This is what McCain thinks of the Free Speech and First Amendment...
"I work in Washington and I know that money corrupts. And I and a lot of other people were trying to stop that corruption. Obviously, from what we've been seeing lately, we didn't complete the job. But I would rather have a clean government than one where quote First Amendment rights are being respected that has become corrupt. If I had my choice, I'd rather have the clean government."
And this was George Will's take on McCain's statement:
In his words to Imus, note the obvious disparagement he communicates by putting verbal quotation marks around "First Amendment rights." Those nuisances.McCain is no friend of the 1st Amendment - period.Anyway, he vows to "complete the job" of extirpating corruption, regardless of the cost to freedom of speech. Regardless, that is, of how much more the government must supervise political advocacy. President McCain would, it is reasonable to assume, favor increasingly stringent limits on what can be contributed to, or spent by , campaigns. Furthermore, McCain seems to regard unregulated political speech as an inherent invitation to corruption. And he seems to believe that anything done in the name of "leveling the playing field" for political competition is immune from First Amendment challenges.
Oops, ps: He isn't so good on the 2nd Amendment either. Wanting to close the non-existent 'Gun Show Loophole'. All that would do is Ban Private Sales of guns between law abiding citizens - anywhere - not only at Gun Shows. That's right out of the gun grabbing Brady Bunch play book.
If you think McCain is rotten on the 1st & 2nd Amendments, you’ll be even unhappier with Obama (I would love to see the video, taken in Kenya, showing Barack Obama declaring his devotion to Islam and Muhammed):
“Michelle Obama on the Man that Would Be President”, by Nancy Salvato, of the The Hawaii Reporter
August 29, 2008
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?e2e3c6ca-3c75-4a04-9bd6-14d5eebaf47d