John McCain: Obama Unfit To Protect The United States

Remember McCain's respectful campaign? He doesn't.

McCain has all but declared a President Obama would be unfit to defend the United States from -- as he puts it -- the transcendent challenge of our time (or in this case, a second-tier regional power). During a blogger conference call, McCain was asked about Obama's willingness to engage in diplomacy with Iran. He responded:

All I can say is: If Senator Obama wants to sit down across the table from the leader of a country that calls Israel a stinking corpse, and comes to New York and says they're gonna, quote, "wipe Israel off the map," what is it that he wants to talk about? What is it that he wants to talk about with him?

And the belief that somehow communications and positions and willingness to sit down and have serious negotiations need to be done in a face to face fashion as Senator Obama wants to do, which then enhances the prestige of a nation that's a sponsor of terrorists and is directly responsible for the deaths of brave young Americans, I think is an unacceptable position, and shows that Senator Obama does not have the knowledge, the experience, the background to make the kind of judgments that are necessary to preserve this nation's security.

The remarks come after this morning's round of attacks from Bush and McCain against Obama, comparing him to Nazi appeasers in the 1930s.

So, in conclusion, Obama is equal parts Neville Chamberlain and President to Hamas. And John McCain is a respectable maverick.

Comments

[newshawk14]

I personally think McCain is self destructing, and all Obama has to do, is address the issues,
while occasionally stomping McCain if he says something particularly outrageous. I don't McCain
was ever to smart to begin with, and he just might be losing his faculties.

[Manx]

McCain doesn't want to talk with Iran because the unpopular president of Iran has referred to Israel in unflattering terms? During the cold war, we engaged in diplomacy with the U.S.S.R. even though they called us "capitalist dogs."

[CLMMIT]

The bottom line is that McCain is definetly TOO old to lead this country. He can't remember anything. It appears that senilty has set in for this old FART. I could not sleep at night, knowing this is the man in the White House. He has the same mentality as President Bush.

[Independent voter]

Dear McCain,

You were in the house and senate for 11 years before the world trade center was bombed. Please explain what it was that you did to protect us.

You were in the senate 19 years before the world trade center was attacked by airplanes. How did you protect us then?

You did a hell of a job protecting Charles Keating - but didn't do squat for the rest of America.

[druidlady42]

IMPORTANT NOTE TO EVERYONE READING ON THIS SITE:

Be SURE you read Sarah Posner's article, "Hagee's Lesson Plan for Bush's Appeasement Speech" here on Huffington post!!! Here's the link to it, which you should copy/paste to get this information into the MSM and public knowledge:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sarah-posner/hagees-lesson-plan-for-bu_b_102101.html

Bush's speechin Israel/ McCain's coordinated reaction (along with the sudden, unexplained resignation of CENTCOM Cmdr. Admiral Fallon---followed by total silence about WHY) is not just happenchance! Something is about to "come down", and this article may explain what!

I was listening to CSpan this a.m. when a young soldier called in re: a statement. In answer to the moderator's question about when she would be going back to Iraq and for how long, she replied (not a direct quote),----- "July, for 15-18 months, depending on how the air attack on Iran goes."

PLEASE! Read Posner's article and help spread the word!

[serena1313]

James Rubin notes that just a couple of years ago John McCain was talking like Neville Chamberlain:

"I asked: "Do you think that American diplomats should be operating the way they have in the past, working with the Palestinian government if Hamas is now in charge?"

"McCain answered: "They're the government; sooner or later we are going to have to deal with them, one way or another, and I understand why this administration and previous administrations had such antipathy towards Hamas because of their dedication to violence and the things that they not only espouse but practice, so . . . but it's a new reality in the Middle East. I think the lesson is people want security and a decent life and decent future, that they want democracy. Fatah was not giving them that."

Likewise McCain flip-flopped on holding talks with Syria. McCain's bellicosity is show and political bluster. His behaviour is unconscionable!

Let's not forget Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, the 911 Commission Group and others think it is a good idea to talk with Iran. So do the Israeli people. And so do I.

[GiannaX]

Bush/McCain gone wild. Pure blather.

[riverhouse]

Someone should tell McCain that we're Americans. We're not scared of Iran. We don't have to do the pit bull act on every penny ante country in the world. It's embarrassing to see a great nation like ours acting so defensive and 'fraidy cat. Reagan wasn't afraid to talk to the Soviets and Obama isn't afraid to talk to Iran. It's time to dump the wimps for a real man.

[graffen48]

Excellent post!!

[northcan]

Oh, I just listen to everyone that has a nonsensible bone to pick with Obama, I really worry about peoples values. Vote for a woman because she's a woman. Vote for McNasty because he was apparently a hero 40 yrs ago, by enduring what his government got him into, never criticizing gov., but became a war monger to show how brave he is.

Bush who's CIA drug smuggling with brother Clinton really helped keep the ponies in the race. Can't figure it out. It's certainly not ok for others to be different then the crooks and liars of the white, hard working, middle class America.

If you guys only new some history of this country, and the atrocities, well, maybe you do know. Still is sad to think political bull that inhibits real good people, that would take our country to a better place. I guess there is more evil than good in the world. Shame people are so self centered.

[vsign]

Obama was a community organizer. He will just know what to do with terrorists. He will keep us safe.

He was a community organizer - you know what I mean? He made friends with all those terrorists in the south side of Chicago - you know what I mean?

They taught him everything he needs to know to be President - you know what I mean?

[Jezreel]

He was a community organizer - you know what I mean? He made friends with all those terrorists in the south side of Chicago - you know what I mean?

They taught him everything he needs to know to be President - you know what I mean?

Vsign, yeah, we do know what you mean. You mean to label hard working Americans who are trying to save their communities and make our nation a better place to live for everyone - you mean to label them TERRORIST. You mean to smear the reputation of a candidate for POTUS by generating hate-filled, slanderous, denigrating, fear-mongering lies out of your tired, perverted mind. We KNOW PRECISELY WHAT YOU MEAN.

[americanwomaninpa]

LOL

[americanwomaninpa]

vsign
I was laughing at your post, however, they stuck it under jezreels post. Do they do that stuff on purpose

[lm945]

"And the belief that somehow communications and positions and willingness to sit down and have serious negotiations need to be done in a face to face fashion as Senator Obama wants to do ... I think is an unacceptable position, and shows that Senator Obama does not have the knowledge, the experience, the background to make the kind of judgments that are necessary to preserve this nation's security."

Seems to me someone else believed the same thing. Sit down and talk and settle things like grown-ups. What was his name? ... oh, yeah... Jimmy Carter. What did he accomplish? Lasting peace between Egypt and Israel. What did he get for his efforts? The Nobel Peace Prize.

I guess the oil barons and the war mongers pay better than the Nobel Committee.

[DrDemon]

McDino is going S*E*N*I*L*E!

[luckyinnc]

Dem's can't stand it when someone mentions how naive and inexperienced BO is. McCain is right, BO is naive and should he get elected, will be tested immediately by one of the terrorist organizations. Hope he grows some balls by them.

[SkyPilot126]

same was and could be said about Bushie, where were you then.....
And that can be said about the McSame Mccain, ya know the Senator who flips flops on every issuse, and then just flops.
Heck even mccain dosen't have presidental experience, do ya see how this mocks your claims and case. He wasn't even a good enough soldier not to get caught.

Only one way for ANYONE to have Presidental experience, that is being Pres. NO ONE has it before hand, but then you don't see the forrest because of all the trees......

And what a unAmerican statement - makes you sound like you want us destoryed. UNBELEIVEABLE!

[hinnis]

How dare you make sense here on the Huffington Post. I order all of you Obama minions to immediately attack and insult this person with reckless abandon. And if she doesn"t back down, then call her a racist. But why am I telling you. You know the drill.

[windyindie41]

So, let's see. McCain grows up in a millitary family, only sees millitary bases growing up, acts like a jerk to everyone because he's got a chip on his shoulder, then joins the services when he's of age. He still acts like a jerk in flight school, and is an even bigger jerk in the air, where he acts reckless and endangers many of his fellow soldiers lives. He marries, has three kids, then goes off to Vietnam, where his plane is shot down, and he spends the next few years a POW. After being released, he endlessly cheats on his wife, then eventually marries a homewrecking millionaire, and uses her families wealth and influence to get elected to the Senate, leaving his old family behind. He doesn't even get through his first term before the scandals start flying, and the the S&L, Keating Five business is brought to light, of which McCain is neck deep. He somehow survives a scandal that pointlessly ruined millions of hardworking Americans, and goes on to convince the public that he has become a "straight talker" and someone who reaches across the aile. But history has shown that he rarely voted against Republicans, and has spent the last five years taking positions that condradict what he spent the previous fifteen saying he believed in.

Tell me, what in all this makes McCain the most qualified?

[theMightyT]

Are you adding that to your act?

[windyindie41]

Dipolmacy is a conerstone of American foreign policy, now and forever. It's what makes this country great, and has served to make us and the world a safer place.

I have no quams about calling you and the rest of your warmongering Republican supporters the biggest threat to America and our freedom.

When Bush took office, Iran was basically moderate, declawed, and ready to open dipolmatic channels with America, and actually reached out an unprecedented olive branch after 9-11 and offered to seriously help us in the "war on terror. In reality, Iran spent the 90's basically chilling out, and the hardline clerics were losing so much control that the country was making many western like reforms, and the people of Iran elected a moderate President who tried desperately to get Bush to open dipolmatic ties. Instead, Bush needlessly and foolishly labeled them a part of the "Axis of Evil", and then things went to hell. The Iranian people were outraged, and the clerics became fired-up. They strenghened their hardline views, and they forced their people to vote for Amahdijad, who they use as a mouthpiece. Through Bush's countless blunders, and his alone, Iran has become the most powerful country in the region, the opposite of when Clinton was President.

[windyindie41]

BTW - Bush and Co. just annouced another peace deal with North Korea, one of the "Axis", but ones who actually have a nuclear bomb, the same thing we claim prevents us from even considering talking to Iran over. Hippocrits. Obama will return America to a place of honor in the world, something Bush wiped his butt with long ago.

[PTTY]

What has McCain done. He ignore the SAM warnings. Then he gets caught. He graduated in the bottom of the Naval Academy.

He cheated on his first wife with Cindy after leaving his poor wife after she had been a very terrible accident.

He has nothing but crooks working on his campaign. He bankrupted his campaign did not manage it at all.

McCain is the BIGGEST FLIP FLOPPER OF THEM ALL.

He does not look like a President. He looks like a shoe maker.

Cindy is not going to turn over her Tax Returns, but Bill Clinton had to turn over his.

Being a prisoner of war due to ignoring SAM warnings does not make a President.

He kisses Bush so much and clings to Bush like he was a girl.

To me he is unfit to be President. He broke his commitment to his First Wife and does not know how to manage His Campaign, so why would anyone trust him.

Just because he has been a Senator since Moses means he has been a Senator too long to recognize when he is wrong.

Experience without JUDGMENT does not make you smart. Mc Cain is Bush third term and nothing will change he will follow Bush, Roves orders to the hilt.

[SkyPilot126]

Our next President should NOT be someone who got caught, who got captured by the enemy, who did not, was not able to or did not want to get away. Such an alledged miltary man as McCain supposedly is, should have been able to escape CAPTURED, he didn't and was caught.
This is not the knid of man I see fit to lead our nation. Who knows how mess up his mind is becuase of the (alledged) torture!

Of course, according to his buddies and friends - the Swift Boaters (or as I call them The Boatless UnSwift So-called Veterans with Lies, you know the ones who think Iraq is part of the USA) (but THESE ARE HIS Co-Soldiers) ALL Military records and medals MUST be Questioned. Why would a veterans group slam all vets like that? Are they against America, or just UNAmerican or just plain stupid like all republicans.

Question McCains record. Boy this felt good.

[windyindie41]

Okay, I'm not going to call what I say a "defense" of McCain, because there is simple no defense or excuses for ANYTHING he does. Appartently though, his captors offered to let him go, probably through some kind of deal made, but McCain said he couldn't leave his fellow POW's behind. I honestly don't know what to make of this. While I can see why some people say this was an admirable thing for McCain to do, and shows loyalty and solidarity with his fellows soldiers, I can't completely get behind this. McCain could have brought back information for the other POW's families. His captors could have changed their minds and decided to break him. Not to mention the fact that he was a prisioner who was suddenly offered his freedom, only to turn down what I'm sure his captors viewed a rare gift, which must have upset them.

I don't know; I think I've just been bothered by the fact that so many people point to McCain's time as a POW as "experience" for being President, even though that makes no sense. My father was a helicopter pilot in Nam, and his Huey was shot down and he almost died. Does this make him a hero? My father is a hero of mine, but it has nothing to do with him serving in a war we had no business fighting to begin with. Hell, the only reason my dad signed-up is because he just wanted to fly helicopters.

[hmmmmmer]

McSame has not chance of being president, period.