Sunday, August 24, 2008
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Buchanan on McCain
Conservative commentator Pat Buchanan weighs in on John McCain.
"McCain will make Cheney look like Gandhi"
"[Mc Cain] makes me very nervous..."
"McCain will make Cheney look like Gandhi"
"[Mc Cain] makes me very nervous..."
Convenient Neocon Yard Sign
I know that there are neocons that want the world to know they support John McCain but really can't find the the yard sign on the McCain site with the right message.
It is for all of you I created the following:
It is for all of you I created the following:
Lest the be any misunderstanding...
If you have an iota of doubt that John McCain is in the pocket of the neoconservatives, you can quell that doubt simply by examining who he's chosen for the role of Chief Foreign Policy Advisor for his campaign, arch neocon Randy Scheuneman:
His wikepdia entry reads:
"Randall Scheunemann (196?) is an American lobbyist. He is the President of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, which was created by the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), of which he is a board member. He was Trent Lott's National Security Aide and was an advisor to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Iraq. He is 2008 Presidential candidate John McCain's foreign-policy aide. He lives in Fairfax Station, Virginia."
You can't buy better neocon credentials than these. And that he was Rummy's policy advisor on Iraq makes my skin crawl. Pat Buchanan, I think rightly so, accuses Scheuneman of treason.
A vote for John McCain is a vote for four more years of dangerous and disasterous neocon foreign policy. So no the neocons, say no to McSame.
His wikepdia entry reads:
"Randall Scheunemann (196?) is an American lobbyist. He is the President of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, which was created by the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), of which he is a board member. He was Trent Lott's National Security Aide and was an advisor to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Iraq. He is 2008 Presidential candidate John McCain's foreign-policy aide. He lives in Fairfax Station, Virginia."
You can't buy better neocon credentials than these. And that he was Rummy's policy advisor on Iraq makes my skin crawl. Pat Buchanan, I think rightly so, accuses Scheuneman of treason.
A vote for John McCain is a vote for four more years of dangerous and disasterous neocon foreign policy. So no the neocons, say no to McSame.
When did McCain become a Neocon?
Exeprt from article:
In a fascinating cover story in this week’s New Republic (subscription only), John Judis wrestles with the issue and winds up mostly making the case for McCain the neoconservative. It’s a convincing story, and terrifically well told. In Judis’s recounting, McCain came out of his experiences in Vietnam believing that the United States ought only to get involved in overseas conflicts when its national interests were clearly at stake and when it possessed overwhelming military force, a realist position. Judis believes McCain then underwent a slow evolution through the 1990s — watching with horror as American troops failed to prevent massacres in Bosnia in the late 1990s — and pushing Clinton to send troops on a humanitarian mission to Kosovo, a war in which he acknowledged no great American national interest was at stake.
By 1999, in Judis’s telling, the transformation was complete. McCain was hiring prominent neoconservatives to work on his staff, was supporting the now-discredited Iraqi dissident Ahmad Chalabi, and soon became very prominent early advocate of regime change in Iraq and Iran positions which he defends staunchly to this day. In an interview that is recounted towards the end of the piece, Judis presses McCain to differentiate himself from the neoconservatives, or to concede that the war in Iraq was a mistake in conception and not just execution. McCain passes up the opportunity; of the neoconservatives he says “generally I agree with them and respect them enormously.”
The rest of the article here.
In a fascinating cover story in this week’s New Republic (subscription only), John Judis wrestles with the issue and winds up mostly making the case for McCain the neoconservative. It’s a convincing story, and terrifically well told. In Judis’s recounting, McCain came out of his experiences in Vietnam believing that the United States ought only to get involved in overseas conflicts when its national interests were clearly at stake and when it possessed overwhelming military force, a realist position. Judis believes McCain then underwent a slow evolution through the 1990s — watching with horror as American troops failed to prevent massacres in Bosnia in the late 1990s — and pushing Clinton to send troops on a humanitarian mission to Kosovo, a war in which he acknowledged no great American national interest was at stake.
By 1999, in Judis’s telling, the transformation was complete. McCain was hiring prominent neoconservatives to work on his staff, was supporting the now-discredited Iraqi dissident Ahmad Chalabi, and soon became very prominent early advocate of regime change in Iraq and Iran positions which he defends staunchly to this day. In an interview that is recounted towards the end of the piece, Judis presses McCain to differentiate himself from the neoconservatives, or to concede that the war in Iraq was a mistake in conception and not just execution. McCain passes up the opportunity; of the neoconservatives he says “generally I agree with them and respect them enormously.”
The rest of the article here.
The Transitive Law and John McSame
A quick math lesson:
Givens:
Bush = Neocon Boot-licker
McCain = Necon Boot-licker
Therefore under the transitive law:
McCain = Neocon Boot-licker = Bush
McCain = Bush
America we can not afford for more years of Bush and the Neocons!
Givens:
Bush = Neocon Boot-licker
McCain = Necon Boot-licker
Therefore under the transitive law:
McCain = Neocon Boot-licker = Bush
McCain = Bush
America we can not afford for more years of Bush and the Neocons!
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