Letters to the Editor
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McCain has LOTS of experience
If you ever need civilians bombed from the air - call John! He has experience!
Who has Hilary bombed? (Bill does not count)
Obama did threaten to bomb Pakistan, but he has never bombed anyone before. What a loser.
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Lying by another name
When I was growing up, "not being careful about sticking to established facts" was grounds for my getting punished.
My mom called it "lying". I guess Mr. McCain's "spiritual advisors" never spoke to him about that Commandment.
Or maybe the stress of being held captive by the North Vietnamese damaged the part of the brain that allows one to tell the difference between the truth and a lie.
Or, just maybe, it comes with being a Republican.
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Foreign Policy Experience 2000-2004
We were told that Bush's lack of it was balanced by the expertise of the following:
Dick Cheney
Donald Rumsfeld
Colin Powell
How'd that work out?
To hell with the media's concept of expert.
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Pope Ratzo
When I was growing up, "not being careful about sticking to established facts" was grounds for my getting punished.
I really love that phrase -- "not being careful about sticking to established facts."
It's something that could be invented and then deployed only by someone like Howard Kurtz as a defense to John McCain. No reason to get so upset - he just wasn't "being careful about sticking to established facts."
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We fear an Oct. surprise of Bush starting a war with Iran in order to getr McCain elected, especially if it is seeen as Iran attacks us.
Keep posting everywhere to keep Americans aware of the press still being war cheerleaders. So far I believe most Americans are aware that McCain is just like Bush. Neither has any right to advise us on foreign policy. McCain may be given a pass in the press but those of us against this war see him as a war monger who cannot be trusted not only because he is always wrong but because he is deceitful as well. I don't believe there are any undecideds at this point in spite of the press trying to rally McCain support. Remember, the MSM is corporate owned and operated.
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Pope Ratzo?
I volunteer you to go to Texan and DC hospital lounges? Dress in orange? heh.
When neocons come into the ER, you can push a cart of carbonated soft drinks.
I heard April visiting Popes that are pontiffs, drink Mountain Dew or fizzy Fanta.
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Kerry's Bank was Just as Full
Kurtz's defense of granting McCain foreign policy expertise regardless of his statements or actions is precisely true of John Kerry.
Kerry was not treated as if he were a foreign policy god, infallible in all respects, with a resume essentially identical to McCain's. Plus combat medals.
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Lieberman will be there for the 3am phone call
according to this piece, http://tinyurl.com/ywysop , Joe will be sleeping over, just in case.
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Vote McCain, He sticks by his Friends!
How war hero John McCain betrayed the Vietnamese peasant who saved his life
23rd March 2008
In all the tales of wartime courage peppering John McCain's presidential campaign trail, perhaps the most outstanding example of selfless heroism involves not the candidate but a humble Vietnamese peasant.
On October 26, 1967, Mai Van On ran from the safety of a bomb shelter at the height of an air raid and swam out into the lake where Lieutenant Commander McCain was drowning, tangled in his parachute cord after ejecting when his Skyhawk bomber was hit by a missile.
http://tinyurl.com/2qjycj
In another article Mr. On, who was a communist party official, said that McCain was not tortured because he was too valuable to them as the son of an Admiral. This account makes sense to me.
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@jayackroyd
(Sorry for the earlier mispelling).
Kerry was not treated as if he were a foreign policy god, infallible in all respects, with a resume essentially identical to McCain's. Plus combat medals.
He looked French. That cancels everything.
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why noy annoy? May as well.
OT? I want to know if my e-mails go anywhere besides to the YKW? The NSA.
Glenn, just a yes or no? On Saint Patrick's Day, I sent a farm Shepherd Pie recipe.
yes or know and I'll go....
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2-cent...
I finally watched the entire video of "Mr. Smith goes to Washington." I'd never seen the whole thing before...
You might want to watch it, if you haven't already. It seems pessimistically prescient at the moment. I don't want to give it all away, but the Media (in all its glory) never really lost in the film, any more than they do in real life. The "happy" ending came about in another manner.
[It's available on Netflix, and can even be watched instantly on your PC or laptop.]
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McCain's Constant Companions
Joe will be sleeping over, just in case.
--seesdifferent
Folks are commenting today about Lieberman always being around, but it's Graham's constant presence that just seems weird. I mean, he is just constantly there, and has been for many many months--long before Lieberman's endorsement. It's just weird.
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Actually, for the gamesmen out there ... there is a possible one-time-only extra-special prize if McCain wins ...
which would be the collapse of the Democratic Party ...
The name might remain, but the post-mortem sea change would be something .... just the kind of inside-baseball these oh-so-neutral journalists love... how many scores settled, how much mud slinging ... oh the fun!
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Editorial doesn’t get McCain is McSame
This Chicago Sun Times editorial accurately gets how bad junior has been, yet seems to believe that McSame won’t repeat the Iraq mistake with Iran. Note these first three paragraphs and ask yourself why do they give credibility to McSame and believe he will be different from the Busheviks on Israel and the Middle East. A little research before typing and closing your ears to peers might help them practice their own plea.
Chicago Sun Times, March 24, 2008
One of three fine candidates -- Hillary Clinton, John McCain or Barack Obama -- is likely to be our next president, and that day can't come soon enough.
President Bush on Thursday, in an interview for a U.S. government radio program broadcasted into Iran, expressed in characteristically blunt language the danger he believes Iran poses to the world -- and everything he said might well be true. Iran, to be sure, is a threat to security in the Middle East, especially to Israel and Iraq.
Our disappointment is with how the president said it -- in his usual imprecise way -- and with the very fact that it was he who said it -- this man of such lost credibility. In perilous times such as these, when an international or domestic crisis can erupt in a flash, America sorely needs a president who can be believed.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/commentary/857882,CST-EDT-edit24a.article