Jun 13 2008
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Defending McCain
marc:
He has been a level-headed and often independent voice on important issues like campaign finance reform, climate change, pork barrel Congressional budget earmarks, and what interrogation techniques should be permissible on military detainees.
But here’s the thing: lately, he hasn’t done that at all.
He aided the filibuster that would have made the Army Field Manual the offical guide. He said nothing when Bush issued a signing statement to the Military Commissions Act of 2006 that defanged any anti-torture language in the bill.
McCain, more than any politician, should be a leading anti-torture activist: he knows what it’s like first hand. But his party prefers blurring the lines, so McCain toes the company line, just like he went from a 2000 denuciation of Falwell and company to actively seeking endorsements from those nutjobs in 2008.
The John McCain that ran in 2000 isn’t running in 2008. Not even close.
