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McCain Tries to Dislodge Foot From Mouth

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Posted on Apr 11, 2007
John McCain

If you missed John McCain’s recent damage control session on “60 Minutes,” here are the highlights. The senator tried to blame his ill-conceived springtime-in-Baghdad campaign on his shoot-from-the-hip style. The straight-talk express, with nonstop service to a concession speech.

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By Joe, April 13, 2007 at 6:07 am Link to this comment
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McCain is truly a “dead man walking” - he signed his own political death warrant with his latest stunts. He is audacious, mendacious, and not at all perspicacious - boldly, lyingly, and blindly out of touch with the real world. Too much Arizona sun? Or too much Washington smog?

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By Hammo, April 12, 2007 at 12:22 pm Link to this comment

McCain might want to consider “soft power” options such as diplomacy, information operations, constructive psychological operations and similar approaches for Iraq.

“Hard power” troops, bullets and bombs probably will not work, will make matters worse and continue the terrible bloodbath unleashed by the Bush-Cheney gang and their supporters.

Soft power resources can even include very unconventional assets that are worth learning more about. For more on this, see:

“Unconventional Human Intelligence Support: Navy SEAL’s report”

PopulistAmerica.com
January 7, 2007

http://www.populistamerica.com/unconventional_human_intelligence_support

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By FrostedFlakes, April 12, 2007 at 8:49 am Link to this comment
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It is so very sad to see how John McCain has gone from being a semi-respected senator to an all out buffoon. In his quest for the White house he has aligned himself with the corrupt and incompetent Bush administration. There could be no greater mistake. Now his limited credibility has plunged just like his cohorts. Poor McCain. Maybe soon he will come out of his delusional state and try to reattain the trust of the American populace.

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By Quy Tran, April 11, 2007 at 11:51 am Link to this comment
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He left his brain behind “Hanoi Hilton” iron bar. He’s now talking with brainless condition, so don’t blame him ! Poor McCain !

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By Vey, April 11, 2007 at 11:40 am Link to this comment
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It’s a shame really.
If he’d actually stuck to his own phrase, ‘straight-talk’, if he hadn’t have gotten in bed with the Bush Administration, if he hadn’t have jumped from the left to the right to somewhere else where he didn’t have a clue what side of the fence he was on on social issues, if he hadn’t have made such a ridiculous statement about how safe it is in Baghdad (where something like 1000 people get killed every month), he might have made it to the White House.
I wonder which genius of political strategist suggested these options for him.

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By Don Knutsen, April 11, 2007 at 11:03 am Link to this comment
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I, like I think alot of folks had been thinking that McCain had still held a capacity for atleast some measure of independant thought. The fact that he used to beable to criticise this admin. at times was a small glimmer of hope. But he has shown over the past year or more that he is just another stooge who has gotten in goose-step behind this criminal administration. Its hard to say who deserves the most contempt…those who are too damn dumb to realize what has been happening ..or those that probably do but still support the lunacy anyway to further their own agenda. Bottom line should be that our country has been experiencing a terrible disservice over these past six years of having a rubber stamp GOP in control of the congress refusing to maintain even the smallest form of oversite. The republicans have been in control thruout this war of choice, thruout the tax giveaway to the wealthiest in our country, thruout the de-professionalizing of all the departments of goverment, thruout the tripling of our nations debt and the selling off of our assets to foreign powers, thruout the mismanagement of billions of our nations dollars in Iraq, the privitization of not only our military, but our schools, our penal system, and in some states even our voting system. The GOP has enabled the dismantling of our goverment piece by piece and in so doing acted as traiters to ur country. Its time to hold them all to account. Its time to remove the GOP from power ( including Lieberman ) ...its time to impeach the whole of this administration now , not wait for 2008, before bush can escape to his hideaway in Paraguay. Do all you can to let your representitives know you support impeacment now, not later.

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