Posted on 09/20/2006 11:59:17 AM PDT by Dark Skies
Someone should have this reprinted in the Congressional Record.
This man must be defeated in the GOP primary so soundly that he will at least think twice about running as an independent.
If he does run as an independent, the Dem nominee will win due to all the RINO voters he'll garner.
The principal goal of all his public acts is to showcase his exquisite decency.
Boy, that really hits the nail on the head.
Actually, if Hillary is the Dem nominee, an Independent McCain run would probably pull more Dems than Republicans.
And the Senate Immigration/Amnesty Bill!
"McCain considers himself a conservative and any number of his apologists are eager to cite his support for military action in our “war on terror” and his predominantly pro-life and conservative voting record."
This description of his apologists describe Bill Kristol and Sean Hannity perfectly.
I hope we don't have to test the validity of any of the scenarios we have mentioned!
The GOP could do worse than McCaine with Mitt or Rudy, but not by much.
I couldn't quite put my finger on WHY I dislike this man soooo much. Above statement nails it.
Thanks for posting Dark Skies.
What I don't get is why so many people feel he'll get the Republican Nomination. Why?
Hey Jan...Yeah, I don't think he'll go far in '08.
Which makes him a liberal, despite his voting record.
Title correction in the interest of truth in advertising:
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TOO SHORT IN IQ
TOO SHORT IN PATIENCE
TOO SHORT IN PATRIOTISM VS GLOBALISM
TOO SHORT IN HONESTY
TOO SHORT IN CHARACTER
TOO SHORT IN . . . MANHOOD WORTHY THE PRESIDENCY
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He puts McCain in his place. I wish he would have had the time and space to expound on his butt boy buddies like Chuckie Hagel, Lindsay Graham, and Little Bwilly Kristol.
If he runs as an independent, he just might pick up as many Democrats as Republicans.
Even discussing this loathsome character is so repugnant that acceptable adjectives are inadequate, regardless of one's command of English.
Remember: McCain, Warner, Collins, and Graham - traitors.
Well, when he got in bed with the swimmer with the immigration "reform" bill that was all I needed to know.
I would take either of the open RINOs over McCain precisely for the reasons stated in this article. McCain really is the GOPs version of St. Jimmy Carter. He would be a disaster for the country.
WOW!
Vietnam: Release Prisoners Before More Privileges
By John E. Carey and Honglien Do
Smack in the middle of the controversy about how America treats it prisoners is one Senator John McCain, himself a former prisoner of the Communists in Vietnam. John McCain revisited Vietnam, including the infamous prison which held him, a few years ago. "My job here is to commemorate the beginning and continuation of a new relationship between the United States and Vietnam," said McCain, a leading advocate of reconciliation between the former foes.
Just this week, Senator McCain intervened in the case of U.S. citizens wrongly held by the Vietnamese Communists.
Two of these prisoners are Cong Thanh Do and Thuong N. “Cuc” Foshee, and there are others.
Vietnam is seeking entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO). Vietnam is also seeking U.S. Congressional approval for Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) from the U.S. The President of the United States is expected to travel to Vietnam in November for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Conference.
Yet Vietnam continues to take actions contrary to its own self interests by jailing political antagonists for “crimes” such as posting democratically themed essays on the internet.
Cong Thanh Do used the internet to spread “democratic” messages, a crime in Vietnam. Mr. Do is from San Jose, California. His activities, taken for granted by all Americans, came to the attention of the government of Vietnam, a government that insists upon regulating all media and information, including the internet and email.
The Washington Times web site, for example, is not available to readers in Vietnam. The Washington Times is too “seditionist.”
While the United States cannot appropriately intervene and tell another nation that it must insist upon an American style of freedom of speech, American Congressmen and Senators can insist upon the release of Americans wrongly held in jails in Vietnam.
Thuong N. “Cuc” Foshee, according to her family, “was detained by the Vietnamese government and has been in a detention center in HCMC [Ho Chi Minh City, formerly, as many Vietnamese still say, Sai Gon] ever since. She has not been charged with any crime, has been denied bail, has been denied a visit with an attorney, her prescription medication has been withheld and she has been denied adequate dental and medical care.”
Mrs. Foshee has not been charged, though she has been held since September 8, 2005.
Mrs. Foshee was also known for her internet postings of democratically inspired documents from her home in California.
Both Mr. Do and Mrs. Foshee went to Vietnam to visit elderly relatives.
When Vietnam’s current government leaders ascended to power last June, we responded with a Washington Times commentary on America’s Independence Day, July 4, 2006. “Recently, more enlightened thinking has made Vietnam an emerging economic force,” we wrote, “the news of the new leadership gives great promise.”
Now is the time for that new leadership to live up to its great promise.
Vietnam has released imprisoned persons guilty of similar “crimes.” Earlier this month Vietnam released prominent dissident and pro-democracy activist Pham Hong Son. Son was originally sentenced to five years in prison. His crime? He translated articles from the U.S. State Department web site for an online journal. The articles were titled "What is democracy?"
The Vietnamese government is manipulating the international community by feigning partial respect for human rights. Vietnam has been releasing thousands of prisoners in order to convince the United States government to approve Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) and the world to support them in accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Scott Johnson of the Montagnard Foundation, a group that fosters understanding of the indigenous Vietnamese tribal peoples wrote, “The recent announcement by the Vietnamese government that they will release ‘some’ dissidents in a general amnesty reminds me of a conversation I had with a former U.S. State Department official about his dealings with the Soviets during the Cold War. ‘Throw them a dissident’ was what he said and he described how the Soviets would play the stalling game by keeping Western diplomatic pressure at bay for a time.”
According to Vo Van Ai of the Buddhist Information service in Paris, there are only four prisoners of conscience out of the 5,313 recently released by the government of Vietnam and he describes this "piecemeal amnesty" as a "propaganda exercise."
Scott Johnson and Vo Van Ai are telling us what is obvious to most international observers: Vietnam’s recent prisoner release effort is window dressing designed to thrill the most shallow students of human rights. The exercise is an effort to please U.S. Congressmen and Senators without getting to the real heart of the issue: that Vietnam continues to hold political prisoners, indigenous Montagnards and others; many without charges and without rights.
While we applaud Vietnam’s granting of freedom to those formerly held in incarceration, we urge Vietnam to free the remaining victims held in prisons.
A letter from Reporters Without Borders on September 6, 2006, stated in part, "Five people are currently imprisoned in Vietnam for having expressed democratic views on the Internet. Contrary to the claims of the Vietnamese authorities, none of them is a terrorist, criminal or spy. These [people] have been punished for using the Internet to publicly express their disagreement with the political line of the sole party. They are non-violent democrats.”
It is time for Vietnam to make a clean slate of its past human rights abuses. Entry into the WTO, granting of PNTR and the President of the United States’ visit during APEC all give the Vietnamese a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate fairness, forward thinking, a renewed commitment to human rights and modernity.
So we urge Vietnam to release the key political and religious prisoners it still holds, many without charges or any access to attorneys, family, medical treatment or religious advice.
And we urge U.S. Members of the House of Representatives and Senators not to move forward on PNTR for Vietnam until the release and safety of these jailed prisoners can be secured.
Senator John McCain is currently embroiled in a standoff with the President of the United States on how this country should treat its prisoners. He shrugged off suggestions that the dust-up could hurt him politically this week, telling reporters that his "credibility with the American people is that I do what I think is right."
While we welcome the prisoners recently released by the government of Vietnam, we urge Vietnam to now release those still held: prisoners such as Cong Thanh Do and Thuong N. “Cuc” Foshee.
Honglien Do escaped from Communist Vietnam after serving time in detention. Mr. Carey is former president of International Defense Consultants, Inc.
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