Front page treatment though, for Johnny Mac!
"McCain knits trade, security issues; Foreign trips fit his strategy" by Sasha Issenberg, Globe Staff | July 7, 2008
MEXICO CITY - John McCain is increasingly making the case to Americans that trade should be considered foremost as a national security concern. Both the Colombian pact and NAFTA remain highly controversial domestically.
Translation: America HATES this GLOBALISM SHIT!
McCain, however, is speaking less about the economic benefits of free trade and instead trying to place it in a broader critique of Obama's foreign policy, contrasting the Democrat's willingness to negotiate with American adversaries with his disinterest in collaborating with friendly countries.
"The first step is to start to repair our image with some of our allies before we can begin to repair our image with those we disagree with," said John Brabender, an unpaid media adviser to McCain's campaign.
Why?! Aren't your friends still your friends, after all?
Aren't your "enemies" the people you SHOULD be talking to?
And why do our friends think so little of us (Bush)?
McCain's attempt to emphasize the security benefits of free trade could be a hard sell: even advocates for expanded trade say that these days economic arguments are resonating most strongly, particularly as the weakened dollar has strengthened domestic producers and exporters.
"The United States is going through a slowdown, so the economic issues are coming up more and more," said Carolina Barco Isakson, Colombia's ambassador to the United States, who has been lobbying members of Congress to support the agreement.
No candidate in recent memory has made such broad support for free trade as central to his campaign as McCain. Those presidents who pushed for lowering the barriers to international commerce, Bill Clinton and both George Bushes, were far more ardent free traders once they reached office than they had presented themselves when seeking it.
Interesting comment about the Globalist Crime Syndicate's two front families, huh?
Yes, they were BOTH advancing the GLOBALIST agenda in office!!!!
Time to wake up to the shit fooleys, Americans!
By allying himself with free-trade agreements, which are negotiated by administrations and then subject to congressional approval, McCain is assuming a White House posture, according to analysts.
"In this environment, it has been a way to differentiate the candidates," said Michael Veseth, professor of international political economy at the University of Puget Sound. "Backing free trade is a presidential thing to do."
And the way to LOSE an ELECTION right now -- one that isn't rigged, anyway!
Throughout his foreign expedition, McCain mingled the trade and security items on his agenda, emphasizing visuals that do more to establish McCain's credibility as a commander in chief than a captain of economic growth.
"I'm not sure this race is going to come down to a referendum on 'Who do you trust more on NAFTA?' " Brabender said. "What's most important is what the visuals are, not what the rhetoric is."
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Translation: Whomever shovels shit better will "win" the election!
Also see: The Boston Times: Pushing the John McCain Myth
I mean, they can't make it any clearer when they put OUR OWN SENATOR on page A10!!!!
"McCain lacks judgment, Kerry says; Raps colleague on Iraq war, taxes"
Senator John F. Kerry said on CBS's "Face the Nation" yesterday:
"John McCain . . . has proven that he has been wrong about every judgment he's made about the war. Wrong about the Iraqis paying for the reconstruction, wrong about whether or not the oil would pay for it, wrong about Sunni and Shi'ite violence through the years, wrong about the willingness of the Iraqis to stand up for themselves.
If you like the Bush tax cut and what it's done to our economy, making wealthier people wealthier and the average middle-class struggle harder, then John McCain is going to give you a third term of George Bush and Karl Rove."
Then please explain Skull and Bones, Johnny!
And I wouldn't have known about this interview, because I never saw it.
I don't watch Sunday morning propaganda shows anymore!
Kerry later said the McCain of 2008 isn't the McCain he courted in 2004:
"John McCain has changed in profound and fundamental ways that I find personally really surprising, and frankly upsetting."
Oooooh, you are PERSONALLY UPSET, 'ey?
Tell me, is it the temper or the racism?
Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, a McCain adviser, said McCain was right to urge President Bush to send more US troops to Iraq to help control violence.
"We're winning because John McCain understood Iraq better than anybody else," Graham said. "The political, economic, and military progress in Iraq is undeniable (AP July 7, 2008)."
Yeah, and as I've said, that is the same shit you will be hearing from the lying government and media for the next six months.
Yeah, George W. Bush FINALLY, FINALLY won Iraq -- just in time for the 2008 elections!
PFFFFFFFTTTT!
And JUST LOOK who McCain has WON OVER (all that political chatter at ZNN about McCain and the base -- pffffft):
"Christian leaders appear to coalesce behind McCain
John McCain got better news from the right, signs of a real push by conservative Christian leaders to coalesce on his behalf.
Commenting on MSNBC, Patrick Buchanan said that although Obama wouldn't "win over the evangelicals," his embrace of the federal program that seeks to make it easier to funnel tax money to religious-based charities would "diminish some of the hostility" toward him among social conservatives.
David Brody, a correspondent for the Christian Broadcasting Network, reported on his website that a major figure on the religious right has taken a huge step in support of McCain. Phil Burress, head of the Ohio-based Citizens for Community Values, not so long ago said of McCain: "We don't like him and he doesn't like us." But Burress has changed his view after a sit-down with McCain.
The evangelical leader sent out a note to allies that concluded: "I was once one of those people who said 'no way' to Senator John McCain as president. No longer. The stakes are too high."
Burress also was among about 100 conservative Christian leaders who met in Denver last week and agreed to unite behind McCain, Time magazine reported. (Los Angeles Times July 7 2008)."
