Letters to the Editor
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Just what we need, an angry President
I am not sure who knows what in their world, but I know McCain is a hothead who could really mess this up even worse.
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Can we please start referring to him as Sen, Magoo?
...yes it is a tad age-ist, but when millions of lives are at stake, yes, the ends justify the means. If McCain is going to make gaffe after gaffe only to have the press corps attribute them to his wacky senility, without taking a second to reflect on how that wacky, curmudgeonly ineptitude might jeopardize the fate of the world, we've got to point out the obvious. What's a better plan, as the world lays scorched he sits back and laughs "Oh McCain...you've done it again!"
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McCain is scarier than I imagined.
Thanks to Joe Conason for pointing out that McCain is getting his foreign policy advice from one of the scarier neocons on the planet, the professional warmonger Randy Scheunemann. The MSM seems to have missed that, as well as the connection between McCain and John Hagee, the raving ranter who calls the Catholic church "The Great Whore." I therefore doubt that Scheunemann's presence will make any difference to it, nor will the MSM note McCain's eventual sucking up to Jerry Falwell who blamed 9/11 on America's tolerance for gays, lesbians and the ACLU. But they will surely, however, treat us to endless repetitions of the words of Obama's former minister, Jeremiah Wright, right through the first Tuesday in November.
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If McCain wants a scrap with the Islamic Republic of Iran
He'd better have more than his Viet Nam experience, and a half baked plan. Believe me, the road to hell isn't paved with good intentions, it's paved with puffed, bloated, bleeding, dead bodies, that stink up to the stars. And one day if there's any justice at all in this world, Bush is gonna have his nose rubbed in that pile of dead that he dispatched to fulfill his dearly sought American dream.
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Would you dare the following Mr Conason?
You wrote:
The Iranian leaders are devious and perhaps even demonic.
Would you dare: Bush, McCAin and many neocons indeed are devious and perhaps even demonic?
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The U.S. is in debt up to its eyeballs...
... and getting deeper in debt every second. We're going to need a lot of help from other countries to get us through this.
How does McCain plan to run yet another mideast war if the sheiks and the Chinese decide they don't want to finance it?
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And the interesting thing...
Is that the falling down economy is barely linked by anybody to the expenditures that are being swallowed up by the hungry hydra's heads of this war. Iraq is a beast that cannot be put down. Insurgents fall, and they just get right back up, regroup, raid again, bomb again, demolish oil infrastruture, hold hostages, and just go all fire hell on wheels twenty four seven.
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Globo's got it
When Conason avers that "the Iranian leaders are devious and perhaps even demonic," he is making the ritual gesture that will allow him to go on, in the next sentence to refer safely to "[o]ur misguided policies."
The worst we can be, almost by definition, is "misguided" while the best the other guys can be, in their finest moments, is "devious". That's just the way things are.
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seventy one years old
I learned there was a difference between groups of Muslims, and that there was a long standing conflict between the Sunni and Shiite groups, when I was eleven (11). I lived in "backward" conservative South Dakota. I'm 35 now.
How does someone become an adult, much less a politically savvy world figure, without knowing basic facts?
(That's a rhetorical question. I learned about rhetorical questions as a kid too.)
I don't even have pretensions to being smarter than McCain (well, perhaps I do now) I just get so unsettled and upset about this kind of thing.
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McCain and the Israel Lobby
If McCain wins, it looks likely that he will be pursuing Middle East policies dictated by the Israel Lobby (i.e. we are likely to see Bush's policies continue). The sight of "Mr. Lobby" Lieberman at his side does not bode well for the future of American policies in the Middle East.
The bottom line is more needless wars fought under false pretenses.
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President McCain may find
the Russians and the Chinese waiting for him if he goes after Iran.
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Day 1800
Of Salon promising, practically stroking themselves, over the prospect (which in the real world is zero point zero zero) of a war with Iran. But - - - I makes good copy I suppose. Filler really.
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What?!?
What's this I hear about Iran arming Al Qaeda in Iraq?!?
We have to stop them before we're too informed!
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The Second Worst Presidential Candidate In History
Ok, we already know who the worst one is and he managed to get selected twice. McCain's candidacy is focused on two issues: violently attacking those who we perceive to be unfriendly to us, especially the ones on the opposite side of the planet, and giving corporations an even bigger tax break than his tarnished predecessor managed.
Meanwhile, the country and the world will be facing the biggest crises in human history: the post peak-oil energy crisis, the climate change crisis, the fresh water availability crisis, and the national and personal debt crisis. None of these will be addressed by any part of McCain's program, which will only exacerbate all of them.
Electing or selecting McCain as our next president would be tantamount to the fulfillment of a kind of national death-wish. We need political leadership from people who paid attention in school to the issues of political and personal liberty and opportunity for advancement that are supposed to be our heritage from the American Revolution. We need a President and Congress that understands the nature of scientific research and does not dismiss its findings because they may be unpleasant or inconvenient. We need national leaders who can find peaceful resolution to problems, who will be able to hold dialogs with those who have taken a stand against us. I don't think that John McCain possesses any of these characteristics.
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No Idea
I've no idea if he meant it or not, but it was enough for me to stop considering supporting him. Had he been the nominee in 2000, I would have voted for him over Gore. Gore got my vote over Bush, since which my opinion of Gore has gone up steadily. McCain, on the other hand, hasn't put a foot right since then. He now appears mad.
... now if he actually wanted to hold Saudi Arabia to accounts for 9/11. Ah, but that's just a pipe dream.