I will not be voting for John McCain--that comes as no surprise to anyone here. And I think, as a candidate, he has numerous problems. He has flipped on key issues, and wedded himself to the Iraq war and Bush presidency in ways that I think will hurt him down the road.
But more than that, we want a President who hires good people around him. Bush did a spectacularly poor job of that, and I must say that McCain is off to a bad start. Not only the flood of lobbyists he hired (after badmouthing lobbyists, of course) but his staff seemed completely unaware that Rod Parsely and John Hagee were batshit crazy. And that wouldn't have required much beyond a google search to figure out.
Now we hear that McCain has been forced to cancel and then un-cancel a fundraiser with Texas oilman, Clayton Williams after learning about William's famous "lie back and enjoy it" advice to rape victims. Maybe those of us who lived in Texas at the time are unique, but I find it hard to believe that no one on McCain's staff didn't remember this huge gaff.
Incompetence of this level is bad enough on the campaign trail. Much worse when it leads to hiring people to run policy.
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