| The last few weeks I have been seeing a lot of back and forth and bickering between people over the presidential candidates. Then it hit me that everyone is so consumed with making it clear why they will vote for their candidate, that they don't give specifics on why they won't vote for the other.
Here's why I won't vote for John McCain. Veterans. He's an absolute hypocrit when it comes to our veterans. He is the first in line to tout his POW experience, wave the flag and yell "Country First". But his voting record tells a blatantly different story. He has consistently voted agaist our troops, when he's bothered to show up to vote for anything to do with them at all. September 2007: McCain voted against the Webb amendment calling for adequate troop rest between deployments. At the time, nearly 65% of people polled in a CNN poll indicted that "things are going either moderately badly or very badly in Iraq. July 2007: McCain voted against a plan to drawdown troop levels in Iraq. At the time, an ABC poll found that 63% thought the invasion was not worth it, and a CBS News poll found that 72% of respondents wanted troops out within 2 years. March 2007: McCain was too... |
