McCain's Doubletalk
Posted by Michael Link on February 11, 2008 at 04:50 PM
It's all part of the manufactured storyline McCain's campaign has tried to create by claiming to be a critic -- no, THE critic -- while being the number one supporter of the Bush Iraq policy.
You see this in a number of ways, but one of them is trying to claim it was just President Bush -- not him -- that thought this would be a "day at the beach."
He wants to pretend he never said that "success will be fairly easy." Or that there's "no doubt in [his] mind that once these people are gone that we will be welcomed as liberators." And nevermind when he said "I believe that we can win an overwhelming victory in a very short period of time."
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I can say that if the super delegates decide who the nominee is for the Democratic Party instead of the votes by Democrats throughtout the country, I will never vote for another Democrat and work to support an independent movement.
It is a shame that the Democratic Party Machine wants to have a greater voice than the people on the streets who make up the Democratic Party. It's a Democratic version of the fiasco in 2000 Elections in Florida. The Democratic Powers that be are robbing the average voters of their voice!!!!!!!! With this kind of leadership by the Democratic Heads, there is no hope for true democracy in which we have government by the people, for the people. The decisions for the Democratic Nominee is not going to be made in the voting booth but in the back rooms by the leadership of the DNC
It is time for true change in our country, and it is time to get both the Clintons and the Bushs out of government!!!! These two families have done more to harm our nation and the image of the Whitehouse; and the damage will be with us for the next decade. Let's think of creating a new image and a new party that the American People can stand behind instead of sending the bubba misfits from Arkansa back to mess things up again. Obama is the way for change and provides a new face for both the Democratic Party and our Nation.
Does this mean that McCain will later say that the surge wasn't a success either...and he told us so from the start?
Perhaps it's just a problem of him forgetting a lot of things these days?
McCain may be claiming to have been a critic of Bush's Iraq policy but he has since hired the Neo-Con Norman Podheretz as his adviser on issues Iraq. So at the time that Bush is abandoning the advice of the neo-con ex-communist cult, McCain is embracing it.
Heilbrunn gives the low down on the origins of neo-conservatism in his book 'they knew they were right'. Basically the neo-cons started as a trotskyite sect, abandonded the communism but not the belief that might makes right or in world revolution, (spreading the chaos outwards as Josh Marshall puts it). And despite the fact that they have changed their minds many times they are 1000% certain that they are absolutely right and everyone else is an utter fool.
Leon Trotsky might have talked about the proletariat and everything but he was really about the promotion of himself and his own elite. As the neo-cons became richer they discovered that they really didn't need the proletariat at all.
Whether McCain is really signed up for the Trotso-Con revolution or not is anyone's guess. But he is saying 'We shall start a war that will last a thousand years', oh sorry that was Hitler, McCain's only signed up for a century. My guess is the Trotso-Cons will try and insert a Cheney-esque veep to carry on their campaign. McCain is at most a one-term president.
"We shall start a war that lasts a thousand years" - John McCain.
Sounded better in the original German.
Does this mean that McCain will later say that the surge wasn't a success either...and he told us so from the start?
Perhaps it's just a problem of him forgetting a lot of things these days?
Posted by SandyH on February 11, 2008 at 06:18 PM
this is what happens when the deteriorating old brain turns 72 years Old! Just imagine another 5-8 years of it getting fried! Memory is the first thing to go, ask Ronnie Reagan!
I'M tired of John McCain taking the credit for the strategy change in the Iraq War. It was the American people who changed the strategy by voting in the 2006 mid-term elections and giving the power to the Democrats. Two days later Rumsfield was fired and enter a new change of course. Now in 2008 we will move forward another change with a Democrat in the White House.
I'm a Michigan voter. If I don't count I don't vote.
While I didn't vote for her in the primary I have come to realize Hillary is the best Democratic candidate with the exception of Stevenson since the 1950.s
Senator Obama is a nice guy; but as far as I see he hasn't a clue as to how deadly our present health care system is. Hillary does know.
This is truly a life and death issue for all Americans, especially the poor, the elderly, and/or African Americans.
Sincerely;
Charles Bombaugh RN
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