McCain’s Gigantic Cojones
James Hanley on Sep 4th 2008
I’ve become pretty cynical over the years, but down inside I’m still sort of the naive little country boy, and that’s where John McCain’s acceptance speech hit me, deep inside, right in the gut, and it made me sick.
Just one night after Sarah Palin read a nastily partisan speech written for her by McCain’s speech writers, he read the following line given him by his speech writers.
“The constant partisan rancor that stops us from solving these problems isn’t a cause, it’s a symptom. It’s what happens when people go to Washington to work for themselves and not you.
That’s just rank hypocrisy, but it wasn’t the worst. This was the worst:
Again and again, I’ve worked with members of both parties to fix problems that need to be fixed. That’s how I will govern as President. I will reach out my hand to anyone to help me get this country moving again. I have that record and the scars to prove it. Senator Obama does not.”
I’ll take wickedly insinuating non-sequiters for $1000, Alex. And maybe I will cast a vote for Obama, just because McCain and his crowd have been insulting my intelligence non-stop for the last week.
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Well, getting hit in the gut will do that to you :)
At this point I have to say that I don’t really care which of the candidates wins. I don’t think either of them will be good for your country, though they are delightfully different in their craptitude.
were I an American citizen I would probably follow Ed’s plan and vote for Barr. At least that vote can do no harm.
James K,
No one person’s vote can do harm in a national election. See one of Hanley’s earliest posts.
AMW,
To be fair, one person’s vote in a national election might end up doing harm to that person’s soul.
But I agree with your main point. Vote in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up faster.
Umm, Dave, must I?
AMW, that is a fair point though to be accurate pedantic a vote for a main party candidate does negligible harm, not no harm. Your vote does have a teeny, tiny bit of influence, just not enough to worry about.
Hey, my strikethough on accurate didn’t show up in the post, but it did on the preview. That’s really weird.
James K,
Sure, it has a teensy influence on the margin of victory, but zero influence on who wins. And while who wins matters, I’m not sure if the margin of victory matters.