In my blog yesterday on the Georgian War, I pointed out that John McCain possibly could get us nuked. That, to me, was the scariest part of the war: That if he were president during a similar crisis, he would react by attacking Russia, leading to an exchange of nukes. His position of hyper-Napoleonic intervention and Empire is the opposite of the principled, rational policy of minding our own business espoused by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
An article in today’s New York Times notes:
The intensifying warfare in the former Soviet republic of Georgia has put a new focus on the increasingly hard line that Senator John McCain has taken against Russia in recent years, with stances that have often gone well beyond those of the Bush administration and its focus on engagement.
Mr. McCain has called for expelling what he has called a “revanchist Russia” from meetings of the Group of 8, the organization of leading industrialized nations. He urged President Bush — in vain — to boycott the group’s meeting in St. Petersburg in 2006. And he has often mocked the president’s assertion that he got a sense of the soul of Vladimir V. Putin, who was then Russia’s president and is now its prime minister, by looking into his eyes. “I looked into his eyes,” Mr. McCain said, “and saw three letters: a K, a G and a B.”
Maybe so. But every time I look into McCain’s eyes on the TV screen, I see four letters: an N, a U, a T and an S.
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[...] My former colleague John Seiler has an interesting blog about Sen. John McCain’s increasingly …. This is a section from a New York Times article: “The intensifying warfare in the former Soviet republic of Georgia has put a new focus on the increasingly hard line that Senator John McCain has taken against Russia in recent years, with stances that have often gone well beyond those of the Bush administration and its focus on engagement.” [...]
The Mainstream media and McCain’s handlers have focused on selling Americans on imagery of the “War Hero…Maverick…Naval Aviator” while hiding the disturbing side of McCain, that he is in fact mentally unstable, perhaps suffering from PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome), alzheimers or the onset of senility. McCain was tortured so severely in Vietnam that he tried to commit suicide. Why is this not news? Nine out of 10 POW’s who returned from Vietnam were diagnosed with PTSD. This may explain his irrational behavior but it does not explain the MSM ignoring some disturbing realities.
Perhaps McCain’s “Straight Talk” Campaign of 2000 vs. Bush combined with his hosting Media BBQ’s at his country homes has so endeared him to those in the Corporate Media that they choose to downplay, disregard or rationalize his consistent inability to recall basic facts, put together coherent responses or randomly lashing out in anger and singing strange songs like “Bomb Bomb Iran” to the tune of the Beachboys Barbara Ann. All McCain is programmed to say is that “He is proud of the campaign they are running.” Furthermore, despite McCain regularly wearing Navy ballcaps, posing as a TOP GUN ala Tom Cruise, all evidence illustrates that McCain was a terrible pilot, destroyed numerous military aircraft, nearly flunked out of the Naval Academy (graduating 894th out of 899) where he spent more of his time behind a bar stool than studying and preparing to become a proficient pilot. McCain was more enamored with the title and the trappings of being a ‘Naval Aviator’ than preparing to be a proficient one…likewise he has been consumed with becoming President for the better part of 25 years but clearly is unprepared. McCain was unprepared for Vietnam and is admittedly unprepared now. To quote Wesley Clark, “Well, I don’t think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president.” Exactly my point, why does fucking up essentially make one a hero? Perhaps it is because so few of the elite classes serve in the military…usually the lower middle class is sent off to die while folks like Bush, Rove, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Kristol (PNAC) sit around and pose as hawks. It is alot easier to be a hawk when the children of other parents are sent off to die. Nevertheless, the record shows that McCain was a marginal pilot at best and his lack of proficiency manning a plane was well established.
McCain has further stated that “the economy is not my strong suit” and “I need my assistants to log me on to the internet. I have no use for email.” —-Is this the type of Maverick America needs right now…or a crazy old coot and ignorant schmuck who is the TROJAN HORSE of the NEOCON’S in the GOP? Is this the reason why the GOP is trying to get a stabilizing force and pro business candidate like Mitt Romney on the ticket? Perhaps because the only goal is to beat Obama. For Americans it will be too late when they realize that they have elected an INSANE MAN to be the President. He will get carried through for 4 years while they groom the VP to take over. Why else would Mitt Romney literally kiss McCain’s ass? John McCain is a soul less empty vessel who at this point will say anything, align himself with whomever he needs to, to achieve his life long goal. The GOP is knowingly enabling an unstable/unhealthy man simply because he is an R and likely their best bet against OBAMA. BUT, for the GOP to put forth for President a man who is far from intellectually gifted to be begin with, who has a LOW IQ, little intellectual curiousity who may also in fact have lost his marbles is on some level….well, it ought to be a NATIONAL SCANDAL. McCain was never playing with a full deck to begin with and now even more cards are missing. Simply put, if McCain were a product you purchased at the store you would return it for being defective or broken.
Dr. Larry Hunter (former U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Chief Economist): “The Republican Party is a dead rotting carcass with a few decrepit old leaders stumbling around like zombies in a horror version of ‘Weekend With Bernie,’ handcuffed to a corpse.”
To quote Michael Douglas one of my favorite actors in one of my favorite movies, “The American President “… whatever your problems, I can assure you (Sen. McCain) is not the least bit interested in solving them. He is only interested is telling you to fear them and telling who to blame for them. That’s his tactic and that’s how you win elections.” McCain’s tactics are carbon copied out of the anti-christ Karl Rove’s playbook (Rove works for McCain). Be afraid, hate everything that isn’t attack mode and vote your fear.” Americans must vote your conscience. Be strong and say enough is enough. Democrats, Independents and Republicans should not reward the GOP with a vote for John McCain. They are perpetrating a fraud on the American people through McCain as a Trojan Horse for the NEOCONS. As many suspect, on the eve of the election in the fall, there will be an event in the United States that rally’s the War Machine and support for Bush & McCain.”
C London,
I’ve not heard anyone else even dare to bring up the idea that McCain could be suffering from PTSD. Thank you! The American media is pathetic, leaving bloggers to do their jobs, then leeching on once the buzz becomes audible. Pathetic.
McCain is too narrow minded, or single focused to be concerned with anything other than war. He seems to live and breathe war, as if NOTHING ELSE MATTERS. That is a scary notion. It’s as if he has a score to settle with the past, and he’ll use our sons and daughters to do it for him.
I do agree with his thinking on Russia, Putin is very dangerous. The best thing about the Georgia Russia conflict is that we now have the go-ahead to set up base in Poland for our missles. However, that does not change the fact that McCain went way beyond, overstepping his boundaries when he made his “We are all Georgians” speeches. He was being very presumptive. He as yet, has not been elected president, therefore he does not have the authority to declare war.