So, a few years back, Senator John McCain recorded a sketch for Late Night with Conan O’Brien, where he confessed various secrets of his. The sketch was aptly named “McCain Secrets.” Needless to say, his “secrets” were complete bogus, and purely for the sake of comedy. Now that McCain is pretty much guaranteed the republican nomination for President, Conan has brought back the sketches in a mock tarnish of McCain. Clearly, rather than smear McCain’s image, the sketches only allow the American public to see his sense of humor. This makes me wonder if the sketches are really more powerful than some may think. Hilary Clinton’s tears brought on a victory in the New Hampshire primary, as voters saw her as more human. Do these sketches provide the same benefit for McCain? I think that they shed a personal light on a candidate, allowing voters to feel closer to him, and although I have never thought of him as an uptight guy, I think it would be easy to see the 71 year old politician as nothing more than a straight face. But this also begs the question, to voters want a comedian in the white house, or someone purely serious running our country?
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It makes me think that a guy who was one of the Keating 5 is probably still corrupt.
Newsweek pokes a giant hole in his story here. I say a giant hole because Senator McCain said something different in a sworn deposition 5 years ago. Well is he lying now or was he lying then. Did he perjure himself, or does he take the American public to be a group consisting of fools?
And of course that's not even counting the 'special favors' he did for his 'special friends' back in 1998.
Or that the now indicted (35 counts) Representative Renzi was heading up Senator McCains campaign in Arizona.
The Washington Post has taken note as well.
Twenty years of corruption tell you a lot more about a man then two minutes of humor.
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I don't care what anyone says.... McCain is a very honest man. He says a lot of things that upset many people, and come on.... the guy is running for president, why would he say negative things if they weren't true? He tells it like it is, and that is the reason so many Americans like him. If you don't like what he has to say, then too bad. He is afraid to speak the truth because he cares about his country that much and he wants me too see the reality of what we have to face.
I am supposed to ignore my lying eyes because he "tells it like it is".
Lets look at his record:
He was against torture before he was for it.
He was against "agents of intolerence" before he was endorsing them at their Universities.
He was for public financing before he was against it (although he still thinks that his opponents should take it in the General Election because that might benefit him politically).
And of course, he was "against" lobbyists while letting them do their work from the 'Straight Talk Express.'
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"We cannot redeem evil, we must combat it." -- Jean Paul Sartre