John McCain: 100 years in Iraq "would be fine with me"

[Jimmy Scott]

The United States military could stay in Iraq for "maybe a hundred years" and that "would be fine with me," John McCain told two hundred or so people at a town hall meeting in Derry, New Hampshire, on Jan 3. And U.S. troops could be in Iraq for "a thousand years" or "a million years," as far as he was concerned.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUE-QmH-n4Q

[Vindicator 1]

For real? I'm voting for Obama! McCain is a crazy person.

[Anon.]

I am voting for Ron Paul. GO RON!

[swampfox]

McCain is kind of a tragic case. He is an authentic hero, but his loyalty to the Republican party makes him take stands that I think that, sometimes, his heart would not otherwise be in it.

I don't think he has much of a chance of winning the nomination, but who knows?

[cuebald]

Fascinating article in the Seattle Post-Intelligfencer this morning. Is John McCain actually what he seems to be, or is he just Dubya with a foul temper? This one is really an eye-opener if this is a factual article.

Among the tidbits is this forgotten reminder of McCain's own Jack Abramoff:


"But he claims he was transformed by his experiences in Vietnam -- a war he still defends as "noble" and "winnable," if only it had been fought harder.

(More than three million Vietnamese died; how much harder could it be?) His plane was shot down on a bombing raid over Hanoi, and he was captured and tortured for five years. To this day, he cannot lift his arms high enough to comb his own hair.

On his release, he used second his wife's fortune to run to as a Republican senator. He was a standard-issue Reaganite corporate Republican n until the Keating Five corruption scandal consumed him. In 1987, it was revealed that McCain, along with four other senators, had taken huge campaign donations from a fraudster called Charles Keating. In return they pressured government regulators not to look too hard into Keating's affairs, allowing him to commit even more fraud. McCain later admitted: "I did it for no other reason than I valued [Keating's] support."

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/348434_mccainonline24.html (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/348434_mccainonline24.html)

[swampfox]

Show me a real honest politician and I'll show you Santy Claus.

We need campaign reform as much as we need anything else.

[better days]

Well at least McCain is honest. What gets me about Obama is he's a fraud and people are looking for a saviour so hard they believe anything. To me when he gets in front of black southerners he gets to shucking and jiving, playing to the crowd, or maybe he's stereo-typing southern blacks as being dumb. What ever it is, pimply faced white kids, the shuckers and the jivers, the Oprah, "Million Little Pieces", crowd and a gaggle of other believers of, MLK has risen, eat that crap up.

[cuebald]

I have heard a rumor that McCain is being financed by the Carlyle Group. Have not substantiated it yet, but that would be truly and totally damning to his campaign, IMHO.

Has anyone else heard anything?

[Captain Worley]

Carlyle Group??

[cuebald]

Look 'em up.

Bush 41 was on the board. Enormous holdings in munitions companies.

The more bombs that drop, the more money they make.

[TahoeT]

Don't like McCain, don't trust McCain. Never have. Probably never will. There is just something about him...

I've heard the innuendo about the Carlyle Group. I wish someone could find proof.

As for Obama and the shuckin' and jivin'... I deal with the public all day long. I get asked a lot of the same questions all day long. I answer those questions differently (as in style, not content) depending upon who is asking. I play to the audience. It is natural and normal - and essential if you want the audience to connect with you.

[swampfox]

I will shuck, but I can't quite bring myself to jive.

I'll try harder.

[better days]

Ever since I lost my Mojo, it's been hard for me to jive also. Maybe science will find a cure.

[MagicOPromotion]

I did over-exaggerate. Everyone says that this election is a lesser of two evils...and I hated that expression. Still do. I believe you have to take the bad with the good.And I believe Obama has more bad than McCain. Simple as that, I guess.