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not bucks4mccain, with his straw-man + ad hominem mind-reading act again...oh yeah, and the hyperbolic insult routine, not quite rising to the level of comedy.
There's no bigger adherent to Woodrow Wilson's ambitiously globalist foreign policy dreams in this race than John McCain. For that matter, George W. Bush's foreign policy can accurately be termed Wilsonian.
Obama can be accurately termed a Wilsonian, too- but not nearly as much as McCain, with his "make the world safe for democracy with a global US garrison" crusade. McCain is soldon that one. That's part of what being a neocon is all about. With the exception of a few holdouts like Ron Paul, Pat Buchanan, and George Will, just about every Republican in public life is a Wilsonian, to the extent that they're convinced that America has a duty to bestow Western democratic liberal values on the world.
And, except for the bullets, bombs, and barbed wire tactics that they are so all-fired certain are required to do this, I largely support that, as a long-term project. As long as they don't go totally overboard, I'm in favor of liberal values.
That's right- LIBERAL VALUES. Anybody championing "100% conservative values" needs to find their role models with the Wahhabis and the Taliban.
But you wouldn't know that. It ruins what passes for your political philosophy- you know, the one based entirely on the historical formula "column D bad, column R good."
ucks4, I'd like to know what civil liberties abuses Wilson ordered that out-do those attempted by George W. Bush. Did Wilson ever demand the unchecked personal power to name U.S. citizens "enemy combatants" and have them abducted by the government and imprisoned without trial? Did Wilson ever personally participate in specific discussions on torture and brainwashing tactics?
Actually, you get points for naming the specifics of any violations of liberties during the Wilson presidency. Possibly enough points to raise your credibility score above zero.
