McCain’s ‘change’ is not what it seems
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Ray Williams
Published: September 24, 2008
John McCain has a plan for America. That plan is change.
Better than anyone else, John understands the failures of the past eight years under the Bush Administration. As has been well documented, John McCain has been a part of that failed leadership, voting
in lock-step with the Republican Party 95 percent of the time. So John brings a perspective of failure to the presidential race that Barack Obama simply does not have. From this perspective, John has
developed a platform of change for his campaign. And this platform is simple.
Each time our nation is faced with a crisis, President McCain will gather his advisors and ask the tough, straightforward question of “what would John McCain do?” And when this crisis is thoroughly
debated and a decision is reached, the new John McCain, John McChange as it were, will simply implement policy opposite of the old John McSame ideals and lead this country in our proper direction.
Of course, John McCain may further simplify this process, as he has done in his presidential campaign and look to Barack Obama for ideas and inspiration to lead this country forward.
RAY WILLIAMS
Manassas
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Posted by ( mongoose ) on September 27, 2008 at 11:51 am
Mccain the republican said he would not attend the debates. mcCain the democrat decided to show up. McCain mcmakes my head spin.
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Posted by ( raywilliams ) on September 26, 2008 at 8:13 am
Well pwanon, if McCain is a Republican it sure would nice if he ran on his Republican record, backed his Republican president in this time of crisis and stopped behaving like he’s a closet Democrat.
I remain puzzled that for 8 years, Republicans have feverishly backed President Bush as a savior of their party, and now, with the grains of sand running out of the hourglass, they have turned on Mr. Bush and his Administration and demand “change”.
So what is it? Do we follow the old Republican lemmings off the cliff or do we now follow the new Republican lemmings off a new cliff? If you’re right on Bush, you’re wrong on McCain. If you’re right on McCain, you were wrong on Bush. In either case, why should we trust to follow your wishy-washy recommendations?
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Posted by ( real change ) on September 26, 2008 at 8:02 am
Ray Williams; Did you have Robert Lang pen your letter? My golly gosh darn, what a freaking great zinger at the end. Disreagarding the actual content (I remain a rabid republican) your letter, especially the twist at the end, SLAYED ME (in a good way). That is the style I love to read. THANK YOU!
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Posted by ( pwanon ) on September 26, 2008 at 7:27 am
So they’re the same guy, Ray? How is it, then, that it’s not BHO who is now John McCain? A bit on the arrogant side, isn’t it? They are fundamentally different on nearly every major issue:
BHO wants to abandon what our troops have accomplished in Iraq. John McCain wants to honor it by finishing what we’ve started.
John McCain wants to protect the lives of the unborn. BHO wants babies who are partially born to be killed.
BHO wants to socialize health care, eliminating your choice of which doctor to see. John McCain wants you to continue to be able to choose your own.
BHO wants to negotiate, without conditions, with the likes of Ahmadinejad and Chavez (both of whom will promptly eat his lunch). John McCain wants to check their aggression and pursuit of nuclear weapons with American diplomatic and military might.
BHO wants to expand affirmative action programs (naturally), even though they have proven to be a collossal failure since their inception in 1978. And on, and on I could go.
But you’re right Ray...so similar it’s hard to to tell.
And I think we covered this one before...but Sarah Palin is not a “Hillary-look-a-like”. I know you think all women are the same...but some have principles, intelligence, morals, and looks...and others are named Hillary Clinton.
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Posted by ( raywilliams ) on September 26, 2008 at 6:47 am
pwanon, I merely point out that McCain ran in the primaries as a Bush Republican, touting his 95% support of the Bush Administration policies.
Since becoming the Republican nominee, McCain has adopted a Democratic platform of labeling the Bush Administration a failure, refused to allow Bush to speak live at his convention, gave prime speech time to former Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Lieberman, selected a Hillary look-alike as his running mate and began to campaign on “change”. By golly, McCain is even willing to allow Obama to argue his side of the presidential debate tonight as he sees no reason to attend.
If it looks like a Democrat, talks like a Democrat, campaigns like a Democrat - it must be a Democrat.
So my point, once again is, if the old John McSame is gone, and a new John McChange has risen, he can save everyone the time and effort and simply ask “What would Obama Do?” and proceed forward.
As for your question as to why McChange would campaign wearing an Obama mask, you’ll have to pose that question to one of the John McCains.
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Posted by ( RonCharest ) on September 25, 2008 at 5:51 pm
Actually, John McCain is so committed to change that he practices it on a daily basis. He was against finance industry regulations before he was for it, and now is against it again - except in instances when he thinks it’s a good idea.
He was against drilling in ANWAR before he picked Caribou Sarah as his running mate, and now is for it.
He was opposed to torture when he was in Vietnam, but now that it’s the US torturing Iraqis he’s all for it - except when he votes in favor of a bill banning torture before he supports a presidential veto of it.
He was opposed to radical right-wing Christian fundamentalists writing their biblical interpretations into federal law before he sucked up to radical right-wing preachers, and now is all for it.
Yep, the more McCain changes, the more he stays the same.
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Posted by ( gwenandgary ) on September 25, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Ray --
While I don’t necessarily agree with everything in your letter, it would be fitting for McCain—if elected—to install a few Democrats in advisory positions. If he truly wants bipartisan support for his policies and initiatives, this would be a proper first move at reaching for that goal.
Oh, and no matter which candidate one votes for this time around, one is almost certainly guaranteed of “change”—of one sort or another. Things will probably never be in such a state again.
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Posted by ( pwanon ) on September 25, 2008 at 3:51 pm
And what exactly should he look to BHO for guidance on, Ray? How to silently sit by while your “mentor” rails against all white people? Or perhaps how to turn a deaf ear when your “mentor” says that all those killed on 9/11 got they deserved because they’re Americans?
Perhaps he could get guidance from BHO on how useful $105,000 worth of Freddie and Fannie campaign contributions can be? Or some advice on how the “tiny” nation of Iran poses “no threat” to the United States?
Amongst those, Ray...on which should John McCain seek BHO’s guidance? Because surely BHO’s expertise lies somewhere within...and nowhere else.
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Posted by ( phdee ) on September 25, 2008 at 2:39 pm
If McCain’s “change” doesn’t work, he can always “change” it again - or turn it over to expert Palin.
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Posted by ( jVA ) on September 25, 2008 at 9:08 am
John McCain is promising to fix all the stuff he helped break.
Trust him like you would trust the shady contractor who screwed up your basement and promises to come back and clean it up.
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