What will you like most about the McCain Presidency?

McCain's Free Ride from the Media VIDEO

"It's a rank falsehood for the DNC to accuse McCain of wanting to wage 'endless war' based on his support for a presence in Iraq something like the U.S. role in South Korea."

McCain might say, for example, "I'm all for dropping a tactical nuke on China so long as nothing bad happens to us as a consequence."

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McCain might say, for example, "I'm all for dropping a tactical nuke on China so long as nothing bad happens to us as a consequence."

Your absolutely correct, he might say that.
But then again, so might Hillary or Obama.

You can speculate that somebody MIGHT say anything, but thats all it is is speculation.

The Gramm connection
Aha: the Politico notices that Phil Gramm, McCain's economic guru, can also be viewed as the father of the financial crisis.

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The general co-chairman of John McCain's presidential campaign, former Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas), led the charge in 1999 to repeal a Depression-era banking regulation law that Democrat Barack Obama claimed on Thursday contributed significantly to today's economic turmoil.
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According to federal lobbying disclosure records, Gramm lobbied Congress, the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department about banking and mortgage issues in 2005 and 2006.
During those years, the mortgage industry pressed Congress to roll back strong state rules that sought to stem the rise of predatory tactics used by lenders and brokers to place homeowners in high-cost mortgages

Where have I seen that before? Ah:

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His chief economic adviser is former Senator Phil Gramm, a fervent advocate of financial deregulation. In fact, I'd argue that aside from Alan Greenspan, nobody did as much as Mr. Gramm to make this crisis possible.

Seriously, the Gramm connection tells you all you need to know about where a McCain administration would stand on financial issues: squarely against any significant reform.

His most famous pander came in 2000, when, after earlier denouncing the Confederate flag as a "symbol of racism," he embraced it as "a symbol of heritage." To his credit, Mr. McCain later acknowledged, "I feared that if I answered honestly I could not win the South Carolina primary, so I chose to compromise my principles."

The amazing thing about McCain is that his reputation for principled consistency has remained completely intact. It is his strongest cudgel against opponents. Wall Street Journal editorial page columnist Kimberley Strassel recently gushed that McCain is "no flip-flopper." "Like or dislike Mr. McCain's views," she added, "Americans know what they are." Then, in the very next paragraph, she wrote that McCain will now be "as pure as the New Hampshire snow on the two core issues of taxes and judges" and that "[t]he key difference between Mr. McCain in 2000 and 2008 is that he...appears intent on making amends" to conservatives.

I think, Blatham, that you confuse McCain the candidate for McCain the President.

McCain has to win the office first. That means a few small white lies and some bending from one side to another like a tree. The wind may blow it from side to side, but it has strong roots that always return it to it's true position. I doubt there is a strong enough political wind to blow McCain over.

I doubt there is a strong enough political wind to blow McCain over.

At the very core of the media's reverence for John McCain is the blatant, tired myth that he's a "centrist."

Like Lieberman, McCain may deviate from right-wing dogma on discrete issues when it comes to domestic policy questions. But on questions of foreign policy, national security and war, McCain -- and Lieberman -- are as extremist as it gets in the mainstream political spectrum. On those obviously central issues, there simply is nobody and nothing to the Right of McCain.

McCain marks the absolute outer ideological boundary of American militarism, imperialism and war-making, particularly (though not only) in the Middle East. That's why he's long been enthusiastically supported by the country's most crazed warmongers -- such as Bill Kristol, James Woolsey, most of the PNAC crowd, and Lieberman. In no meaningful sense are such individuals "centrists," and neither is McCain.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/03/31/mccain/index.html

McGentrix wrote:

I think, Blatham, that you confuse McCain the candidate for McCain the President.

McCain has to win the office first. That means a few small white lies and some bending from one side to another like a tree. The wind may blow it from side to side, but it has strong roots that always return it to it's true position. I doubt there is a strong enough political wind to blow McCain over.

Ah yes Grasshopper .... spoken with equivocation as a true Republican.

blatham wrote:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/03/31/mccain/index.html

Unacceptable as a source.

Gelisgesti wrote:

McGentrix wrote:

I think, Blatham, that you confuse McCain the candidate for McCain the President.

McCain has to win the office first. That means a few small white lies and some bending from one side to another like a tree. The wind may blow it from side to side, but it has strong roots that always return it to it's true position. I doubt there is a strong enough political wind to blow McCain over.

Ah yes Grasshopper .... spoken with equivocation as a true Republican.

So are you saying that everything that both Hillary and Obama have said during this campaign has been the absolute truth?
That neither one of them have told voters exactly want they want to hear, even if it means contradicting something they said to an earlier group?

If you believe that, you are rather naive.

> What will you like most about the McCain Presidency?

Having the stinking dems out in the cold feeling sorry for themselves for at least another four years will do for starters.