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What? You Want McCain for President?

Yesterday morning on National Public Radio:

Steve Inskeep (NPR): Given what you've said, senator, is there an occasion where you could imagine turning to Gov. Palin for advice in a foreign policy crisis?

McCain: I've turned to her advice many times in the past. I can't imagine turning to Sen. Obama or Sen. Biden, because they've been wrong. They were wrong about Iraq, they were wrong about Russia. Sen. Biden wanted to divide Iraq into three different countries. He voted against the first Gulf War. Sen. Obama has no experience whatsoever and has been wrong in the issues that he's been involved in.

What????

Well, okay -- she was in the PTA.

Tuesday, during a question-and-answer session with the editorial board of the Des Moines Register in Iowa, John McCain got a little testy when it came to the experience of his choice for vice-president, disagreeing with the fundamental premise that she doesn't have a great amount of experience, citing her PTA experience and her relative proximity to foreign countries (if this was a man we were talking about, everyone would be rolling on the floor laughing their asses off). I know what McCain is doing; it is similar to the philosophical position taken by one of the great thinkers of our time:

Now, on a more serious note, the general in charge of all things Afghanistan, General McKiernan, and good ol' General Petraeus, Senator McCain's personal talisman, both absolutely, positively need more troops and other aid "as quickly as possible" in Afghanistan.

And what about Iraq? McCain's man, General Petraeus said to the BBC, “This is not the sort of struggle where you take a hill, plant the flag and go home to a victory parade… it’s not war with a simple slogan.” I guess there is no "Mission Accomplished." Petraeus said that he didn't think he would ever use the word “victory.” Apparently, however, McCain didn't see that interview. Or read it. But we know that Sarah Palin read it -- she reads everything.

How does the U.S. generate more troops?

It turns out that there will be no withdrawal of troop strength from Iraq. I'm no military scholar, but it sounds to me as if the word "DRAFT" should be mentioned pretty soon -- and if McCain is elected, that will happen so that he can have adequate army men to play his real game of Risk to dominate the globe -- we already know about his desire to keep troops in Iraq for decades, his desire to neuter Iran, his feelings about starting up a Cold War with Russia, his consulting with Sarah Palin on foreign policy (Made-for-TV movie bio of Sarah Palin, starring Barbra Streisand, in "On a Clear Day, You Can See Russia").

Those who want McCain in the White House are out of touch with reality. Totally daft. The U.S. has become the world's bully. Under McCain and Palin, as under Bush and Cheney, the U.S. will continue to be the world's bully. The bully -- the one kid on our block hated by the rest of us, the kid who, through intimidation, recruited his toadies, who also hated him, and who, sooner or later, left the bully's gang so they would not be hated.

What Barack Obama said is most instructive on the greatest philosophical difference between he and McCain: And one last point I want to make. It is important for us to understand that the way we are perceived in the world is going to make a difference, in terms of our capacity to get cooperation and root out terrorism. And one of the things that I intend to do as president is to restore America's standing in the world. We are less respected now than we were eight years ago or even four years ago.

Back in the day of the Viet Nam war, I had planned my getaway to Canada. Yes, color me Dodger Blue, a potential draft dodger. Now, there is no safe haven anywhere in the world -- every place is fair game to the U.S. military machine because terrorists are everywhere ... you just don't know -- they are everywhere -- your next door neighbor, your cubicle mate, one of your family members, could be a terrorist.

No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices. -- Edward R. Murrow, 1954

This is far worse than even George W. Bush could imagine.

McCain/Palin for Armageddon. The Bible tells us so.

Posted by Bill at October 2, 2008 11:28 AM