Ethics

McCain's Convenient Flip Flop on DADT

By Ed Brayton

Rachel Maddow did an excellent job on Tuesday of documenting John McCain's blatant -- and politically convenient -- flip flop on Don't Ask Don't Tell. In 2006, McCain said:

The day that the leadership of the military comes to me and says, senator, we ought to change the policy, then I think we ought to consider seriously changing it because those leaders in the military are the ones we give the responsibility to.

And then when the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff goes to Congress and says exactly that, he wigged out. And that's just the beginning.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on February 03, 2010 (boomark / email).