mccain once again showcases his ignorance of global affairs

not only does mccain in the video below showcase bush traits by ignoring facts and stressing that he is right by making stupid jokes that are supposed to cover up his own ignorance.

but what really gets me is the very end where he says that he takes the side of “the average american” on an issue like who would be the head of iran. well, maybe he wants to take a look at this video to find out about how much the average american knows about the world outside of the US

or maybe these guys here

“leaning tower of pizza” …

are americans really so stupid that they would fall for mccain’s cheap shot of linking obama to hamas?

election season is always an interesting time since it shows on the one side how american’s think, but at the same time it also shows how politicians think american’s think. for the last 8 years the public has pretty much proven that it doesn’t deserve any other president than bush, after all they voted for him - twice. the first time was not really their fault i would say since he didn’t really win, plus the probably didn’t expect him to be such a moron, but the second time is unexcusable. 

but now it is 2008 and they again have the option to vote for a president. there is on the one side obama and on the other side mccain (i admit that for me this is a no-brainer, i certainly would support obama). obama is certainly a bit of an unknown, but what he has accomplished so far is certainly amazing. plus, despite all of his competitor being “experienced” washington insiders and longtime campaigners he has run an incredibly efficient campaign. 

now mccain is not only old, but he is more or less bush’s mini-me. he is now supporting the bush tax cuts (which is ridiculous in face of a $10 trillion national deficit and mounting costs of a stupid war) and he has always supported the iraq war. mccain always touts his own horn how much experience he has, but i am sorry, just because you are old that doesn’t mean you have experience. and judging by his decisions over the last 8 years i have to say that it seems to me that he is just another guy like bush who hates losing even if that means that even more soldiers have to die and even more tax payer money has to be spend. experience is not just about having been around for a long time, but learning from what has happened around them and from the mistakes — mccain clearly has not done that.  in addition, mccain has been around for a long time, that is for sure, but he has made his experience during the time of the cold war. what the US is now facing is not a way (even though bush is trying to sell it as one). if this is a war it is a war of ideas (obama’s against the rest in a way, or the increasing number of the disenfrenchised against those with a voice), and all that mccain knows is to use force, just like bush, and this won’t work in this war. obama, on the other hand understands this. 

but getting back to the electorate. i am not that optimistic that american voters have learned from their mistakes of the last 8 years. and this ridiculous mccain email sent out to supporters 

shows that the mccain campaign thinks the same. they think that a ridiculous connection of obama and hamas (which does not exist) will turn people against obama. for those that read this and are thinking about voting for mccain, please answer one question for me: how can you vote for someone who clearly thinks that you are a moron? mccain recently called obama an elitist, but this email shows that mccain is way worse than an elitist, mccain doesn’t have any respect for his voters as it looks like, he thinks they are not able to distinguish between crap and reality. 

what is hillary’s problem? why can’t she say it is over?

i can’t imaging what celebrations must be going on at the mccain’s and the republican party’s headquarters. there they are, an unpopular war which is going nowhere and an economy that is tanking, and a presidential candidate that is the lapdog of the president that has gotten us all into that situation. but, there is a good chance they can win the election. why? because of hillary.because one person in the democratic party thinks that it is ok to keep on running in the primary despite the fact that she will not have enough votes in the end. all along she is discrediting her opponent to a degree that it is helping the republicans while at the same time pissing off voters that would love to vote for the democratic party (but will probably not do so if she gets elected). there is a time when one has to have the guts and the poise to say “this is it, i concede, i gave it all, but in the end the other one won.” especially at a time when you are not even fighting the other team, you are just fighting who will be the head of your own team. i find that hillary’s behavior right now just shows how unelectable she is. the thing she is solely focused on is power. it is not what is better for her party, it is not what is better for her country.  it is only about what is better for her. and i am sorry, but i seen too many presidents over the last 20 years that fit that profile.so to all those people that gave money to hillary (and might still be giving money to her) please stop, send her an email instead and ask her to concede. or take the blame when next january mccain will stand on the stairs of the capitol and be sworn in to be the next president.  

iraq is doing just fine … you still need a bullet proof west though

mccain is visiting iraq, and he will probably proclaim again that things are going great and are no different than they are in any US city. well, i guess with the exception of the bullet proof west you have to wear (even at the heavily guarded airport in the middle of nowhere)  the story about his visit on the nyt web site includes an interesting quote from a iraqi on the street: 

Some Sunni Arabs were not so pleased by the visit. “If the Republicans win the election, then nothing will really change in Iraq, and we need a big change to kick the occupiers out of the country,” said Abu Mohammed, a 30-year-old barber shop owner in Samarra, north of Baghdad. “I would like to show him the schools and hospitals and how the children and women suffer.”  

 on a side note, the trip is being paid for by tax payer money … because it is a trip mccain undertakes as a member of the armed services committee … hm, yes, i see (so much for maverick, he is just another washington politician who takes any money he can get). 

Mr. McCain has said the trip is not primarily political. He told reporters last Friday: “I do want to emphasize again that the three of us are going as members of the Armed Services Committee.”But on Thursday, Mr. McCain will attend a $1,000-per-plate fund-raising lunch at a home in London. His campaign has said that Congress would be reimbursed for the political parts of the trip, including the fund-raiser in London.