Comments on: McCain On Opposing Mukasey: ‘I Can’t Be That Absolute’

By: judyinnm

judyinnm — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:15:40 +0000

This is the same John McCain who, along with 4 or 5 other Republican sneators vociferously objected to torture, and turned around and wrote it INTO law, last year.

Did anyone ask McCain if he’d be willing to restore the Constitutional protections if he’s elected? No one ever asks that…..

By: Snowball

Snowball — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:10:27 +0000

I have a suspicion that Mukasey’s balking on the issue of waterboarding might be just a diversionary tactic to distract from his overall belief in the dangerous and anti-democratic theory of the Unitary Executive. Ultimately, Mukasey will deliver an answer on the issue designed to satisfy Senators Specter and McCain. The whole debate over whether the president is above the law will then be swept aside leaving the issues of illegal warrentless spying on American citizens, the suspension of Habeas Corpus and Bush regime’s flaunting of Congressional investigations into corruption and politicization of the Justice Department unresolved.

Mukasey is just the man the Bush regime needs to set all these other issues aside. We focus on only waterboarding at our own peril.

By: MapleStreet

MapleStreet — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:17:20 +0000

What bothers me about the film clip is watching the blink rate (a body language that can imply lying)

When on a diatribe about how bad waterboarding is and why we can’t do it, his blink rate goes through the roof.

When saying that he doesn’t know about the nomination, his blink rate slows down to a more reasonable rate.

By: SP Biloxi

SP Biloxi — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:37:00 +0000

The Maverick’s magic touch has turned to saw dust. Yup, he is certainly lives up to his name: McCave!

By: SeigHeil

SeigHeil — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:02:14 +0000

Torturing non-US citizens is only a small part of what Mukasey and company are doing. There are very extensive and long-running (5-years+ already) NIMH-sponsored clinical trials to destroy the brains, bodies, and social and career lives of people considered ’sub-human’ or biosocially inclined to criminality, particularly sex-crimes (e.g., psychopathic sexual deviants, etc.)

Lives, minds, families, and communities are being destroyed, the lobotomy is being brought back, and civil rights are being eviscerated. Torturing foreign prisoners is the least of our worries. When Mukasey was chief judge in NYC, he approved many of the NAZI-clinical trials.

But don’t worry, the victims are sub-human. The weak corrupt the strong! Ein Volk! Ein Reich! Ein Fuhrer!

By: ArtZ

ArtZ — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:30:06 +0000

Yes or no?

Which answer will get me your vote?

By: iluvobama45

iluvobama45 — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:10:24 +0000

this talk of john mccain being some kind of war monger in support of war crimes is ridulous…..the aurguments sometimes made on the far left. WILL i repeat WILL lose responsible democrats the election…….it seems some of our brethern are about a hair trigger away from total insanity…its a good thing that john mccain is thinking of holding up the nomination if he belives in his heart he should……he dosent care about the election…if he did he would have not supported the imigration plan…which is kicking his ass in the primary right now……..the only thing that will lose the democrats the election and total control of two branches of government is our own loonies going unfairly at the charcter of the opposition…we will have power soon and we the boggishpere will be the new base…we control the youth………….we control some media outlets…we have the world almost in our hands……a little patience guys…we’ll get what we want

By: Max-1

Max-1 — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:00:05 +0000

The “tortured war hero” can’t even decide what the hell is torture and even if it is acceptable.

LAUGHABLY SHAMEFUL.

Dear Senator,

IS torture EVER an American Principle?

McCain forgot that the Constitution was written during a time of war, ON OUR SOIL and yet he espouses forgoing it so that he can be correct?

Such anti-Americans should not be allowed to populate Congress.

McCain is NOT supporting and defending the Constitution of the USA when he excuses the allowances he grants to the president and himself/Congress for usurping and willfully violating that very Document.

By: Leftside Annie

Leftside Annie — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:07:48 +0000

John McCain: DEAD MAN CAMPAIGNING

By: TRDaggett

TRDaggett — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:01:04 +0000

Now there’s another idea for a McCain ‘mascot’. “They call him Flipper — Flipper, faster than lightening…”

By: drtichy

drtichy — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:52:31 +0000

Yeah, and right now we have a pretty old, senile guy as vice: shrinking DICK

By: Jay Randal

Jay Randal — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:49:54 +0000

McCain is very senile, so the press must not give him any opportunity to try to revive his dying campaign for President. We have already endured a senile old guy before: Ronald Reagan. So we must not have another fool.

By: Veritas

Veritas — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:41:09 +0000

I love the foolish way McCain continues to set himself up to flop on his ass. Amazing that this guy is so incredibly stupid to do it time and again. Clearly, he has absolutely no business running for prez.

By: Veritas

Veritas — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:40:18 +0000

How does McCain quantify and qualify “waterboarding”? It’s a drowning experience, plain and simple. McCain has just successfully “drowned his campaign” – he’s “waterboarded his presidential campaign”. That’s all folks!

By: Dave C

Dave C — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:39:58 +0000

McCain says all of the right things when asked about waterboarding. And then falls flat on his face.

Q – How do you feel about the U.S. burning abandoned children in countries where the population growth is putting a burden on world food production?

McCain – Youâ€™ve stumped me. Are we on the Straight Talk express? Iâ€™m not informed enough on it. Let me find out. You know, Iâ€™m sure Iâ€™ve taken a position on it on the past. I have to find out what my position was. Brian, would you find out what my position is on burning children â€“ Iâ€™m sure I support it as a method of population control, Iâ€™m sure I support the presidentâ€™s policies on it. This doesn’t constitute abortion does it?

By: Veritas

Veritas — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:38:43 +0000

John McCain traded his soul to the devil after being “thumped” during the primaries by GWB. He then took the deal to be his front man and chief-asslicker.

By: Veritas

Veritas — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:38:00 +0000

One thing Flipper McCain can be absolute about – he’s ABSOLUTELY an idiot. Did they do a frontal lobe on his while he was a POW perchance?

By: foolme1ns

foolme1ns — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:35:38 +0000

email to John McCain: SHAME ON YOU, JOHN MCCAIN!!!! How dare you would even consider voting for someone for Attorney General who can’t answer simply if waterboarding is torture. Or someone who cannot say that it is illegal and against everything that this country stands for.

SHAME ON YOU, JOHN MCCAIN!!!!

Everytime I see you anymore, I can only think to myself that George Bush and Dick Cheney have managed to do to you what the Vietnamese were unable to do. They have turned you into a traitor to this country and a coward, and it is a damned shame.

SHAME ON YOU, JOHN MCCAIN!!!!

Why don’t you ask Mr. Mukasey if he would think waterboarding were torture if it were done to his wife or his children. Or if putting them in a freezing cold room and wetting them with water and putting them in a stress position for 24 to 48 hours would be torture?

I am horrified to see what this country has become in 7 short years, and equally horrified to see what you have become.

SHAME ON YOU, JOHN MCCAIN!!!

By: Jay Randal

Jay Randal — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:33:19 +0000

Senators are too weak-willed to stand-up to prevent this confirmation. Must be that Dubya has dirt on all the Senators to blackmail them.

By: Zooey

Zooey — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:29:23 +0000

The fact that he refuses to do so speaks very eloquently of his complete lack of morals and character.
Comment by Leftside Annie â€” October 28, 2007 @ 12:19 pm

Absolutely correct, Leftside Annie. If he’d spoken out about his experiences as a POW, and the horrible torture he endured, and held onto any personal integrity he had, he could have been president. But he chose to betray himself in the worst way, and has become a pitiful clown.