Home of the fundamental American workers and the small-town values. They're so intelligent.
McCain has let the Pandora out and less than three weeks isn't enough for him to begin to figure out how to get it back in. Now, if the American media would just grow a pair and show comments like these...
A bit crude in areas, but absolute hilarious.
My favorite line:
Just because I can see the moon
Doesn't make me an astronaut, you loon
You've got to be kidding me. Did McCain run a contest in rural American newspapers for his VP choice?
Oh wait, he really is that full of himself.
The second question was the one I've been waiting for someone to ask. I would have loaded it even more:
Senator, you stated in the debates last week that it would be a horrible idea to, and excuse me if I don't get the quote exactly right, "[hand] health care over to the government," yet for the majority of your adult life you have had government administered health care. Have you had any problems with the government administered health care coverage that you have had for the better part of the last 50 years?
Where's that question? If government run health care is such a bad idea and would lower the quality of medical care that we receive, he should have been keeping his own private health care to fill in the gaps that he's helped create.
Imagine having a phone service that only called other members. Like Verizon's IN network, except you can't get out of the network. That's what some of the companies that provide the bandwidth behind the Internet would like to see the Internet become. A place where they control who sees what.
Want to go to Yahoo? That's only $5 a month. Google? Well, that's $25 a month. Oh, what's that? You want to go to the sites you find on Google? Well, that's an extra $75. Oh, and here's our email client for you to check your email. No, you can't use your own client...
That's the kind of sales pitch you could get when signing up for Internet service in the future if "net-neutrality" is not defended. It's an Internet that resembles AOL in the early 90s. John McCain doesn't believe in net-neutrality:
When Regulation Is Warranted, John McCain Acts. John McCain does not believe in prescriptive regulation like “net-neutrality”...
That's taken directly from his Technology Policies. Feel free to verify for yourself.
I could go on, but Lawrence Lessig (who's site happens to be down right now) did an excellent video reviewing McCain's technology platform, so I'll let him do the speaking.
