McCain Proves He Is An Idiot

McCain today, responding to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision giving habeus corpus rights to the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.

McCain also voiced his concern for today’s Supreme Court decision which allows terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay to challenge their detention in U.S. courts. “These are unlawful combatants,” McCain said. “They are not American citizens.” But he also reiterated his stance that the prison should be closed. “I always favored closing Guantanamo Bay, and I still think we ought to do that,” McCain said.

The first thing you notice is the ol' Double Talk Express, where McCain argues both sides of every issue. He disagrees with today's ruling, he says, but he also thinks Guantanamo Bay is wrong and should be shut down. These are contradictory positions, folks, unless McCain thinks that a new Gitmo should be created in some other location.

But what really struck me is the first line. McCain thinks that since these prisoners are not U.S. citizens, they shouldn't have any rights. But McCain is forgetting that the Constitution applies to the actions of the United States government, regardless of the citizenship status of the detainees. Just more proof that McCain is a total moron in just about every subject, whether it be foreign policy or economics or, in this case, the Constitution of the United States.