John McCain speaks up for gay rights in Russia, but not America. He gets only half a gold star. Sally Clark is verging on unforgivable.

@2 the whole point of the resolution is to show Russia that the rest of the world is not blind to what is going on.

Also, yes, yes it does.

Prediction: Sally Clark caves (how could she not? She's getting enormous pressure from Seattleites and others, and now pressure by proxy from her colleagues thanks to Dan and others pushing the issue), and Ed Murray/Sally Clark try to use it as an opportunity to claim his influence.

Wait for it!

He's that kind of guy. That's why sensible Americans voted for him in 2008, but obviously not enough. I blame it on Sarah being on the ticket.

How you type with one hand is commendable, @5.

If McGinn is in favor of it - the Council is opposed. Similar to the Republican House and Obama.

C'mon Sally Clark. I know Dan's brash, potty-mouth, bomb-throwing style chafes your mainstream polite sensibilities. But seriously, please find some way to gracefully change your mind. This is ridiculous. A city-council resolution costs you nothing, costs the taxpayers nothing, would take all of ten minutes of debate, and would send a strong message of support that Russian LGBT activists actually want to hear.

It is truly the least you can do.

Nice to see John McCain saying something positive for once instead of complaining that his soup is the wrong temperature and yelling at those kids playing on his lawn.

It's cute to imagine that John McCain is scolding Russia primarily because he cares about LGBT rights. In any case, he's in the United States Senate, which actually does have responsibilities regarding international relations.

@6: How in the world did you know that I just happened to be peeling green chilies and I was keeping my left hand away from the keyboard? Do you have powers?

Perhaps the photos of gay Russians being tortured struck a nerve with someone who's been clearly anti-torture for a while. It's the one issue on which McCain has credibility.

McCain is pissed that Putin interfered with military strikes in Syria and the potential for a long term war. That's it. I don't think he gives a damn about gay rights but he couldn't write an op Ed without mentioning a major point of criticism regarding Putin.

@5 yeah the majority of Americans across the spectrum of race ethnicity and orientation aren't sensible but the mostly white, mostly older, minority of people who voted for McCain are. If only that guy with the monkey doll with the Obama sticker had gotten his way, America would be in one or two new wars. How sensible.

John McCain - Sarah Palin = principled and actually a decent person

What about the City Council resolution on Assad using chemical weapons? What about the City Council resolution on blah, blah, blah. Dan, shut up already.

@5: He's that kind of guy now because he got his ass handed to him when he tried to fight the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. And sensible people don't run for the highest office in the land with an untested, inarticulate amateur whose appeal to sexist conservatives who like "gals" with "spunk" and to short-sighted female Republicans because she too has a vagina was 1) mostly theoretical to begin with and 2) never enough to win.

Too bad that McCain had to post on the russian equivalent of the Daily Blaze- a trashy gossip site that nobody reads. He is so ignorant of contemporary Russian, and so unable to use Google, that he sent his op-ed in to a website that is somewhat like the National Enquirer, but has a name including the word truth "Pravda", so he figured it was the long defunct Soviet era newspaper Pravda.
Russians find this very amusing, and illustrative of what tools American politicians are.

@18 by the "Daily Blaze" did you mean the Daily Beast, or the Blaze? The Daily Beast is passable in some ways as "media," but the Blaze is just a disaster.

Good for John McCain. I'm still glad he's not President and luckily the majority of American voters were sensible enough to ensure that he wasn't.

@16: I'm yet to hear a cogent argument about why "chemical weapons" are an unacceptable way to kill people while bombs and bullets and machetes etc. are (apparently?) just dandy. Assad sucks, and that has exactly zero to do with whether he used poison gas in particular as a way to kill people.