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Both Obama AND Clinton WILL raise my taxes considerably. They have each promised to do so.
McCain considers setting benchmarks for Iraqis
By Margaret Talev
McClatchy-Tribune
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 01.26.2007
WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., one of the most stalwart supporters of the war in Iraq, said Thursday that he might propose that the Iraqi government meet certain benchmarks for the United States to continue its engagement.
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This is before he lied about Romney's beliefs about benchmarks...
All of which leave ME to ask, what WON'T he say to get elected? I have a feeling that list is pretty small...
Both Obama AND Clinton WILL raise my taxes considerably. They have each promised to do so.
Horrors.
I guess McCain's "borrow massively and spend even more" will be better in the long run?
I suppose you prefer the de facto tax raises on our children?
Creating new, underfunded, government programs will cost our children the most.
"new, underfunded, government programs"
like the invasion and open-ended occupation of Iraq? You have no trouble approving that because it cost you nothing.
How Many "Gaffes" Equal Incompetence?
Posted April 15, 2008 | 01:07 PM (EST)
John McCain screwed up on Foreign Policy 101 AGAIN. Yesterday at the AP annual meeting, McCain said he would defer any decision to General Petraeus over whether troops should be shifted from Iraq to Afghanistan in order to intensify the search for Osama bin Laden. Only problem is that this is not Petraeus's job, as he has stated before.
By my count, this makes 6 times this month that McCain has screwed up basic foreign policy facts...the other 5 being various conflations of who exactly is fighting in Iraq.
As Hertzberg says today: It's easy to say one word when you mean to say another, nearly identical word, but it's impossible to repeatedly misspeak an entire anecdote -- or, as in McCain's case, an entire strategic reality.
Couple that with remarks made by leading conservative thinkers in the New York Times last week. They claim that McCain "is not as fully formed on his foreign policy as his campaign advisers say he is, and that while he speaks authoritatively, he operates too much off the cuff and has not done the deeper homework required of a presidential candidate."
This is not deep homework, and has nothing to do with running for President. For John McCain to make this many mistakes while holding an important national security post as Ranking Member of the Armed Services Committee is simply unacceptable.
These types of mistakes would prevent John McCain from getting a job as a research assistant at any think tank in D.C., let alone delivering anything resembling a responsible foreign policy as president.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/moira-...c_b_96794.html
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I don't know who this chick Moira is, but her points, and the points she quotes, are valid.
duyba's Big Troubles with English weren't just lack of eloquence but have been seen to be stupidity and ignorance, making him the perfect tool for the neo- s, Charlie's puppet to head's Edgar.
McCain now is showing himself, even in his official capacity in the Senate, to be incompetent, unprepared, and unknowledgeable, not just making simple mistakes of ineloquence. The man is fairly limited. He should have made a career in the Air Force.
I agree.
I am glad to know I was not alone in noticing this, although I was kinda flabbergasted to see that it was Huffington actually voicing it.
However long it might last, however, it WILL end.
En lements NEVER end - they simply grow.
The invasion costs me as any other thing the government does costs me.
And even with that; the defense budget has risen less as a % of GDP than the en lement programs have during the Bush presidency.
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