The Top 10 Reasons YOU Should Be Voting for John McCain
The following is a guest post by webwork and Bowflex Home Fitness on the top 10 reasons why you should vote for John McCain in the upcoming election:
10. “Well, basically, it’s a Google.” –on how he’s conducting his VP search, Richmond, Virginia, June 9, 2008
9. “We should be able to deliver bottled hot water to dehydrated babies.” –Kenner, Louisiana, June 3, 2008
8. “The issue of economics is not something I’ve understood as well as I should. I’ve got Greenspan’s book.”
7. “I am a illiterate that has to rely on my wife for all of the assistance I can get.” –after being asked whether us uses a Mac or a PC
6. “Fuck you! I know more about this than anyone else in the room.” –to Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), during a testy exchange about immigration legislation
5. “No, I’m calling you a fucking jerk.” –to fellow Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, when Grassley asked “Are you calling me stupid?”
4. “Only an asshole would put together a budget like this … I wouldn’t call you an asshole unless you really were an asshole.” –to Budget Committee Chairman and fellow Repulican Sen. Pete Domenici, during a Senate budget hearing
3. “I said, ‘The nice thing about Alzheimer’s is you get to hide your own Easter eggs.'”
2. “I hated the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live.”
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The #1 reason YOU should be voting for John McCain………
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“Do you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her father.”
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[2008-06-15]
I still like the one where he called his wife a cunt.
“We should be able to deliver bottled hot water to dehydrated babies”
-McCain
This is why I’ll vote for him.
As an American, I am ashamed and surprised to say that the United States is quite hypocritical. Americans like to say that they love freedom and justice, but here are some examples of where American actions conflict with American standards:
1. The US inspected a Soviet Union fighter jet that landed in Japan in 1976, but protested that China should not search an American plane that landed in China in 2001.
http://home.iwichita.com/rh1/hold/av/avhist/mily/spyplane.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/1255343.stm
2. The Fifth Amendment of the Bill of Rights clearly states that people should not be subject to the same offense twice, but sex offenders can be convicted of crimes and then later be required to register as sex offenders and be held for life under indefinite civil commitment laws even after they complete their original sentences. “John TV” shows that embarrass and punish people arrested on prostitution charges also violate the Fifth Amendment guarantee of due process rights.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/01/12/scotus.sex.offender.law/index.html
http://www.acluofnorthcarolina.org/?q=due-process
3. The Sixth Amendment guaranteeing the right to speedy trials is violated by holding prisoners at Guantanamo Bay without charge. The Eighth Amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishments and is violated by torturing Guantanamo Bay prisoners. Whether the prisoners are foreigners or not makes no difference because it violates the intent of the Constitution and sends the message to other nations that human rights violations are acceptable. Taking the moral high ground is difficult when you are immoral yourself. If you want to prevent terrorism, give terrorists a trial, improve airline security, and don’t give out visas easily. Torturing suspected terrorists only recruits more terrorists. Two wrongs don’t make a right.
http://www.historiansagainstwar.org/resources/torture/cohn.html
4. The Fourth Amendment protection against illegal searches is violated by the Patriot Act that allows secret warrants.
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/webster/090419
5. The Fourth Amendment protection against illegal searches and seizures, the Fifth amendment that allows due process, and the Eighth Amendment that forbids excessive bail, fines, and cruel and unusual punishment are all violated by DUI checkpoints and asset forfeiture laws.
http://detnews.com/article/20091112/METRO/911120388/Police-property-seizures-ensnare-even-the-innocent
6. The Fourth Amendment protection against illegal searches and the Fourteenth Amendment that guarantees equal protection of the law is violated by Arizona’s immigration law that requires police to question people who look like illegal immigrants. Illegal immigration would be better stopped by having a strong border and fining employers of illegal immigrants, not by profiling Americans who look like foreigners.
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/may062010/arizona-law-rs.php
7. The United States criticizes Iran and North Korea for developing nuclear power, but the US helps the United Arab Emirates, India, and Vietnam develop nuclear technology.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/08/07/us_vietnam_nuke_deal_likely_to_allow_enrichment/
8. The USA supports democracy, but has overthrown democratically elected leaders in Iran and Chile. The US also supports countries that do not have religious freedom and democracy like Saudi Arabia and has supported dictators like Ferdinand Marcos from the Philippines, Ngo Dinh Diem in Vietnam, Suharto in Indonesia, and Saddam Hussein from Iraq.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06353/747165-109.stm
http://www.military-veterans-for-justice.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10&Itemid=13
9. The US opposes terrorism, but has supported Osama bin Laden and freed the accused Cuban terrorist Luis Posada Carriles suspected of blowing up a plane in 1976.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2001/09/15/osama-qna.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/may/15/theterroristbushisntafter
10. The United States says that it supports free trade, but foreign companies can currently only own 25% of an airline in the US, while American companies can buy 49% of an airline in Europe.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=atMw6Pzh8Ls0
11. The United States criticizes Airbus for receiving European government subsidies while ignoring the fact that Boeing accepted government tax breaks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/business/global/04wto.html
Maybe it is just human nature, but Americans have always looked for an enemy to blame from witches to blacks to Communists. Today people are aghast that the US had Japanese concentration camps and once allowed slavery and segregation. How will people look back on the treatment of sex offenders, Muslims, and illegal immigrants in the USA 60 years from now?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/opinion/05kristof.html
Criminals should be punished, but only in a way that doesn’t violate the Constitution. Even innocent people can be arrested and wrongly convicted.
If you care about your freedom, write your elected officials. Governments would love to take away all your freedom if they could. Our freedoms are diminishing, not growing. Stand up, fight for your rights, and protect our freedom now!
http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml
http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html
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First they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, but I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me, but there was no one left to speak for me.
If only one person is not free, then no one is free.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.