Letters to the Editor
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"knows world leaders."
except the president of Russia...."medavadavidiva...or what ever"
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McCain isn't leadership material
He never became a general, for instance. His military experience is only a litle more relevant than Hillary Clinton's White House experience. If being shot at was all it took, every former buck private would be in the Joint Chiefs.
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Jerk
Honest John, the straight talkin' man, is a full body jerk. His knees are the least of our problems if we progressives can't unite behind whomever gets nominated. McLame is way more belligerent than Widdle Georgie- not as stupid, which is a hard standard to match, but much more aggressive. Just what we need. Geez.
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Hoooo-ah!!!
http://www.bgladd.com/JohnMcBuush.jpg
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When the missiles fly...
...will the apology note get there first?
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It's 3 a.m. And your country is slipping into a coma...
I'm happy if it's any of these three, compared to the current occupant. Clinton, Obama and McCain are each far more qualified to orchestrate foreign diplomacy and will do it at a level so high it would make GWB's head spin. So on the face of it I see this as a non-issue.
What is an issue is that our next president might be elected based on this fear angle, when we all know that a list of domestic issues ought to trump terrorism at every turn.
So, while I don't mind if McCain takes the call that tells him the port of San Pedro has been hit with a dirty bomb, I do mind that up until that call he has been working to keep GWB's taxes permanent and thereafter has been rallying to get whako judges placed about the country.
That's what will suck.
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Any time of day
Obama? Apparently he is interested in negotiation with terrorists and tyrants, no matter how heinous their behavior and record.
Hilary? Would need to take an opinion poll first, maybe a few focus groups.
McCain? Has looked into the faces of the agents of evil dictators and stared them down. He knows what evil is, he knows how bad guys think, and he's the one they are all hoping will NOT answer the phone.
Which is why he has my vote.
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It's 3 a.m.
Something is happening in the world...
...and the phone doesn't ring in the Bu'ush White House because these dipwads are outa money and didn't pay the fucking phone bill on time.
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The way America has been recently handling world affairs...
the phone may never ring!
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Don't worry about it.
IT will be taken care of before the convention. Until then, McCain is a placeholder and a token for the nutjobs in the party. Business men are not that stupid and McCain will be bad for business.
So goes the Empire.
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What vote against the Iraq War?
"Such a view supports Obama's reiterating on the campaign trail that he had the judgment and foresight to vote against the Iraq war, when most other U.S. senators, including McCain and Clinton, voted for it," wrote Mark Benjamin.
For the record, I would like to know what "vote" did Obama take "against the Iraq war"? Obama was in the Illinois legislature when the war began in March 2003 and during the 9/11 attack.
Is Benjamin refering to the authorizations to use force after 91/11 and just before the commencement of hostilities in Iraq? Is that what Obama supposedly voted against?
My understanding is that he VOICED his opposition to the war as a US Senate candidate, but he did not vote on any piece of legislation against the war.
Am I misunderstanding something?
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It's called arrogance
The last person the world wants answering that phone is someone who believes anything that happens is automatically the purview of the US military and its Commander in Chief.
Clinton or McCain, will it really make a difference? We need a President who knows when to leave the phone ringing.
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Does real experience actually matter?
"There is no question that McCain has more national security experience than either Obama or Clinton. His five-and-a-half-year ordeal as a prisoner of war in Vietnam established him as a legitimate American hero. He served his first term in Congress starting in 1982 (when Obama was still an undergraduate at Columbia University) and has continued to be a leader on national security issues for most of his career, including serving on the Senate Armed Services Committee."
So, by raising this as a campaign issue, Clinton plays into McCain's strengths. Get the nom, lose the general election. The sad thing is that the strategy is probably working, at least in the short term.
Then again, last time around "swiftboating" destroyed a real-honest-to-goodness war veteran with real policy experience in Kerry, and somehow Bush gets credit for looking tough when he was, in fact, a draft dodger. So I guess the "facts" in this debate are probably totally irrelevant once the MSM and the 527's have spoken.
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@ Kingbreaker: Wrong About Obama
Sen. Obama DOES NOT SERVE on the Senate Armed Services Committee -- Sen. Clinton does.
Obama serves on the Foreign Relations Committee and chairs the subcommittee on NATO and Europe. And by the way, he has been too busy campaigning to hold any oversight hearings on the issues he claims to be very concerned about.
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@ Kingbreaker: Oops!
Wow! Sorry about that last post. I missed the "McCain" part and somehow read "Obama...serves on the Armed Services Committee.
Apologies! :
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Who says the 3 AM ad was effective?
Even polling done by Clintons own people showed it had very little impact on voters. I live in Texas and I think her slight lead in Texas had more to do with winning the Latino vote and over a week of negative campaigning against Obama combined with a press overcorrection of their coverage. (C'mon he won the last 11 contests, of course he is going to get more positive press.)
She managed to tear him down, but I don't think she made people more confident in her own abilities. Besides now she opened herself up to a new line of attack -- what is her experience in foreign conflicts? Which leads to more questions of why exactly do her years of being first lady of Arkansas and the U.S. count towards her "35 years of experience." What are some examples of when she fought and won for the American people?
Senator Clinton may have won the Texas primary (not the caucus), but she still faces numerous obstacles, and the red phone ad will not win this for her.