What will you like most about the McCain Presidency?

Advocate wrote:

Real, you need to bone up on history.

Just before Gulf War I, when Saddam was our ally, our ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, told Saddam that we were not concerned with ME borders. State announced the same thing. We contemplated that Saddam would merely seize some oil fields in Northern Kuwait. Saddam took our advice to mean that we would not be concerned should he take over Kuwait.

April Glaspie has denied that she evr said that.
I believe her before I believe Saddam Hussein.
The fact that you believe Hussein says something about you.

Advocate wrote:

Regarding Gulf War II, it was our naked grab for Iraq's oil.

Then why hasnt any of that oil made its way to the US?
Why has Iraq awarded oil contracts to European and Russian companies, but almost none to US companies?

If we are getting all of Iraqs oil, WHERE IS IT?

Great American Hypocrites: McCain's Old Packaging

Glenn Greenwald

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John McCain is a natural candidate, right at home in a political party led by Great American Hypocrites and with a press corps that reveres great American hypocrisy. The press adores him for the same vapid, personality-based reasons it adored George W. Bush. And McCain's media-built and media-sustained reputation as a trans-partisan man of principle and conviction is every bit as genuine as it was in the case of Bush. If the GOP/media machinery manages to elect him, he will undoubtedly produce extremely similar -- if not worse --results.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/glenn-greenwald/great-american-hypocrites_b_95317.html

Just checking in to see if anybody has been able to wrestle the thread back on topic in spite of the usual trolls and detractors who try to sidetrack everything.

Nope.

Who has the best plan? Both have huge flaws, but on balance McCain's is better.

McCain's main pillar is the elimination of a tax break that employees receive if their employer provides their health care. That may not sound like a shocker, but it is. The exclusion dates from World War II, when the federal government imposed controls on wages, but allowed companies to compete for workers by offering tax-free health benefits in lieu of pay. The law is largely responsible for the nightmarish patchwork of corporate-provided medical plans we enjoy so much today. Employees and their unions demanded richer and richer packages, and employers complied, since they could buy far more benefits for their employees than workers could buy with after-tax dollars on their own. Americans have paid a steep price, however, by sacrificing their raises as corporate insurance bills exploded, never more so than now.

During today's hearing with Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) questioned Petraeus on what he called "the major threat" of al Qaeda in Iraq. Coming on the heels of his recent confusion over the nature of al Qaeda, McCain today seemed to refer to al Qaeda as a "sect of Shi'ites":

MCCAIN: Do you still view al Qaeda in Iraq as a major threat?

PETRAEUS: It is still a major threat, though it is certainly not as major a threat as it was say 15 months ago.

MCCAIN: Certainly not an obscure sect of the Shi'ites overall?

PETREAUS: No.

MCCAIN: Or Sunnis or anybody else.

Book: McCain temper boiled over in '92 tirade, called wife a '****'

Nick Juliano

Published: Monday April 7, 2008

Three reporters from Arizona, on the condition of anonymity, also let me in on another incident involving McCain's intemperateness. In his 1992 Senate bid, McCain was joined on the campaign trail by his wife, Cindy, as well as campaign aide Doug Cole and consultant Wes Gullett. At one point, Cindy playfully twirled McCain's hair and said, "You're getting a little thin up there." McCain's face reddened, and he responded, "At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you ****." McCain's excuse was that it had been a long day. If elected president of the United States, McCain would have many long days.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/McCain_temper_boiled_over_in_92_0407.html