Was Afghanistan not major enough for him? It almost reminds you of when Rumsfeld was not impressed with invading Afghanistan because it did not provide a rich enough target environment.
This is not controversial history. It is history that anyone trying out for president must understand when there are 150,000 U.S. troops stationed in Iraq. It is an essential element to the story of the past two years.
Now that Senator Obama's Berlin address is in the can, get ready for the backlash from the very serious corporate media. Get ready for profuse around-the-clock praise of Senator McCain and/or unfair, invented criticism of Obama. Because reporting news, however accurate, about his successful trip to the Middle East and Europe isn't news. It's obviously biased reporting against the McCain campaign.
McCain aides said that the senator's journey to the Internet will span five days and will take him to such far-flung sites as Amazon.com, eBay and Facebook.
This type of insulting nonsense will not go unnoticed or unchallenged by the Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who've fought in both McCain's war in Iraq, and in the other war in Afghanistan.
Both candidates are embracing, rather than challenging, the fundamental irrationality of Bush's "war on terror," which substitutes hysteria for rational analysis in appraising the dangers the country faces.
What would you do differently in Iraq? Say it up top and be specific. Get readers and morning commuters to spill their coffee, what I call the "shock and awe" lede. Ok, maybe a bad pun.
If managing a presidential campaign is any indication of how these candidates will perform day one in the White House, it is McCain's campaign, not Obama's that should be worrying American voters.
Rumors are flying out of the McCain camp that a surprising and seemingly counterintuitive choice for running mate is imminent: Larry Craig.
The John McCain town hall meeting is a fraud. The town halls are not about local issues. They're not conversational. They don't feature a lot of straight talk. They're sad and they're an opportunity lost.
McCain's belief that the surge "won the war" contradicts the substance of the "status of force" agreement the Bush administration has been trying to ram down the Iraqi government's throat.
This fall, Americans will discover an inconvenient truth about McCain -- he wants you to lose your employer-based health care. He thinks you aren't sufficiently conscious about the cost, and you're using too much of it.
John McCain is having such a bad July -- I turned (as I often do) to the wisdom of Jay-Z -- and listed the first 99 of his collective woes that came to mind.
If you want to tell that gorilla rape joke to your spouse or parents, have at it. If Senator McCain wants to tell a joke like that, he embarrasses more than just himself.
For McCain to try to argue that he is not being treated fairly by the media is downright outrageous. Nobody in the history of modern politics has been a bigger media sweetheart than John McCain.
Al Hubbard, architect of the Bush-cum-McCain health plan, compares Americans' use of the health care system to shoppers who indiscriminately buy caviar while someone else foots the bill, just as Senator Phil Gramm exits as co-chair of John McCain's presidential campaign after calling America a "nation of whiners" in a "mental recession."
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McCain and staff are spending all their energy attacking everything Obama does. First they attack Obama for not traveling to Iraq to understand the war on the ground. Then they attack when he does travel to Iraq. First they attack by saying he isn't presidential enough. Then when he looks all too presidential, easily communicating with the world's leaders, they attack that too. In fact, attacking Obama's every move is pretty much all McCain is doing.
And with the help of the media, the vast majority of the American public - which gets all its news from television - gets a very skewed picture of reality. A picture shaped only by the right wing.
Yet, there is hope. Every candidate who spends his energy attacking his opponent is by definition, working from behind. Reacting, not acting. Such candidates lose.
Doesn't need a team. He will just send more troops and tell us about the surge. As for economics and education, well we're on our own. We better not expect ANY type of healthcare either.
Lower Taxes for the rich and more war is all this guy is about.
O B A M A / B I D E N 2008-2016
McCain prefers to be the underdog. He'd probably rather wait for the government to collapse before he starts planning.
McCain doesn't need a transition. He'll be continuing all of Bush's policies so he can even keep all of the staff too.
Most presidents dump their predecessor's staff no matter what the party is. McCain shares many things with Bush, but they won't be sharing White House staff or executive branch officers. Look for new faces, but not necessarily any new ideas.
Oh i'm sorry..I thought that read "Look for new feces"...
O B A M A / B I D E N 2008-2016
Good point maybe thats why its not a priority for him.
Carol
Lately, everything out of McCain's mouth is about Obama. . . McCain simply does not have the time, nor the the energy, to think about anything else. . . Transition planning? . . . Not a chance!
He has such a huge obsession going on about Obama, I am surpised if he gets his shoes to match each morning.
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