So, McCain is going to stop giving speeches?
John McCain is giving up speeches.
OK, probably not that absolute, but, still, abandoning speeches for "townhall format" is pretty unbelievable because, you know, giving speeches is pretty much in the job description.
Later. His speaking off the cuff isn't doing him much good either.
The problem here isn't the obvious ill sounding language, that leaving Iraq is "not too important." The problem is that he wants those permanent bases in Iraq which would be fine if it were Japan or South Korea or Germany. But it's not. It's the middle east.
And as we have learned from our previous permanent base attempts in the region, permanent large US bases beget problems. Lebanon turned Hezbullah into a major player. Saudi Arabia turned Al Qaeda into a big threat.
It's not the poor language choice that should get the attention here. It's the poor policy.
Maybe McCain would be more electable if he just stopped talking altogether.
(Repeated again, "Seriously, GOP, this is the best you can do?")
OK, probably not that absolute, but, still, abandoning speeches for "townhall format" is pretty unbelievable because, you know, giving speeches is pretty much in the job description.
Later. His speaking off the cuff isn't doing him much good either.
The Arizona senator made the comments on NBC's Today Show where he was asked if he had an estimate of when a withdrawal process may be possible.
"No, but that's not too important," McCain replied. "What’s important is the casualties in Iraq, Americans are in South Korea, Americans are in Japan, American troops are in Germany. That’s all fine. American casualties and the ability to withdraw; we will be able to withdraw."
The problem here isn't the obvious ill sounding language, that leaving Iraq is "not too important." The problem is that he wants those permanent bases in Iraq which would be fine if it were Japan or South Korea or Germany. But it's not. It's the middle east.
And as we have learned from our previous permanent base attempts in the region, permanent large US bases beget problems. Lebanon turned Hezbullah into a major player. Saudi Arabia turned Al Qaeda into a big threat.
It's not the poor language choice that should get the attention here. It's the poor policy.
Maybe McCain would be more electable if he just stopped talking altogether.
(Repeated again, "Seriously, GOP, this is the best you can do?")
posted by mikevotes at
10:41 AM
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The phrase "just when you thought it couldn't get any worse..." keeps coming to mind.
If this man isn't incentive to get out and work for Obama, nothing is!
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Ptelea, at 11:50 PM
Actually, for me, when he screws up like this, it makes me lazy confidant.
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mikevotes, at 5:20 AM
He forgets to mention there was never an insurgency problem in S. Korea, Germany or Japan.
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Anonymous, at 8:56 AM
It's not the poor language choice that should get the attention here. It's the poor policy.
Good point.
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Todd Dugdale , at 8:56 AM
The common theme in most GOP talk is that they don't really know anything about Iraq or the Middle East. They continually cast Iraq in the false analogy of either WWII or the Cold War. Seldom to you see or hear any intellectual, factual, contemporary awareness of the region, among the GOP. Furthermore, there's an active effort toward willful ignorance on the subject, and a desire to see everything nostalgic through the lens of a 1942 propaganda film or recruitment poster.
McCain is the poster boy for this sort of willfully ignorant, anachronistic macho jingoism.
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-epm, at 12:02 PM
Anon, Exactly. Also, there wasn't the broad cross border regional issues or an Iran like presence capable of agitating and blocking.
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EPM, to my mind, it has o do with a binary worldview. right and wrong, yours and ours, good and evil.
There's a reason that the Dems have traditionally not been as good at getting elected through villanization. The Dem followers are less prone to this sort of thinking than GOP.
Perhaps the most interesting outgrowth is the violent reaction against anyone who dares qeustion the +/- equation.
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mikevotes, at 3:12 PM
I'm hoping more and more Americans are becoming aware that they've been sold a bill of goods by Bush and his goose stepping Republican lackeys in congress. For McCain to be campaigning on stay the course in Iraq... well, it's kind of indicative of his disconnectedness from the lives of everyday Americans.
He's like the guy still trying to sell bomb shelters in 1970... Not quite aware that American's no longer lived in fear of the commies dropping the Big One on the US of A.
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-epm, at 3:53 PM
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