Do these people not realize that their words are permanently recorded somewhere, and that people will point out when they contradict themselves? What is going on their heads that they just think they can change everything they've said without anyone noticing?
Senator John McCain, considered a leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, seems oblivious to this. Today he claimed that he knew the Iraq war would be long and tough, after having made numerous quotes before the war about how quick and easy it would be.
I used to reflexively support every candidate from that party, basically because my parents did. I wonder if I would have supported this shape-shifting asshat. I wonder if my parents will.
[By the way, as I'm gearing up for the exciting new blogger upgrade that I'll probably never actually get, I'm starting to think about what exciting new categories I'll be able to tag my entries with. So some obvious categories I'll be using will be "poker" and "atheism" and "movies." But I could go for cooler tags like "life-sucking cards" and "god-slaying" and "life-sucking media." In this case I'm experimenting with "shape-shift" as a tag for liars or dishonesty or inconsistency or whatever. How do we feel about "shape-shift"? Or any of those others that I just made up off the top of my head. Clearly "everything is totally fucked" is a lock for its own tag.]
UPDATE: Another shape-shifter.
UPDATE 2: More McCain dishonesty
UPDATE 3: Sweet, a whole boatload of shape-shifters.
3 comments:
If you spent seven years in a Vietnamese prison camp lots of things would start to seem short and easy too. Broke down and started my own blogspot today. Check it out.
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I've no doubt you've considered this (as evident by your curiosity of being an asshat yourself), but just in case you're being arrogant and sure of yourself, don't confuse reforming one's opinion based on new perspective, new information, etc. for blatant haberdashery.
i know, i know...haberdashery? it just came to me. i looked it up, it's an old-timey word for cltohing store.
haberdashery is actually not bad considering we're talking about asshats.
there's nothing about mccain's comments that suggest he was responsbility "reforming one's opinion based on new perspective, new information." he said that he always knew it would be long and tough, when before the war he repeatedly said how easy and quick it would be.
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