I believe that if we elect Senator John McCain in November, the effect will be of giving President Bush a third term. If you are part of the 80% of this country that believes we’re on the wrong track, you should not vote for Senator McCain.
I beieve this because in every year since 2001, Senator McCain has voted in favor of President Bush’s positions at least 77% of the time and in 2007 voted the President’s way 95% of the time.
I believe that Senator McCain is a Bush third term because he supports the President’s policy in Iraq and will continue the occupation indefinitely. He talks about 2013, but no word on how we get there and winding down the occupation doesn’t take place in his first term. This sounds like Bush.
Senator McCain recently abandoned his commitment against torture by saying that the CIA cannot be bound by the same rules as the rest of the government. This is the Bush position.
Senator McCain believes the President can engage in secret warrantless wiretapping outside of statute by virtue of the President’s Article II power. This is the Bush position.
I could go on, but I rather turn the floor over to McCain’s supporters (or campaign staff) to explain how their candidate is different from President Bush.
I’d like you to accept this challenge:
Identify five current specific policies currently carried out by the Bush Adminstration and use statements or position papers from Senator McCain to demonstrate how a McCain Presidency would be substantially different from a Bush Presidency. If I’m convinced, I’ll put up a new blog entry letting people know I was mistaken.
The Administration policies must be current and McCain’s opposition to those policies and his proposed alternative must be not contradicted by more recent statements. For example, in December 2007 McCain was against non-FISA wiretapping and telecom immunity. This month his campaign has come out in favor of telecom immunity and believes that the President’s warantless wiretapping is legal under the so called inherent powers of Article II of the Constitution. He has done a similar unfortunate flip-flop on the torture issue as well. He fought hard against it, now says the CIA cannot be limited to the US Army Interrogation manual. This is an endorsement of Bush’s “anything goes” philosophy as typified in the torture memos of the Administration.
But perhaps you’ll find and document meaningful areas of disagreement.
I’ve been watching a lot of Mission Impossible lately, so I must conclude with “That’s your mission, if you decide to accept it. Good Luck.”
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