Letters to the Editor
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Don't phone McCain at 3AM
He is too old to be awakened at 3AM, and probably needs sleeping pills to fall asleep, so he wouldn't be able to wake up anyway. If he somehow manages to wake up, he would mumble:"just send in the 101th Airborne and kick their ass, then put the goddamned military on nuclear alert", then he'll go back to sleep.
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McCain is the Best (At least on National Security)
Hillary is great until life throws her off the track, at which point she implodes. Barrack has no military experience and is entirely untested in that area. So that leaves McCain.
Peace,
XY
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AnaHadHooves
I don't denigrate John McCain for his service or his suffering. In fact, I may vote for him. He's got more integrity than Clinton, that is for sure. Nevertheless, his service cannot be counted as the kind of experience that makes for a good president. The same is true of Clinton's 8 years as first lady. They're liabilities as much as they are anything else. That is my point!
As for being a shill, you wrote the following:
"I've been rolling on the floor, convulsed in laughter, since I read [your post]."
"[Clinton has been] villified, demonized, shellacked..[by]..the Republican slime machine...she must be doing something so right to receive so much flack"
"I see their flaccid attempts at pejoratives as a badge of honor"
"[Obama's] wealthy patron, the indicted bag-man Tony Rezko..."
"You, however, compare favorably to BallPark Franks: full of baloney."
It's obvious you're the expert on shills and shilling. Your feminist fervor is clouding your judgement lady.
And don't tell me you haven't heard about the American dream? You know, that thing about opportunity, rags to riches, getting the chances you won't get anywhere else--look it up! It's a good story.
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Clinton's anti-pluralism at home makes her suspect abroad
Clinton domestic campaign strategy of race and Muslim-baiting are being picked up in the foreign press. It's important to realize just how insensitive, and irresponsible, she is starting to look to others, particularly in volatile regions of the world (eg the Middle East, Kenya, etc).
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Thank YOU
I appreciate that focus is being turned back where it belongs-on John McCain. I hope most liberals know that although all three candidates are far and away more honorable and qualified than the current president, EITHER Democrat would serve the interests of the nation better than McCain.
Salon in the last several weeks has gone a long way to refocus the debate on the issues, and away from the infighting between the two very qualified Democratic candidates whose supporters have of late behaved like kindergarteners!
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The 3 a.m. concept is flawed from the get-go
I fear that those who make their presidential decisions based on the concept of a "ringing red phone" are making such a decision based on some flawed expectations.
Of course I don't know the exact workings of the president's communications apparatus, but I feel confident in suggesting that there isn't a red phone on the president's nightstand that rings in the middle of the night with a voice on the other end demanding that the president to make an immediate tactical military decision. Unfortunately, the recent discussion and debate seems to reinforce this idea, with the Clinton campaign specifically trying to make a case that whomever answers a 3 a.m. phone call in the White House will be required to make very important military and security decisions based on a limited information while wearing his or her pajamas.
A much more plausable scenario is that the next president, when faced with such a crisis, would need to immediately convene the appropriate brain trust and make their decisions based upon the information presented by the military experts with the actual knowledge and real experience pertinent to the issue at hand.
To me, that's the real question - who do we want at the head of that table? Someone who is convinced that their long "experience" has given them a special insight that will allow them to magically make the appropriate choice in any possible scenario, or someone who is willing to make their decisions based on the recommendations of people who know more about the situation than they do?
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What the world will think of President McCain
McCain is a very simplistic and not very intelligent person, angry and belligerent. he would like to fight sweden and invade Holland. if he's elected, the message the US will be sending to the world is that we are a warrior nation on its way to create the mightiest empire in history. The rest of the world is extremely frightened of this prospect, all you have to do is travel abroad. Electing McCain would not only be a disaster for our society, economy and miltary, but it would be an act of flipping off the rest of the world.
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The 3AM commercial is loathsome fear mongering
And shame on you Hillary Clinton for allowing this commercial to air! It's exactly the kind of fearmongering that W has been using to enrich his friends and family for the past eight years. In terms on McCain and military experience...he seems stuck in the past. Words like "victory" and "surrender" and "defeat" and simply not appropriate in our current situation. The fact is that we invaded a soveregn country with no provocation in order to enrich some internationsl corporations and impoverish the Amercan taxpayers and the American government (so all the entitelment programs will have to be privatized because the government is broke). And McCain with his antedeluvian views on war will keep the riches coming to the corporate war profiteers for generations to come. Where has our 3 trillion dollars gone? Think about it.
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Obama's Top Foreign Policy Advisor admitted Obama is not ready to answer the phone
This morning on MSNBC Susan Rice, Obama's Sr. Foreign Policy Advisor admitted that Obama is not ready to answer the phone at 3 AM.
Transcript:
RICE: “Clinton hasn’t had to answer the phone at three o’clock in the morning and yet she attacked Barack Obama for not being ready. They’re both not ready to have that 3AM phone call.
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We cannot afford his style of engagement with the world
He could do to this country what those old Soviet generals did to theirs. Bleed it dry with military overreach and paranoia.
Except this time we're trying to modernize TWO tribal societies at the point of a gun, instead of just one.
I can't see any example in history where this kind of task has ever been successfully accomplished before.
Soldiers are not socio-economic engineers, unless the job is demolition.
Tribalism is a socio-economic system that is probably the oldest and most resilient form of human self-organization in existence.
You can't just wave some magic gun and convert pre-modern tribalists into modern socialists -- as the USSR tried to do -- or into modern democrats -- as we're trying to do.
I don't see any sign whatsoever that McCain understands any of this any better than those old Soviet generals understood it.