John McCain: The Most Hypocritical, Opportunistic and Untrustworthy Senator

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http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/john-mccain-most-hypocritical-opportunistic-and-untrustworthy-senator



Just days after he took the helm of the Senate Armed Services Committee, John McCain, R-AZ, stood next to several hawkish Republican senators and attacked President Obama in typical McCain fashion.

He slammed the White House for releasing prisoners from the military’s Guantanamo Bay prison, even though McCain held that very position for a decade, from 2003 to 2013.

“The prison is a symbol of torture and justice delayed,” McCain said in November 2013, reading from a letter from 38 retired military officers on the Senate floor. “More than a decade after it opened, Guantánamo remains a recruiting poster for terrorists, which makes us all less safe.”

As late as mid-December, McCain had been saying he backed Obama’s effort to close the prison. But last week, McCain abruptly announced that he and other Senate hawks would be co-sponsoring a bill to bar the White House from releasing prisoners who have never been charged and the military had cleared for release.

[merrily]

1. He never met a mic he didn't love, but he's not that much worse than other Republicans.

[Enthusiast]

2. McCain also said, "The fundamentals of our economy are strong."

Member that?

[pangaia]

3. He is just a sad, empty, shell of a man,

bitter that his life has turned out to be such a joyless failure.

[Tom Ripley]

4. Fellow POWs called him "Songbird"

[canuckledragger]

5. So I guess he's never really changed, has he?

Sounds like he's always been one to selfishly say/do anything to benefit himself first and foremost, regardless of consequences to others.

[JonLP24]

8. I'm so far removed away from the knowledge of the details of his POV experience

so I can't say one way or the other to that but if I was in a similar situation, being tortured I'd probably say a little more than "name, rank, serial number" which is the only thing military regulations allow you to say though it is a bit odd it is all your personal information. Regardless, you're thinking about survival over dying with honor in how it relates the US military.

On edit -- looking at evidence, the best I see is after turning down medical care & early release ((learning of his status as an Admiral's son) because he would accept if those held before him were released as well which led a brutal torture campaign and the only thing I can found is he eventually made an "anti-American confession" though it cites a book page # so I don't see elaboration but a "confession" after brutal torture bothers me none, in comparison to the "build the dang fence" & so many other things.

[mulsh]

6. Remember who took the most graft in Lincoln Savings? The media certainly managed to forget that

salient fact nearly instantaneously. I've loathed this scummy, lying grifter for many years. Thank god he's always been above using his former POW and cancer survivor experiences along with hiding his well proven abilities to accept bribes from an unsuspecting public. election year.

[JonLP24]

7. He loved to bring up how he had the scars to prove he went up against his own party

(he actually did say it almost exactly like that near the end of I think the 3rd debate so I'm not misremembering or misrepresented based on his countless other "scars to prove it" uses)

but I think he appears to be far more compromised by his own party though Arizona has very conservative pockets. I live in the most conservative city of 250,000+ which is a vicinity of the Phoenix metropolitan area which has the distinction of being the highest populated city the Republican party has carried every Presidential election following the '96 where Clinton captured Maricopa County as well as the state (a school field trip when I was living in Tempe at-the-time was to go to a campaign speech on ASU campus -- though it was "see the President" field trip rather than something politically organized)

[TwilightGardener]

9. McCain has never had any core convictions beyond two things:

the copious use of military force, and doing whatever is best for John McCain on any given day.

[Orrex]

10. But he's a maverick, you know.

You know. A maverick.