All About McSame

Everything you really need to know:

1--John McCain Votes to Filibuster Minimum Wage Hike

2--McCain housing policy shaped by lobbyist

3--Bush, McCain plug Social Security

4--McCain blasts Obama's and Clinton's attacks on NAFTA

5--McCain in NH: Would Be "Fine" To Keep Troops in Iraq for "A Hundred Years"

6--McCain: Bush right to veto kids health insurance expansion

7--Senate passes expanded GI bill despite Bush, McCain opposition

8--McCain says overturn the law that legalized abortion

9--McCain Defends Bush's Iraq Strategy

OH-16: Welcome to the YouTube Era, Kirk Schuring

Submitted by Jeff on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 4:10pm.

The more I think about this remark by State Sen. Kirk Schuring (R-North Canton), caught on videotape at a McCain rally in Ashland last Thursday, the worse it seems (video embedded in an earlier post):

"So the other thing I know is that Ashland County has a rich history and tradition of rallying around Republicans, and I was telling people earlier where I come from we could never have a rally like this in the center of Canton. If we did we might be shot at, but not in Ashland and that's what makes you so great."

Not only is it gratuitously insulting to residents of Canton, the biggest city in the congressional district Schuring seeks to represent (and his home town), it also is insulting to the very residents of the Republican stronghold Ashland County to whom Schuring was speaking. What makes them so great is ... that they wouldn't shoot at Republicans holding a rally? That's it?

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Sen. Kirk Schuring attacked more than Canton

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 06/29/2008 - 12:26pm.

***Sen. Kirk Schuring attacked more than Canton, he attacked Civil Liberties***

I am really surprised that the media only picked up on Sen. Kirk Schuring comment that,
"Where I come from, we could never have a rally like this in the center of Canton. If we did, we might be shot at."

What is truly disturbing was his comment that, “Barack Obama believes that our Constitution is a living document that evolves over time” and that John McCain believes “it [the Constitution ] should be interpreted as it is written.”

Need I remind Sen. Kirk Schuring that if the Constitution was interpreted “as written,” Obama would not be considered as a citizen. Slavery would still be legal. Women would not have the right to vote.

Granted, I am sure Sen. Schuring did not intend to offend anyone with his Canton comment, but we cannot condone his statement about Barack Obama and the U.S. Constitution.

Barak, being freeborn would not have been a slave.

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 07/29/2008 - 10:23pm.

Instead of the constitution as originally written, the constitution in plain language as amended by congress, might be a better way of saying it. By "living document", some mean that it can be amended and repaired when it needs to be. Nobody I know disagrees with that.

Others use the phrase, "living document" to mean that the constitution means what we judges want it to say, when it suits us. Honestly, I don't think Obama believes that extreme either.

I think the point is Obama would nominate more like Ginsberg, and McCain would nominate someone more like O’Connor.