Letters to the Editor
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I LOVE MICHAEL WARE!
Again, tired of getting shot at, he always tells it like he sees it, no matter who is arguing otherwise.
Thanks for that, Craig!
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When's John's Next Bagdad Neighborhood Walking Tour?
The press should ask McCain when he is planning on giving his next walking tour of a charming Bagdad neighborhood? I'm sure they would cover it. From a safe distance. With a military escort.
It puts in mind of the story of another contrarian who back in the 19th century for drank Mexican water to prove it was perfectly safe to drink. He died. It was listed in The Book of Lists under ironic deathes. Somehow, I don't expect to be reading McCain name under that entry in future editions, though he might be found under a different heading like Politians Most Willing to Say anything to get elected.
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McCain is such a fucking liar!
That's worth repeating: McCain is such a fucking liar!
But then that's the GOP's standing communications policy: Just keep repeating what you want everyone to hear until they just give up and start believing it. This country is going down the tubes.
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It's STILL "Straight Talk" ...
.. it's just not Truthful.
Alexander Haig (a great American leader, with a pension to prove it) would call this, not a "lie" exactly, but ... a "terminological inexactitude."
McCain lost all credibility when he gave in to The Crimnial Clique on the issue of Torture. Ever since then he's been McMoron.
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Actually ...
... my bad!
He's ALWAYS been McMoron.
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How did McCain become an expert on foreign policy?
He's a senator from Arizona. Before that, he was in the military, as were many of his family before him; he's from a family of warriors. Warfare, battle tatics, strategy -- those are the areas in which he might have some expertise, I'd posit. At what point in recent history did these things begin to equate with an understanding of appropriate foreign policy? Very often in the media, I hear people lending credence to McCain's opinions about foreign affairs because he's a military man. It baffles me. Although I do understand our desire to elevate our military men to war-hero status and, at times, even conferring the privelege of higher office upon them (e.g., Grant, Eisenhower), I would suggest that our warriors don't often make the best decisions with regard to the protocols of diplomacy.
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The Neverland Express
"Neverland" -- I love it! Man, leave it to a Brit or in this case an Aussie to tell it like it is, and to come up with the perfect name for the GOP's fantasy-based Noise Machine. (Seriously, leave it to a Brit or Aussie. America's celebrity "journalists" would never tell inconvenient truths that might embarass their accessible friends in the Bush-Cheney administration.)
So when do McCain and Laura Bush lead the cowardly media on their first walking stroll around Baghdad, to show how safe things have become there, and to highlight the many hitherto unreported successes in the GOP's Crusade for Christ (I mean War on Terror)?
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May be he should take a walk in Bagdad
It woulod mean one less candidate for 2008 within, say, 20 minutes. It would also save a lot of money and TV time for better subjects.
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I'll Have What He's Having!!
Please! Sounds like good stuff man!! Whoo-HOO! RIDIN' the STRAIGHT-TALK EXPRESS!!!
Oh Johnny... was congress a gateway drug for ye??
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McCain's Double-Talk Express
Having given $400 to JM's 2000 campaign -- the only campaign donation I have ever made -- I feel particularly entitled to ridicule his increasingly fake attempts at being genuine.
Give it up John. Nobody believes you any more. Once upon a time you had a refreshing candor, an engaging intellect.
But since then you've spent years kissing George's bottom -- and after Team Rove slimed you so well in 2000! And now you pander to the radical Christian right, the bigots of the Republican party, the cut taxes and spend anyway mega-deficit-loving Republicans, and the looney neocon global power freaks, you have lost any and all credibility you ever had.
You are just another sleazy pol. And we all now know about your hot temper as well. You had a real chance in 2000. You stand no chance at all in 2008.
But I wish you all the best in a multi-way Repuglican slug fest extravaganza. I hope you all tear each other to pieces and then put your worst candidate forward (for Repug's worst is always best, witness GWB) and lose resoundingly in the '08 election.
Have fun John. We're all going to enjoy watching you endless attempts at straight talk, with a forked tongue, and out both sides of your mouth.
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JAG
That's One Heck Of A Question (or Two):
"How did McCain become an expert on foreign policy? At what point in recent history did [military expertise] begin to equate with an understanding of appropriate foreign policy?"
Some Possible Answers:
When Elihu Root, Sec of War, created the first U.S "general staff" in 1903, and decided to follow the very successful Prussian/German model (which later produced such notable German "foreign policy" successes as ... well ... WWI, and ... ummm ... everything done by the Nazis).
When Woodrow Wilson decided that it was America's job to "make the world safe for Democracy." (i.e., Safe For America)
When FDR decided that he wanted Cordell Hull to address him in public, not as "Mr President" but as "Commander-in-Chief." (My own favorite!)
When General Georce C. Marshall became Sec. of State.
When President/General Eisenhower "delegated to major theatre commanders the authority to initiate nuclear attacks under certain circumstances" (quoting Daniel Ellsberg, "Secrets" 2002)
During the Bay of Pigs/Cuban Missile Crisis?
When it all went sour at Tet?
With the Reagan "revolution"?
With the rise of the PNACkers?
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ALL of these are realistic candidates.
But, the short answer really is:
When America ceased to be a Republic and became an Empire.
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From a Viet Vet - McCain Is NOT My Hero
Senator McCain has been a public nuisance at least since his collusion with Charlie Keating, if not before.
He ought not be turned loose on an unsuspecting public without being hooked up to a viewable lie
detector - kind of a reverse flak jacket - preventing damaging ordinance from exiting. I don't
want him leading me anywhere, anytime, ever - in wartime or in peace. Iraq is not now nor is likely
to become a neighborhood in which we could walk around safely even if we wanted to. Is this guy as
desperate and blind as the President he would succeed. On second thought, forget the lie detector - it
only works when the subject can discriminate truth from fiction.