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During a speech today in Ohio, John McCain laid out his rosy outlook for the world after he’d been in office for four years. The year is 2013, and according to John McCain, the world is living in love, peace and harmony with each other., thanks to his foreign policy expertise. All hail King John we will shout from the rafters!

“By January 2013, America has welcomed home most of the servicemen and women who have sacrificed terribly so that America might be secure in her freedom. The Iraq War has been won. Iraq is a functioning democracy, although still suffering from the lingering effects of decades of tyranny and centuries of sectarian tension. Violence still occurs, but it is spasmodic and much reduced.’’

Ummm, didn’t anybody tell him that Bush his Boss-man declared the war in Iraq a victory some ten years prior to 2013?

“Concerted action’’ by the world’s democracies will have persuaded Russia and China to cooperate in persuading Iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions and North Korea to discontinue its own.

Ummm, that is of course if Bush his Boss-man doesn’t annihilate Iran first. And Russia isn’t alienated after McCain kicked them out of the elite G-8 group. And as far as “persuading” China to do anything, maybe by then the sandal will be on the other foot, and it will be China “persuading” us instead. Hell by that time, China might have moved in to their new comfy home of America. Thanks to Bush his Boss-man, China has lent us so much money, they probably own the deed by now!

an increase in actionable intelligence will have led to the capture or death of Osama bin Laden, and “there is no longer any place in the world al Qaeda can consider a safe haven.’’

Well, its been seven years since 9/11, and to be honest, if the world’s intelligence communities haven’t found Osama yet, he’s either dead, or they are looking in the wrong places. I know! Send troops into Saudi Arabia to look for him, I’m thinking that would be a good starting point. Oops, I forgot this is McCain’s future fantasy! So maybe by 2013 America will have invaded Saudi Arabia to get the “evil doers.”

And lastly, after McCain has solved most of the world’s peace problems, he addresses the domestic issues:

The United States will have experienced several years of “robust economic growth,’’ and a reduction in the corporate tax rate.

That’s it? Four years on the job, and that’s all he’s got for the domestic issues is “robust economic growth?” I guess trivial items like education, healthcare, illegal immigration, and the rest of the bothersome domestic issues that have been neglected under Bush his Boss-man can wait for his second term!

Where’s the “chicken in every pot, and a car in every garage” promise?

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Joe Lieberman and John McCain are almost cut from the same cloth, except Joe knows more about Sunni’s and Shia, etc. etc. What they do have in common however is an appetite to bomb Iran. John sings about it, and Joe claims it “appeals ” to him.

During Bill Bennett’s radio show today, Bill and Joe were fantasizing about their pearl wearing heroine, Hillary “obliterate them all” Clinton when Bennett lets the cat out of the bag about his admiration for Hillary.

And Joe, you know, this is my style. This is a girl who puts on her pearls, goes down, throws down a shot of liquor and bombs Iran, you know. This is…lookout Mrs. Bennett, this is my kind of girl.

Lieberman then says, “it does have an appeal to it.”

Yup, just some good ol Neocon buddies, kickin’ back havin’ some shots, talkin’ bout the ladies and bombing Iran. I wonder if these two have BFF tatoos? “Peace is for pussies” must be tattooed on their ass cheeks!

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Is “loosing his bearings” a reference to somebody’s age? Maybe, by a very very long stretch. The McCain campaign is taking offense to a remark Barrack Obama made during a CNN interview today, calling the remark an “underhanded reference to the fact that McCain is 71 years old.”

During the interview Obama accused McCain of trying to smear him by saying that the Palestinian militant group Hamas favored his candidacy.

“And so for him to toss out comments like that I think is an example of him losing his bearings as he pursues this nomination.”

McCain advisor Mark Salter replied to the comment by saying:

“Obama’s attack today: He used the words ‘losing his bearings’ intentionally, a not particularly clever way of raising John McCain’s age as an issue. This is typical of the Obama style of campaigning.”

I think the McCain camp should relax just a wee bit about this so-called “attack”, which really isn’t an attack on McCain’s age at all. Loosing one’s bearings is more of a reference to one’s particular place and direction in a particular situation, not so much about one’s age. Now if Obama would have replaced “bearings” with “marbles,” then that’s a different situation all together!

Just by McCain’s advisors coming to his defense about Obama’s innocent remark slightly proves that his campaign is more worried about McCain’s age that Obama is. Kind of makes you wonder if the McCain camp is gearing up for some sort of “reverse psychology” spin on the age angle? You know, every time Obama says something innocent like “applesauce,” the McCain camp will fly into a rage citing attacks on McCain’s age.

Fact is John McCain is 71 years old, which would make him the oldest person to ever be president of the United States, if of course he gets there, so he’d better get used to the references to his age. Because everybody, not only Obama will be keeping that fact in the back of their minds.

Applesauce!

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Shit, McCain really is serious about cutting government spending!

McCain Declines Secret Service, Dares Assassins To Try Something

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McCain just admitted something we already suspected; that the invasion of Iraq was more for oil reasons than any other. Regardless of the spin the Bush Administration has tried to put on the invasion, we all suspected that is was for their oil, not the WMD’s. And John McCain’s Straight Talk Express just went crashing through that wall, without even slowing down!

During a town hall meeting on Friday, McCain was talking about gaining independence from Middle Eastern oil, that his energy policy will eliminate when he let out this little nugget of “straight talk”:

My friends, I will have an energy policy that we will be talking about, which will eliminate our dependence on oil from the Middle East that will , that will then prevent us, that will prevent us from having ever to send our young men and women into conflict again in the Middle East.

But later in the day, aboard his “straight talk flyer,” he tried to pick himself up from his now all too familiar “stumbles.” First his Press Secretary, defended McCain’s remark as talking about America’s involvement in the first Gulf War. McCain then tried to clarify his remarks himself:

I was talking about that we had fought the first Gulf War for several reasons. One of them was Saddam Hussein’s invasion and that’s just not something that’s acceptable…but also we didn’t want them to have control over the oil, and that part of the world is critical to us because of our dependency on foreign oil. And it’s more important than in any other part of the world.

But a reporter asked McCain if he was actually “thinking about the first Gulf War” when he made the statement, McCain replied:

“No, I was thinking about- it’s not hard to- we will not,” McCain stumbled. “By eliminating our dependency on foreign oil, we will not have to have our national security threatened by a cut off of that oil. Because we will be dependent, because we won’t be dependent, we will no longer be dependent on foreign oil. That’s what my remarks were.”

I wonder if he could clarify that statement a little further, because not only does he seem confused by what he is saying, I’m sure the rest of us are as well! I think its the whole “we will be dependent, won’t be dependent” thing that is a little muddy! The media as usual just brushed it off as another “stumble.”

How much longer is he going to be able to get away with “It was a stumble,” and “It was a senior moment,” not to mention the famous “I misspoke” excuses. I’m starting to think that with so many frequent “stumbles,” poor McCain might actually break his hip on the next one!

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