Letters to the Editor
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Temper, Temper
Whoa, McCain might say shoot those SOB jehadist running around in Noo Yawk.
Can't have that. gotta negotiate with 'em. Like " Where does it hurtcha baby", TALK TO 'EM ABOUT change, YEAH THAT'S THE TICKET TALK TO THEM ABOUT CHANGE Get Calipso Louie to help!!!! Jackson'll get them to pray with him. No problem.
One comment aobove was that Mc.Cain never made general, correct he was in the navy, you got to love liberals.
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Cooler and cooler
"When everyone else is going nuts, the President needs to get cooler and cooler."
My question about Obama is, how could we possibly know how he will behave under pressure, since he has never had anything but a free ride through a charmed life. Clinton has been tested, Obama hasn't.
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Biased much?
You make it obvious, Mark, the reasons why John McCain shouldn't answer the 3am call. This is Salon; no one expects a republican endorsement here. But your subtle jabs at Clinton are annoying. If you support Obama and think he'd be best suited to answer that call, then say Obama should be president. Don't just start the article by saying how Hillary Clinton's supposedly doomed campaign got some votes by playing on American's fears. A Clinton supporter would instead point out how the commercial simply put the issue of experience into a context.
In the context of this article, it was dishonest, in my opinion, to not state your allegiances.
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No NOT John Mc Cain
I can not imagine how any thinking person could vote for John Mc Cain. If we think that Bush is a War President he will look like a pink pussy cat compared to Mc Cain! Why would any rational person think that 5 years in a Vietnam prisoner of war camp would make him good Presidential material I will never know! To be in a Vietnam prison camp would change anyone forever! Does he have PTSD? I would bet yes! Has he had intense and real psychotherapy for that? HAS HE EVER READ AT HELL'S GATE..WRITTEN BY A NAM VET- CLAUDE THOMAS... IT SAYS IT ALL.
If he loses his temper easily is that the human being we want to be able to be in charge of a Country that is already at war? Not to mention he is 72 years old and is from a very old school of thought!
I also noted that his spouse has a very guarded look as she stands beside him. My guess is that she has experienced his temper.
The fact that George Bush has endorsed him so that the war will continue is also every reason not to vote for this man!
How many more young people have to be permanently maimed in war either psychologically or bodily or both?
Do we know that the largest population of older homeless men on the streets of America are Vietnam Vets! All these years later these men who *served their country* are still suffering from PTSD. A sad Commentary!
My best friend is a Nam vet and I have spoken with many men from Vietnam. War is hell! No one survives a war unscathed!
Pay attention folks or we will all reap a very disasterous future!
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A little balance, please
There is a very big assumption in this article, along with a slant, and that is that Obama will be the nominee. Clinton is dismissed by one political scientist as not having "really a good presidential temperament." References are made to three retired military commanders who support Obama, and Clinton's military support is limited to "the retired general supporting Clinton."
Well, sir, she has considerably more support than that from men who know a tad bit about the military and "presidential temperaments." Consider the following:
Flag Officers Endorsing Hillary Clinton for President and Commander-in-Chief:
General Wesley Clark
General John M. Shalikashvili
General Johnnie E. Wilson
Admiral William Owens
Lt. Gen. Joe Ballard
Lt. Gen. Robert Gard
Lt. Gen. Claudia J. Kennedy
Lt. Gen. Donald L. Kerrick
Lt. Gen. Frederick E. Vollrath
Vice Admiral Joseph A. Sestak
Major General Roger R. Blunt
Major General George A. Buskirk, Jr.
Major General Edward L. Correa, Jr.
Major General Paul D. Eaton
Major General Paul D. Monroe, Jr.
Major General Antonio M. Taguba
Rear Admiral Connie Mariano
Rear Admiral Alan M. Steinman
Rear Admiral David Stone
Brigadier General Michael Dunn
Brigadier General Belisario Flores
Brigadier General Evelyn "Pat" Foote
Brigadier General Keith H. Kerr
Brigadier General Virgil A. Richard
Brigadier General Preston Taylor
Brigadier General John M. Watkins, Jr.
Brigadier General Jack Yeager
Lt. General Joe Ballard
Rear Admiral David Stone
Brigadier General John M. Watkins, Jr.
former Secretary of the Army Togo West
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Interesting article
You quicky drew my attention because "his knee-jerk response factor is a little scary" is why John McCain is a little scary to me.
Although I like his stance on torture and a few other things and I don't think he's George Bush, there are a few things that I haven't heard about McCain in the media that do bother me. One is that everyone says he is a "genuine war hero." I guess so but I think of all the people who were actually in infantry combat and saw and experienced a lot more of actual combat on the ground than John McCain did despite his prisoner of war experience. John McCain flew in planes and according to his autobiography wanted to bomb even more places than he was commanded to.
I also find it a little creepy that a guy who was an Admiral's son and who genuinely had the possibility of getting out of prisoner of war camp didn't leave. I know that is a very unpopular thing to say and I understand the buddy stuff, but what creeps me out is do I want a commander-in-chief who thinks martyrdom is a great idea? Did the guys he was with really think this was noble or did they think it was a little weird? My experience is that people who do not properly take care of themselves do not know how to properly take care of others. Couldn't he have helped his buddies more from the outside?
In addition, I think he is still fighting Viet Nam. He was in prison camp when many in the US made the huge psychological shift from supporting the war to thinking it was a bad idea. Because he was in the camp, he never made the shift, hence his talking about staying in Iraq even "100 years" and "winning" (but he seems to have only one way of defining of winning).
I'd much rather have a steady hand on the rudder - not some guy that's always looking for someone else to bomb, preferred martyrdom to working on the outside to get his buddies home, or thinks "winning" only can be understood in military terms.