Posted on 07/03/2008 1:47:24 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
MEXICO CITY—Senator John McCain congratulated President Alvaro Uribe of Colombia on Wednesday for the Colombian government’s rescue of 15 hostages, including three Americans, held by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, a Marxist-inspired insurgency that Mr. McCain repeatedly criticized this week during a trip to Latin America.
“This is great news,” Mr. McCain told reporters on his campaign plane enroute to Mexico City from Cartagena, Colombia, after Mr. Uribe called Mr. McCain in the air to inform him of the success of the operation. “Thank God they are released.”
The timing of the rescue, which occurred while Mr. McCain was in Colombia, was in many ways a fortuitous turn of events for a presidential candidate who is using a three-day trip to South America and Mexico to try to show that he is a more agile foreign policy hand than his Democratic competitor, Senator Barack Obama. Although the timing of the rescue was a coincidence and Mr. McCain’s trip to Colombia had nothing to do with it, the event nonetheless put him in the middle of classified talks about covert operations with the head of another government.
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Hooked on Stupid
The idea of Gen. Wesley Clark attacking John McCain for his military service is so stupid, Obama must have thought it up. You'll recall that, back in 2003, Clark announced he was running for president, then quickly thereafter surrendered to the French candidate, John Kerry.
Appearing on Face The Nation Sunday, forcibly retired Gen. Clark accused McCain of being "untested and untried" and said he's not as qualified as Obama to be president because McCain "hasn't held executive responsibility. That large squadron in the Navy that he commanded -- that wasn't a wartime squadron . . . I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to become President."
Clark then started listing Obama's vast executive experience, such as . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . not to mention Obama's wartime record of commanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and the torture he endured at the hands of the ladies of The View.
McCain managed to get the Bronze star, the Purple Heart, the Silver star, the Legion of Merit and Distinguished Flying Cross by just "riding" in a plane, according to Clark. For his wise and visionary decision to bomb the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade and almost start WWIII with the Russians, Gen. Talking Anus got fired. After crafting the quagmire in Kosovo, Clark was relieved of his command due to lack of character by the Clinton administration. No, that is not a typo.
After it became clear -- even to the New York Times -- that Obama's idiotic gambit of using Clark to trash McCain was idiotic (and massively backfiring), the press went into overdrive insisting that of course Obama had nothing to do with Clark's comments and of course this was just an isolated incident and of course no one thinks Obama would try to question McCain's credentials because of course Obama is so full of credentials himself and just because Obama's having 'this patriotism problem' and bad menstrual cramps doesn't mean he'd have surrogates go on Sunday shows denigrating McCain's manhood, and of course (again) Clark was just an isolated incident.
In one of the most amazing coincidences, the Clark isolated incident was followed by the Rand Beers isolated incident the very next day. Beers on Monday questioned McCain's capability to be war-time leader compared to Obama's (which consisted of doing dope, paling around with a Weatherman terrorist and having Jeremiah Wright as his "moral compass") and said McCain couldn't know the true cost of the Vietnam War "because he was in isolation (as POW) essentially for many of those years and did not experience the turmoil here or the challenges that were involved . . ." Since McCain was living it up in style in the deluxe Hanoi Hilton, "his national security experience in that regard is sadly limited," unlike Obama, whose rich foreign policy experience began with doing coloring books in Indonesia.
And, while we're on the subject of amazing coincidences and brilliant attack lines, the Beers and Clark isolated incidents coincidentally followed the Sen. Tom Harkin and Sen. John Rockefeller isolated incidents. Back in May, Harkin denounced McCain's military record and accused him of being psychologically unfit to be president because "everything is looked at from his life experiences, from always having been in the military, and I think that can be pretty dangerous." (Dangerous" George Washington and "dangerous" Dwight Eisenhower spring to mind.)
Raising questions about whether he himself is a nut, Harkin once claimed he was a Navy pilot in Vietnam "flying F-4s and F-8s on combat patrols and photo-reconnaissance support missions" -- then failed to denounce his own military record when he ran for president in 1992! Instead, he made it the centerpiece of his campaign. It later turned out that Harkin fabricated the whole story (though, in fairness, his service record shows he did receive the Phony Soldier Service Medal).
As for that other feller (Sen. Rockefeller), in April he made a fool of himself when he denounced McCain's military record, claiming he's just a warmonger "who dropped laser-guided missiles from 35,000 feet. He was long gone when they hit. What happened when they get to the ground? He doesn't know. You have to care about the lives of people. McCain never gets into those issues."
Then it turns out Rockefeller never gets into those issues. There were no "laser-guided missiles" being dropped from 35,000 feet because bombs weren't "laser-guided" in the '60s and '70s. Being completely ignorant of this, Rockefeller co-chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Obama keeps trying to merge McCain with Bush but it's more like Obama merging Obama with loser-boy, John Kerry, or worse, George McGovern, given that Democrats have once again embraced the winning strategy of re-fighting the Vietnam War. It worked so well for them in 2004. With the "Iraq Quagmire" meme itself stuck in a quagmire because of The Surge, Democrats just don't have Iraq to kick around anymore. So it's back to Vietnam for the party hooked on stupid. Running Sen. George McGandhi against Nixon in '72 gave Democrats a 49-state thrashing. It won't be that lop-sided this go 'round, but in running Barack Hussein McBambi, the little darlings are doing their best to lose.
Anyway, that's...
My Two Cents...
"JohnHuang2"
Actually, ‘their’ puppet politicians they easily push around, while real Americans, even if pressured or tempted, don’t yield.
These Colors Don’t Run....
Sorry, McCain’s visit to Columbia may or may not have influenced the timing of the hostage rescue attempt, but it is not the same thing as Iran where a choice was made by the hostage takers to avoid dealing with a strong president.
If you listen to world media, or even a lot on this board, there’s no way John McCain will be president, so assuming any connection at all is a stretch.
Disingenuous article title, yet again, by the biased New York Times. Had it been Obama, the title would have been far different, but both would have been incorrect - the most appropriate would be 'Presidential Candidate John McCain Reacts to Hostage Rescue in Columbia.'
Well, hell, why even have an election if the “world media” has already called it for us? Let’s just coronate the Obamessiah and let him start his reign tomorrow. Soon, everyone will have “free” health insurance, a new bicycle in the driveway, mortgages will be obsolete, we will be assigned jobs by the Works Project Administration, while our kids are at CCC camps and state-run Obamaland daycare centers. Free, healthy, low-fat, vegan tasty food will be delivered right to our doors by the nutrition unit teams (NUTs) taking into account our weight, health and need. I can’t wait!!
This is, of course, what the partisan media hacks would like to happen - after all, they’ve already told us what to think, so therefore, why aren’t we doing it already.
Columbia launched a counter-insurgency operation that won the freedom of our citizens. They deserve all the credit for a successful operation. Alas, the NY Times has decided to use it as an opportunity to attack McCain by calling it a “Coincidence” - it’s not a coincidence, it simply isn’t related.
“It won’t be that lop-sided this go ‘round”
There are a couple of reasons that it won’t be lop-sided. The first, being the damage the media and our “education” system have done to the minds of large segments of the voting population. The other reason is that Republicans, expecialy the most influential ones, refuse to fight and refuse to stand up for the principles on which their party was based. Their is plenty of ammunition available to them, right here on FR, as well as a myriad of independent blogs.
Even a hack like Nixon, was able to capture forty-nine states. McCain will never match that. Not because he is more odious than Nixon (which he is). But because of the above reasons.
Obama's Mere Presence Causes Hostages to be Freed
LOL! NUTs indeed!
Obama's Mere Presence Causes Hostages to be Freed That's easy to beat:
"News of Obama's pending visit causes hostages to be freed"
Hmm, bit wordy.
"Obama Secures Release; Shows International Credentials"
There, that's better.
It may not have been a coincidence. The Colombians had to mobilize counter terrorism forces to provide security for the McCain visit. This would have been used as cover for for the hostage rescue operation.
If Barry were there, they’d probably tout it as one of his accomplishments, thereby giving Obama three accomplishments.
1. Getting elected as Senator
2. Getting the Democratic nomination.
3. Freeing the Columbian hostages.
damn he looks presidential in the NY Times article. Compare that picture to Obambi. I guess I'm one of those people that wants my President to look tough.
It’s important for us to remember how pres. uribe was treated by the vile scum RATS in congress during his last visit.
McCain’s visit to Colombia is as much about domestic economic policy as foreign policy.
The MSM is studiously avoiding any mention of the dem betrayal of the trade pact forwarded by President Bush.
This is another grand, sweeping lie that’s typical of the NYT. Buying into any of it is like pushing back on the tar baby.
I don’t usually think of the democrats as being as stupid as the republicans, but it’s almost like they decided that since being “pro-vietnam-vet” in 2004 didn’t work, they should try being “anti-vietnam-vet” in 2008.
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