On 2 Feb 2010 10:24:58 -0800, Twitchell
wrote:
>http://gawker.com/5462433/john-mccain-cranky-old-jerk-who-hates-...-people
>
>Are you watching the Don't Ask, Don't Tell hearings on the C-SPAN3 right now?
>(Or maybe you are reading Ana Marie Cox's liveblog?) Guess what: John McCain is
>the worst.
>
>Harry Reid straight-up called the grizzled old Maverick a Sore Loser yesterday,
>and he really is just being a tremendous pain in the. Immediately after the
>State of the Union, McCain lumbered over to his Olivetti Lettera 32 and hammered
>out a quick statement on how kicking the ...s out of the military while we are
>fighting two wars is totally working out just great and the policy should never,
>ever be changed. He has no actual argument for keeping the policy beyond the
>fact that the policy exists, and has existed, and also there is a war going on.
>
>Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, kicked with his
>statement. He said, in part:
>
>"Mr. Chairman, speaking for myself and myself only, it is my personal and
>professional belief that allowing homo.uals to serve openly would be the right
>thing to do.
>
>No matter how I look at the issue, I cannot escape being troubled by the fact
>that we have in place a policy which forces young men and women to lie about who
>they are in order to defend their fellow citizens.
"...lie about who they are"? Is that ALL a person is? Their
.uality?
>
>For me, it comes down to integrity — theirs as individuals and ours as an
>institution.
>
>At this point, Republicans cannot honestly claim to represent the true feelings
>of the Armed Forces or our Boys in Uniform. It is not just Those Crazy
>...-Loving Hippies who want to extend Special Rights to Homo.uals anymore.
Now he wants to extend "special rights"? America is a country
of individual rights, so all people have rights, even if they're not
members of a professional victims group, don't you think so?
>But, whatever, John McCain is still mad!
>
>McCain was very, very cranky in his questioning of Admiral Mullen and Republican
>Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, because these old conservative dudes do not
>want to openly discriminate against the ...s anymore. He is so mad that the
>military is enforcing the policy less strictly without first asking John
>McCain's permission! He also keeps arguing that everyone in the military loves
>the policy and wants to keep it and so he is somehow telling the people who are
>literally in charge of the military that they do not represent the will of the
>military, unlike John McCain, who has a list of veterans who hate ... people! We
>must always do whatever veterans want. (Unless the veterans are ... and want to
>not get kicked out of the military?) Oh, and McCain wants to know if the
>military will recognize ... marriages next! He is just stirring up trouble!
>
>John McCain is an unpleasant, capricious old bastard.
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