As the no-holds-barred battle for the Democratic presidential nomination mercifully nears an end, renewed attention is being focused on the several John McCains bearing the Republican armor. Having written that I cannot vote for Barack Obama because he is an extremist on abortion who refused even to save a sudden live baby resulting from a botched abortion, I also have concerns about the consistency of some of McCain’s positions.
The First Amendment’s being the foundation of our constitutional self-government, I recall McCain’s comment about the McCain-Feingold “clean elections” law that directly and significantly silences the opinions of a range of advocacy groups at crucial points during presidential campaigns.
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