed has really been mostly a whitewash-- especially on his military career. But CNN did go to the questions about McCain's serial infidelities. He's isn't just an adulterer once or twice by someone who has adopted it as part of a lifestyle. As we pointed out a few days ago, McCain's years and years of philandering has made it difficult for the religionist wing of the Republican Party-- even for as big a GOP hack as James Dobson-- to endorse him (though they all will, including the hypocritical Dobson). Notice CNN refers to multiple "affairs," not to "an affair." They also point out McCain's lies and cover-ups as to ...
Family values, part II
HorsesAss.Org —
Apparently he even lied about his age in trying to seduce her….
Oh…and for the record…
Yep…it’s an Open thread.
McCain “Deeply Ashamed Of What He Did To His First Wife”
Firedoglake —
The BBC has a show called "Dinner with Portillo," and this week they decided it would be a good idea to take it on the road to New York and assemble a group which included me, Joe Klein and John Podhoretz.
Sort of like Pickett's charge -- seemed like a good idea at the time. ...
