McCain, who brags about cutting spending, was front and center voting yes on the new pork laden bail out bill.

Senate bailout bill adds sweeteners - Economy in Turmoil - MSNBC.com

That's not all about McCain

The Raw Story | McCain took Palin foreign policy advice 'many times'

John McCain told NPR's Steve Inskeep that he has turned to his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, for foreign policy advice "many times" and wouldn't trust Sens. Obama and Biden because "they've been wrong."

Considering that Citizens For Global Solutions give McCain an "F" rating, who is he to say others are wrong?

I hereby give McCain the ranking of "Prodigious Farter."

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Yes, the Senate bill added a whole bunch of "sweeteners" entirely unrelated to the purpose of the bill.

What really pisses me off about the bill, besides all those "sweeteners" being added, is that Barbara Boxer, Senator from the land of the Californicators, said to her fellow senators that out of the 90,000-95,000 calls and e-mails she received from Californicators, 85,000 of them were opposed to the bill. Yet she still voted for the damned thing! We elect these people to represent us and yet they insist on going against the will of the people. I could understand if the calls were fairly evenly for and against (maybe within a 5-point margin) but when your constitutents are so overwhelmingly against something, you really should do what your constituents are telling you.

As for your entirely UNRELATED crap: "Considering that Citizens For Global Solutions give McCain an "F" rating, who is he to say others are wrong?" Who the hell is Citizens for Global Solutions that I should give a rat's behind what they think? I will give you this much (though you're not deserving of even this), since both McCain and Obama are big government, nanny-stater interventionists who insist the United States must project power over the rest of the world, neither of them are in a position to criticize the other.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

Chan you have to remember that we are all just a bunch of stupid people, Government knows what to do! I completely agree with all of these obscure group ratings from people you have never heard of. I guess it depends on how a given media outlet is slanted that dictates what group is giving the candidates what grade.

Especially when it comes to McCain who is rating himself...

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And so does Obama, big friggin' deal.

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"Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states...Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds."



~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

I am dimly remembering something from a distant poli-sci class, in high school, I think, about two basic theories of representative governance: the "mirror theory" versus the "Burkean theory".

Absolutely correct me if I am wrong, but the mirror theory is where the representatives faithfully represent the will of their constituents, even if they personally disagree, whereas the Burkean is where the representative presumes to act on behalf of the people, as a "better" person, a wiser one, and shouldn't give in to crass populism of the uneducated masses.

I guess it all depends on whether the people represented have any idea what they want, or not.

Anyway, that's how I read this, that the Congresscritters firmly believe they know better than the people do, on this (not that they take much time to explain anything to us.....)

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An employee gets trampled to death by a frenzied, greedy mob at a Walmart sale, and customers actually complained when the store closed. Yet, I'm the bad guy for suggesting policies that assume people act like retarded herd animals that need government nannying and control....

I don't recall Obama making the same kind of bravado claims as McCain. Do you have any examples?

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