Pardon My Politics

Mentioning John McCain and war hero in the same sentence is an oxymoron. Since I was shot down twice in Vietnam, I did at one time respect McCain until I started checking with those who spent time with him in North Vietnam. His nickname was "Songbird." McCain didn't volunteer to be a POW and he didn't begin to comply with Article III of the United States Code of Conduct after being captured. What he did do was sing like a songbird and whine day and night about being abandoned. This old guy is not bitter at the North Vietnamese, he's mad as hell at Americans for leaving him in the POW camp for five years while they listened to psychedelic music, wore flowers in their hair, and partied. McCain, like his mentor Bush, will sell our country to the highest bidder, and that bidder will be the United Arab Emirates.

Since 9/11, the Bush administration and their legal sycophants in the Justice Department and right-wing think tanks such as the American Enterprise Institute and the Federalist Society, have claimed that the criminal regime in Washington has the legal right to employ any tactic to pursue its sordid agenda.

In his speech on March 26 at the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, Senator John McCain gave his Foreign Policy speech. Not surprisingly, nothing in his speech included an America that conservatives could embrace. McCain made it quite clear, that a conservative, values friendly, sovereign America is not part of his world view. What many of us have known for a while is now readily apparent to all American citizenry: John McCain is not a conservative. He has no intention, nor has he ever had any intention to promote the conservative value and ideology that most Americans believe in and hold dear. He is not the American President that we the people have been waiting for.