John Mccain spent 26 years in government fighting for deregulation. What did that get America? The current economic crash we’re seeing now. Mortgage crisis. Stock market plummetting. Major financial institutions needing bailouts or declaring bankruptcy. Economic experts handing out advice on how to protect your money when the banks collapse. During the last year of his campaign, McCain repeated over and over that the “fundamentals” of the economy were sound, that he supported deregulation. Now that that economy is a smoldering ruin, what does John McCain want you to believe? That he’s the guy to go to if you want economic regulations to keep the speculators from causing the economy from imploding.
Apparently the “straight talk express” means telling you exactly what you want to hear. source
John McCain is a George W. Bush suck up and kiss ass.
Check out the lower right photo. Get a fricken room, you two!
John McCain voted in support of George W. Bush 91 percent of the time. His campaign staff includes 134 lobbyists who have lobbied for dictators, big oil companies and every corporate special interest you can think of. source.
“he (George W. Bush) WILL NOT SQUANDER this unique moment in history by allowing America to retreat behind empty threats, false promises, and uncertain diplomacy. He will confidently defend our interests and values wherever they are threatened.”
– John McCain, 1 August 2000, Republican National Convention source
“by supporting George W. Bush I serve my country well.”
– John McCain, 1 August 2000, Republican National Convention. source
“I think the president (George W. Bush) is doing a great job in leading America and making us aware of the challenge we face.”
– John McCain, 21 October 2001. source
“I am proud of the leadership of the President of the United States (George W. Bush).”
– John McCain, 19 March 2003, shortly before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. source
“I believe the President of the United States (George W. Bush) has done EVERYTHING NECCESSARY and has EXERCISED EVERY OPTION short of war, which has led us to the point we are today.”
– John McCain, 19 March 2003, shortly before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. source
McCain is also a military nincompoop
“there are still massive amounts of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.”
– John McCain, 19 March 2003, shortly before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. source
Just before the invasion of Iraq, McCain said the war would be a day at the beach. Years later, when McCain decided to run for President, and the war still going, McCain said he always said the war would be a long and difficult battle, and anyone who said it would be a day at the beach was an idiot.
(here is the transcripts, video link below)
”The success (in Iraq) will be fairly easy.” –John McCain 2003
“I believe that we can win an overwhelming victory (in Iraq) in a very short period of time.” –John McCain 2003
”Easy.” –John McCain 2003
”The American people were led to believe that this would be some kind of day at the beach, which many of us fully understood from the beginning would be a very, very difficult undertaking.” –John McCain, January 2007
“I knew (Iraq) was probably going to be long and hard and tough and those who voted for it and thought somehow it was going to be an easy task, then I’m sorry they were mistaken. They didn’t know what they were voting for. ” –John McCain, 1-4-2007
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“Bomb, bomb, bomb. Bomb, bomb Iran. hehehe.”
–John McCain, video
McCain on Meet the Press:
Tim Russert: “Here are the sorts of comments we often hear when US troops are overseas: There’s no reason for the US to remain. The American people want them home. I believe the majority of congress wants them home. Our continued military presence allows other situations to arise which could then lead to the wounding, killing or capture of more American fighting men and women. We should do all in our power to do that. What should be the criteria is our immediate, orderly withdrawal. … For us to get into nation-building, law and order, et cetera, I think, is a tragic and terrible mistake.”
John McCain: “My response to that statement is, and what happens when we leave? Listen to all of the experts who will tell you that we can have a situation which will in the long run will entail far greater casualties, far greater dislocation, far greater threats to our national security, than trying to give this an opportunity to succeed.”
Tim Russert: “Those are your words, from (14 October) 1993 about Somolia, and that’s the kind of thing we’re hearing about Iraq now. You felt that way about Somolia when you saw no end in sight. And many Americans are now echoing your words because they see no end in sight.”
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Hey, McCain, doesn’t that make you a complete and total FLIP FLOPPER about the ONE THING (military operations) you continually claim total expertise in?
A man with a short fuse in charge of the biggest nuclear arsenal on the planet? The Cuban Missile Crisis would have sparked WW3 and we’d all be buried in a nuclear winter right now.
And if you’re want some more info on just how bad this guy is, try this short video.
McCain would keep the US in Iraq for the next HUNDRED YEARS. insane McCain
Barack Obama correctly assessed the phantom WMD’s and predicted exactly what would happen if we invaded Iraq.
“Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors, that the Iraqi economy is in shambles”
– Barack Obama, 2 Oct 2002, a week before Congress approves Iraq War authorization. source
“I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a US occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaeda.”
– Barack Obama, 2 Oct 2002, a week before Congress approves Iraq War authorization. source
Sarah Palin? Are you kidding me?
A politician whose total experience is summed up as Mayor of a town with a population of ten-thousand people, fifty polar bears, and a couple hundred moose, and then was elected to be Governor of Alaska two years ago?
She’s got so much political expertise that McCain won’t let her speak to the press and answer non-rehearsed questions until someone teaches her where Iraq is on the map, how the Khyber Pass has affected Afghanistan, and how to spell Potatoes. She is the female equivalent of Dan Quayle in that regard, completely inexperienced politically, though that librarian thing makes her look smarter than Danno.
She’s a politician whose views can be summed up as
1: “as pro-life as any candidate can be” (her own words),
2: abstinence-only sex education (while her underage daughter is pregnant),
3: against same-sex couples getting health benefits (cause, you know, that’s what made Canada and Western Europe sink into the ocean)
4: in favor of teaching creationism in school (and teaching the controversy that aliens may have helped build the pyramids in Egypt).
5: a young earth creationist who thinks dinosaurs and humans coexisted on the planet a mere 6,000 years ago. source
6: into banning books (While Palin was mayor, she asked a librarian what the process would be to ban a book, the librarian said she’d fight any attempts to ban books, Palin then fired the librarian. Only because of public outrage did the librarian get her job back. Word is Palin wanted to ban a book written by Rev. Howard Bess, a liberal Christian preacher from the nearby town of Palmer. source)
7: willing to use her position as Governor to get members of her staff to make dozens of phone calls get the Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan to fire her sister’s ex-husband from his job as State Trooper (confession), and willing to fire Monegan because he wouldn’t do her bidding.
8: a hankering for government perks and earmarks, while squawking about being against wasteful government spending
9: and some sort of notion that we’re waging “God’s War” in Iraq and the rest of the world (I think the Ayatollah said something similar)
Politically speaking, she is, for all intents and purposes, a female Pat Buchanan, just a lot easier on the eyes than ol’ dog face. In short, she’s a right wing religious nutjob who sure as hell shouldn’t be given launch codes or be allowed to nominate someone for the Supreme Court (unless you want the US to become a fascist theocracy, that is).
She twice used her position in office to fire people who wouldn’t go along with her personal vendetta’s (a librarian who refused to ban a book by a “liberal” priest, and a state official who refused to fire her sister’s ex-husband).
If anyone is wondering why Palin’s handlers are harping on anything but the issues, it’s because the moment Palin starts expressing her political views, it’ll be abundantly clear that she’s a fascist religious nutjob who wants to impose her God into your bodies, your schools, your taxes, your job, the books you read, and the military operations your sons and daughters will have to carry out in some foreign land.
And when she slips up during an interview and makes it painfully obvious that she doesn’t know what the “Bush Doctrine” even is, the Right Wing knuckleheads suddenly come out of the woodwork and say that said doctrine is too “amorphous” to define in any specific way. Yet, back in 2005, McCain specifically explained what the “Bush Doctrin” was during his own interview.
The Bush Doctrine is a doctrine of cause-less preemptive war. Up until Georgie-Porgie-Puddin-Pie, centuries of international law had drawn a line in the sand saying that a country could preemptively attack a second country if that second country was clearly about to launch an imminent attack against the first. This was usually defined as the mobilization of military forces and such. Georgie decided that put the bar too high and required too much objective evidence that was just too hard to fabricate. So, instead, Georgie came out with a “Doctrine” that said he could invade any country, at any time, for any reason. Even if attack from that country was not emminent.
This “Doctrine”, this idiotic line of “thought”, is exactly the “thinking” that got us into Iraq. Intelligence agencies were saying there was no link between Iraq and 9/11. American and UN weapon inspectors were saying there were no WMD’s in Iraq, and that inspections should be completed in a few months to certify Iraq was free of WMD’s. But because Georgie the Decider made decisions based off how his “gut” happened to “feel” at any particular moment, he felt that we should invade Iraq.
When asked she supported the idea of making Georgia (which directly borders Russia, and which Russia invaded just recently) a member of NATO, Palin said yes. When the interviewer asks if making Georgia a member of NATO, wouldn’t that mean we’d have to go to war with Russia if they invade Georgia again, Palin, like a clueless schoolgirl, says “Perhaps so”. War with Russia?!? Even Vizzini knows never get involved in a land war in Asia. But Palin wants to jump right in.
McCain singing “Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran” is nothing more than a continuation of this moronic “Bush doctrine”.
And the reason McCain’s handlers are harping on anything but the issues is because the moment McCain opens his mouth about ANYTHING, it’ll be clear that he’s saying whatever he needs to say to be elected, saying what he needs to say to appeal to his new base of right wing religious nutjobs, and even saying stuff that DIRECTLY CONTRADICTS everything he said even a couple years ago.
That’s why the Republicans are outraged over Obama’s “lipstick on a pig” comment, because it’s avoiding talking about political issues like the economy, Iraq, and so on. That’s why McCain needed a little video reminder that he had used the same “lipstick on a pig” to describe Hillary Clinton and her policies. That’s why McCain took DAYS to come out and say Obama didn’t call Palin a pig, finally, because it distracts from the issues.