Reactions to McCain speech to RNC from Phyllis Bennis, Paul Heinbecker and Jonathan Schell. Part 1

See Part 2 at: http://current.com/items/89276218_mccain_s_cold_war

See Part 3 at: http://current.com/items/89280182_the_real_dangerous_world_and_the_election_theater
  • added September 06, 2008
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7 responses // McCain targets Russia

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    Well thought-out answers and again, dedication in getting the story before the viewers who actually want that type journalistic resolve,

    Inofuilwell
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    He has to make sure there's at least one war he can start. He's trying to make up for getting his ass kicked in Vietnam.

    eldamon
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    If McCains speech put the convention to sleep, just think what one of is diatribes will to the the nation as a whole.

    Brockie
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    I listended to Mccains speech, here is what I personally viewed and learned...

    The man McCain is from a long lineage of warriors. His ancestry was resolute with war.
    Hence the man was born into war. He runs his campaign as war is his touchstone to the people!

    Born, raised and winding his life through in and about war, he tells his story...

    It does not seem to matter to him that the Vietnam War in which he served, was an imperialistic national blunder to "stop communism from taking over the world!"
    The pro war hype of that era would have the nation believe we were in grave danger- "fear" was once again the guiding light!

    I was there as a young boy. I witnessed this abomination of our nation going into war- “stop the communists, they are taking over the world!” That was the word of the day. "The domino effect will..."

    McCain, even to this day feels betrayed by the American peace movement as to why the Vietnam war was lost. This is familiar ground for the war culture that now has manifest itself in the Iraq War!
    A war that McCain said we needed and voted for!

    Yet another war that will go down historically as a political assignation of our constitution and our cultural beliefs!
    Another huge loss of national equity and our beloved youth all because of political ego and the lack of political wisdom!

    Wars are won or lost by the rightness of the participants! This is something viably important that McCain and conservatives don't grasp!

    As our nations history goes we have never lost a war when we were right but now we have lost wars because we were ideologically wrong! It's not just about military strength- its about wisdom and justice!

    McCains campaign, and his video bio are sequenced within his life of war.

    Service and gratitude of and for his country is based on his war experience.

    His biography finally sequences into his career as an AZ. senator.
    Twenty-six years of senatorial time are blurred into nothingness!

    His voting record parallels the GOP- a 10% difference from the GOP is supposed to define his presidency, and his given name the “Maverick?”
    His record cannot be hidden, his ideology is full of contradiction- flip flops!

    President Bush said, “Im the War president, Im the War president!”
    It most definitely seems there is another one named John McCain following in the wings!
    I truly hope he is not the one!

    McCain says he's different then Bush, he's not the same!
    Yet who was in the program directors chair off the convention stage as though he were directing the entire RNC proceeding?

    Karl Rove!
    McCain is the same as Bush- divisive, self-righteous, a fist-swinger with no answers for change from the destitude that his own party has created!

    rube
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    McCain will never stop saying what he did/didn`t do in Vietnam.

    Regarding his monotone speech it was comparable to watching paint dry

    themanwithadog
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    <SARCASM>

    AWESOME! I can't wait for several more wars!

    </SARCASM>

    LarzNero

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