I love how people call the media the "liberal media" ...but really, they're the "capitalist media" and this guy just doesn't deliver ratings.

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Oh the strong contraditictions. Either he is a befuddled old man who cannot keep his facts straight or he has a habit of making self-serving lies. I don't know which case would be worse.

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I only watched through the first two critiques (in which McCain obviously is misstating facts to make Iraq seem safer), and I think they are well-taken. Not as bad as Hillary's "Tuzla Dash" but clearly a "convenient memory." Not exactly Straight Talk, eh?

Most of my problems with McCain are "from the right," though, not from the left. (Exception: I'm more pro-gay-marriage than he is.) To cite one of many, many examples: I'm pretty hard-right on enforcing the borders (fence, etc.) and requiring most employers to verify new hires' SSNs. McCain instead favored "comprehensive reform," which included a mass amnesty (or amnesty-plus-a-small-fine, if you prefer). This infuriated conservatives. So when McCain clinched the nomination, he promised in no uncertain terms that he'd "enforce the border first" before doing any "comprehensive" stuff. This week, however, he seems to have forgotten that promise, stating his hope to pass "comprehensive reform" in 2009.

Another irreverent righty blogger put it this way:

McCain stated he'd push for the Comprehensive Piece of Shit again by January 2009 -- he doesn't think it will be done by then, but he wants it done by then.

That would seem to indicate he lied about his "secure the borders" first pledge. If the borders have not be secured for, what, let's just call it thirty years instead of forever, it's an impossibility they'd be sealed within a single year of John McCain presidency. Despite making the pledge to "secure the borders" first, he has pushed for exactly none of the steps necessary to do so. It strains credibility to imagine he will suddenly advocate a border fence and the like as president when he's only grudgingly allowed, as a candidate and senator, he'll build the "goddamn fence" if we insist on it.

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I held off on this last night because I didn't know what to do. ... Obama would be (marginally, I think) worse than McCain.

But Obama hasn't really flat-out lied to me.

That counts for something.

I don't think securing the borders and putting employer-SSN-check into place will take THIRTY years, but it'll take at least a few years. It surely won't be done by 2009.

One thing you (personally) can take comfort in is that, no matter who wins this election, conservatives will be unhappy. At least liberals have one or two candidates they genuinely can be enthusiastic about.

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If Hilary gets the nom, I'm voting Libertarian...and I'm ok w/ that since I live in Illinois and my vote doesn't really count (you know Illinois is going blue just cuz of Obama and Hillary's hometown roots here). She really is a terrible liar and I can't excuse her Bosnia lie and making Florida and Michigan a civil rights issue (she agreed to not compaign there and signed that it wouldn't count, for cryin' out loud).

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