McCain Dismisses Fathers Rights
February 8, 2008 | Posted by ANCPR Many of you often wonder about the candidates’ stand on Fathers’ Rights. About a year ago, Glenn Sacks reported the following quote by McCain (original here) about reforming Family Courts and the laws that make it so easy to exclude the father from the lives of his children:
“Aspiring Republican presidential candidate John McCain contemptuously dismissed fathers’ concerns over family law at a mid-day town hall meeting in Cedar Falls, Iowa today. Shared parenting activist Tony Taylor asked McCain if he would be bold enough to address the issue of equal access to children for fathers that have gone through divorce.” McCain testily replied:
“I’m sorry to disappoint you, I am not going to overturn divorce court decisions. That’s why we have courts and that’s why people go to court and get a divorce. If I as President of the United States said this decision has to be overturned without the proper appeals process then I would be disturbing our entire system of government… But for me to stand here before all these people and say that I’m going declare divorces invalid because someone feels that they weren’t treated fairly in court, we are getting into a, uh, uh, tar baby of enormous proportions.”
In other words, McCain is saying, “the family court issue is a mess. Given the power of the women’s groups and the lack of power of fathers’ groups, there’s nothing for me to gain and much for me to lose in tackling the issue.”
It’s unfortunate, but McCain’s assessment of the politics of the issue is probably accurate at this point, and is one reason why we often can’t get politicians to meaningfully act on our issues. And as unfortunate as McCain’s response is, to be fair, at least answered the question honestly. Whereas most politicians will give some vague, meaningless answer designed to appease the questioner into thinking he was going to do something about the issue, McCain made it clear he had no interest in the issue.”
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John MacCain is another example how politicians favor chasing women’s votes. It seems clear that until the social problems stemming from single parent families peak, and begin to affect society as a whole, that politicians will continue their chase. The day will come that Western Country children of divorce will begin to chase us all down. It is shameful we are going to wait that long for a presumption of equal parenting.
The system is the same everywhere. I have been fighting for custody of my daughter for almost two years and my Lawyer does nothing. My ex has been arrested for drugs and the DFS doesn’t do anything. They take child support from me through civil court without my knowledge. The court system is a big joke!!!! There are a lot of dads that don’t even take care of there kids and when we try and try to do the right thing the court system laughs at us just like Sen. McCain…
When did slavery and human trafficking based on race peak? There was an entire economy in the South based on the institution of slavery. How did it end? A civil war with over 500,000 dead.
The divorce industry, a huge segment of our ecomomy, is also a system of slavery & human trafficking but based on gender by means of kidnapping and ransoming children
The list of crimes and civil rights violations committed by scumbag human trafficking imposter judges: http://exiledfathers.org/#EXPOSE
We should not have fight a bloody civil war but simply stand on the First Amendment, as our founding fathers intended. Get a camcorder and start recording stories of the victims of the family destruction industry, and flood the Internet to expose these imposter judges as the traitors they are.
And don’t go to court without either video or audio recording. See disbarred attorneys who tell about altered court records:
Deconstructing America
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBzUywM2ENo
Part 2 :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB2msm4Sex8
www.ExiledFathers.org
www.youtube.com/markyoung12
If McCain does end up being the “Republican” nominee, things don’t look to get any better. If Billary ends up being the Democrat nominee &/or ends up becoming President we’ll really be up against it then. I don’t know exactly what Obama’s record is in this particular area, but I heard some good things in Mitt Romney’s speech the other day. Too bad he may be out of the picture at this point.
Domestic Violence is a terrible thing. However, perjury, abuse of process, corrupted attorneys/court systems, abusive police offiers is a blight in this country as well.
I guess John McCain would have, upon getting screwed over in the “fair and impartial” system, all fathers lined up to be ran over by an armored personal carrier he is commandeering. Whereupon our remains could be transferred to a remote, undisclosed location to be summarily tortured until some acquiescence to his ludicrous, preposterous analytical conclusions are reached.
Why should John McCain rock the boat? He has profited handsomely by dumping the first wife and marrying a rich second wife.
Besides, isn’t America about getting ahead and screwing everyone else. Isn’t it great that women can screw their unsuspecting spouses both figuratively and financially?
So if McCain can screw the public what’s wrong with having McCain divorcee supporters who do likewise?
All’s fair in love and war and divorce is definitely war.
p.s. Let the kids fend for themselves. As George W Bush so aptly puts it: “It’s so uniquely American to have 3 jobs and still not make ends meet.” George W Bush does support child slavery, why don’t you?
Is anyone expecting a 25+-year Senate veteran to be rational about changing constitutionally flawed systems? Please… let’s be real.
He’s got 6 months to convince the Republicans that he can beat Obama: why would he care about small change like fathers?