Inept McCain Criticizes Obama For Not Being a Bush Republican

I can't make much sense out of this attack by old McCain:

Republican John McCain is castigating Democrat Barack Obama for voting against John Roberts as Supreme Court chief justice....

McCain promised to appoint judges who, in the mold of Roberts and Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, are likely to limit the reach of the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion.

"They would serve as the model for my own nominees if that responsibility falls to me," McCain said in his prepared speech.

Obama likes to talk up his image as someone who works with Republicans to get things done, McCain said. Yet Obama "went right along with the partisan crowd, and was among the 22 senators to vote against this highly qualified nominee," McCain said....

Despite the controversy, his actual record is very conservative, particularly on social issues like abortion, gay rights and gun control. However, he said once, in 1999, that the landmark Roe v. Wade decision allowing abortion should not be overturned.

But that was a blip in an otherwise unbroken record of opposing abortion rights for women. McCain has repeatedly voted against federal funding for abortion; he has opposed federal Medicaid funds for abortion even in cases of rape or incest.

He voted to require parental consent for abortion and voted to criminalize anyone but a parent crossing state lines with a minor to help get an abortion. McCain also supported a ban preventing women in the military from getting abortions with their own money at overseas military hospitals.

He also has cast conservative votes on judges. In fact, McCain has never voted against a Republican nominee for the Supreme Court or federal courts, the Democratic National Committee pointed out.

"Promising four more years of radical judges who are bent on rolling back our basic rights and freedoms is just one more example of why John McCain is the wrong choice for America's future," DNC spokeswoman Karen Finney said.

So let's see, Obama should have voted to confirm a right wing anti-choice judge to the Supreme Court? He should have acted like Bush sycophants like McCain? John Roberts is not some moderate, folks. Just recently, while listening to arguments over the Exxon Valdez spill, Roberts famously spoke out on behalf of the megacorporation that polluted Alaska's coastline:

What bothered the chief justice was that Exxon was being ordered to pay $2.5 billion -- roughly three weeks' worth of profits -- for destroying a long swath of the Alaska coastline in the largest oil spill in American history.

"So what can a corporation do to protect itself against punitive-damages awards such as this?" Roberts asked in court.

The lawyer arguing for the Alaska fishermen affected by the spill, Jeffrey Fisher, had an idea. "Well," he said, "it can hire fit and competent people."

I don't think opposing right wing cretins like Roberts and Alito will be a negative for Obama. Women prefer to have control over their bodies, Americans enjoy having control over reckless corporations, and the government should be allowed to enforce environmental rules to keep us from living in a smog-choked hell like some of these third world countries.

Really, McCain is just trying to shore up the Bush base. He needs those voters who think the last eight years have been just dandy. If you think the last eight years have been great, vote for McCain! 

If you think things have really gone off the rails in the past eight years, vote for Obama!

It's really that simple.