As a combat Veteran who served honorably for many years, including 3 tours in the middle east, I’d like to tell you why I am NOT voting for John McCain.

There was a time when I could have voted for McCain, before he became a WHORE for the GOP and the right wing whackadoos. NOW, he’s nothing more than a typical politician who would say anything to get votes. AND..... he’s much more.

He’s DANGEROUS.

As a combat Veteran himself, he, and 72% of our own troops in Iraq, KNOWS that the war in Iraq CANNOT be won. A poll taken 18 months ago in Iraq of American soldiers showed the overwhelming majority (72%) said the war is lost and the US should pull out immediately. After over 4 years and 655,000 needlesss deaths you would think that McCain would have the balls to speak the truth about dumbya’s QUAGMIRE in Iraq. A few years back, he made some negative comments about the war and our leadership......now he’s flip flopped?

McCain’s a WHORE for the GOP and corporate America who KNOWS the war could never be won in Iraq. He KNOWS that body bags continue to stack up daily. He KNOWS that the majority of Iraqis want us OUT of Iraq. He KNOWS that oil, gas, electricity and commercial production levels are ALL STILL LOWER THAN PRE-WAR LEVELS....after FOUR FREAKING YEARS of reconstruction and over $600 BILLION American tax dollars.

SHAME ON McCAIN.

My vote is going to an independent.

Stewart missed the key question everybody seems to miss when The McCains and right wingers blurt out their standard end of world scenarios (if we leave Iraq now). Ask McCain how Vietnam is doing TODAY! without the Americans shooting up their coutryside. Ask McCain how Nicaragua is doing without Ollie North feeding Iranian funds and guns to right wing death squads in Central America..... Ah er just fine. It is not an absolute truth that when we stop killing people (in their counties) everything falls apart.

Jon Stewart’s the best in the business.  He confronts McCain as no other interviewer can.  He punctuated McCain’s feeble explanations with funny, pointy observations.  McCain thinks he’s going to be on the presidential ticket with Stewart?  Not so much.

Please out into the streets

Listen Act.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14195.htm

I am saddened that Jon Stewart did not do his usual great job in confronting and illuminating [McCain’s] political hyprocrisy.  For example, when McCain attempts to confirm for Stewart that Bush HAS in fact recognized and accepted responsibility for the horrible travesty that Bush has created in Iraq, dishonestly, McCain carefully and repeatedly uses the passive tense: i.e. that Bush knew that “mistakes were made.” In other words, although Stewart seems to appear placated, McCain never actually says that Bush knows that HE [i.e. Bush] made mistakes (e.g. when he lied about the WMD to get us involved in Iraq or when he tried to silence his political enemies by releasing classified information through Cheney and Libby).  McCain’s deliberate use of the passive tense allows him to say later (e.g. to his neo-con nut friends) that he never accused BUSH of making mistakes—oh no, mistakes were made alright—for example, Bush knows that both Colin Powell and George Tenent made some mistakes.  This President has showed an unmistakable failure to recognize what 3/4 of all Americans have even realized: that Bush and friends are incompetent, deceitful hacks that strive to use the public funds to line their personal pockets and to maintain power for future crimes against humanity.

Back to Jon Stewart… Moreover, even if Bush HAD realized subsquently that HE made some “mistakes” when he repeatedly deceived Americans about Saddams’ control of nuclear weapons in order to get America involved in a war that has predictably costs thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars, is his belated realization after-the-fact a reason to condone and bless his criminal enterrpise as McCain has done?  I would suggest not. 

However, now that McCain actually stands a chance of winning the Presidency by using Bush and friends, McCain has fallen all over himself to try and please the neo-con nuts by kissing on Bush (literally even). 

Stewart should have used all of his substantial wit and intelligence to enlighten his viewers on the grave dangers of handing such awesome power to another conservative politicial hack who has a demonstrated practice of deceiving Americans about deadly serious matters for his own political and personal gain.  I know that Jon Stewart has some history with McCain as he has said repeatedly that he respects him.  However, hopefully Jon will realize that the “straight talking” McCain that Stewart respects is actually a mythological figure that the media created during the 2004 election. From all of McCain’s recent actions in blessing and facilitating this criminal Administration and Republican-controlled Congress, John Stewart should wake up and smell the coffee.

The next time (and you know there will be one) John McCain is on the Daily Show voicing his support for Bush and his policies, I wish John Stewart would ask him point blank, “Do you think it’s okay for a presidential candidate to authorize so-called “push-polls” during a primary race?” Is it alright for that president to call voters and ask questions that are phrased thusly, “Would you be more or less likely to vote for ___ ___ if you knew his wife was a drug addict?” Or (in South Carolina, nonetheless) “Would you be more or less likely to vote for ___ ___ if you knew that he was the father of a black child?” Bush ruined McCain’s chances at the nomination with just such tactics, yet McCain continues to be a lapdog for the GOP.  I used to have a lot of respect for McCain, but now I see him as anything but a ‘maverick.’ Come on JS, we know McCain is a likable fellow in person, but have a little backbone next time and really challenge him.

McCain tries to sell himself as the honest, rational republican alternative. Yes, in fact he is as full of shit as the rest of the sell-outs in DC.

This interview is meaningless, this ex vet should know the Iraq war is a big mistake and if he CAN’T DO anything different than Bush what good is he. Same old story, same old politician.

Here’s something else to laugh at in these grim times.

http://derenegade.blogspot.com/

I was tempted to contact the DS and tell them to call McCain on his credibility. Without me going into how he can support someone who destroyed him,isn’t that the question to ask?
Why do you pretend to be the party ‘maverick’ when you are much or the party lapdog? Will you do/say ANYTHING to be president and is there any ones endorsment you’d turn down?
I hate when JS is chummy with a creep like McCain.
And what’s wiht."Do you want me to tell you I beat my wife?”
Was that a joke?
Is straight talk just another anti-gay thing?

McCain is no different than Bush.

Full of shit.

As one who is “fortunate” enough to have McCain as Senator, his flipflopping, Bush-bum-kissing lies are well known.
Indeed, Mr. McCain is recognized as an individual who would say or do literally anything to get the nomination.  If you said the sky was green, he would agree.  It literally does not matter, he will lie, lie, lie about everything.
And if you LOVE war, you will love this man.  Evidently he has learned nothing from his POW experience.  He is a true neocon killer.

He wants more war, bigger war, a draft...he LOVES blood especially from our young people.  He wants more more more war war war!  He wants to bomb everyone, Iran - No Korea...he wants more troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.  He is insane.

In Arizona he is now perceived as a pathetic sick joke.

I actually was kind of grossed out—McCain is on there all the time, guffawing with Stewart like he’s in on the joke, but he’s as responsible for all this madness as anybody.

I think Stewart’s interviews with these megalomanics are the weakest part of the show.

I’m with Spinoza (#15122) on this one. I didn’t find any of it funny, although I normally see the humor of Jon Stewart’s remarks. McCain’s unquestioning loyalty to a corrupt and inept administration is simply weird, unless he’s taking something (Prozac?) and doesn’t really care what happens.

It’s as if everything will go back to normal once Dubya rides off into the sunset. He’s got TWO AND A HALF years left to wreak destruction around the world. What’s funny about that? Immigration may be a problem, but it’s not the biggest one. That just might be survival.

I have to explain this?? OK, it’s pretty simple; the press in America is incompetent and owned by millionaires. Notice how they coughed up 4 liars(pro-war talking heads) to every 1 person who had it correct (No WMD’s, Connections to 9/11, etc.)prior to our criminal attack on the Iraqis? So, left with nothing but spineless lap dogs with which to confront this corrupt administration, we’re all thrilled to see someone, anyone, even a TV comedian, if that’s all that’s left, speak a few words of self-evident, incontestable truth to one of the enablers.

Lessons learned?  If GWB has learned anything, I’d sure welcome his or McCain’s disclosure on just what that is.  I doubt it has anything to do with errors worth any contrition.  There will be no compendium of political, military, and financial guideposts or correctives.  At best, W’s “what I learned” list will will state the hazards of “misplaced trust” in disloyal underlings who ask questions, perfidious foreigners ("old" Europe), and human reason.  Let all abide by faith and may the office of the president be fittingly renamed Grand Old Decider.  More likely, the self-reflection will be one BIG BLANK, which the official biographer will fill with vapid prophesy that the world will one day catch up with W’s dreams and that future generations will be grateful for his noble actions.  Expect to learn by washing dishes, filling out a 1040, or dozing off during an Andy Griffith rerun.

There is never any “straight” talk with McCain: it’s just like Bush’s “clear skies” and “operation iraqi freedom” schtick--meaningless. Why Stewart continues to have McCain on baffles me. McCain uses the time, obviously with great pleasure, to proffer the same empty, meaningless, evasive, banal, and smarmy RepubSpeak heard from the White House. McCain is only a little smarter than Bush, but a whole lot scarier, if that’s possible to imagine.
I never watch Stewart when McCain is on, but looking at the segment here, I see the sickening game. When/where did meme of the “McCain-Stewart” ticket originate?
Jeez!

McCain and Hillary Clinton are competing to
become the most bland, “centrist”, non-commital drones in all of history.
If they are our choices, then God help us all

Please explain to me the straight talk that took place and what if anything was gained from that program.  Please even explain the jokes or humor, I didn’t get it.