I voted for John McCain in the 2000 primaries. At the time, I bought in to his claim to be independent. And I thought--rightly so, as it turns out--that George Bush was flat-out dangerous. Since then, McCain has shown himself to be every bit as dangerous as Bush. The more I learn about the man, the more convinced I am. This adds data to round out a more accurate of McCain as a complete war-monger. Not objective, but, as another reviewer noted, fair as it cites so many reliable sources.

I used to believe the conventional wisdom that John McCain was a political maverick who was willing to compromise and negotiate with Democrats. That is certainly no longer the case.

This is perhaps the most important (and frightening) article written about what a John McCain world will look like: a US without us, a world of endless, US-started wars, and a tyrannical presidency. The documentation for this article is as solid as solid gets: McCain's own words (from a 2002 speech and a recent address made since becoming the presumptive Republican nominee). All potential voters would be well-advised to read this article carefully (and the two McCain speeches that form it's frightening foundation).

Get it--McCain is a neo-con! He's for endless war overseas and an all-powerful executive at home. Parry says it in the first dozen lines, and fleshes it out in the rest of the story with plenty of quotes and facts to back up his case. It's almost relentless, but this is what the American electorate needs to know to make an informed choice. It's not pale middle-of-the-roader Obama who's the radical!

The headline tells you what the writers opinion is, and further goes on to advise us to 'make no mistake' presumably forewarning us that his article will assist us in this. So its not very balanced and offers no possible explanations for McCain, but it is fair as it is replete with McCain's own statements and views. It is reasonably sourced with links to the relevant speeches. It looks at three areas of McCain opinion - support for war, the anti-UN stance (which is what the widely panned 'league of democracies' is) and the expansion of executive authority.

Americans often seem blind to the reality before them, so this piece is a good, clear show of McCain's actual stance and is well sourced and accurate. The adage that if it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck it must be a duck holds here. McCain has advisers who accept the neocon label happily. His positions are exactly the positions of such neocons as Irving Kristol. The wry comments that he is different than Bush are smoke and mirrors, spin meant to obfuscate what he fully intends to do as president.

Parry includes quotes from McCain and his entourage that quite fully support the opinions that McCain would not only be George Bush's enlarged continuation of neocon imperialism, but that he seems even to have been a leading edge proponent of the most disasterous neocon policies. As usual, I have unease with the euphemistic term "neocon," when there is nothing conservative about it, but it is rather a radical fascist totalitarian imperialist policy. But the article places McCain in proper anti-constitutional perspective.

This is a fantasy story that has no relation to real Republicans or real neocons or the real McCain. There is no super aggressive neocon movement that wants to rule the world, except in the author's mind. The author imagines that there is a Bush Dynasty and wrote a book about it. Apparently the dynasty is not doing too well.

This opinion piece has minimal journalistic merit. Right at the start, the author is clueless about the meaning of "neoconservative"; John McCain is about as far from being a "neocon" as anyone in politics today, as any informed commentator would know. And George W. Bush has NEVER been a liberal! The rest of the piece is a straightforward attack on McCain of the sort that Obama will be running every day from now to Election Day. Not clear why this was presented to NewsTrust.