Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Pro-Lifers for Murder (Tom Woods)

Tom Woods on the "pro-life" war criminal John McCain and his "pro-life" followers:

There are people who spend their time arguing that being "pro-life" this year means voting for an obtuse ignoramus who thinks it’s a laugh riot to sing, "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran." A savage who jokes gleefully about the inevitable creation of widows and orphans – that’s the person the official pro-life movement wants as its public face for four years. Gee, a coherent, non-contradictory message like that is just the way to win people over.

I have not once gone wrong by taking what John McCain says about foreign affairs and assuming the exact opposite to be true. (Here’s a small sample of McCain’s insights, and here’s CBS News getting caught by MSNBC cutting and pasting bits of an interview in order to make him look better informed.) No one can know for sure what McCain’s combination of belligerence and ignorance means for the American people and the world, but we can take a good guess.

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