(6/7/2005)
Recently, me and a friend were watching Senator John McCain (R - AZ) on CSPAN and
my friend turned to me and ask, "Is McCain evil? He looks evil!".
My
first thoughts were about Senator McCain's heroic war record in Vietnam, his strong
rhetoric against pork barrel spending, his good voting record in the Senate with respect
to his willingness to break rank with his own party on legislation, and finally his
admirable record on campaign finance reform. However, there were some other feeling and
thoughts going through my mind that made me want to analyze this possibility further, the
possibility that McCain is evil, before I felt confident about giving my answer.
McCain
was on CSPAN that day because he was out campaigning for President Bush's re-election bid.
That fact, along with the fact that McCain did look somewhat evil that day, led me to
question my own positive opinions about Senator McCain, and the conclusions I came up with
were not good ones for McCain.
The
first conclusion I reached was that Senator McCain was guilty of extreme hypocrisy, and if
extreme hypocrisy is evil, then McCain is evil.
To
see this extreme hypocrisy just look at some of McCain's recent activities.
For
example, McCain constantly and loudly condemns how campaign money has completely corrupted
our system of government and yet he is out campaigning for George W. Bush, the worst
violator of this corrupt system of "money for legislation" ever.
It
is also extremely hypocritical of McCain to constantly and loudly condemn pork barrel
projects that are stuffed into legislation and yet he is out campaigning for Bush who has
never vetoed one of these bloated pork filled spending bills.
McCain is a hypocrite for constantly complaining
about huge budget deficits that make him "sick" and yet he is giving
high marks and great praise to Bush who has taken the federal budget from the biggest
surpluses in American history to the biggest budget deficits in America's history. These
deficits that are currently being projected to continue for as long as can reasonably be
projected and yet McCain continues to praise Bush.
Therefore,
if evil can be defined as someone who is guilty of extreme hypocrisy then John McCain is
evil. He is evil because his hypocrisy has the potential of negatively affecting the lives
of hundreds of millions of people and could cost these same people trillions of their tax
dollars, and even their lives. Therefore, hypocrisy from someone in an elevated positions
of power and responsibility, like McCain is in, is more harmful, and is therefore more
condemnable.
The
second conclusion I reached was that I should write about this issue to expose Senator
McCain for what he has become, and in my mind he has become a huge hypocrite that cannot
be trusted.
Senator McCain has lost my trust and respect and I
have placed him in the same category as I have placed the other Republican con-artist and
liars in the Senate, and that is in the slimebag category. They should all be wearing bags
over their heads while they walk around the halls of Congress because they are all a bunch
of two-faced slimebags.
In
summary, I do believe that John McCain is a huge hypocrite, but I don't believe that he is
evil, like a devil. Let me explain what I mean.
First,
I don't believe that "good" and "evil" are black and white labels, but
that "good" and "evil" are actually part of the same spectrum that
extends from good to evil. This spectrum is mostly grays with a tiny amount of pure color
at either end.
In
political terms, I would place people like Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Paul
Wellstone, and Senator Patrick Leahy on the "good" end of the spectrum, and
people like Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Dick Cheney, and George W. Bush on the
"bad" end of the spectrum. I believe that John McCain's form of evil lies
somewhere in the gray area in-between the two extremes, and in-between these politicians.
I guess in political terms that would make McCain a "moderate", or a politician
who is just moderately evil.
In conclusion, I do believe that Senator John McCain
is evil and we should never promote him into higher public office, but he is not the
devil. George W. Bush on the other hand.......