The New Yorker decided to formally endorse Barack Obama for president this week, in a piece involving scathing messages about John McCain:
Since the 2004 election, however, McCain has moved remorselessly rightward in his quest for the Republican nomination. He paid obeisance to Jerry Falwell and preachers of his ilk. He abandoned immigration reform, eventually coming out against his own bill. Most shocking, McCain, who had repeatedly denounced torture under all circumstances, voted in February against a ban on the very techniques of “enhanced interrogation” that he himself once endured in Vietnam—as long as the torturers were civilians employed by the C.I.A.
A very good piece in the New Yorker about the presidential election this fall — the quote up above resounded with me, greatly. I used to have a lot of respect for John McCain — before 2004 he really was a “maverick,” going against the course of the rest of the Republicans in Congress many times — but since then, he might as well have been tied to Bush’s hip.
He — of all bloody people — decided to go against a bill against torture, a bill he helped to write.
The man’s not right in the head.
