 |
SwiftVets.com
Service to Country
|
| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
kate
Admin
Joined: 14 May 2004
Posts: 1891
Location: Upstate, New York
|
 Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 4:33 pm Post subject: McCain: Clean Government More Important Than 1st Amendment |
 |
|
McCain interview with Imus
RedState.org
McCain: "Clean Government" More Important Than 1st Amendment
By: machiavel
| Quote: |
I don't kid:
| Quote: | | "He [Michael Graham] also mentioned my abridgement of First Amendment rights, i.e. talking about campaign finance reform....I know that money corrupts....I would rather have a clean government than one where quote First Amendment rights are being respected, that has become corrupt. If I had my choice, I'd rather have the clean government." |
This one will be hard even for Marshall Wittmann to spin. I don't see how this could possibly have been taken out of context.
I would submit to the Senator that clean government is impossible without the First Amendment, and a sometimes zealous respect for the freedoms it offers. |
Link to video/audio of McCain on Imus
atRedState.org
and here
go to the website and listen 
that would be the same McCain, of the McCain-Feingold anti-First-Amendment Campaign Finance reform Bill
_________________
.
one of..... We The People |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
BuffaloJack
Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy
Joined: 10 Aug 2004
Posts: 1637
Location: Buffalo, New York
|
| Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 4:52 pm Post subject: |
|
|
McCain is an arse !!
Our founding fathers took years to iron out the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. As service personel, when we joined we took an oath to support and defend the Consitiution. I'm don't know about the esteemed Senator, but when I take an oath, it has no time limit. It is for life. I'm not willing to surrender any of my rights.
Jack
_________________
Swift Boats - Qui Nhon (12/69-4/70), Cat Lo (4/70-5/70), Vung Tau (5/70-12/71) |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
LimaCharlie
PO2
Joined: 25 Aug 2004
Posts: 386
Location: Oregon
|
| Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 8:17 pm Post subject: |
|
|
He doesn’t like the Second Amendment either. Makes you wonder what he thinks of the rest of the Bill of Rights. He agrees with sKerry way too much for me to ever vote for him.
_________________
I was going to become an anarchist, but they had too many rules. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Anker-Klanker
Admiral
Joined: 04 Sep 2004
Posts: 1033
Location: Richardson, TX
|
| Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 12:25 am Post subject: |
|
|
| It's interesting and disconcerting that he sees it as a choice - one or the other. There's no choice at all; it's Both, Both, Both! |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
mtboone
Founder
Joined: 10 May 2004
Posts: 470
Location: Kansas City, MO.
|
| Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 2:24 am Post subject: |
|
|
I think, people should contact the RNC and tell them that McCain is not a canidate that anyone would support except the liberal left of the RNC and I know I will not do it.
_________________
Terry Boone PCF 90
Qui Nhon 68-69 |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
kate
Admin
Joined: 14 May 2004
Posts: 1891
Location: Upstate, New York
|
| Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 4:06 am Post subject: |
|
|
| mtboone wrote: | | I think, people should contact the RNC and tell them that McCain is not a canidate that anyone would support except the liberal left of the RNC and I know I will not do it. |
McCain thinks he's got it in the bag
(president) Mc Cain's skerry moment
aka McCain's new mideast policy
JewishPress.com
| Quote: | McCain: Kerry Revisited?
By: Jason Maoz, Senior Editor
May 10, 2006
Arizona Sen. John McCain, the early front-runner for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, had a potential John Connally/Mike Dukakis/John Kerry moment earlier this month, and hardly anyone seems to have noticed.
What McCain did was make some disturbing informal remarks to the Israeli daily Haaretz – informal only in the sense that as a still undeclared candidate, his comments, as Haaretz’s Amir Oren wrote, "reflect the personal opinion of a senior and influential figure in the area of defense policy in the United States Senate, rather than an attempt to formulate policy guidelines for his administration."
McCain told Haaretz that as president, he would "micromanage" U.S. policy toward Israel and the Palestinians and would dispatch "the smartest guy I know" to the region, presumably to jump-start a new push for a comprehensive accord.
Asked who that "smartest guy" might be, McCain responded: "Brent Scowcroft, or James Baker, though I know that you in Israel don’t like Baker."
McCain foresaw "concessions and sacrifices by both sides" and indicated that Israel would be expected to "Defend itself and keep evacuating." Asked whether that meant "movement toward the June 4, 1967 armistice lines, with minor modifications," McCain, reported Haaretz, "nodded in the affirmative."
McCain’s statements are jarring not only because they reflect the view, long championed by the State Department and both the moderate and liberal wings of the Democratic party, that the U.S. can somehow "micromanage" a fair and equitable Mideast peace (code for unilateral Israeli concessions, since the Palestinians have nothing concrete to concede), but as well for the almost cavalier dismissal of concerns about an interlocutor on the order of a James Baker.
(McCain’s mention of Scowcroft, whose Mideast views and chilly attitude toward Israel are indistinguishable from those usually attributed to Baker, is equally instructive and should serve as one more caveat for McCain supporters in the pro-Israel community.)
Judging from the Mideast-related mishaps of previous high-profile presidential wannabes, the reaction to McCain’s comments would have been far less muted had he made them later in the campaign cycle (the first presidential primaries are still some 20 months away and McCain, as noted by Amir Oren, hasn’t officially declared his candidacy). Time will tell whether his remarks in Haaretz were an aberration or a harbinger.
McCain’s reference to James Baker was especially curious given the flurry of criticism that descended on John Kerry during the 2004 presidential campaign when the Massachusetts senator told the Council on Foreign Relations that if elected president he would appoint the "uniquely qualified" Jimmy Carter, James Baker or Bill Clinton as his Middle East peace envoy.
Kerry only made things worse when he claimed afterward – despite evidence to the contrary in the "as prepared for delivery" version of the speech posted on his own website – that the offending passage had been inserted into the speech at the last minute by staffers.
<snip> |
emphasis added
Dont recall seeing this in the antique media. Wonder how he would "micromanage" U.S. policy with the Iranian nutcase. McCain following in skerry's failed footsteps, could be a good thing, 'cept he needs to fail at the nomination stage.
_________________
.
one of..... We The People |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
baldeagle
PO2
Joined: 27 Oct 2004
Posts: 362
Location: Grand Saline, Texas
|
| Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 4:48 am Post subject: |
|
|
McCain/Feingold ..............A better title would be "The Incumbent Protection Act.
It was designed to muzzle those pesky organizations like the NRA, etc, who spend the big bucks in the waning days of the campaign season on ads designed to alert their voters, and leave the field monopolised by the fawning MSM and the blitz of ads from incumbents with far more funds than most challengers can raise.
_________________
"In a word, I want an American character, that the powers of Europe may be convinced we act for ourselves and not for others; this, in my judgment, is the only way to be respected abroad and happy at home." --George Washington |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Stevie
Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy
Joined: 25 Aug 2004
Posts: 1451
Location: Queen Creek, Arizona
|
| Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 6:14 am Post subject: |
|
|
I'm in AZ, I didn't vote for him last time and won't ever again.
hope no one has forgotten the Chief's letter about when he worked with Kerry and McCain. I haven't.
_________________
Stevie
Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage
morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should
be arrested, exiled or hanged. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
|
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group
|
FAQ
Search
Memberlist
Usergroups
Register
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
