This is a discussion on McCain within the Warehouse forums, part of the Personnel category:
I've lately been wondering if the man has alzheimers disease. He recurringly refers to Iraq as Iran, recently called Putin the president of Germany, and insisted that we need ...
I've lately been wondering if the man has alzheimers disease. He recurringly refers to Iraq as Iran, recently called Putin the president of Germany, and insisted that we need to establish military bases in the Soviet Union...for those of you who don't know the Soviet Union does not exist any longer.
Are you sure he meant Iraq? Iran is our enemy too, ya know. In fact, they are a much greater threat.
Germany = Russia? Haha, I can understand confusing the two. Once anyway.
Publiclly, the Soviet Union no longer exists, but I have no doubt that Russia will soon be our enemies once again. I will say however, that we should definitely NOT be building any military forces in Russia. Talk about sleeping with the enemy.
Patching up relations with Russia would be the smartest possible measure for America. It would smooth over the majority of your foreign policy, and convert the nation over to being a friend as opposed to an enemy you don't want to have. Strong ties with Europe are the most important pressing foreign policy matter right now.
Obama was wrong in stating he would be willing to grant Iran's president, Ahmadinejad, an audience. It would do nothing more than offer a means for Ahmadinejad to legitimise himself in the eyes of the Iranian people. Once a suitable time arises for troops to pull ou of Iraq without leaving the nation on the brink of civil war, try to butt out of Middle Eastern affairs. It does your country no favours ultimately, and weakens your bargaining position with more moderate Middle Eastern nations like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
I question him now more than ever
Apparently hes rejected John Hagees endorsment. Hes showing weakness. Flip flopping on his beliefs, because people are criticizing.
Which sucks really. The Democrats are a rabble right now, Obama will be easy pickings for the Republican razor-gang, and McCain should really be in the box-seat for a cosy general election victory.
In basically all of the major states (except for Pennsylvania), Obama is lagging behind both Clinton and McCain, right now he doesn't look like having a chance at winning sufficient electoral college votes to give the Democrats the win.
McCain was by no means the best Republican candidate for the nomination, but he is a much better bet than both on the Democrats' side right now. It is his election to lose.
He showed up on the Ellen Degeneres show and lo and behold, seemed totally unprepared for a debate on gay marriage. He uncomfortably mumbled his way through a few "my opinion on marriage is.."s and "we respectfully disagree"s. I understand she probably wants to keep things civil with guests on her show (to get them to come back), but she really should've taken him to town on that one.
I wouldn't give McCain too much chance for the GE, Kvlt. I think you underestimate how turned-off the public has been growing lately from the Republican party. In special elections this year, Democrats have already taken three seats in congress from very republican/conservative districts (all districts that Bush won by very comfortable margins in '04), showing more and more that the country is growing tired of them. They've also got some 30 seats where incumbent Republicans are not running for re-election.
McCain may be coasting right now, but in the end that may be good for the Democrats. He's a powder keg just waiting to blow...and I'm sure once the Dems have their nominee and the election gets into full swing, he'll take some massive blows that he wont have time to recover from. Already, Obama's taken hits on Tony Rezko, Jeremiah Wright and his comments about rural voters, but seems to have more-or-less regained his composure and standing because he's had time to do so. All they're really going to have to play against him in the GE is "Heez a leeberal!", which people have had enough of.
Obama is one of the most liberal senators in the US, and his stances on the issues prove that he is quite a bit further to the Left than Hillary Clinton. Problem was, I actually had to make an effort to find a comprehensive detail of his stances, given by and large he has let them take a backseat to cheap lip service about "Change", "bipartisan politics" and other such tugs to the voters' heart-strings when he has been on the stump. Too bad his old buddy Jeremiah Wright, and his wife Michelle, won't keep their yaps shut. When the GOP razor-gang comes to play, they had better take a step back and leave the talking to Barack if they want him to stand a chance at withstanding the inevitable shitstorm. Because the more quotable fodder they offer up, the harder it will be for Obama to avoid getting drowned in a sea of their ill-informed tripe.
When it comes down to policy, which is what people should be voting for (Policy > Party), he just isn't very sound. Zero legitimate foreign policy experience, his solution to America's decline is to kick up taxes and duck into a more protectionist economy (fiscally irresponsible to say the least), universal health-care at taxpayers' expense, and an instantaneous withdrawal of troops from Iraq which will be dangerous for all parties involved. If he was a moderate, I could understand him talking about bipartisan politics, but please... his grounding is bordering on Socialism.
McCain gets my support by default. Not because he is a great candidate, because I don't think that McCain is at all. But, if nothing else, he is a far better presidential option than Barack Obama ever will be.
I was for Obama until I started hearing about his plans for the Middle East. Dividing Israel is not an option. Hilary is just a no. McCain also had my vote sortof by default. The fact that I think hes the best option. But then he turned down John Hagee endorsment simply because of comments that were taken out of context. Ive heard the sermon in question, and theres absolutely nothing wrong with what Hagee said. But regardless of your views on Pastor Hagee, you know as well as I do that McCain knew damn well what he all about when he originally accepted his endorsement. He probably watches Hagees program every week. But he backed down from his beliefs when people started to talk.
At this point I have no idea who Id vote for. I guess Id still say McCain for his views, but Im not necessarily thrilled.
Ive heard the sermon in question, and theres absolutely nothing wrong with what Hagee said.
There's nothing wrong with calling the Catholic Church "The Great Whore" and saying New Orleans was devistated by Katrina because it was about to hold a gay pride parade? Letting people starve to death for their "sins"?
Please tell me you haven't heard those before, cause I just don't see how there's absolutely nothing wrong with them, like what context they could be said in to make them alright...though, Ive already seen these sermons and interviews, so I KNOW what context they were used in.
Hagee never refered to the Catholic Church as "The Great Whore". He was talking about the religion that will rise out of the one world government under the false prophet and the antichrist. However, prophetically, the false prophet will most likely be the pope. Note that the Roman numerical total for the name and title accepted by every Pope, VICARIVS FILII DEI, which means, Vicar of the Son of God, adds up to exactly 666. As well as DVX CLERI (Captain of the Clergy), REX LATINVS SACERDOS (King of the Roman Priests) and LVDOVICVS (Vicar of the Court) in Latin, Lateinos (The Latin Speaking Man), and ITALIKA EKKLESIA (Italian Church) in Greek.
Hagee is a Pastor who believes in what he preaches, and he only teaches what the Bible says.
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