I WILL HAVE MY CAKE AND EAT IT, DAMMIT!
At first McCain says that Obama should piss off around the world so that 1) John McCain would have sometime at home in the US hogging the TV screens (which he could have done while Hillary and Obama fought it out, but he was too lazy to do so) trying to convince the American public that the black fella isn’t really as good as he. 2) Hoping upon hope that if Obama should be on TV he would drop the ball and make a real fool of himself in a far off foreign land and McCain could say, “Told you so”.
But, as we now know, that hasn’t happened – and you can tell that John McCain is getting very, very frustrated with it all.
Obama goes to Germany and 200,000 people turn up to hear him speak – McCain goes to a German eatery and everyone is watching Obama on the TV. Hmmmmm.
Now – and this doesn’t come as any surprise at all, the McCain camp are criticising Obama for – Going on the trip abroad! And people who support McCain wonder why other are laughing at them – with contempt.
I will say this. Once McCain gets into a hands on battle with Obama in the up and coming debates, McCain will blow a gasket. Obama will make him look more of a fool than Bush did!
“It is very clear that Sen. Obama does not understand what’s at stake here, what was at stake in Iraq, and his refusal to acknowledge that the surge has succeeded is again a graphic demonstration of his lack of understanding of national security issues,” he [McCain] said, referring to the 2007 escalation of U.S. troops in Iraq.
Erm…Iraq was never a national security issue! Not until Bush sent troops to invade. And John – as your memory is a bit iffy – the Iraqis have said they want American combat troops out in the Obama time frame – what are you saying – that you are not going to withdraw even though a sovereign state has asked you to?
Now – would that be in the US’ national security interests? I wonder.
08/05/2008 at 10:13 AM
gary, i don’t know if you have, but reading “the prince” by machiavelli would do wonders for understanding leadership.
08/04/2008 at 7:58 PM
gary, how can you lead the world and not rule it? American principles and core values should be taught and not preached? The world needs a strong leader not a star. To be a leader you should be feared and not loved. Despots, tyrannts and evil need to fear and tremble. Can you envisage an OBAMA BEING THAT? I leave in a third world African nation, and i speak for all oppressed citizens world wide: I NEED A STRONG AMERICA!!!!!!!
07/25/2008 at 7:21 PM
One of the most eloquent posts I have ever read, Gary – well said you, sir.
07/25/2008 at 1:37 PM
What a perplexing position citizens of these United States find ourselves. We have reached a cross-road as a nation. These are perilous times at home and abroad. Economic uncertainties abound and our fast eroding moral standing in the world threatens to place at risk our role as the world’s most powerful influencer. Before us stand two starkly different choices whom, depending on our choice, may lead us into another “American Century” or may lead us further down the road to a permanent erosion of power and influence.
Essentially we are asked to vote for either of two approaches to moving forward. One approach seeks to harness American power and influence in order to rule the world; the other approach realizes that rather than American power, it is American principles and core values which must be harnessed that we might lead (not rule) the world.
We all know in our hearts that the right and just perspective to adopt is to “…harness American principles…that we might lead the world.” For this is and has been the decidedly American root of our world perspective as a nation. This is our American way…our ethic. But there is one problem that causes us great consternation. The leader who most effectively espouses (and seems to most passionately believe in) the “decidedly American root of our world perspective…” is born the son of a minority group – the fruit of a relationship that in years past (and perhaps even now, if we be truthful with ourselves) was taboo.
The white guy, we know in our hearts is dangerous and wrong on almost every substantive issue affecting our welfare at home and abroad; yet we struggle to bring ourselves to truly embrace the other guy who espouses the most American of American ideals with enough eloquence and passion to ignite and capture the imagination of an entire next generation of Americans.
And so we vacillate and try to find ways to justify our guttural instinct to choose the guy who represents the past, though we yearn to step into the promise of the future. We whisper within the shadows of our body politic about “…is he Muslim…his middle name is Hussein…he’s part Black…etc.” We know within our hearts that Senator Barack Obama is the product of a conflagration of conspiring American ideals: freedom, justice, equality, meritocracy, our American melting pot. He is, as much as anything, one of our own.
My fear is that when we as a nation are on the other side of this decision…when we, in the end, vote our fears and forsake our promise; when we hold our heads down in shame as we watch John McCain’s inauguration on our TVs; I fear that the Great Scribe of History will be left with no choice but to pen within our national epitaph, “…He came unto his own; and his own received him not.”
07/25/2008 at 12:36 AM
“Obama will make him look more of a fool than Bush did!” Lol! Seriously, though, McCain is the guy that lost to George Dubya Bush in 2000. That should say a lot.
07/25/2008 at 12:06 AM
I dont think McCain will blow up, he would have done it by now
07/24/2008 at 11:55 PM
Excellent blog you have there, loomis!!
07/24/2008 at 11:46 PM
NO YOU CAN’T, youngster!
– McSame