Bush is one of the biggest hypocrites alive.

As is John McCain. I'm stunned that Americans are actually voting for this guy.

How do you figure?

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That is a false statement. He is, in fact, quite dead inside.

To allow such inhumanities to persist, one would have to be destitute of humanity in the first place.

B/c he used to oppose torture and using enhanced techniques because he was tortured himself in vietnam and not he had the chance to support an anti torturing bill but chose not to.. thats like a black guy with bad grades voting against affirmative action.. lol.. kind of..

Pretty much all politicians have moments of hypocricy. It stems from the nature of politics, in which all players will make a compromise at some point, In order to have gained a favor from someone else. That is why all politicians suck and will trade their soul for something they perceive to be of future benefit.

No politician will stand by their own values for long. They all cave in an play the game eventually or they quit being politicians.

I hadn't heard anything about this when I read this the first time... and to be honest, there isn't much info about it around the web. Doing a Google for "McCain" and "Anti-Waterboarding Bill" pulls up only 4 pages, vast majority of which come from the blue blogs (Think Progress, KOS, etc.).

From what I understand, however, from reading a few other places (but nothing serious enough to quote) McCain's explanation for why he didn't vote for this was something along the lines of, "He already supported an anti-torture bill, and said that waterboarding was torture, so his lack of support for this particular bill was more along the lines of not supporting redundancy." So take that for what it's worth.

However, another interesting element in this story, is that neither Democratic candidate (Clinton or Obama) voted for or against the resolution. But for the life of me, I can't understand why.