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Childish! Typical stupid Democratic stunt.
Is that the best they’ve got?
Shouldn’t give it credit by putting it on the blog.

Yes, he’s older than the Democratic candidates who are currently insulting each other and scratching each other’s eyes out.

He’s also smarter.

I wonder if they’ll make that video next?

“the Democratic candidates who are currently insulting each other and scratching each other’s eyes out.”

Huh. And here I thought they were in a competetive and so far pretty clean race for the nomination.

Re McCain “He’s also smarter.”

Yeah he knows about those 50 dollar an hour lettuce picking jobs. Try as I might I can’t seem to find them!

He also has that little problem getting his Shiite together without Lieberman at his elbow correcting him…

Now come on cons. Be honest.

You are hoping old John chooses a number two you can live with and then takes the dirt nap.

How’s creating a functioning democracy and reconciling century-old conflicts in Iraq going?

Are we providing top-notch health care for our war-injured military? How about those who served us well and are now aged and / or ill?

How about health care for all Americans that is available and affordable?

Are procedures in place to reduce spending and get our economy going in a more fiscally responsible direction?

Are our borders secure?

Are Americans as safe as they should be?

Are we protecting our citizens food supplies, water supplies, ensuring clean breathable air?

Do we have adequate infrastructure maintenance to ensure continued power to heat and / or cool our homes and workplaces is delivered, roads are safe, communications networks are in place and adequately protected?

Are adequate improvements being made to the NCLB legislation to ensure we quit leaving many children behind? Should we scrap the entire legislation and really help public education?

Or maybe the important things like how old, how black, how female the candidates for political office are, and who knows who, how well and in what context – REALLY IMPORTANT SUBJECTS – are keeping all our time and resources tied up, but those other items are on the list and we might find time and resources to address them when we’re finished here. No, wait, what’s that over there? It’s so shiny and pretty and its in the news all the time so it must be important…

The health and longevity of McCain’s mother gets brought up often in defense of McCain’s age and whether it might be an issue.

That’s fair. If his mother is still healthy and mentally fit in her 90’s, it is fair to speculate that McCain may have many healthy years ahead of him.

But it prompted me to wonder. What about McCain’s father? How old did he get to be?

So I went looking. This is from wikipedia.

“John Sidney McCain, Jr. (January 17, 1911 – March 22, 1981) was a four star admiral in the United States Navy who served in World War II through the Vietnam War.”

SO dad was just a bit over 70 when he died. Not terrible given that was 1981.

So if you take that half of McCain’s genetics comes from mom who is alive and well in her 90’s. And half is from dad who died YOUNGER than McCain jr. is now?

Well he could heel over any minute couldn’t he?

I have said earlier. I imagine there is no shortage of cons who will be pleased with this thought in mind.

Hmm that’s….interesting.

It seems McCain and I share the same birth date.

29 August.

Except mine is in the common era.

How did Ronald Reagan say it? Something like:

I REFUSE TO EXPLOIT THE YOUTH AND INEXPERIENCE OF MY OPPONENT.”

Seems Reagan’s remark is particularly relevant in the current election season.

JWink, same issue: What are we trying to accomplish in Iraq? What’s the plan? What’s the goal? No, we shouldn’t “bug out” overnight, but I don’t think any candidate is going to do that.

As Petraus has said, I don’t see any military solution to this mess. I see intensive diplomacy, perhaps with economic aid, as the only way out. We must (gasp!) talk with Iran. We must (gasp!) talk with Syria. We must even (gasp!) talk with Al-Sadr.

We must stop fueling the militia-on-militia violence, something that only Robert Gates has recently dealt with, and fairly ineffectively.

McCain is a Navy man as his father was a Navy man as his grandfather was a Navy man. He may be familiar with the mechanisms of government, but he has been an intemperate war hawk from day one. Now, I might want him in the situation room during an invasion, but he is uniquely unqualified to solve this mess.

And his indefensible vote to invade Iraq shows at best that he has no great advantage over the other candidates in judging the necessity of military conflicts, let alone resolving them.

I have often wondered which McCain will show up on any given day. This blogger writes to the chameleon McCain:
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“Genuine political and ideological transformations are pretty rare in contemporary American politics. Two in a row in less than a decade is close to unprecedented.

“McCain went from conservative Republican, to embracing many core Democratic policy positions and actively discussing a possible party switch, to cycling back and re-embracing the same policies.

“…the same Bush tax cuts that he said earlier in the decade “offend[ed] his conscience”, he now says must be made permanent and added on to by another round of tax cuts on the Bush model.

“McCain is absolutely gung-ho and certain that he’s right about whatever his position and ‘principles’ are at the given moment. But they change repeatedly.”

http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/

When the working class are looking for someone to represent them, they need look no farther than Sen. Bootstrap himself.

His father was an admiral.

Yeah . . . he was born on third base and thought he hit a triple.

John McCain, Older Than Dirt! (Cue the rift from the Doors)

Let’s see, your mental function starts decreasing after your 20’s, so McCain’s had about 5 decades of decline, and I understand he wasn’t all that sharp in his 20’s!
Could he possibly be dumber than a bush?

Hello! “JWink, what are we trying to accomplish in Iraq?”

I believe we are trying to establish a society in Iraq and the Middle East where residents can live peacefully among themselves and their neighboring countries. The problem is they are sitting on a vast pool of petroleum that begs to be exploited by someone, if not the U.S. then by Iran, Russia or China, most likely China.

China is already busy searching for oil in the continent of Africa which is the source of tremendous civil unrest there.

My unique solution which I would like to discuss with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, is a new policy of multi-culturalism. It works wonders in our high schools, colleges, enlightened corporations.

Most of our colleges and universities have large populations of brilliant young students from all over the world … Iran, Iraq, Viet Nam, Kenya, North Korea, China, Mexico, Phillipines, Indonesia, etc. who get along just fine here. But our government pits them against each other around the world when they return home.

The U.S Army’s Command and General Training School at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, used to bring rising military officers from many countries in the world to educate them together to hopefully help them gain an international understanding from their fellow students. I have lost touch but hope this is still going on.

My plan would involve a relocation of a multitude of civilian volunteers from all nations of the world TO the Middle East countries and perhaps to the African continent to produce a new multi-cultural cooperation within these countries.

World Wars I and II did this to some degree and is preferable to the failed “shock and awe” of the current Bush administration.

Remember you heard it here first and I am a moderate Republican!

JWink