By: Cahir O'Doherty | Published Friday, December 17, 2010, 6:35 PM | Updated Friday, September 9, 2011, 9:58 PM
John McCain says now is not the right time to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." In fact, he appears to suggest, next year won't be either, or the year after that, or the year after that.
So how does never grab you, eh?
We all know his endgame now. First Senator McCain asked for input from the military on the issue. (They didn't think to poll US forces on when or where they fight, but let's overlook that).
McCain got his military study and then - appalled by the result - he cherry picked it and hid behind the few remaining military leaders still willing to echo his own apparent anti-gay animus.
I'm not why sure a senator with his decades of experience is unable to see that the law's on its way out (possibly as soon as tomorrow) and will harm the military more than help it if it's not repealed legislatively.
And I'm not sure what happened to the so-called maverick, or exactly when he turned into grumpy old lawn guy, but the transformation is obvious and complete.
What do you call a man who picks fights with people he knows can not answer him back?
For McCain, as for most people who appear to be irredeemably homophobic, it seems bigotry trumps all common sense, so he'll likely take his objections to gay soldiers serving equally to the end of his days.
He will be remembered as the man who foisted America with Sarah Palin and as the George Wallace of early 21 Century civil rights. What a sad coda to a long career.
That sounds like the chicken and egg conundrum Mman.
Monsoonman | Dec 22, 2010, 02:06 AM EST
So Lad who lives in the Naval Observatory?
seanomelbourne | Dec 20, 2010, 05:34 PM EST
I did indeed Mman naval is more apt under the circumstances.
MARTinNJ | Dec 20, 2010, 08:08 AM EST
John McCain is just a tired old politican who is nasty and hateful. He kept moving the goal posts every time his demands were met. And call a spade a spade. O'Doherty wasn't using hyperboly. McCain is a bigot and a hateful one. It is time he just go.
Monsoonman | Dec 19, 2010, 09:01 PM EST
You meant naval gazing right lad?
seanomelbourne | Dec 19, 2010, 06:05 PM EST
Indeed Monsoonman!! a British children's cartoon of the 50's and 60's (captain pugwash and master bates) ran for years before the slow witted British banned it so much for Churchill. McCain spen some time on naval vessel now he doe's to much navel gazing.
JosephOCasey | Dec 19, 2010, 10:13 AM EST
Sadly idiots like Cahir throw around labels like bigot and racist at the drop of a hat. The effect is that the true meaning of those labels is diminshed and becomes yawn inspiring. It is also a slap in the face of those who actually have been subjected to racism or other real bigotry. Stop with the gratutious hyperbole and save it for an appropriate situation. You continue to make a boob of yourself.
Monsoonman | Dec 18, 2010, 09:31 PM EST
Everything old, is new again. Winston Churchill once said about his Royal Navy "All its good for is rum, the lash and sodomy" I guess the next step for the USN will be to bring in the grog rations and start lashing as corporal punishment. That should complete the process of keeping up with british tradition.
seanomelbourne | Dec 18, 2010, 06:59 PM EST
A great for the military and equality.As an admiral said yesterday "It matters not whom you love as long as you love your country" Who sucks now Cain and his bigoted supporters,not even his officer son or his daughter support him.The repeal of DADT has put you bigots back where you belong.
hancock | Dec 18, 2010, 04:59 PM EST
Obama does suck.
Rebelforce | Dec 18, 2010, 01:21 PM EST
For those of you dissatified with Barack Obama's performance thus far, just give thanks and be a little grateful. This angry little war-mongering bigot could have been the president of our country.
eileenkny | Dec 18, 2010, 09:33 AM EST
Senator McCain is an old man from an old generation. There's a saying "there are no atheists in foxholes". It can also be said "nobody's worried if you're gay in a foxhole". They're just as willing to be brave soldiers, sailors and airmen as anyone. Can you all here say the same thing?
olovely | Dec 17, 2010, 06:12 PM EST
vincem13 you know how I know you're a big fat liar? Because you totally make things up. Anyone can disprove your stats with one quick Google search. Besides you can't get 95% of people to agree on anything. You and the mouse in your pocket agree with each other, but that don't make it true.
seanomelbourne | Dec 17, 2010, 05:20 PM EST
Mr flip flop is sounding more like Mr. flim flam no substance no integrity.
allentown | Dec 17, 2010, 03:34 PM EST
The Wikileaks secret U.S. documents are now public. We can do nothing about that, but Bradley Manning committed espionage against his country and will be tried and probably found guilty. Anyone who calls Manning courageous has a skewed sense of moral values.
Towngate | Dec 17, 2010, 03:27 PM EST
IF he does - he'll have plenty of company there!
vincem13 | Dec 17, 2010, 02:47 PM EST
Once more, Cahir, you accuse without all or even the most important facts. Sen. McCain was RIGHT not to trust the "objective" poll of our military. It doesn't matter one whit if some yeoman safe at headquarters or a supply clerk in Indiana thinks having declared homosexuals in the military is no big thing. What matters is what those on fighting ships, in combat squadrons or in combat units think, because there is where lives are on the line big-time. Guess what, Cahir? Ninety-five percent of those brave servicemen and women are OPPOSED to repeal of DADT. I don't care for Senator McCain, personally, but on this issue he is right and YOU are the bigot!
Monsoonman | Dec 17, 2010, 01:15 PM EST
olovely: Just how are we going to facilitate your new quota system in the government/military social experiment? If you are gay and black do you go to the head of the line for admiral or 4 star general? If you are a gay/black/female do you automatically get to be chief? I know that's how it has worked in the San Francisco police and fire departments. Too small to pick up a service revolver, find a hat that can fit your diminutive head, or handle a firehose unaided, but promoted because you prefer to have sex a certain way, are a certain race and gender.
Dublinjas | Dec 17, 2010, 01:15 PM EST
I agree with Mc Cain....nuff said
olovely | Dec 17, 2010, 01:02 PM EST
Why do some conservatives persist with the you idiotic "choose" to be gay nonsense? Only the biggest horse's rears in America buy that b.s. No one else does, seriously. Why do they need to pretend that the world is flat and that there aren't any people unlike themselves on it? How stupid, really, are they?
Monsoonman | Dec 17, 2010, 12:39 PM EST
There seems to be a purposeful bit of fuzziness when it comes to exactly what is discrimination anymore (in the liberal mind). Being white, black, brown, yellow, male or female is being born into a race or sex, there is no choice. Being homosexual is a lifestyle choice and describes yourself as the way you prefer to have sex. So do we want affirmative action hiring quotas for being gay too? The military is very nervous about removing dadt because of the inevitable civil rights lawsuits that will spring up by the ACLU when an outright gay service person is not promoted.
olovely | Dec 17, 2010, 12:33 PM EST
I'll believe that the white, straight converative males aren't bigots when they're not the ones in power legislating aganist all the minority rights. Its digusting to hear them talk of reverse bigotry when they're the ones holding the reigns of power. When this is a fair fight ~then~ we'll talk.
hollabackgurl | Dec 17, 2010, 12:25 PM EST
The reluctance many Marines feel about repeal is based on the false stereotype, borne out of ignorance, that homosexuals don't do things like pull other Marines from burning vehicles. The truth is, they do it all the time. They simply don't know it because they can't tell us.
Nicomax | Dec 17, 2010, 12:18 PM EST
Five % of the population, give or take, is, and has been, homosexual forever, so it's most likely 5% of our military forces have always been gay, maybe even one of those in the same Vietnamese prison camp Old John inhabited. It's always a sad to watch bitterness overwhelm the elderly, even when you have a vibrant daughter trying to guide you otherwise.
laff1948 | Dec 17, 2010, 11:55 AM EST
You know what I don't understand is if you are gay, or black, or liberal, etc., your comments are "opinions". If I make make my thoughts known as a white, straight, conservative, they are bigoted statements. That's BS. You guys are the bigots and one reason gays in the military is a problem at all is people wanting special treatment. I'll take my John McCain over your Perez Hilton any day. I'm not saying gays in the military is wrong or right, but anyone who wants deserves their opinion, and should not be attacked by some whiney liberal AH's.
seamusmoore | Dec 17, 2010, 11:53 AM EST
hollqabackgurl If the UK so great, go live there. We in America distanced ourselves from the UK back when those in our legal system stopped wearing powdered wigs. I wonder if that's why so many Englishmen are bi-sexual, just a thought.
hollabackgurl | Dec 17, 2010, 11:42 AM EST
Absolute garbage. That's a blood libel. Gay troops are already IN the service and there han't been ONE reported case of a heterosexual soldier contracting AIDS from a gay one. The UK military ended discrmination against gays without any of the what-if scenarios you made up occuring.
jdi2269 | Dec 17, 2010, 11:40 AM EST
CAHIR JUST CAN'T STOP BEING AN IGNORANT JERK!
Porickseantuny | Dec 17, 2010, 11:16 AM EST
You are a army medic in combat, two men having bleeding wounds. One is a known homosexual. You can treat only one. Do you subject yourself to possibly AIDS? The answer is obvious to anyone without a homosexual agenda.
feeneycj | Dec 17, 2010, 11:15 AM EST
Gays in the military are OK, just don't flaunt it. When in a fox hole I might need to bend over, so don't tell, and I'll feel better about doing my job, I won't ask. McCain is right.
seagreen | Dec 17, 2010, 11:08 AM EST
I have no feeling about gays in the military one way or the other. I'm sure they would do their job, there were gays serving when I was in the military years ago!
About John McCain. He never lived in a tent. Like his father who was an Admiral, he attended the naval academy, his son just graduated from the naval academy. He has never had a medical bill, he and his family have been on socialized medicine, and continue to be for sixty five years. He has never had a civillian job. He flew off the deck of an aircraft carrier after bacon and eggs in the morning and dropped bombs from 10,000 ft on whatever was there, then flew back and had roast beef for dinner, while the nineteen year old draftees were eating out of a can with the Cobras, malaria,and mud up to their knees. every position he has taken politically or otherwise was /is to posture the entire United States to accomodate his military career, regardless of the consequences. he is a first class phoney! Oh yeah! what about the wife that waited for him , then got dumped because she put on weight. He is still around, and the kids that really lived in the tents are gone long ago..John McCain has done quite well calling anyone that disagrees with him unpatriotic. Get a job you bum.
hollabackgurl | Dec 17, 2010, 11:08 AM EST
What Bradley Manning did was patriotic. He followed his conscience and exposed nefarious war crimes and he did so without profit to himself. That takes a level of courage that most of us will never have.
rickduff | Dec 17, 2010, 11:04 AM EST
McCain flips on any issue he think will allow him to suck up to his conservative masters.
REMITROMJR | Dec 17, 2010, 11:00 AM EST
Cahir,
Were I to be McCain, I'd choose the likes of you calling me a "bigot" than to subject my country, and the military I love, to suffer admitting another brave homosexual "patriot" like Bradley Manning, the WikiLeaks leaker.
hollabackgurl | Dec 17, 2010, 10:51 AM EST
How do you know if there even is a God never mind what He intended? That's just magical thinking based on a book that was written centuries before people even heard of indoor plumbing. I think people like you PaPaomalley are the worst kind of bigots; you wrap your hate up in the Bible and cheer for the oppression of others.
PaPaomalley | Dec 17, 2010, 10:46 AM EST
Not a matter of bigotry but truth. God created woman as complement to man, represents His person. Realationship before fall.Fallen world and have to overcome results of this, not ptomote perversity. Any deviant could claim rights this group claims, unnatural. Horray for John!
mayoman | Dec 17, 2010, 10:40 AM EST
Gay men and lesbians have long served our nation, and many have died to defend ALL of us and our liberty. They did not fight and die to be demonized and discriminated against. Senator McCain is a tired, old bigot, who should really pack it in and retire. Gay men and women deserve, and should have, the very same rights that we all enjoy.
joma5004 | Dec 17, 2010, 10:09 AM EST
McCain is a tired old man who was never the self-proclaimed "maveric" that the has tried to ride to power. He is a bigot and is a shameful example of what American leaders should NOT be. His time was over yuears and years ago but the silly people of Arizona still elect him. Time for him to leave the Senate and spend the wealth of his wife, the beer baroness. Good riddence to him.
bbcreamer | Dec 17, 2010, 09:57 AM EST
The only thing obvious is the author's pinhead comments. Whatever the author's view, wish he'd use a little common sense and quit being so mean. Unnecessary in getting a point across.
francisquinn | Dec 17, 2010, 09:52 AM EST
PLEASE REMOVE MY NAME FROM YOUR ULTRA LIBERAL LIST.
MCCAIN IS A WAR HERO....HE HAS SPENT TIME IN THE BARRACKS AND KNOWS WHAT IT IS LIKE TO LIVE IN CLOSE QUARTER WITH GAYS....TO LIVE IN THE TENTS WITH MEN.
IF YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN IN THE SERVICE THAN YOU DONT UNDERSTAND..
TheOldPerfessor | Dec 17, 2010, 09:36 AM EST
McCain will go down as a tired old man who will say anything to keep his hold on power. I particularly enjoyed his campaign ads for president when he mined his POW history by proclaiming that he was inspired by Ronald Reagan when he was a POW. Pretty neat trick if you refer back to a book he wrote ten years ago about that time. He was in solitary confinement. This inspiration must have taken the form of ESP.
olovely | Dec 17, 2010, 09:30 AM EST
The fact is it's you two who are in the tiny minority, opposing the civil rights of LGBT Americans. Poll after poll shows the nation favors ending discrimination. It's disgusting to promote irrational bigotry and call it an "opinion." It becomes more than a moral duty to contradict that kind of nonsense, it becomes a pleasure.
colkelley | Dec 17, 2010, 09:24 AM EST
It seems from the comment by "seamusmoore" that other folks are getting as tired as I am of the ranting left-wing ravings of O'Doherty. He does not have to worry about McCain spending his last days as a "bigot" (translation of bigot: anyone who does not agree with O'Doherty), since O'Doherty is already spending his life currently as a bigot, judging and condemning anyone who does not share his radical left-of-the-left-wing ravings. His column is always the low point of Irish Central.
seamusmoore | Dec 17, 2010, 09:15 AM EST
cahir, a question, if I may: Do you ever write about ARTS? After all, you are the Arts Editor. Perhaps you are looking to follow in the footsteps of Frank Rich and his Irish equivalent, Fintan O'Toole, moving from art/drama critic to political commentator.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.Monsoonman | Dec 22, 2010, 08:03 PM EST
The navel observer himself, joe "plugs" biden.
seanomelbourne | Dec 22, 2010, 06:29 PM EST
That sounds like the chicken and egg conundrum Mman.
Monsoonman | Dec 22, 2010, 02:06 AM EST
So Lad who lives in the Naval Observatory?
seanomelbourne | Dec 20, 2010, 05:34 PM EST
I did indeed Mman naval is more apt under the circumstances.
MARTinNJ | Dec 20, 2010, 08:08 AM EST
John McCain is just a tired old politican who is nasty and hateful. He kept moving the goal posts every time his demands were met. And call a spade a spade. O'Doherty wasn't using hyperboly. McCain is a bigot and a hateful one. It is time he just go.
Monsoonman | Dec 19, 2010, 09:01 PM EST
You meant naval gazing right lad?
seanomelbourne | Dec 19, 2010, 06:05 PM EST
Indeed Monsoonman!! a British children's cartoon of the 50's and 60's (captain pugwash and master bates) ran for years before the slow witted British banned it so much for Churchill. McCain spen some time on naval vessel now he doe's to much navel gazing.
JosephOCasey | Dec 19, 2010, 10:13 AM EST
Sadly idiots like Cahir throw around labels like bigot and racist at the drop of a hat. The effect is that the true meaning of those labels is diminshed and becomes yawn inspiring. It is also a slap in the face of those who actually have been subjected to racism or other real bigotry. Stop with the gratutious hyperbole and save it for an appropriate situation. You continue to make a boob of yourself.
Monsoonman | Dec 18, 2010, 09:31 PM EST
Everything old, is new again. Winston Churchill once said about his Royal Navy "All its good for is rum, the lash and sodomy" I guess the next step for the USN will be to bring in the grog rations and start lashing as corporal punishment. That should complete the process of keeping up with british tradition.
seanomelbourne | Dec 18, 2010, 06:59 PM EST
A great for the military and equality.As an admiral said yesterday "It matters not whom you love as long as you love your country" Who sucks now Cain and his bigoted supporters,not even his officer son or his daughter support him.The repeal of DADT has put you bigots back where you belong.
hancock | Dec 18, 2010, 04:59 PM EST
Obama does suck.
Rebelforce | Dec 18, 2010, 01:21 PM EST
For those of you dissatified with Barack Obama's performance thus far, just give thanks and be a little grateful. This angry little war-mongering bigot could have been the president of our country.
eileenkny | Dec 18, 2010, 09:33 AM EST
Senator McCain is an old man from an old generation. There's a saying "there are no atheists in foxholes". It can also be said "nobody's worried if you're gay in a foxhole". They're just as willing to be brave soldiers, sailors and airmen as anyone. Can you all here say the same thing?
olovely | Dec 17, 2010, 06:12 PM EST
vincem13 you know how I know you're a big fat liar? Because you totally make things up. Anyone can disprove your stats with one quick Google search. Besides you can't get 95% of people to agree on anything. You and the mouse in your pocket agree with each other, but that don't make it true.
seanomelbourne | Dec 17, 2010, 05:20 PM EST
Mr flip flop is sounding more like Mr. flim flam no substance no integrity.
allentown | Dec 17, 2010, 03:34 PM EST
The Wikileaks secret U.S. documents are now public. We can do nothing about that, but Bradley Manning committed espionage against his country and will be tried and probably found guilty. Anyone who calls Manning courageous has a skewed sense of moral values.
Towngate | Dec 17, 2010, 03:27 PM EST
IF he does - he'll have plenty of company there!
vincem13 | Dec 17, 2010, 02:47 PM EST
Once more, Cahir, you accuse without all or even the most important facts. Sen. McCain was RIGHT not to trust the "objective" poll of our military. It doesn't matter one whit if some yeoman safe at headquarters or a supply clerk in Indiana thinks having declared homosexuals in the military is no big thing. What matters is what those on fighting ships, in combat squadrons or in combat units think, because there is where lives are on the line big-time. Guess what, Cahir? Ninety-five percent of those brave servicemen and women are OPPOSED to repeal of DADT. I don't care for Senator McCain, personally, but on this issue he is right and YOU are the bigot!
Monsoonman | Dec 17, 2010, 01:15 PM EST
olovely: Just how are we going to facilitate your new quota system in the government/military social experiment? If you are gay and black do you go to the head of the line for admiral or 4 star general? If you are a gay/black/female do you automatically get to be chief? I know that's how it has worked in the San Francisco police and fire departments. Too small to pick up a service revolver, find a hat that can fit your diminutive head, or handle a firehose unaided, but promoted because you prefer to have sex a certain way, are a certain race and gender.
Dublinjas | Dec 17, 2010, 01:15 PM EST
I agree with Mc Cain....nuff said
olovely | Dec 17, 2010, 01:02 PM EST
Why do some conservatives persist with the you idiotic "choose" to be gay nonsense? Only the biggest horse's rears in America buy that b.s. No one else does, seriously. Why do they need to pretend that the world is flat and that there aren't any people unlike themselves on it? How stupid, really, are they?
Monsoonman | Dec 17, 2010, 12:39 PM EST
There seems to be a purposeful bit of fuzziness when it comes to exactly what is discrimination anymore (in the liberal mind). Being white, black, brown, yellow, male or female is being born into a race or sex, there is no choice. Being homosexual is a lifestyle choice and describes yourself as the way you prefer to have sex. So do we want affirmative action hiring quotas for being gay too? The military is very nervous about removing dadt because of the inevitable civil rights lawsuits that will spring up by the ACLU when an outright gay service person is not promoted.
olovely | Dec 17, 2010, 12:33 PM EST
I'll believe that the white, straight converative males aren't bigots when they're not the ones in power legislating aganist all the minority rights. Its digusting to hear them talk of reverse bigotry when they're the ones holding the reigns of power. When this is a fair fight ~then~ we'll talk.
hollabackgurl | Dec 17, 2010, 12:25 PM EST
The reluctance many Marines feel about repeal is based on the false stereotype, borne out of ignorance, that homosexuals don't do things like pull other Marines from burning vehicles. The truth is, they do it all the time. They simply don't know it because they can't tell us.
Nicomax | Dec 17, 2010, 12:18 PM EST
Five % of the population, give or take, is, and has been, homosexual forever, so it's most likely 5% of our military forces have always been gay, maybe even one of those in the same Vietnamese prison camp Old John inhabited. It's always a sad to watch bitterness overwhelm the elderly, even when you have a vibrant daughter trying to guide you otherwise.
laff1948 | Dec 17, 2010, 11:55 AM EST
You know what I don't understand is if you are gay, or black, or liberal, etc., your comments are "opinions". If I make make my thoughts known as a white, straight, conservative, they are bigoted statements. That's BS. You guys are the bigots and one reason gays in the military is a problem at all is people wanting special treatment. I'll take my John McCain over your Perez Hilton any day. I'm not saying gays in the military is wrong or right, but anyone who wants deserves their opinion, and should not be attacked by some whiney liberal AH's.
seamusmoore | Dec 17, 2010, 11:53 AM EST
hollqabackgurl If the UK so great, go live there. We in America distanced ourselves from the UK back when those in our legal system stopped wearing powdered wigs. I wonder if that's why so many Englishmen are bi-sexual, just a thought.
hollabackgurl | Dec 17, 2010, 11:42 AM EST
Absolute garbage. That's a blood libel. Gay troops are already IN the service and there han't been ONE reported case of a heterosexual soldier contracting AIDS from a gay one. The UK military ended discrmination against gays without any of the what-if scenarios you made up occuring.
jdi2269 | Dec 17, 2010, 11:40 AM EST
CAHIR JUST CAN'T STOP BEING AN IGNORANT JERK!
Porickseantuny | Dec 17, 2010, 11:16 AM EST
You are a army medic in combat, two men having bleeding wounds. One is a known homosexual. You can treat only one. Do you subject yourself to possibly AIDS? The answer is obvious to anyone without a homosexual agenda.
feeneycj | Dec 17, 2010, 11:15 AM EST
Gays in the military are OK, just don't flaunt it. When in a fox hole I might need to bend over, so don't tell, and I'll feel better about doing my job, I won't ask. McCain is right.
seagreen | Dec 17, 2010, 11:08 AM EST
I have no feeling about gays in the military one way or the other. I'm sure they would do their job, there were gays serving when I was in the military years ago! About John McCain. He never lived in a tent. Like his father who was an Admiral, he attended the naval academy, his son just graduated from the naval academy. He has never had a medical bill, he and his family have been on socialized medicine, and continue to be for sixty five years. He has never had a civillian job. He flew off the deck of an aircraft carrier after bacon and eggs in the morning and dropped bombs from 10,000 ft on whatever was there, then flew back and had roast beef for dinner, while the nineteen year old draftees were eating out of a can with the Cobras, malaria,and mud up to their knees. every position he has taken politically or otherwise was /is to posture the entire United States to accomodate his military career, regardless of the consequences. he is a first class phoney! Oh yeah! what about the wife that waited for him , then got dumped because she put on weight. He is still around, and the kids that really lived in the tents are gone long ago..John McCain has done quite well calling anyone that disagrees with him unpatriotic. Get a job you bum.
hollabackgurl | Dec 17, 2010, 11:08 AM EST
What Bradley Manning did was patriotic. He followed his conscience and exposed nefarious war crimes and he did so without profit to himself. That takes a level of courage that most of us will never have.
rickduff | Dec 17, 2010, 11:04 AM EST
McCain flips on any issue he think will allow him to suck up to his conservative masters.
REMITROMJR | Dec 17, 2010, 11:00 AM EST
Cahir, Were I to be McCain, I'd choose the likes of you calling me a "bigot" than to subject my country, and the military I love, to suffer admitting another brave homosexual "patriot" like Bradley Manning, the WikiLeaks leaker.
hollabackgurl | Dec 17, 2010, 10:51 AM EST
How do you know if there even is a God never mind what He intended? That's just magical thinking based on a book that was written centuries before people even heard of indoor plumbing. I think people like you PaPaomalley are the worst kind of bigots; you wrap your hate up in the Bible and cheer for the oppression of others.
PaPaomalley | Dec 17, 2010, 10:46 AM EST
Not a matter of bigotry but truth. God created woman as complement to man, represents His person. Realationship before fall.Fallen world and have to overcome results of this, not ptomote perversity. Any deviant could claim rights this group claims, unnatural. Horray for John!
mayoman | Dec 17, 2010, 10:40 AM EST
Gay men and lesbians have long served our nation, and many have died to defend ALL of us and our liberty. They did not fight and die to be demonized and discriminated against. Senator McCain is a tired, old bigot, who should really pack it in and retire. Gay men and women deserve, and should have, the very same rights that we all enjoy.
joma5004 | Dec 17, 2010, 10:09 AM EST
McCain is a tired old man who was never the self-proclaimed "maveric" that the has tried to ride to power. He is a bigot and is a shameful example of what American leaders should NOT be. His time was over yuears and years ago but the silly people of Arizona still elect him. Time for him to leave the Senate and spend the wealth of his wife, the beer baroness. Good riddence to him.
bbcreamer | Dec 17, 2010, 09:57 AM EST
The only thing obvious is the author's pinhead comments. Whatever the author's view, wish he'd use a little common sense and quit being so mean. Unnecessary in getting a point across.
francisquinn | Dec 17, 2010, 09:52 AM EST
PLEASE REMOVE MY NAME FROM YOUR ULTRA LIBERAL LIST. MCCAIN IS A WAR HERO....HE HAS SPENT TIME IN THE BARRACKS AND KNOWS WHAT IT IS LIKE TO LIVE IN CLOSE QUARTER WITH GAYS....TO LIVE IN THE TENTS WITH MEN. IF YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN IN THE SERVICE THAN YOU DONT UNDERSTAND..
TheOldPerfessor | Dec 17, 2010, 09:36 AM EST
McCain will go down as a tired old man who will say anything to keep his hold on power. I particularly enjoyed his campaign ads for president when he mined his POW history by proclaiming that he was inspired by Ronald Reagan when he was a POW. Pretty neat trick if you refer back to a book he wrote ten years ago about that time. He was in solitary confinement. This inspiration must have taken the form of ESP.
olovely | Dec 17, 2010, 09:30 AM EST
The fact is it's you two who are in the tiny minority, opposing the civil rights of LGBT Americans. Poll after poll shows the nation favors ending discrimination. It's disgusting to promote irrational bigotry and call it an "opinion." It becomes more than a moral duty to contradict that kind of nonsense, it becomes a pleasure.
colkelley | Dec 17, 2010, 09:24 AM EST
It seems from the comment by "seamusmoore" that other folks are getting as tired as I am of the ranting left-wing ravings of O'Doherty. He does not have to worry about McCain spending his last days as a "bigot" (translation of bigot: anyone who does not agree with O'Doherty), since O'Doherty is already spending his life currently as a bigot, judging and condemning anyone who does not share his radical left-of-the-left-wing ravings. His column is always the low point of Irish Central.
seamusmoore | Dec 17, 2010, 09:15 AM EST
cahir, a question, if I may: Do you ever write about ARTS? After all, you are the Arts Editor. Perhaps you are looking to follow in the footsteps of Frank Rich and his Irish equivalent, Fintan O'Toole, moving from art/drama critic to political commentator.