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Originally posted by sgtclub
McCain is a good guy and I respect him for speaking his mind, but he is an idiot. Just look at campaign finance reform. Everyone told him there were holes you could drive a truck through and that it would make things worse, but he wouldn't listen. Then he acts shocked with the amounts of money still blowing through the system. Serves him right for trying to curtail political speech.
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I am no fan of campaign finance reform because, as you say, it suppresses political speech. The real problem with campaigns isn't the money. It is that voters are so stupid and lazy that you can influence how they vote with sound bites and 30 sec TV commercials. If electorate spent more time trying to understand the issues and voted on substance not sound bites, the $$ wouldn't be a problem.
But no candidate is perfect and I still think McCain would have been a better prez than Bush.
