vtjames742 said:
McCain doesnt want to go guns blazing across the globe, that is a liberal talking point.
Obama's foriegn policy is built on weakness and a naive view of reality. We need a person that lives in the real world, not a world that we wish existed. Though McCain is far from my first choice, I trust him far more than I trust Obama.
Respectfully disagree. McCains whole life should scare you. From his role in the USS Forestal Aircraft Carrier accident (144 American Sailors killed, 18 never found so badly burned or fell off boat, and more than one hundred injured. One cause of the Forestal explosion was Pilot Lt Cmd John McCain (known for being a "hot dog" pilot) "wet-started" his A4 Jet Fighter. "Wet Starting" was a trick "hot dog" piots would pull to shake up the pilots waiting behind them preparing for take off. The "hot dog " piolt causes his rear jet engine to flame outword in dramatic and unnecessary way so as to draw attention to themselves.
McCain's "wet starting" his F4 and the flame shorting out his rear caused a Zimi Rocket on another Plane to activate and shoot. The Rocket hit McCains plane, and McCain dropped his bombs right there on the flight deck and the jumped out of his plane running to excape the flames that killed and wouned the hundreds of other Sailors.
McCains father was an Admiral and McCain was the first person transferrred off the USS Forestal right away. (to keep him safe from the outrage and pay back of his other shipmates).
There were many studies of the incident of which Admiral McCain oversaw but none would point the blame at McCain. If this don't begin to sound like another Bush family cover up I don't know what does?
McCain was like Lt. Dan in Forest Gump movie, in that his inbreeding from his Father, and previous Fathers controlled his belief systems and decision making. While a POW he chose to stay as his Father had been an Admiral and his Father's Father had been a Admiral, so he had been raised with a desire to match or surpass their accomplishments.
McCain returned from Viet Nam to the wife and kids who waited for him to find she had just been in a horrible car accident. Being the honor bound guy he is, McCain began whoring around and found a blonde with a millionaire father who could offer him political connections to begin a career in politics. He immedicate went to his wife still being treated for the car accident and divored her to marry the blonde.
McCain was one of 5 US Senators invovled with and making up the "keating five" group who had sought out special treatment and favors for Charles Keating, one of the biggest operators of a Savings and Loan that tanked do to mismanagement and improprieties.
Again because of the "good ole' boy" club in Congress, McCain only got his hand smaked and a little embarassment.
Yes John McCain has shown from time and time agin to be worthy of much trust. He calls himself a maverick who has acted against his own party, when the fact is he is a politician of the worst kind. You will never where his is simply because he doesn't know. His every move is based upon what kind of political point there are to be gained. If he thinks he will score points by being against something, he will. But as he has also shown he thinks that there are political points to be gained by reversing stance and resupporting what he said he was against he will and has done that as well.
What scares many about Obama, is the fact that even though he is half black and half white, they view him as black only. They can't support or vote for a black person for that reason alone. Then they come up with all kinds of other reasons to state why they won't vote for Obama.
Tragic, Obama is the only real change between the two. McCain will continue the same old worn out economics the previous republican administrations have tried and failed.
As far as weakness and foriegn policy is concerned. Bush and Rice have made the US Military so weak and there is no foriegn policy. Rice was an expert in Russion/European Cold War issues, so Bush puts her in charge of the Middle East. On one hand like having a dermatologist perform open heart surgery. The Middle East is a thousand times more complicated that the cold war issues and not a place of on the job training. Result is now we have depleated out military weapons and systems to such an extent that we are not ready to address a world military situation. The rest of the world, China and Russia know this (Korea, Iran, Syria, Venezauala, etc...) and are taking advantage of it.
The so called surge in Iraq is just an admission of the mistake made by Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Rice by ignoring the Generals and not sending in adequate numbers of troops in the invasion. We'd be welcome as liberators.
The so called surge is combined with a fact not too widely publizied by the media that the US as part of the surge made deals with the warloards, and insurgent to pay them large sums of money (allowances) to not fight.
When we leave and/or stop paying money, Irans influence will take over and the blood bath will flow!
Despite what McCain and now his puppet Palin say on the campaign trail, this is not a matter of winning or loosing, its a matter of politics and who can use it for their political advantage.
Do I feel safer now because seven years after 9-11 there has not been a terrosist attack?
Hell no! It took seven years of planning and logistics for the planning of 9-11. Bush has failed to catch Obama, despite his promise to do so, fearing if he had caught or killed him the american public would loose even more support for ongoing operations in Iraq and Afganistan.
Undisputed fact is John McCain is just the same worn out Republican system that has put our nation where it is. Obama is the change. That is what frightens so many. A Black guy is going to become President and get things corrected for the better.
One last thing in my mind that deals with trust. In my family my Father was on Omaha Beach/D-Day, and fought on through the Battle of the Bulge and end of WW2 receiving two purple hearts. My family tree on my mothers side can be traced back to the Revolutionary War. My family has lost lives, been wounded, and served honorably in literrally just about every was for this nation.
But just like the many millions of men and women who have done the same, my Father did his duty and returned home of marry, have children and be a member of the citizenry without seeking attention and nothing in return for his sacrifices.
Those are the truest of American fighting men and women.
McCain since his return to life as a Citizen has exercised every chance and tool at his disposal to better himself and obtain for himself all that he could using his service.
This to my is the most unpatriotic thing a person can do. I think in earlier times, just after the Civil War, it was called "Raising the bloody red shirt" against the Republicans who ran on what supposedly they had done during the was enorder to get elected.