Not only is John McCain running the most negative, divisive and dishonorable campaign since the Republican primary in 2000 (or the swiftboating of John Kerry in 2004, or hell, the Willie Horton ads against Michael Dukakis ... hang on, it seems Republicans always run dishonorable campaigns...) he is also running the most blatantly dishonest.
In 2000, the only real lie that Bush's team told about McCain was that he had a black love-child. (In fact, the McCain's adopted a Bangladeshi orphan.) Other than that, Bush was essentially right in portraying McCain as a former POW who abandoned veterans as a Senator, who traded on his media celebrity to get away with gaffes Dubya could never have, and who was a phony the right couldn't really depend on. Those things, it turns out, were true. (See McCain's voting record on veterans benefits here, here and here.) McCain has simply covered them up and coopted the Bushies who now worship him just as they did George W. Bush before the fall.
McCain's current line of attack against Barack Obama, so succinctly summed up by Keith Olbermann in his brilliant "grow up"special comment last night, is that you must elect him because his opponent wishes to lose the war in Iraq so that he can win the election. In other words, Obama is a traitor. Oh, and he is stained by the ambition to be president, an ambition McCain apparently doesn't share (I guess he is being compelled by the ghosts of his Vietnam captors who are even now, drawing crosses on the sands of time with their sandals, to run for president against his will.) Add to that McCain's meme since his disgraceful performance at the VFW in Florida yesterday, that while it would have been politically advantageous to support the generous G.I. Bill for the 21st Century put forward by fellow Vietnam vet Jim Webb, HE, the Courageous One, opposed the bill, holding out for something better.
What McCain fails to mention in his self-congratulatory nonsense speeches, is that he didn't even bother to vote on the G.I. Bill, which passed the Senate and was signed into law without his ever having had the courage to put his name on "yea" or "nay."
I hate to say this about an elder, let alone a veteran, but John McCain is a sleazy, desperate blowhard, and a man whose dishonor in this campaign makes him unfit to be president.
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%>
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'sets variables
dim email, sendmail
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sendmail.Subject = "Check out this website"
'send a specific page or send a site url
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url = "http://www.aspbasics.net"
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"[T]he practice of arbitrary imprisonments, have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.' Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 84, August, 1788
