tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8356601405469434111.post1331077694402578350..comments2024-01-01T19:49:13.788-08:00Comments on The Vigil: Swiftboating John McCainVigilantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07640246609540057997noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8356601405469434111.post-58565837567445551652008-10-06T06:44:00.000-07:002008-10-06T06:44:00.000-07:00I appreciate all comments in this thread. Hills, I...I appreciate all comments in this thread. <br><br>Hills, I didn't want you to omit pronouncing on my <a href="http://the-vigil.blogspot.com/2008/10/race.html" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">mention of George Galloway in the comments of another thread</a>. You might have a more ambivalent opinion of the RESPECT leader.Vigilantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07640246609540057997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8356601405469434111.post-20672191323501869632008-10-06T06:08:00.000-07:002008-10-06T06:08:00.000-07:00Excellent piece Vig!Excellent piece Vig!HILLBLOGGERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05977843513566589811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8356601405469434111.post-84600636072079973332008-09-30T09:34:00.000-07:002008-09-30T09:34:00.000-07:00Vig,I really enjoyed reading this post. It's q...Vig,<br><br>I really enjoyed reading this post. It's quite insightful. I gotta agree with Utah. McCain is on the brink of death. According to the CIA World Factbook, the life expectancy at birth for the average American is 78.14 years. Now, I don't know about you, but I think that cancer, war imprisonment, and the stress of media attention would significantly diminish that number. Do we really want <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8IX6oYUb3s" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">this</a> running our country?Big Yellow Foreheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16534315160991810411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8356601405469434111.post-79182964901080801902008-09-29T23:28:00.000-07:002008-09-29T23:28:00.000-07:00Beach just said it for me. And there are some pre...Beach just said it for me. And there are some pretty tough ads about McCain's unreleased full medical records. He is not going to live long. Too vain to really protect himself from the sun, He has had some metastasizing of his cancer. And I did either see a news story or an ad about his mental health. A psychiatrist says he is either suffering from untreated PTSD, or early stages of Alzheimer's or some other form of dementia. But his behavior is erratic and unpredictable, in short his is unstable and impulsive. Not a good trait in a president.Utah Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16385093247915560752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8356601405469434111.post-21365665519081059892008-09-29T17:36:00.000-07:002008-09-29T17:36:00.000-07:00I won't disagree that in previous decades McCa...I won't disagree that in previous decades McCain grasp on reality on sending in American forces seemed far stronger. But during the wars that saw the breakup of Yugoslavia I seem to remember McCain very gung-ho on sending American troops in while criticizing Clinton for not. Later years had him saying he could walk safely through an Iraqi market, openly talking about attacking Iran, and working to include former Soviet Georgia in NATO. My point is that I question whether McCain is suffering from some sort of diminished mental capacity.Beach Bumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11000824454124236774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8356601405469434111.post-69583261928263052362008-09-29T08:53:00.000-07:002008-09-29T08:53:00.000-07:00We may not have to take the low road, MacDaddy. Ch...We may not have to take the low road, MacDaddy. Changes in attitude improve the altitude. Minds are changing, throughout the gambit - all the way from <a href="http://madmikesamerica.blogspot.com/2008/09/for-first-time-in-72-years-republican.html" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">newspaper publishers</a> to <a href="http://badattitudes.com/MT/archives/2008/09/voting_for_the.html" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">cabbies</a>. In the 60's we used to say,<br><br><em>I don't care why or how someone resists the draft, just so they do.</em><br><br>It's called being result-oriented. But I still say, take a page from the neocons: nothing is off the table.Vigilantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07640246609540057997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8356601405469434111.post-48080126259161676712008-09-28T22:34:00.000-07:002008-09-28T22:34:00.000-07:00Hey, Vigilante: Where are those 527 groups for dem...Hey, Vigilante: Where are those 527 groups for democrats? Why can't we get some of that? Obama can't do it by himself?MacDaddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01483912561779369669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8356601405469434111.post-6029573309681973752008-09-28T20:09:00.000-07:002008-09-28T20:09:00.000-07:00Sunday afternoon nit-picking?Sunday afternoon nit-picking?DB Cooperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10912311299981395050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8356601405469434111.post-77296625499236196722008-09-28T19:29:00.000-07:002008-09-28T19:29:00.000-07:001983 exception (technical) duly noted.1983 exception (technical) duly noted.Vigilantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07640246609540057997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8356601405469434111.post-50622842152213733172008-09-28T19:17:00.000-07:002008-09-28T19:17:00.000-07:00And McCain’s Opposition was to the War Powers Act ...And McCain’s Opposition was to the War Powers Act itself.<br><br>That was the other reason McCain voted in the minority. He opposed the War Powers Act, seeing it as illegitimately interfering with presidential authority to wage war. His vote was as much against endorsing the War Powers Act as against Reagan’s Lebanon policy.Messengerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12703434191163556292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8356601405469434111.post-16223962121904887142008-09-28T19:07:00.000-07:002008-09-28T19:07:00.000-07:00On Sept. 28, 1983, the U.S. House of Representativ...On Sept. 28, 1983, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 270-161 to invoke the War Powers Act and authorize the deployment of U.S. Marines in Lebanon for an additional 18 months. <br><br>By then the Marines had been in Lebanon exactly one year. They had been taking fire, and casualties, for six months. They were no longer in a peacekeeping operation. They’d taken sides in the civil war, explicitly backing the minority government of Christian strongman Amin Gemeyel against a rising Druze and Shiite insurgency while the Israeli army occupied the southern half of the country.<br><br>So, actually, McCain was voting against extending a year-old involvement.Soros' Proxyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04474800402465417916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8356601405469434111.post-62439295138742638152008-09-28T18:57:00.000-07:002008-09-28T18:57:00.000-07:00In 1983, McCain voted against Reagan sending troop...In 1983, McCain voted against Reagan sending troops to Lebanon.Petrosexualhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07476768500728690320noreply@blogger.com