Don't read too much into the date-time stamp of posts. I'm in Texas, and all the letters are posted at Pacific time. It must be where the server is, not where the letter writer is.

You can be anywhere in the world and post and still have a Pacific time stamp.

I read the letters, too. I didn't see anywhere where Hornet Driver said he was in Iraq.

Why are you people so eager to defend the Iranians but tear down our own military?

Oh yeah. That's really what was going on.

Grow up.

http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com/cin_mccain_lost_five_u.htm

Those suckers are heavy!

-- Joshua Norton

There is plenty enough wrong with McCain that you don't have to stoop to that level. That alleged "Vietnam veterans" site is just another one one of Ted Sampley's bullshit websites. The same fuckwits and liars who smeared and swiftboated Kerry. They are con artists and extreme right wing nutbars of the POW-MIA scam who are convinced live POWs were left behind in Vietnam and Kerry and McCain covered it up so diplomatic relations could be restored between our two countries. They would still bomb Vietnam if they could. At least McCain is over that.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ted_Sampley

Andrew W. Marshall, "the Pentagon's 81-year-old futurist-in-chief, fiddles with his security badge, squints, looks away, smiles, and finally speaks in a voice that sounds like Gene Hackman trying not to wake anybody. Known as Yoda in defense circles, Marshall doesn't need to shout to be heard. Named director of the Office of Net Assessment ("the Pentagon's internal think tank"[1]) by Richard M. Nixon and reappointed by every president since, the DOD's most elusive official has become one of its most influential. Today, Marshall - along with his star protégés Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and Deputy Secretary Paul Wolfowitz - is drafting President Bush's plan to upgrade the military." "The Marshall Plan" by Douglas McGray, Wired, February 2003.

"Put in charge of the Bush administration's proposed major military overhaul by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, he has sharply polarized the defense community. Marshall's allies and proteges revere him, calling the Office of Net Assessment 'St. Andrew's Prep.' His enemies despise him, deriding his acolytes as 'Jedi Knights'."[2] (See Andrew Marshall Acolytes / Jedi Knights for a listing.)

"Marshall played a major role in, among other things, the conceptualization of the 'revolution in military affairs' (RMA) and is currently playing a major role in the Bush administration's defense review (Quadrennial Defense Review). Much of the work of ONA is highly classified, and it has been difficult to understand just what is involved in 'net assessment'." Autumn 2001.

Robert Dreyfuss and Jason Vest identify Marshall as a neoconservative....

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Andrew_Marshall

More on Marshall at link.

It is gettin to feel like Goldwater II.

Could it be, please, please, be true?

I have a new strategy, which is so simple and can't miss that i'm stunned we didn't figure it out sooner.

Okay. John McCain. Here's how.

Get film in the cameras.

Do a sound check.

Ask him anything.

Let him talk.

Sometimes follow up.

Don't run out of film.

Do it wherever he goes.

Pick 100 questions.

Make sure to ask them in random rotation, sometimes with different phrasing or tone, and get it on film every time.

That's it.

He'll do the rest.

Be nice to him.

Relax him.

Invite him.

He will come through. He's the most consistently inconsistent unplanned malaprop human banana peel ever to slip into Presidential nomination.

His largest and growing support sector, other than (Mad Magazine, apology) the usual gang of idiots, will obviously be mercy voters.

Now, some pollsters better get to work and find out how large a voting bloc this is likely to be. And some Obama campaign counter measures should be developed to woo them.

But, if that can be successfully done, the only tough obstacle left will be the Voter registration roadblocks and ID gauntlets cropping up in Red state legislatures to suppress turnout, narrow eligibility, and frustrate underdocumented potential voters.

So volunteers will have to bone up state by state wherever the threshholds are too freakin high (fuck you, Supreme Courtesans) and eligibilize as many as possible, with some civil rights attorneys to advise and guide the efforts.

I wouldn't have Obama ever agree again to be debate sandbagged by any Chas Gibbon apes or George Staffeloccuses.

Town Hall?

No.

Can't screen plants out of the audience.

Lincoln-Douglas?

Bring it.

But not often enough to free ride McCain into an overabundance of face time he will lack from low buck contribution.

I'm so glad (nothing personal) Johnson is quick gone from the VP search trio.

Barak can't sleep on stuff like that. He's gotta know we want his approach to be exactly what he promised.

It's a fuckin shame how timidly unaware Congress is of the tremendous popular support they would receive if impeaching the top 2 bullies currently impersonating a White House belonger and gun bearer.

Hi Glenn!

Let us know if you're going on John Stewart. Everybody else is.

He's easily 1st ballot unanimous Comedy Patriot Hall Of Fame Inductee.

McCain will be the Contradictorian.

I'm not tearing down the military, nor do I believe anyone here was. There are some people that don't use their brains for anything more than a hat-holder in the military, including officers, just as there are in other walks of life. If Hornetdriver is in the military, then he's coming off as one of those hat holders.

Mccain flew A-4 Skyhawks, but I don't know if he flew others as well, but as far as the military goes, they tend to have pilots stick to the aircraft where they have their qualifying hours unless they are being tabbed for command duty, which will then cause them to have to qualify in other types of airframes.

John McInsane's an Israel Lobby-controlled, neocon nutcase. He puts Israel's interests ahead of his own country's. He's an ethically-compromised, 26-year D.C. Beltway hack.

Need I say more?