Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., used to be better known for heckling the Senate than for influencing it, but McCain emerged from his failed 2000 presidential run with new political sophistication, the New York Times reported. Interestingly, his rise was helped by Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., whom McCain defended when Lott was pushed out as Senate majority leader. Here is an excerpt:
“Over the next eight years, he mastered the art of political triangulation — variously teaming up with Mr. Lott against the president or the new Republican leaders, with Democrats against Republicans, and with the president against the Democrats — to become perhaps the chamber’s most influential member.”
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I really like McCain and glad he was running again, but the man sold his soul and it would be like voting for G.W, Bush a third term. His idea of winning in Iraq is to stay till the enemy runs out of bullets and has to stop fighting. He is ignoring the real enemy and allowing them to get stronger and more able to do harm in the world. His economic plans is the same damaged plan we have had for eight years and does the work of our enemies. He is a foreign policy expert that failed world geography or current events class.
Perhaps he has always been this way and it is because of the focus on him as running for President that has brought it to light. His noted ness came from being a Maverick, but then it could have been simple when he did not say something that bucked the party. No one listened to him and it never hit the news.
The guy is senile:
“McCain gaffes pile up; critics pile on Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen
Tue Jul 22, 6:13 AM ET
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said “Iraq” on Monday when he apparently meant “Afghanistan”, adding to a string of mixed-up word choices that is giving ammunition to the opposition.
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Just in the past three weeks, McCain has also mistaken “Somalia” for “Sudan,” and even football’s Green Bay Packers for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Ironically, the errors have been concentrated in what should be his area of expertise: foreign affairs.
McCain will turn 72 the day after Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) accepts his party’s nomination for president at the age of 47, calling new attention to the sensitive issue of McCain’s advanced age three days before the start of his own convention.
McCain looked much better in the light on the sidelines. Front stage, and he exposes himself.
He is the candidate of the Republican Party for president of the United States. giggle! giggle some more!
Obama is a gaffe machine himself. And he isn’t even old. His alleged eloquence sure does not transfer to off the cuff, thinking on his feet, as he is demonstrating in his world tour.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/05/obamas_latest_stunning_gaffes.html
How does everyone feel about Cindy McCain leading the country? After all, Nancy did it for Ron, didn’t she?
Any guess at how many face-lifts Cindy’s had?
outie, I’d rather a few uh…uh’s… than total confusion.
Never fear CBS will help out poor John by editing out his ignorance on Iraq:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDIAsS9VXiM
Thank goodness CBS and the other MSM prop him up.
Kinda like Weekend at Bernies, no?
And yea, since obama is younger, he’s able to better follow the scripts provided by his masters.
They are ALL owned by the same people. The haves and have mores.
Of course, normally I am conservative in my views. But the best evidence to support what kfg states, was the selling of the repeal of the “death tax”. I forget the amount of inheritance that was exempted, but it was a whole bunch. Payment of inheritance tax used to be planned for by the use of life insurance. The only folks that lost their businesses due to taxation were those who failed to plan.
Yet, the campaign was so successful the rank and file were out there fighting for the repeal of inheritance taxes so rich kids could keep more of daddy’s money. I couldn’t support that.
outlander, today fiscally isn’t a modifier of the term conservative. Everyone is more fiscally conservative than the yahoos in washington!
McCain graduated 4th from the bottom of his Annapolis class; haven’t we seen first hand what dumb in the White House can accomplish?
No kidding outie. And small farms were already pretty much under the existing value exemptions of the inheritance taxes. That whine about losing small family farms to inheritance taxes was yet another myth. Paris Hilton must be smiling all the way to the bank. Again.
American voters. They’ll baaaaaaa all the way to the polls. But turn off their American Idol and you’ll have a revolt on yer hands!
He influences dolt’s of all sorts.
Phantom just wondering what confusing the green by packers and the pittsburg steelers have to do with foreign affairs? I always try to follow lib thinking but your threw me on this.
He probably took a page from Hillary whose favorite team was the NY Mets until it became the NY Yankees after it was the Chicago white sox.
“okobserver” asks a “Nathaniel”-like question –
“…wondering what confusing the green by packers and the pittsburg steelers have to do with foreign affairs?”
Nothing, unless you consider that a President John Sidney McCain the Third (for Shrub’s 3rd term) would be running foreign affairs with no sense of integrity.
McC*nt has told that Green Bay Packers story a zillion times; it’s a critical story of his POW status (which he says he doesn’t want to talk about…then talks about) in his autobiography. For forty years, it was the Green Bay Packers. Until…
This year he’s campaigning in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and the Green Bay Packers were replaced in this key story of his life by the Pittsburgh Steelers. If he’d been in Kansas City that day he probably would have switched the Steelers for the Chiefs. If he’d been in Oklahoma that day the team would’ve been the Sooners.
You CONs steadfastly refuse to address the many flip-flops (sometimes flip-flop-flips) in McBush’s campaign statements.
This is a minor one. But it speaks volumes about McSame’s moral compass. (Either than or he’s getting senile.)
I’ve been mentioning to my family members all week to read this story – I’m totally interested in reading more of your posts
That’s what’s so great about made up stories, the details aren’t important. Wonder if he told the story as the KC chiefs while in KC the other day!
McCain learned his foreign policy in the hard knocks school of Hanoi Hilton, who can dispute that.
Mcbush trying a little of his hero’s double speak.
Says it’s semantics, the surge came before the surge.