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McCain on Rights of the Disabled

By TChris

This is all you need to know about John McCain's stance on disability rights:

A wheel-chair bound woman asked McCain about the Community Choice Act, a piece of legislation for disabled Americans that would give individuals greater freedom on where to live. “What that would do is it would end the institutional bias,” the questioner said, then asked him if he would consider supporting it.

“I will not,” McCain responded, “because I don’t think it’s the right kind of legislation.” A trio of people in wheelchairs left the room shortly after his response.

It's not "the right kind of legislation" because it would actually be useful. The Wall Street Journal response, naturally enough, is not to criticize McCain's position, or even to suggest that it might merit criticism, but to applaud his "straight talk."

Full post as published by TalkLeft on July 08, 2008 (boomark / email).