tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post2645434572552804589..comments2024-03-01T08:19:54.547+00:00Comments on BobFromBrockley: John McCainbobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-78966992102826879992008-11-07T15:49:00.000+00:002008-11-07T15:49:00.000+00:00A great speech really.I also didn't know much abou...A great speech really.<BR/>I also didn't know much about him, I had an idea of him being a very hawkish "let's nuke them" sort of guy.<BR/>I ended up sympathizing with him quite a lot, he did come out as a nice guy and not a drone.maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17528649995290747213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-70944519419234288512008-11-07T12:49:00.000+00:002008-11-07T12:49:00.000+00:00I think the point I was making was that British pe...I think the point I was making was that British people constructed him as much more right-wing than he is. His position on immigration is to the "left" of the New Labour government, for example. His position on climate change is close to the European social democratic norm. <BR/><BR/>I do agree though that McCain and everything he stood for deserved to lose. The global financial crisis was, at least partly, caused by a system of rewarding structural greed in the financial sector, while impoverishing the mass of Americans, and this is essentially the policy McCain promised to continue.bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-44515906274546967842008-11-07T12:28:00.000+00:002008-11-07T12:28:00.000+00:00Though I can sympathize with this viewpoint, havin...Though I can sympathize with this viewpoint, having known of McCain's record for some time on subjects like torture, immigration and campaign finance reform, I can't find it in myself to admire him.<BR/><BR/>The man was a career Republican politician and for all his background or his supposed penchant for being the underdog or even for all his criticisms of Falwell and Robertson, he was still just one more pillar of an order which is intrinsically unjust.<BR/><BR/>In an era where our perception of "partisan" increasingly reflects a fear of the extreme right, it's almost a form of stockholm syndrome to suddenly fall for someone who occasionally voted with the moderates, or who had bipartisan support or who compromised on Senatorial filibuster for judicial candidates.<BR/><BR/>It wasn't just McCain's campaign that deserved to lose, it was McCain himself and everything he stood for as well. While we might admire his character or his ability to actually appear like a human being, McCain the man is inseparable from McCain the politician.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com