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Keating Slips

Posted by HNAV on Friday, February 29, 2008 2:39:33 PM


Is John McCain stable?
Professor Smith added that he approached Senator McCain in part because the occasion was public and conducive to cordiality. He quoted Senator McCain as saying: "You're a bully and a coward. You have no regard for the Constitution. I'll be civil to you but I won't shake your hand."
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DRAFT THE GENERAL

Posted by HNAV on Sunday, February 10, 2008 2:12:21 AM

Petraeus for President?

Let's get the Man who is the REAL AUTHOR of the SURGE to be Commander and Chief in the GWOT!

Can we give this HERO the Nomination?
General David Howell Petraeus

"USA (born November 7, 1952 in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York) is the current Commanding General, Multi-National Force - Iraq (MNF-I). This special four-star post oversees all U.S. forces in the country. He was confirmed to that position by the Senate in a vote of 81–0 on January 26, 2007...

Petraeus was the General George C. Marshall Award winner as the top graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College—class of 1983. He subsequently earned a Master of Public Administration (1985) and a Ph.D. (1987) in International Relations from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He later served as Assistant Professor of International Relations at the U.S. Military Academy, and also completed a fellowship at Georgetown University. He has a BS from the U.S. Military Academy—class of 1974.

Time named Petraeus 33rd out of the 100 most influential leaders and revolutionaries of 2007. He was also named the second most influential American Conservative by The Daily Telegraph and "America's most respected soldier" by Der Spiegel in 2008."

Liberals are already concerned with the idea...
"General David Petraeus has a sterling reputation, the love of the press, and the adoration of the GOP. Don't be surprised if a Democratic presidential win in '08 starts an effort to recruit Petraeus as the Republican candidate in '12."

Why keep the LEFT waiting another four years?

Did you see this one?
"Like Ike: Petraeus for President?"

Don't miss the always amusing TP:
'The right wing is rooting for Petraeus to take the plunge. On Sept. 6, The New York Sun wrote an editorial titled “Petraeus for President?” The Corner’s Kathryn Jean Lopez approvingly linked to the editorial this morning, titling her post “Dream Sequence.” Last spring, The Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol told the Harvard Republican Club that he and other “conservative insider[s]” believe “a ticket of Fred Thompson and David Petraeus might be able to avert electoral disaster for the GOP” in 2008.'
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SAVVY HAWK ?

Posted by HNAV on Friday, February 08, 2008 11:02:34 PM

Many seem to believe Senator John McCain is a natural to lead the fight in the GWOT.

Sadly, the image doesn't match the reality.

The Senator of 24 years, ironically opposes pouring water over the faces of terrorists, to gather essential information to save American Lives.

Remember, John McCain's view of the Gulf War?

(HINT: He was wrong):
'His position on that war was not the reflexive interventionism we have come to expect from him but a more thoughtful approach, as cited in the New York Times of Aug. 19, 1990: “If you get involved in a major ground war in the Saudi desert, I think support will erode significantly. Nor should it be supported. We cannot even contemplate, in my view, trading American blood for Iraqi blood.”
McCain preferred to use air power to keep Saddam Hussein out of Saudi Arabia, rather than introducing ground troops, and opposed the call that went out from the more militant neoconservatives that U.S. troops, having freed Kuwait from Saddam’s clutches, should push on to Baghdad.
What changed his foreign-policy purview, however, was the Kosovo War. Again he played the maverick role for all it was worth, taking up the cudgels against many in his own party. But this time, he was on the side of intervention.
Monday, April 5, 1999, was a busy day for McCain: Larry King, Charlie Rose, Catherine Crier, two appearances on MSNBC, another two on CNBC, capped by an interview on ABC’s “Nightline.” The next morning, he was up early for Don Imus. “We’ve turned down far more than we’ve accepted,” McCain enthused. It was “all McCain, all the time,” as one Republican strategist put it to the Washington Post, and it sure wasn’t hurting his presidential campaign.
“When I urged the president of the United States not to rule out the option of ground forces, then I also assumed responsibility for what may be the loss of young Americans’ lives,” averred McCain. “I don’t know how it affects my campaign. But I’ve basically put my campaign on hold to some degree.”
This was disingenuous, at best...'

PS: The Keating 5 Member was also misguided about Kosovo:
'We were, he warned, in danger of “losing” to the Serbian army—with its outdated equipment and complete lack of an air force—if we failed to launch air strikes that were “massive, strategic and sustained.” Furthermore, “no infrastructure targets should have been off limits”—factories, water plants, hospitals, schools, markets, whatever. Yes, “we all grieve over civilian casualties as well as our own losses,” but “they are unavoidable.”
But all of this was eminently avoidable, as critics of the war—including many of McCain’s fellow Republicans in Congress—pointed out at the time. The war itself was unnecessary. The U.S. was never threatened by the Serbs, and the trumped-up charge of “genocide” was egregious overstatement. Aside from that, the conflict lasted little more than 11 weeks, and, contra McCain, the U.S. was never in danger of losing. A “massive” bombing campaign would have accomplished little aside from inflicting untold suffering on innocent civilians and incurring the everlasting enmity of the Serbian people—and of decent people everywhere.'

Senators lack vision and often fail to address problems.

For example, John McCain never led the effort to focus on Radical Islamic Terrorism prior to 9-11...

For 3 Decades in Washington, he didn't lead a movement to reform 'PORK' either.

However, they can make some very amusing critics.

If you remain critical of others all the time, hoping for some attention, you are bound to be somewhat accurate at some point, following popular fashion.
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THE UGLY REALITY

Posted by HNAV on Friday, February 08, 2008 11:01:37 PM
Uh oh...
'Senate’s Long Losing Streak on Presidency Could Be Near an End'

Washington Beltway Insiders who are symbols of John McCain's self described 'failure', are going to be empowered.

Senators without any CEO experience, lacking serious accomplishments, and a very Liberal embrace.

Not an inspiring conception...
"After more than 50 failures and almost 50 years, the United States Senate is finally poised to again produce a president.

With the Democratic race for the nomination reduced to a two-senator battle between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, and Senator John McCain tightening his grip on the Republican nod, it is becoming more likely that a member of the current Senate will do something no other senator has done since 1961: move straight from Congress to the White House.

Of course, it is taking the prospect of the first-ever White House race between two sitting senators to guarantee that outcome. Given the Senate’s record as a political ball-and-chain for presidential contenders of both parties, perhaps the only route from the Senate to the executive mansion is over another senator."

Meanwhile, Liberals are celebrating John McCain:
Newsweek: McCain Tolls End of Bush Tax Cuts
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OVER ?

Posted by HNAV on Monday, February 04, 2008 7:58:16 AM


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