John '08 McCain Flip-Flops Again

John ’08 McCain only believes in one principle, do or say anything in order to become President in 2008. The so called ‘Independent Maverick’ flip-flops on abortion to fall in line with the right wing base of the Republican Party.

McCain, gearing up for the "Straight Talk Express" in 1999:

"[C]ertainly in the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade, which would then force X number of women in America to [undergo] illegal and dangerous operations."

And now, gearing up for the "Bullshit Express," today:

"I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned," the Arizona senator told about 800 people in South Carolina, one of the early voting states.

McCain also vowed that if elected, he would appoint judges who "strictly interpret the Constitution of the United States and do not legislate from the bench."

It’s clear; a vote for Senator McCain for President is a vote against a women right to choose. It gets worst.

Most presidential candidates are trying to get people to say "yes." Republican Sen. John McCain will be encouraging South Carolina students to say "no."

The Arizona lawmaker is scheduled to speak Sunday night to about 1,500 middle and high school students about abstaining from premarital sex. Abstinence and abortion loom large as issues in this first-in-the-South primary state in the heart of the Bible Belt.

"Senator McCain has a long legislative record of supporting abstinence-based initiatives in his record in the U.S. Senate," said Trey Walker, McCain's South Carolina campaign director. "He thinks that abstinence is healthier and should be promoted in our society for young people."

Did Senator McCain practice abstinence before he was married and during the time he was divorced and not married?

No, he did not.

If you advocate abstinence only education, the American people has the right to know if you saved yourself for marriage, and whether they were abstinent between multiple marriages.

John ’08 McCain is a right wing Republican without any principles. He is the successor to President Bush failed social, economic, and foreign policies. If you love the Bush years, then you will love the John ‘08 McCain.

Politics of Marriage

Personal lives of politicians should be off limits in most cases, but Conservatives has made morality a political issue in which they are superior to dirty hippies Liberals.

Perhaps it is a coincidence - some may call it karma - but two of the three presidential front-runners in the self-described ‘party of personal responsibility’ have, to put it mildly, sloppy private life stories.

Republicans have long chastised Democrats as the party of loose morals yet while Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R-New York) try to court the support of social conservatives, both have at least one failed marriage and bouts of infidelity. Rumored presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has a lot of both.

McCain married his second wife a month after his previous marriage, which included an affair, was dissolved.

Giuliani was married to his second cousin for fourteen years - illegal in dozens of countries and forever dubbed ‘the weirdness factor’. He had an adulterous affair while married to his second wife and publicly announced his intention to separate from her before he informed her. (However, it is not even close to former House Speaker Gingrich, who served his first wife and former high school math teacher, with divorce papers while she was in the hospital for cancer. It takes a certain kind of assholeness to do that.) Giuliani is currently working on a third marriage and appears to have forgotten about his past.

If part of your political ideology is to claim moral superiority over your opponents, then your leaders should at least live up to your own high standards.

Middle Class vs. Wealthy

President Bush's proposed budget for 2008 does no favors for the middle class.

$77 billion in funding cuts for Medicare and Medicaid over the next five years, and $280 billion over the next 10.

$223 million in funding cuts (4 percent decrease from this year’s levels) to the Children’s Health Insurance Program.

$4.9 billion, or 8 percent, cut in education, training, employment and social services grants.

$100 million cut for Head Start, which provides child development services to economically disadvantaged children and families.

$2.4 billion cut in community and regional development grants, which often provide funding for low- and middle-income communities to $16.5 billion from $18.9 billion.

$400 million — 18 percent — cut in the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which provides $2.2 billion to help people pay heating bills this year.

$172 million nearly 25 percent — cut in funding for housing for low-income seniors.

While at the same time, the people who income is over one million would get tax cuts averaging $162,000 a year.

There is no shared sacrifice in this in this budget, or any budget proposed under the Bush years. Also, there is no shared sacrifice in the war effort. The fact is Republican Party is giving tax cuts to the wealthy and passing on the cost of the Iraq war to middle class Americans.

Sigh.

I Need to Move ..

(Tribune photo by Nancy Stone)

.. but, to where?

SB XLI: It Is What It Is

And it’s a loss.

It was a great season that ending with a disappointing loss. But, as we say in Chicago there is always next year.

So, when does the baseball season start? Go Cubs!