McCain: I'm just like Obama!

Who would have believed that the first candidate to put out an anti-war advert would be John McCain? I mean, who could have foreseen hypocrisy on that scale?

The man who has sung, "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" and vowed to remain in Iraq for a hundred years if necessary, now is anxious to let Americans know that he was a POW - 'cos he never overplays that card - and that he hates war.

This is the final proof that McCain is being shown the figures from the polling guys and that those figures are telling him that Americans don't want what he is selling. So John, shameless to the end, is now going to pretend that he's selling something else.

For instance, his website used to say this:

A greater military commitment now is necessary if we are to achieve long-term success in Iraq. John McCain agrees with retired Army General Jack Keane that there are simply not enough American forces in Iraq. More troops are necessary to clear and hold insurgent strongholds; to provide security for rebuilding local institutions and economies; to halt sectarian violence in Baghdad and disarm Sunni and Shiite militias; to dismantle al Qaeda; to train the Iraqi Army; and to embed American personnel in Iraqi police units. Accomplishing each of these goals will require more troops and is a crucial prerequisite for needed economic and political development in the country.

But that's now been erased as John builds a brand new McCain for November. Now he not only tries to sound like Barack Obama but he's gone out and blatantly stolen Obama's "Change we can believe in" slogan and replaced it with "A leader we can believe in".

He's even revamped his site using the exact same colours that Obama's site employs.

How can anyone take this guy seriously?

He's against giving a date for leaving Iraq, then he gives one. He thinks Bush's tax cuts are immoral, then he approves of them. He condemns certain Christian preachers as "agents of intolerance" then he welcomes their endorsement. He didn't want Roe v. Wade overturned and now he does want it overturned. He was opposed to the United States torturing people, until he voted to allow torture.

It's already become obvious that McCain has had to take a huge lurch to the right in the hope of getting the votes of some of the US's most deranged voters, but someone's obviously told him that the policies he is promoting are also political poison so he's now putting out adverts which imply that he is the Democratic candidate in this election and he's the guy you should vote for if you disapprove of war.

The man, who voted with George Bush 95% of the time in the last year, wants the American public to know that he's just like Barack Obama.

I honestly think McCain is the most shameful political opportunist I have witnessed in my lifetime. In order to please the Michelle Malkin wing of his party, he has been prepared to abandon every principled position that he ever held, and certainly any position which could have earned him the reputation of "Maverick".

However, he now lacks the courage to even run on the positions that he signals to his own base - and implies that he is a person who hates war.

Don't get me wrong. I don't think John McCain is a bad person, I think he's representing a mindset which has been proven by the actions of the Bush regime to be immoral, wrong and counter productive.

The very fact that McCain now sells himself as some kind of Democrat-lite tells me that John McCain knows this as well as I do.

He's literally going to say and do anything to try and get elected. Expect the Obama "pound" between McCain and his wife any day now.

UPDATE:

Oh, McCain is like the gift that just keeps on giving. Now he approves of Bush's illegal wiretapping.

Although a spokesman for Mr. McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, denied that the senator’s views on surveillance and executive power had shifted, legal specialists said the letter contrasted with statements Mr. McCain previously made about the limits of presidential power.

There is nothing, literally nothing, which this man says that you cannot expect to be withdrawn at any time. He believes in nothing other than being elected. And he will say anything to make that happen.

Tags: John McCain, Barack Obama, US election 2008