Huffington on McCain: A Trojan Horse

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2008/05/06/huffington-on-mccain-a-trojan-horse/

by Tula Connell, May 6, 2008

Somewhere along the road from the 2000 presidential campaign to this year’s elections, Sen. John McCain transformed from a lawmaker willing to challenge extremist Republicans like George W. Bush to just another politician begging to kiss the ring of the Great Leader and win Bush’s blessing as inheritor of the White House mantle.

This description of the McCain metamorphosis is not idle speculation from afar. It’s based on the personal experience of political analyst Arianna Huffington, who supported McCain a few years ago to the point of throwing a fundraiser for him. Now, she devotes a large section of her new book to show how McCain has abandoned any modicum of moderation and has fully embraced the extremist agenda of Bush and his clones.



In Right is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution and Made Us All Less Safe, Huffington, editor of the popular Huffington Post blog, points out that after twice voting against making permanent Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthy, McCain now supports this boondoogle for the rich. Further, he moved from being a campaign finance reformer to a candidate whose campaign is run by lobbyists and who has flip-flopped from opposing torture to voting to allow water boarding.

And as we’ve pointed out, McCain, like Bush, supports tax hikes on our health insurance, supports pay discrimination, backs bad trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and pushes economic policies to help millionaires, not working families.

Stumping for her new book in Washington, D.C., yesterday, Huffington joined economist Jared Bernstein at a book talk sponsored by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), where she attributed the public’s misunderstanding of the real John McCain in large part to the media’s portrayal of him.

The John McCain the media fell in love with in 2000 isn’t on the ballot in 2008.

FULL story at link.

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