I hope Cindy McCain stole a recipe to make John McCain’s shoes taste minty and delicious, because the man continues to put his feet in his mouth on a daily basis: Earlier this week, when asked to comment on Obama’s statement that the situation in Afghanistan is “precarious and urgent”, McCain countered with, “We have a lot of work to do. It’s a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq-Pakistan border.”
You guys are smart–hey, you read this site!–you can probably spot the forehead-slappingly stupid thing about this statement, right? How about a visual aid:
Yes, that’s quite a large border Iraq and Pakistan share. It’s called Iran.
McCain and the RNC are boo-hooing that the media is having a “love affair” with Obama and he can do no wrong in their eyes–I guess they, like pretty much everyone else except Rupert Murdoch’s 117-year-old mother, don’t consider Fox News to be real media. And I’ll grant you, the coverage of Obama’s Middle East/Afghanistan/Europe tour has a touch of the breathless teenybopper superfan about it. (OMG LOOK AT HIM CARRYING THE FLAK JACKET INSTEAD OF WEARING IT, HE KNOWS HIS CHARISMA CAN DEFELCT BULLETS!!1!) As many as a million people are expected to gather to hear Obama’s speech in Berlin; meanwhile a whopping total of one single reporter was on hand to greet McCain’s plane in New Hampshire.
But the media is giving McCain just as big as a pass, even if it’s not as obvious. They continue to act as if getting shot down in the War of 1812 and being held captive in a bamboo tiger cage with a bag of rats on his head for several decades makes him some kind of alleged foreign policy expert. But you won’t see the MSM calling him out too much on his repeated gaffes like the one above, or his inability to remember that “Czechoslovakia” ceased to exist 15 fucking years ago, or his repeated failure a telling the difference between Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims. For god’s sake, I had to go to Mother Jones to find reporting on that last one. Mother Jones!!
Look, he wasn’t in Vietnam organizing their version of D-Day, okay? He was a pilot who was captured, and while that sucks, it doesn’t magically confer expertise in foreign policy. Or geography.
You make really great points. Now let’s do this… what if McCain suddenly got touched by an Angel and became a bonefide expert on the whole fucking thing… what if that happened?
I would still hold the same reservations about him. Why? Because he holds fast to the “cowboy diplomacy” style of W. When he does visit, it’s a non-event not because he doesn’t know what he’s talking about, but because there is not a legitimate reaction from the indigenous people no matter where the fuck he goes, bullet proof vest or not. You have to consider both sides of the conflict when you decide who you want to send to straighten out this mess. The fact of the matter is that people abroad, no matter where they are, respond more kindly and overwhelmingly to Obama, NOT McCain.
We’ve did our time, 5 fucking years now, approaching this situation from the old school ideology. It’s not working out for us. McCain and company hold fast to the conviction that the “surge” is working. Big fucking deal. Let’s say that it is working… let’s give them that. We can not forever be over there walking the goddamn streets holding their society at gunpoint. They have to learn to run their motherfucking shit without a barrel pointed at their head. See, that’s what’s going on. Glad the surge is working, but now what? Now, it’s time for diplomacy. You got phone calls to make McCain? Start making them, because we DEMAND that this shit get worked out. You have no plan for that. NONE. It only serves to show you how out of touch the people who govern the war are with those who actually go over there and fight the motherfucker. They are out of touch, period!
Now, let’s address McCain’s military service. I will always honor and revere anybody who went through the brutal and horrible shit that he endured. Always. Yet, you’re running for fucking President Johnny, not the goddamn Senate. The P.O.W. card is played out. The buck stops here. We’re not giving you the Presidency to somehow pay you off for Vietnam. The fact that he even speaks about Vietnam as if it was anything other than a goddamn disaster is repulsive. Again, that goes to show you, he doesn’t have a heart to deal with the reality of a situation. Even when he knows the reality of a situation, he doesn’t address it fully. He’s afraid to speak his mind because he knows that his point of view on this situation is not palpable with voters.
His view is entangled by classified documents cooked up for him by company men. Whether or not they are valid, he can’t organize all that shit into something we can feel. It doesn’t translate into a plan. It doesn’t. He represents them, the company, the ones who made this fucking mess and lied to us to get us into it. They feel like they can’t really tell you why they did that. I will tell you. They wanted to deny the ability to wage long term limited war to N. Korea and China. Success. It started over Taiwan. That’s what it was over. It was not a failure, this war, but that time of unrest has passed. Obama, on the other hand, is nobody’s bitch. He works for us. We are choosing him.
People everywhere in the world are more interested in what he will do, what he can do, and the fact that those people will respond more kindly to the New Deal that Obama will bring to the middle east. That’s what is going on and that is what all the electricity is about when Obama visits. It’s called hope and change, as cliche as that sounds. Maybe it’s the hope of a change. McCain doesn’t inspire them. They have no hope for progress with him. In Obama, however, they see a light at the end of their hellish tunnel. They will at least try to work with him. They won’t even try to work with McCain. He’s even slurred the Russians.
We were like, why in the fuck do you want to piss them off walnuts? Do you not know that they can help end most of this shit right now? Do you not know that? We’ve been fighting the Russians by proxy with Iran and Iraq since the goddamn 70’s when the Russians were in Afghanistan. Somebody needs to be getting their ass over to Moscow or St. Petersburg and breaking bread with them, not pissing them off. The cold war is dead. Listen to what I’m saying… If we elect Obama now, this shit is over. What happens after that I can’t be sure. I can’t say that it will be easy, but it at least won’t be a stalled process where everyone has a gun pointed at everyone else’s fucking head like the restaurant robbery scene from pulp fiction. We’ve lived like this since WWII. I, for one, am goddamn tired of it. See, McCain belongs to the establishment. Obama, he belongs to US. That’s the deal.