McCain's Ties to Gambling

Online Gambling


In an extremely long and thorough article about McCain and his gambling 'ties', the New York Times published an article about Senator McCain's love of gambling and his links to the promotion of gambling both in the interest of the Indian casinos in his earlier days and more recently, the Las Vegas casinos.

We read on the Intellectual Conservative a scathing Republican response to what they perceived to be a 'hatchet job' on a supposedly innocent McCain who, as the Intellectual Conservative would like others to know is technically being 'butchered' by democrat partisans.

Calling the New York Times article a 'hit piece', one would assume that McCain himself is so helpless because he simply has this absolute right to gamble as an American citizen, despite reports that he has received monies for favours done. Though we agree that Mr. MCain has every right to gamble, he doesn't have the right to do the latter.

Even worse, if we ever find out that McCain is one of those pushing legislation to do witch hunts on online gamblers and foreign-based gambling sites, then we can just as well call him a two-faced opponent of gambling. As with most state senators and their cohorts trying to tell people what to do with their well-earned money - and that is ... they had better gamble at home in Las Vegas and not online - the true purpose is not that they care about problem gambling but the fact is that they care that all Americans must spend their gambling dollars on American soil for Amercia's profit (and ultimately theirs if they are taking money from the gambling industry to fund their campaigns or lifestyles).

America's problem is that politicians must be either Republican or Democrat. There seems to be nothing in between which is not only wholly unnatural but nonsensical. We suspect that McCain is actually a bit more Democratic than he makes himself out to be. The mere fact that a Republican partisan calls anyone writing negative articles about McCain as being democratic 'partisan' is in itself so laughable it hurts - one has to assume that to be partisan is to be narrow minded - and that rule applies both ways. There cannot be any true reporter or critic that is partisan to either Democrats or Republicans that is worth any salt. One has to see both the positives and negatives and what the party can do for the people - that is all that counts.

So those confused, should weigh how much they think a party will do for them and vote based on this analysis alone rather than trying to defend a partisan position just because its a Republican or Democrat who holds that position. That's why I dream of parties making their arguments on paper without anyone knowing which party is offering which positions and vote for that party one thinks will do their best - the party that seems to have the better plan for the citizens should win. When the voting is over, there would be many surprises which party the citizens actually chose for their leaders. Where gambling is concerned, it is definitely the Republicans who work for self-profit and profits of the upper class and not for everyone.

This is also why we believe that if Senator McCain is truthful and sincere about what he wants to do for the poor man, then he might just be a litlle Democratic. How would Intellectual Republican take that? They might sink in shame.