John McCain screws up
If senator John McCain of Arizona thinks he's going to prove himself a worthy candidate for the 2008 elections, I'd say that the report USA Today gives about him recently proves otherwise. They tell in here that he said:
Back in 2000, I may have been willing to consider him as a presidential candidate myself. Unfortunately, as the article in USA Today shows, that is pretty much out of the question now.
...McCain is sponsoring a pair of amendments to the defense bill awaiting the return of Congress in September. In short, the amendments would:More of this classic boredom, that's just what we need.
Bar the military from treating detainees in "cruel, inhuman or degrading" ways.
Require military interrogators to stick to interrogation methods laid out in the Army field manual, the traditional guidepost.
Back in 2000, I may have been willing to consider him as a presidential candidate myself. Unfortunately, as the article in USA Today shows, that is pretty much out of the question now.
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