War Handwavium

Oh, for the love of gaaawwwd.

 McCain loves to lie. Yet again, he said during the second debate that Obama voted 94 times to raise taxes. This count includes repetitive votes as well as votes to cut taxes for the middle class while raising them on the rich. HORRORS!

An analysis by factcheck.org found that 23 of the votes were for measures that would have produced no tax increase at all, seven were in favor of measures that would have lowered taxes for many, 11 would have increased taxes on only those making more than $1 million a year. 

The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center says that 81.3 percent of all American workers and families would see a tax cut.

John McCain: shut your lying pie hole. Your scaremongering using repeated and disproven lies disqualifies you from ever calling yourself part of the “Straighttalk Express”.

Weirdest twist of the debate?

John McCain is repeatedly “incredulous” that Obama would ANNOUNCE THAT OBAMA WOULD ATTACK AL QUEDA IN PAKISTAN.

Never mind the simple fact that McCain said he would do exactly the same thing in an October 2007 interview in “Military Times”. That’s simple political bullshit.

 No, what’s weird about it is McCain tried to say Obama was being “irresponsible” because such an announcement would “telegraph his punches”. Er…. what??? In trying to cast himself as the “military expert”, McCain came off as a complete nincompoop.

If someone were to “telegraph their punch” with regard to mililtary action in Pakistan, they would announce that US forces will be bombing targets at longitude xxx, latitude yyy, at zero-five-hundred hours tomorrow. This would then let Al Queda know that they need to bug the hell out of that particular coordinate, and that they’ve got a little over five hours to do it.

Saying “We will attack Al Queda in Pakistan if we have actionable intelligence” isn’t giving Al Queda any actionable intelligence itself. They can’t bug out of any particular potential target. They can’t evacuate from one place and move to another because they don’t know what the target is or when it’s going to be hit.

If anything, announcing that Al Queda in Pakistan are valid targets might actually cause Al Queda folks to become panicky. They might expend extra resources keeping their location secret and changing locations, and they might end up making their location accidentally known because they keep moving it.

Either McCain knows all this and is simply lying to try and make himself look like the “expert”, or McCain doesn’t know this and… well, then he isn’t the military expert he claims to be.

That McCain announced he’d do the exact same thing in the “Military Times” interview says McCain is a lying asshole.