Comments on: McCain is a diva http://unnaturalhabitat.com/2008/09/24/mccain-is-a-diva Andrew Minh Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:50:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Tom http://unnaturalhabitat.com/2008/09/24/mccain-is-a-diva#comment-23 Tom Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:40:12 +0000 http://unnaturalhabitat.com/?p=67#comment-23 I believe he was bombing a lightbulb factory the day he was shot down and captured. Such installations are regarded as civilian and so even if you accept the legitimacy of the Viet Nam war (ha!), a basic understanding of the Geneva Conventions will tell you that he was involved in the commission of a war crime and thus deserves to be tried. OK, he didn't kill 'between 100,000 and 1,000,000 Iraqi civilians' as have the last three presidents, but this ain't a competition. Re: your comment many months ago. I think your heart was in the right place. You just didn't want some foreign yank-baiter helping make sure that Obama lost. Could still happen, mind. I believe he was bombing a lightbulb factory the day he was shot down and captured. Such installations are regarded as civilian and so even if you accept the legitimacy of the Viet Nam war (ha!), a basic understanding of the Geneva Conventions will tell you that he was involved in the commission of a war crime and thus deserves to be tried. OK, he didn’t kill ‘between 100,000 and 1,000,000 Iraqi civilians’ as have the last three presidents, but this ain’t a competition.

Re: your comment many months ago. I think your heart was in the right place. You just didn’t want some foreign yank-baiter helping make sure that Obama lost. Could still happen, mind.

]]> By: Unnatural Habitat http://unnaturalhabitat.com/2008/09/24/mccain-is-a-diva#comment-22 Unnatural Habitat Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:47:17 +0000 http://unnaturalhabitat.com/?p=67#comment-22 Really, which comment was that? I don't remember posting anything negative. I hope I wasn't "drinking & posting" at the time. You're so right about McCain. He has totally sold his soul to the most repellent factions of his party. And I also agree with you that his shameful exploitation of his POW status is getting old. And anyway, he was dropping napalm on North Vietnamese villages. There's nothing heroic about that. Really, which comment was that? I don’t remember posting anything negative. I hope I wasn’t “drinking & posting” at the time.

You’re so right about McCain. He has totally sold his soul to the most repellent factions of his party. And I also agree with you that his shameful exploitation of his POW status is getting old. And anyway, he was dropping napalm on North Vietnamese villages. There’s nothing heroic about that.

]]> By: Tom http://unnaturalhabitat.com/2008/09/24/mccain-is-a-diva#comment-21 Tom Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:34:42 +0000 http://unnaturalhabitat.com/?p=67#comment-21 In some ways, it's quite upsetting to see what has become of McCain. Yes, he was always an allegedly corrupt, pouting, moody, aggressive, knee-jerk twat whose entire career was built on the fact that he managed to get shot down while committing a war crime. But there was an element of the maverick about him. The republican grandees (the Bushes and the Reagans et al) loathed him because he was 'too left wing' and they ripped him to pieces in the 2000 nomination campaign. But look at him now. I can think of no one more slavishly twisted and pinched into becoming 'of his party'. Obama has done what any decent party leader does: shape the party in his own image. The reverse has happened to McCain: he has given up any potentially redeeming qualities he may have had all for one last shot at the top seat. And the result? As other commentators have noted, he looks ill, uncomfortable, tired and confused. In other words, utterly un-presidential. I am committed to not blogging the election unless I feel it touches on topics closer to my sphere of interest (which would be... er... Catalonia or Royal Trux), mainly because of a comment you left at thebadrash many months ago. And while I find it difficult to trust Obama, and I dislike the evangelical BS, etc etc, there's no question that McCain's election would do little more than compound the last 8 disastrous years, and possibly seal the end of the American age. In some ways, it’s quite upsetting to see what has become of McCain. Yes, he was always an allegedly corrupt, pouting, moody, aggressive, knee-jerk twat whose entire career was built on the fact that he managed to get shot down while committing a war crime. But there was an element of the maverick about him. The republican grandees (the Bushes and the Reagans et al) loathed him because he was ‘too left wing’ and they ripped him to pieces in the 2000 nomination campaign.

But look at him now. I can think of no one more slavishly twisted and pinched into becoming ‘of his party’. Obama has done what any decent party leader does: shape the party in his own image. The reverse has happened to McCain: he has given up any potentially redeeming qualities he may have had all for one last shot at the top seat. And the result? As other commentators have noted, he looks ill, uncomfortable, tired and confused. In other words, utterly un-presidential.

I am committed to not blogging the election unless I feel it touches on topics closer to my sphere of interest (which would be… er… Catalonia or Royal Trux), mainly because of a comment you left at thebadrash many months ago. And while I find it difficult to trust Obama, and I dislike the evangelical BS, etc etc, there’s no question that McCain’s election would do little more than compound the last 8 disastrous years, and possibly seal the end of the American age.

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