What about John McCain?

[ColbertWatcher]

Yesterday, I posed a challenge to my fellow DUers to post something about John McCain every time they posted something about the democratic candidate they aren't currently supporting.

The response was mixed and it got only 9 recommendations.

I hop on today and see that nothing has really changed. We're still getting "that other candidate sucks" posts, but nothing about the GOP.

I know this is the primaries, but is this election not important?

Long before that I started a conversation asking people to say what they believed the election was about and once again, it was not received very well, nor did the conversation go beyond "the other candidate sucks" posts.

What I'm going to try to do here is ask one question about John McCain in the hopes we can start thinking about how wrong he is for our country's future.

Where does he stand on issues of real importance to Americans?

Foreign Policy?

Education?

Healthcare?

Restoring Habeas Corpus?

National Infrastructure (roads, bridges, etc)?

Food Safety?

Voting Rights?

Am I missing anything?

I think it's important that we start thinking about this now, while we are still choosing our candidate.

After all,

1. we are liberals; we can do more than one thing at a time

2. who ever we choose to be the democratic nominee is going to have to beat him.

There is no reason we should wait until September/October to do this.

[BuyingThyme]

1. You weren't able to change DU with one post?

[Just-plain-Kathy]

2. McCain is Bush's Mini-Me...

I think it's also important we find out about McCain’s personal life. He has a shadowy past.

I have been trying to find out more about his father, Edmond John McCain. You would think the world wide web would have more information on one of our ex Commander in Chiefs of our U.S. Naval Forces in Europe.

There’s something fishy about the lack of info on this guy. This morning I heard McCain mention some air base, or academy that was named after his father. You would think this entity would show up in a Google search. I found nothing.

[ColbertWatcher]

3. Interesting.

Orwell seems to have come to us from the future, he is right about so many things...

[Just-plain-Kathy]

4. Maybe the powers that be, used Orwell's writings as a blueprint. ...n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

5. Frightening thought, but possibly true. n/t