akaguayo2:54AMJun 27th 2008

I wonder what the critics want Bush to do with North Korea? Go to war over WMD's? Great plan.

iynaroc0211:35AMJun 27th 2008

McCain must be disappointed because this goes against his philosophy of not negotiating with the enemy. Rather send our men and women to go and fight and die. If Bush had not abondoned diplomacy in 2002, N. Korea would have abondoned this program by 2003 and would be completely clean by 2005. Instead, like McCain, Bush employed the "do not talk to your enemies" tact. So, Obama has been right all along and McCain and Clinton were mocking him for suggesting "talking to your enemies". Bush and the other nations negotiated with N. Korea without any pre-conditions. If they had continued to not talk to N. Korea, they would have continued to build their nuclear program. That's how Pakistan and India acquired nuclear programs because nobody talked to them and by the time people were ready to engage them, it was already too late. The same thing might happen with Iran if we don't negotiate with them. So much for McCain's foreign policy experience. This goes to tell us that McCain's ideas on foreign policy are too antiquated and belongs to the 60s and 70s, not today.

iynaroc0211:38AMJun 27th 2008

McCain’s real military file is unflattering. To end all the speculation, McCain should authorize the Navy to release all his military record.
In June 2005, seven months after he lost his bid for president, Senator John Kerry signed the 180 waiver, authorizing the release of his complete military service record to the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and the Associated Press. ** Unlike Kerry, McCain shouldn't wait until after the election to do so. The Navy may claim that it already released McCain's record to the Associated Press on May 7, 2008 in response to the AP's Freedom of Information Act request. But the McCain file the Navy released contained 19 pages -- a two-page overview and 17 pages detailing Awards and Decorations. Each of these 17 pages is stamped with a number. These numbers range from 0069 to 0636. When arranged in ascending order, they precisely track the chronology of McCain's career. It seems reasonable to ask the Navy whether there are at least 636 pages in McCain's file, of which 617 weren't released to the Associated Press.
Some of the unreleased pages in McCain's Navy file may not reflect well upon his qualifications for the presidency. From day one in the Navy, McCain screwed-up again and again, only to be forgiven because his father and grandfather were four-star admirals. McCain's sense of entitlement to privileged treatment bears an eerie resemblance to George W. Bush's.
Despite graduating in the bottom 1 percent of his Annapolis class, McCain was offered the most sought-after Navy assignment -- to become an aircraft carrier pilot. According to military historian John Karaagac, "'the Airdales,' the air wing of the Navy, acted and still do, as if unrivaled atop the naval pyramid. They acted as if they owned, not only the Navy, but the entire swath of blue water on the earth's surface." The most accomplished midshipmen compete furiously for the few carrier pilot openings. After four abysmal academic years at Annapolis distinguished only by his misdeeds and malfeasance, no one with a record resembling McCain's would have been offered such a prized career path. The justification for this and subsequent plum assignments should be documented in McCain's naval file.
McCain's file should also include records and analytic reviews of McCain's subsequent sub-par performances. Here are a few cited in two highly favorable biographies, both titled John McCain, one by Robert Timberg and the other by John Karaagac.
Timberg:
"[A]fter a European fling with the tobacco heiress, John McCain reported to flight school at Pensacola in August 1958.... [H]is performance was below par, at best good enough to get by. He liked flying, but didn't love it. What he loved was the kick-the-tire, start-the-fire, scarf-in-the-wind life of a naval aviator. ...One Saturday morning, as McCain was practicing landings, his engine quit and his plane plunged into Corpus Christi. Knocked unconscious by the impact, he came to as the plane settled to the bottom....McCain was an adequate pilot, but he had no patience for studying dry aviation manuals.... His professional growth, though reasonably steady, had its troubled moments. Flying too low over the Iberian Peninsula, he took out some power lines, which led to a spate of newspaper stories in which he was predictably identified as the son of an admiral.... [In 1965] he flew a trainer solo to Philadelphia for the Army-Navy game. Flying by way of Norfolk, he had just begun his descent over unpopulated tidal terrain when the engine died. 'I've got a flameout,' he radioed. He went through the standard relight procedures three times. At one thousand feet he ejected, landing on the deserted beach moments before the plane slammed into a clump of trees."
Adds Karaagac:
"In his memoir, everything becomes a kind of game of adolescent brinksmanship, how much can one press the limits of the acceptable and elude the powers that be....The [fighter jocks'] ethos of exaggerated, almost aggressive sociability becomes an end in itself and an excuse for license. There is a tendency for people, not simply to believe their own mythology but, indeed, to exaggerate it.... Fighter jocks, like politicians around their campaign contributions, often press the limits of the acceptable. It is a type of mild corruption that takes place in a highly privileged atmosphere, where restraints are loosened and excuses made....McCain gives some hint in his memoirs about where he stood in the hierarchy among carrier flyers. Instead of the sleek and newer Phantoms and Crusaders, McCain flew the dependable Douglas A-4 Skyhawk in an attack, not a fighter squadron. He was thus on the lower end of the flying totem pole."
The genius of McCain's mythmaking is his perceived humility amid perpetual defiance. Having been a rebel without cause, and often a rebel without consequences, McCain apparently was not surprised when his Vietnamese captors went relatively easy on him compared to his fellow POWs. The Vietnamese military secretly and frequently filmed the American POWs to learn their propensities. Col. Pham Van Hoa of the Vietnamese People's Army Film Department was in charge of the filming. Asked recently for his dominant impression of McCain, the now-retired Van Hoa said that McCain "seemed superior to other prisoners." How so? "Superior in attitude towards them."
But when Mark Salter, McCain's closest aide and co-author, was asked by the Arizona New Times about the first McCain memoir, Faith of My Fathers, that he was then working on, Salter said "the book will showcase a humble McCain. When I worked on this book with him, he just kept saying, 'Other guys had it a lot worse. I think they took it easier on me because of who my dad was. . . . When they tied me in ropes, they'd roll my sleeve up to give it a little padding between the rope and my bicep, you know, little things I noticed. The only really hard time I had was when I didn't go home, and then it only lasted a week, and sometimes I felt braver, I felt I could get away with more.'"
Is McCain now getting away with more by hiding his official history and by having his national security adviser inflate McCain's resume with a bogus promotion to admiral humbly declined? If so, McCain may be attempting to hide why the Navy was in fact slow to promote him upwards despite his suffering as a POW and his distinguished naval heritage.
One possible reason: After McCain had returned from Vietnam as a war hero and was physically rehabilitated, he was urged by his medical caretakers and military colleagues never to fly again. But McCain insisted on going up. As Carl Bernstein reported in Vanity Fair, he piloted an ultra-light, single propeller plane -- and crashed another time. His fifth loss of a plane has vanished from public records, but should be a subject of discussion in his Navy file. It wouldn't be surprising if his naval superiors worried that McCain was just too defiant, too reckless and too crash prone.
Regardless, McCain owes it to the country to release his complete naval records so that American voters can see his documented history and make an informed decision.

iynaroc0211:42AMJun 27th 2008

HONESTY ISSUE:
Will the real John McCain please stand up. For people that want to meet the real john McCain, please read these two articles: Corruption, Flip-Flop and Lies
http://www.realchange.org/mccain.htm
http://www.nationalreview.com/contributors/levin040501.shtml
Now that's the McCain, the reformer we know.
AGE ISSUE:
Data just released show America is behind most industrialized nations when it comes to life expectancy. That is why we need universal healthcare like Obama is advocating. Just food for thought:

- For average white American male, life expectancy is 72 years and John McCain is already 72 years old, so he might kick the bucket any time now

- For average black American male, the life expectancy is 70 years and Barack Obama is only 46 years old.

lilsister2543:47PMJun 27th 2008

This is so pathetic! He wants desperately to go out looking like he did something for the country. Instead of the joke of a lame duck president that he is. Jumped up and got North Korea off the axis of evil list in a hurry. He's left our borders open and now he's let Kim Jong off the hook. All in an attempt to look good for history. So much for thinking of the American people. I live in Texas and please do not say this piece of garbage is from here. He was born in Connecticutt. He just lived here. Worst governor we have ever had. And Yes, His friend Clayton Williams did say to "relax and enjoy it" if rape was inevitable. I was living in Midland at the time and it was reported in the Midland Reporter Telegram. Some of our friends worked on his campaign, so I was aware of it before the papers. Lord, please let the election hurry up and get here. I don't think we can stand much more!!

REPLACE-DEMS-IN-CONGRESS12:43PMJun 28th 2008

Despite the baseless rants of the Bush haters, He doesn't and can't control gas prices. THE DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS DOES!

So what if he has ties with oil companies, so do millions of Americans not to mention IRAs, pensions funds, etc. Professional Legal prices have skyrocketed, is that Clintons fault?

They're lawyers. Fuel prices are up because the environmentally irresponsible Congress won't allow ANY new production or exploration. They're up because the big money ethanol lobby has too much power with our "open & honest" Congress. They're up because the oil companies are capitalists and want more money, like most American companies. The only remedy being offered for that is the un-American nationalization of those companies, that is unconstitutional. Prices are up because the US government makes more (undeserved) money on each gallon than does the oil companies.

I'M ALSO TIRED OF THE WEATHLY CELEBRITIES TELLING THE AVERAGE HARD-WORKING BLUE COLLAR AMERICAN WHAT TO DO. WE ARE THE BACKBONE OF AMERICA.

FOR MANY YEARS, CAROLINE KENNEDY HAS WANTED HER PRIVACY. WE RESPECTFULLY GAVE IT TO HER.

I'M ANGRY THAT SHE NOW WANTS TO STEP OUT AND TELL US WHO TO VOTE FOR ---- SHE AND HER UNCLE 'SWIMMER' TEDDY NEED TO STAY IN THE BACKGROUND.

THEY, ALONG WITH THE DNC, STABBED HILLARY IN THE BACK.

I'LL VOTE FOR JOHN MCCAIN IN 2008 --- HILLARY IN 2012.

REPLACE-DEMS-IN-CONGRESS12:55PMJun 28th 2008

The standard operating procedure by the Democrat controlled Congress and almost all of the mass media, is to give democrats special treatment. Pass along the excuses liberals. This makes of double standards because we all know your Obama-Boy will get a slap on the wrist --- while a republican would be carted off to jail.

Some people have said another reason not to vote for Barack Hussein Obama is he’s the candidate with the offensive middle name. The real problem isn’t Barack’s middle name or the special treatment he is getting from the press but his gross lack of experience and the fact that he is very confused.

Obama thinks there are more than 57 states in the Union and he wants to be president. If you add Florida and Michigan, it's 59??? I wonder if he’ll carry the 57+ states?

OBAMA, THE DNC AND BIASED MEDIA STABBED HILLARY IN THE BACK. BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA WAS "SELECTED" --- NOT "ELECTED".

VOTE McCAIN IN 2008 --- HILLARY IN 2012.

ANYBODY-BUT-OBAMA1:24PMJun 28th 2008

If I was arrested 30 years ago and convicted of child molestation --- but since then, I told you I had reformed and am now living a decent life, would you allow me to babysit your grandchildren? I THINK NOT! I believe you would always wonder if your grandchildren would be safe --- based on my “past history”!

FROM OBAMA'S BOOKS:

Dreams of My Father: “I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.”

From Dreams of My Father : “I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mothers race.”

From Dreams of My Father: “There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.”

From Dreams of My Father: “It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.”

From Dreams of My Father: “I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa, that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.”

From Audacity of Hope: “I WILL STAND WITH THE MUSLIMS SHOULD THE POLITICAL WINDS SHIFT IN AN UGLY DIRECTION.”

You can't change a tiger's stripes. BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA HAS TOLD TOO MANY LIES --- HE HAS TOO MANY TIES TO TERRORISTS AND ANTI-AMERICANS.

WE CANNOT IGNORE THIS MAN’S “PAST HISTORY”.

McCAIN IN 2008 - HILLARY IN 2012.

David S.8:26PMJun 28th 2008

While I understand Bush wanting to leave some kind of legacy with regard to North Korea - Clinton tried too - I am not hopeful. A country such as this that has an awful tyrant Kim Jong-II for its leader can never be trusted, as Bolton said. But what choice is there but to negotiate with them? The alternative is too horrible to comprehend.

CONCERNED 4 AMERICA12:28PMJun 29th 2008

Obama’s supporters would cover the world with smoke and mirrors to try and make Barack Hussein Obama look good, regardless of all his lies and ties to radical anti-Americans.

Obama could butcher a kitten on the White House lawn and his followers would try to make it look like a good thing.

I imagine some of the people who voted for Obama IN JANUARY would like to change their votes!

Obama, along with Dean, Pelosi, Reid, Kennedy, Kerry, Carter and other members of the DNC are destroying the Democratic Party. THEY STABBED HILLARY IN THE BACK.

They say we have 48 states … not 50.
THE PEOPLE OF FLORIDA AND MICHIGAN DID NOT BREAK THE RULES --- A FEW POLITICIANS DID.

VOTE FOR McCAIN IN 2008 --- HILLARY I 2012.

REPLACE-DEMS-IN-CONGRESS9:11AMJun 30th 2008

THE DEMS IN CONGRESS “SELECTED” OBAMA — HE WAS NOT “ELECTED” BY THE PEOPLE.

Obama has no experience on any political topic. His foreign experience is vacationing with his family on a beautiful island.

Read Obama’s books. This bi-racial man, who claims to be ‘black’ is a threat to our country.

From ‘Dreams of My Father’: “I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa, that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.”

From ‘Audacity of Hope’: “I WILL STAND WITH THE MUSLIMS SHOULD THE POLITICAL WINDS SHIFT IN AN UGLY DIRECTION.”

Early this year, Obama said: “Don’t tell me that words don’t matter”. His words on various topics keep changing. He has lost all credibility. OBAMA SIMPLY CANNOT BE TRUSTED.

John McCain does have foreign policy experience. In fact, he has more political experience on every topic than the ‘wanna be’.

McCain served our country during the Viet Nam War. He proved he loved our country enough to die for us. He has served in the Senate for 20 years.

Vote McCain in 2008.

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