John McCain

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John McCain is a Republican senator from Arizona. He officially announced his candidacy for president (2008 election) on 2007-04-25.
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Although McCain seems more or less benevolent at heart, he has allowed his handlers to shape his policy to the extent that he often doesn't seem to know what it is and has reversed himself countless times, denying statements whose authenticity is trivially easy to verify via video recordings posted on the internet.

Most egregiously, though, he has pledged to continue Bush's horrible policies, and indeed has Bush's endorsement. That ought to be enough to condemn him as a successor, but apparently there are still enough people who either support Bush or see Bush's failures as the result of bad luck (rather than his own idiocy, ignorance, and malice) and are willing to give those policies another go.

He also reversed himself on torture; his firm anti-torture stance was one of his strong points early on.

Another early strong point was his work against corruption; he has effectively undermined himself in that area by associating heavily with industry lobbyists, who have written many of his policies.

The McCain/Palin ticket is the first in American history in which both candidates were found to have violated ethics standards before a national election.

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  • McCain apparently tried to add an amendment (to the 2006 Department of Defense Appropriations Bill) which would have banned "torture and inhumane treatment of prisoners"; VP Cheney has been campaigning hard to have the amendment modified to exempt the CIA from the ban. This article apparently describes what ultimately happened.
  • 'In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, when Sen. John McCain proposed that (Don) Young redirect his prized pork money to help rebuild New Orleans, Young accused his detractors of "ignorance and stupidity." The victims of Katrina, he suggested, "can kiss my ear!"' [1]

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In reference to McCain's tendency to say "you know... whatever" whenever he's caught changing his opinion, denying what he said on video 2 months ago, being vague, etc:

VOTE JOHN McCANE
...well, you know. Whatever.
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