Letters to the Editor
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Much of McCain's credibility...
seems to come from the fact that he was captured and tortured in Vietnam. This seems to me to be equivalent to being hailed as an expert on architecture because you fell down the stairs.
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Experience vs Practice
In medical circles there is often talk of how much effective experience a practitioner may have for every hour of practice.
I'd like to see a discussion of McCain's experience/practice coefficient. As much let's say as FDR's? Bush for instance has had 7+ years of practice but one would be hard pressed to equate that to even 1 week of experience on the FDR scale. Based on McCain's pronouncements recently it would be generous to say that he definitely has at least 20 times the experience of George. So, 20 weeks of experience in a career spanning how many decades? Still not enough to get beyond the 3rd grade level I'd say. With our blind media this one eyed man is surely king.
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"HARDBALL" 10/18/2006
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15330717
'Hardball's' College Tour with John McCain
CHRIS MATTHEWS, MSNBC HOST: From Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, home of the Cyclones, it‘s big 12 country and it‘s homecoming week. I‘m Chris Matthews. It‘s the HARDBALL College Tour. Let‘s give a big Iowa State welcome our special guest, Senator John McCain. Let‘s play HARDBALL!
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MATTHEWS: We‘ll be right back with the audience. We‘re going to get more questions and answers from the audience when we come back with Senator John McCain.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
MATTHEWS: We‘re back at Iowa State University with Senator John McCain, our special guest on the HARDBALL College Tour. Now we‘re going to the audience right away. Ms., your question?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Senator McCain, I‘m curious. How do you feel about the fact that the United States has essentially been the big brother of the entire rest of the world for a good time now, and do you plan to continue this policy?
MCCAIN: I think we‘ve been the big brother in many beneficial ways. Sometimes, not beneficial. But most of the time, we have been a beacon of hope and freedom and liberty to many countries throughout the world. Ask people who used to live behind the Iron Curtain.
I think we have been generous. I think we have never sought someone else‘s country, certainly not in the last century or this one. And I think that with all our faults and failings, most people in the world still look up to us.
Now, in the little straight talk, there is some anti-Americanism around the world. It has to do with Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, the war in Iraq and some other things. But overall, I still would match the United States of America not only against any nation in the world, but any nation that‘s ever existed, and I‘m proud to be an American.
(APPLAUSE)
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As billmon explained, the USA won Puerto Rico and Guam at a church bingo night.
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Well, he was ONLY a frikkin' flyboy...high above the fray, as it were*
This guy dropped or shot harmful things onto a pretty defenseless population.
Onto a lot of very small figures far below... UNOPPOSED, too...
Who never had no air force no how [had a few antiaircraft stations].
He never set a foot on the ground. Never ever did the Grunt thing.
He was almost exactly the same sort of warfighter
that's currently doin' hellfires outta preadators.
From Nevada.
THEN he got shot down.
His experience was apparently in surviving several miserable years in a prison camp ...and doing so with honour, I believe.
But that's no kinda foreign policy 'sperience.. NO~how.
So..Let's get to putting a stopper in that particular neo-iconic bottle.
[*sorry, Cheney speek, couldn't help myself.]
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Iran is shelling Iraq - Today, What would McCain do?
Turkish, Iranian forces attack PKK bases in Iraq
Turkish and Iranian artillery shelled areas in northern Iraq used by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and its Iranian offshoot, Iraqi Kurdish reports said yesterday...
full story: http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=137103
Someone should ask McBomb how he will sort this one out. If it's okay for the Turks to bomb Iraq, and it is, then it must be okay for the Iranians too. Right John?
It's 3 AM John, the phone is ringing. Who will you bomb? Who will you bomb? The Iturkians? The Tranians? The North Kurdians? More Iraqis? Too bad all them damn gook names sound the same. Hurry John! The fate of the weird depends on it!
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One can debate how much expertise is gained from this
But Kurtz is certainly being disingenuous when he lumps Clinton in with Reagan or GWB. One was an actor, the other is a train wreck.
With the aid of scholarships, Clinton attended the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., receiving a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service (B.S.F.S.) degree in 1968. He spent the summer of 1967, the summer before his senior year, working as an intern for Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright.[13] While in college he became a brother of Alpha Phi Omega and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.[18] Clinton was also a member of Youth Order of DeMolay, but he never actually became a Freemason.[19] He is a member of Kappa Kappa Psi's National Honorary Band Fraternity, Inc.
Upon graduation he won a Rhodes Scholarship to University College, Oxford where he studied Government.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton#Education
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re sysprog:
By McCain :
think we have been generous. I think we have never sought someone else‘s country, certainly not in the last century or this one. And I think that with all our faults and failings, most people in the world still look up to us.
He's just really, really lucky that the Spanish-American War was started in 1898, two years *before* the "last" century. 'Cos, you know, you can give people a mulligan on things like Puerto Rico, but the Phillipines... that's some serious acreage, there.
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It would be difficult to challenge Fulbright
On foreign policy acumen, expertise and experience.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._William_Fulbright
McCain just has Lieberman and Huckleberry Graham to whisper in his ear and mentor him.