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Title: McCain outlines vision of Iraq victory, reduced partisanship
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Published: May 15, 2008
Author: GLEN JOHNSON
Post Date: 2008-05-15 09:48:45 by christine
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COLUMBUS, Ohio - John McCain, looking through a crystal ball to 2013 and the end of a prospective first term, sees "spasmodic" but reduced violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden dead or captured and government spending curbed by his ready veto pen. The Republican presidential contender also envisions April's annual angst replaced by a simpler flat tax, illegal immigrants living humanely under a temporary worker program, and political partisanship stemmed by weekly news conferences and British-style question periods with joint meetings of Congress. In a speech being delivered Thursday, McCain concedes he cannot make the changes alone, but he wants to outline a specific governing style to show the accomplishments it can achieve. "I'm not interested in partisanship that serves no other purpose than to gain a temporary advantage over our opponents. This mindless, paralyzing rancor must come to an end. We belong to different parties, not different countries," McCain says in remarks prepared for delivery in the capital city of Ohio, a general election battleground. "There is a time to campaign, and a time to govern. If I'm elected president, the era of the permanent campaign will end; the era of problem solving will begin." To the disdain of some fellow Republicans, the presumed GOP nominee has worked with Democrats on legislation aimed at overhauling campaign finance regulations, redrafting immigration rules and regulations and implementing government spending controls. While that has cultivated a maverick image for McCain, the Arizona senator has also been accused of exhibiting a nasty temper — swearing even at fellow lawmakers from his own party — and unabashed partisanship. In particular, McCain has clashed with the leading Democratic presidential contender, Barack Obama. After tangling with the Illinois senator on lobbying reforms, McCain questioned Obama's integrity in a publicly released 2006 letter. McCain wrote he had thought Obama's interest in ethics legislation "was genuine and admirable," before adding: "Thank you for disabusing me of such notions." He accused Obama of "partisan posturing." While calling for Congress to drop mindless partisanship, McCain also chided the media — with whom he has enjoyed a generally positive relationship — for fueling contention with its campaign coverage. "Campaigns and the media collaborated as architects of the modern presidential campaign, and we deserve equal blame for the regret we feel from time to time over its less-than-inspirational features," he said. In outlining potential achievements of a first term, the 71-year-old McCain implicitly was suggesting he would seek a second term, an attempt to mute suggestions he would serve only four years after being the oldest president ever to take office for a first term. In particular, he sees a world in which: • "The Iraq war has been won. Iraq is a functioning democracy, although still suffering from the lingering effects of decades of tyranny and centuries of sectarian tension. Violence still occurs, but it is spasmodic and much reduced." • The Taliban threat in Afghanistan has been greatly reduced. • "The increase in actionable intelligence that the counterinsurgency produced led to the capture or death of Osama bin Laden, and his chief lieutenants," McCain said. "There still has not been a major terrorist attack in the United States since Sept. 11, 2001." • A "League of Democracies" has supplanted a failed United Nations to apply sanctions to the Sudanese government and halt genocide in Darfur. • The United States has had "several years of robust growth," appropriations bills free of lawmakers' pet projects known as "earmarks," public education improved by charter schools, health care improved by expansion of the private market and an energy crisis stemmed through the start of construction on 20 new nuclear reactors. • Democrats are asked to serve in his administration, he holds weekly news conferences and, like the British prime minister, answers questions publicly from lawmakers. McCain also pledges to halt a Bush administration practice of enacting laws with accompanying signing statements that exempt the president from having to enforce parts he finds objectionable. "I will respect the responsibilities the Constitution and the American people have granted Congress," the senator said, "and will, as I often have in the past, work with anyone of either party to get things done for our country."
Poster Comment: Doesn't he need 100 yrs to accomplish all this?
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#1. To: christine (#0)
WHAT?
"HOLODOMOR" is Ukrainian word for "FAMINE-GENOCIDE"
The Democrats serving in his administration will be vetted by the neocons. What he is proposing is a bipartisan neocon takeover of the entire government, with non-neocon members of both parties relegated to the sidelines permanently. This is just a progression of a trend the Chimp already started. The only difference is he is actually crossing party lines. He really might as well go ahead and name either Mrs. Clinton or Holy Joe as his running mate. Both qualify as neocons. This country is all about Israel, as the Chimp's trip and comments while there illustrate very well. We lost control of it long ago.
“I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.” - Sam Houston
Of course McCain looks through a crystal ball... it's called his head.
"I will respect the responsibilities the Constitution and the American people have granted Congress," the senator said, "and will, as I often have in the past, work with anyone of either party to get things done for our country." He's SUCH a friend of the 1st Ammendment, and the Constitution!!! That he has just said this, proves to me, he is the lesser of the 3 evils!!! Yes Yes Yes!! I believe he will bring respect back to the Oval Office!!! He had truly evolved. He sees the errors Congress has made, and stood silently by.. As a Senator, he and his fellow travellers Clinton and Obama, are clearly aware of their short-comings, and he will have that rectified! He's the only one that get's it.. That's it, my mind is made up.
Breaking News: McCain sees Iraq combat over, U.S. troops home before 2013
This actually started during the Reagan years. http://www.liberalslikechrist.org/about/Reagan.html
Do you ever notice that all problems take about 4 1/2 years to solve? Just beyond one Presidential term.... isn't that incredible? There used to be a graphic around that said, Oh Geeze, not this sh*t again!! That fit's this.
i'm going with Obama. free pot. ;)
imo, they are already neocons or neolibs. what's the difference? we know the end game is the same. all this show of rancor and disagreement between dems and reps is just that. it's a play where each is auditioning and challenging the competition for their individual role or part.
COLUMBUS, Ohio - John McCain, looking through a crystal ball to 2013 and the end of a prospective first term, sees "spasmodic" but reduced violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden dead or captured and government spending curbed by his ready veto pen. Oh yeah, mccain is here in Cowtown today. I knew I smelled something awful this morning, it was the stench of a dead and decaying presidential campaign. The last time I smelled that unforgettable reek was during the dole campaign in '96..................... Get out of my city!
What was I thinking?
Best reason I have seen yet. Guess if ya were into opium you'd vote for McCain tho.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" Can anyone tell me when was the last time our foreign policy wasn't about imperialism and nation building? We're built on land acquisition and nation building. It's in our national DNA. That said, if the Ds were the party of peace, they would have begun the impeachment of Bush/Cheney in '06, and defunded the war. Neither happened, and there was NO outrage by the partisan Ds. These selections are about new people assuming the power positions and keeping the War Boat steady as she goes.
LOL!
ROFL!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!
exactly
Of course. And we will all sit around the campfire singing Kumbayah and wait for Santa Claus and the great pumpkin to come by and pay us a visit.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Reading between the lines: COLUMBUS, Ohio - John McCain, looking through a crystal ball to 2013 and the end of (THE WORLD) a prospective first term, sees "spasmodic" (nuclear) but reduced (after nukes expended) violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden dead or captured and government spending curbed (Depression) by his (Puppet Masters) ready veto pen.
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡
Classic vids - thanks for a preview of our future.
You need to repent of that. I thought EVERYONE knew there was a Great Pumpkin. Here is one of his fans waiting for him: Now, tell your mama and them you're sorry. ahaha.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. That is funny in a sad kind of way if you know what I mean.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Is this an announcement that he's promised a job to Lieberman?
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
Just a reminder - my filters only let me see embedded stuff, or links to go to, the img src stuff doesn't play here. (and I don't know how to change it...sad) But thanks, for whatever good stuff you put up. Cheers.
I will respect the responsibilities the Constitution and the American people have granted Congress
#2. To: christine (#0)
#3. To: christine (#0)
#4. To: christine (#0)
John McCain, looking through a crystal ball
#5. To: christine (#0)
McCain also pledges to halt a Bush administration practice of enacting laws with accompanying signing statements that exempt the president from having to enforce parts he finds objectionable.
#6. To: Peppa (#5)
#7. To: Sam Houston (#3)
This is just a progression of a trend the Chimp already started
#8. To: TwentyTwelve (#6)
Breaking News: McCain sees Iraq combat over, U.S. troops home before 2013
#9. To: Peppa (#5)
#10. To: Peppa (#8)
There used to be a graphic around that said, Oh Geeze, not this sh*t again!! That fit's this.
#11. To: Sam Houston (#3)
The Democrats serving in his administration will be vetted by the neocons
#12. To: christine (#0)
#13. To: christine (#9)
i'm going with Obama. free pot. ;)
#14. To: Sam Houston (#3)
#15. To: christine (#9)
i'm going with Obama. free pot. ;)
#16. To: TwentyTwelve (#10)
#17. To: Jethro Tull (#14)
These selections are about new people assuming the power positions and keeping the War Boat steady as she goes.
#18. To: christine (#0)
The Republican presidential contender also envisions April's annual angst replaced by a simpler flat tax, illegal immigrants living humanely under a temporary worker program, and political partisanship stemmed by weekly news conferences and British-style question periods with joint meetings of Congress.
Lord Acton
#19. To: WhiteGuy (#12)
COLUMBUS, Ohio - John McCain, looking through a crystal ball to 2013 and the end of a prospective first term, sees "spasmodic" but reduced violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden dead or captured and government spending curbed by his ready veto pen.
#20. To: christine (#0)
#21. To: christine (#0)
Doesn't he need 100 yrs to accomplish all this?
#22. To: James Deffenbach (#18)
#23. To: TwentyTwelve (#21)
#24. To: ghostdogtxn (#23)
McCain. Like Hope, but different.
#25. To: ghostdogtxn (#23)
#26. To: TwentyTwelve (#25)
#27. To: ghostdogtxn (#22)
O bullshit. Everyone knows there's no such thing as a Great Punkin.
Lord Acton
#28. To: lodwick (#26)
#29. To: TwentyTwelve (#21)
Lord Acton
#30. To: christine (#0)
"I'm not interested in partisanship that serves no other purpose than to gain a temporary advantage over our opponents. This mindless, paralyzing rancor must come to an end. We belong to different parties, not different countries," McCain says in remarks prepared for delivery in the capital city of Ohio, a general election battleground. "There is a time to campaign, and a time to govern. If I'm elected president, the era of the permanent campaign will end; the era of problem solving will begin."
#31. To: TwentyTwelve (#28)
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