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March 28, 2008
McCain's World Affairs Council ~ foreign policy speech
McCain speech to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council foreign policy speech)
OR Let's call it Listen to the rustling bones of our forefathers
Full Text of McCain's Speech can be found HERE
MCCAIN: We can't build an enduring peace based on freedom by ourselves, and we do not want to. We have to strengthen our global alliances as the core of a new global compact, a league of democracies that can harness the vast influence of the more than 100 Democratic nations around the world to advance our values and defend our shared interests. At the heart of this new compact must be mutual respect and trust.
Wild Thing: We are the leader of the free world. We owe it to ourselves to protect and maintain our own freedom and we must do that by ourselves. We cannot subject our freedom to the possibility we may not have allies in one of our quests around the world. That's one of the things that conservatism has always been strong about, but obviously not McCain.
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MCCAIN: Our great power does not mean we can do whatever we want, whenever we want, nor should we assume we have all the wisdom and knowledge necessary to succeed. We need to listen, we need to listen to the views and respect the collective will of our Democratic allies. When we believe international action is necessary, whether military, economic, or diplomatic, we will try to persuade our friends that we are right. But we in return must be willing to be persuaded by them.
Wild Thing: So let's see if other countries think we are wrong even if it is the best decision for OUR country we are supposed to listen to other counties and let them influence us greatly. We are to allow them to change our minds.
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MCCAIN: America must be a model citizen if we want others to look to us as a model. How we behave at home affects how we are perceived abroad. We must fight the terrorists and at the same time defend the rights that are at the foundation of our society. We can't torture or treat inhumanely suspected terrorists we have captured. I believe we should close Guantanamo and work with our allies to forge a new international understanding on the disposition of dangerous detainees under our control.
Wild Thing: You ALL know how I feel about closing GITMO. This kind of thinking of McCain is dangerous and unnecessary to say the least. The prisoners there eat well, sleep just fine, get treated better then ANY POW ever has from our country.
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MCCAIN: We need to about good stewards of our planet and join with other nations to help preserve our common home. The risks of global warming, the risks of global warming have no borders. We in the other nations of the world must get serious about substantially reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the coming years, or we will hand off a much diminished world to our grandchildren. We need a successor to the Kyoto treaty, a cap-in-trade system that delivers the necessary environmental impact in an economically responsible manner. We Americans must lead by example and encourage the participation of the rest of the world.
Wild Thing's comment: Bush and even Clinton NEVER signed the Kyoto treaty. Hello!! McCain what does that tell you when even the scum draft dodger, Flag burner Clinton didn't even sign it.
MCCain is NOT a leader, not a leader of men, not meant to be a leader of a country and sure as hell is not meant to be a leader of the most powerful country in the world. A leader can say NO when proof has shown this stupid Kyoto treaty is a farce, a joke and a total mess.
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MCCAIN: Americans north and south share a common geography and a common destiny. The countries of Latin America are the natural partners of the United States, and our northern neighbor Canada.
Wild Thing: He is still insisting that we be compassionate to illegal aliens.Common destiny? If McCain has his way we’ll be just another latino speaking 3rd world country. A huge percent of Mexicans will not learn English. Many who have been here for years and attended school will not learn English. The cost factor of the illegals here are bleeding the hospitals tens of millions of dollars a year.
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MCCAIN: I hold my position because I hate war, and I know very well and very personally how grievous its wages are. But I know, too, that we must sometimes pay those wages to avoid paying even higher ones later on. I run for president because I want to keep the country I love and have served all my life safe and to rise to the challenges of our times as generations before us rose to theirs.
Wild Thing: Oh wait is this John Kerry ooops nope it is John but this John is McCain.
I realize that radical Islam is primed to take over 5 continents and we do and will need friends, other countries to join us in this war against Islam terrorists. But being strong, taking a stand garners respect also much more the catering and kissing up to natiions that are NOT our friends even when we have done all we can for them. Sometimes a hand out causes resentment NOT respect. And yes sometimes it causes gratitude, but that is what we have to see in the future as we have from our past associations and friendships with other countries.
As I read McCain's speech I wept at the lows that this nation has been brought to. We have a nominee that is so disgustingly wrong. I wonder if the Romans of the late empire also recognized that their world was collapsing and that they were being lead by a bunch of egotistical, mediocre half-wits.
Yes he will be OK with our troops and that is VERY important to me. But on mostly everythihg else McCain is just not the man for the job. I know we have no other choice on our side of the fence. That is one reason I LOVE the Operation Chaos that Limbaugh came up with. Voting for Hillary has sent the Democrat party into a frenzy of anger, confusion and fighting back and forth among themselves. LOL That is truly fun to see on the nightly political talk shows.
And while McCain SAYS he'll prosecute the war tooth and nail, he says nothing about securing our Southern border, pushes for amnestying people who break our laws, forces our continued dependence on foreign oil by refusing to support drilling in ANWAR and wants to close Guantanamo. Until he says those things, it's obvious he isn't really serious about the war.
McCain's speech simply put is a total turn off to what I feel and think as a conservative. God Help Us All and America.
The communists have achieved their goal by infiltrating both political parties in the US. THIS is indeed a fact.
Lest we forget:
The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies
In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. —Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.
Posted by Wild Thing at March 28, 2008 03:55 AM
Comments
These politicians, and former US military veterans, took an oath to "protect and defend our nation against ALL enemies foreign and domestic... so help me GOD!" and they FAILED to do so in reference to 9-11-01 and border security.
Ar least the WW II Japanese generals and admirals had the guts to take out their swords and ... themselves when they failed, eh? Whatever happened to our nation's blessed NATIONALISM?
Posted by: darthcrUSAderworldtour07 at March 28, 2008 05:26 AM
We are so close to needing to reenact the Decaration of Independence. We have a government of career politicians who have become less responsive to the People and more self serving. They are trading national sovereignty for a monetary driven globalization the People don't want.
The Second American Revolution?
Posted by: TomR at March 28, 2008 07:06 AM
Huckabee was big on sovereignty and defending the Constitution. Shame the way he was misrepresented by talking heads early on.
Posted by: ER at March 28, 2008 08:47 AM
Whatever happens this upcoming election, we're screwed as a nation.
I think Ann Coulter is right when she says to support Hillary. At least that way Republicans in Congress will fight her and her Socialist ideas. They won't fight McCain since he's "their" President.
Posted by: BobF at March 28, 2008 09:09 AM
Where are the bold men of yesterday--those not afraid to stand up for what the believe in? Where are the John Adams, Thomas Jeffersons, George Washingtons, Abraham Lincolns?
Time for us to take back what is ours--the Declaration of Independence is NOT reading material for the bathroom or to be taken lightly. It was written with us in mind.
John McCain has kowtowed to the liberals. He's given in, like so many others.
We do not need to be involved with the Kyoto Pact. No way. And time for illegals to get kicked back to where they came from.
I have no one to vote for. I'm just going to write in Fred. He was my choice then and still is.
Posted by: Lynn at March 28, 2008 10:14 AM
From King George to King George 232 years, a remarkable run of freedom, brought down from within.
It is an awesome essay WT, thank you. If it weren't so serious you could laugh at the bungling like it was a scene from the movie "Weekend At Bernies, only thing different is this prop is alive and dangerous.
My last comment of yesterday stands, it is how I feel. We all must remember that it is the leadership of both paries that have disenfranchised the American voter, it was the GOP leaders that put John McCain in the position and sustained his presence.
The RNC and the RNCC rules, their control of the primary, all but eliminates the popular candidate. Remember too those candidates who dropped out early disenfranchised up to 47 of the 50 states for a free choice. The winner takes all if there is no competition left or if the voters have been gerrymandered by the party leaders. Think about what happened in 2004 when Bush won his final term, he turned, Mehlman quit and the party ushered in Martinez and the push was on for amnesty, the NAU and open borders, Jorge fought resistance it all the way, even trying to ramrod it through via the bully pulpit. He won, it is only which of the three Democrats will implement it? Hey our system today sorta looks like the Venezuelan Democracy, sure you can vote, look at who's counting. :)
Posted by: Jack at March 28, 2008 12:24 PM
Each day we are bombarded by three desperate candidates who have abandoned their senatorial responsibilities to follow the polls to fool the voters into electing them President. They want us to believe that, as President, they will do something different to fix the problems and issues that face our Nation than they did with their empty posturing and inaction while in the Senate and on the campaign trail.
Looking at the many negatives of the presidential candidates separately lulls one into thinking that one of the others would be a better choice. However, looking at them together, it is obvious that the country is doomed.
Barack and Michelle Obama remind me of the saying, "When you are in a hole, stop digging." They keep on digging and are the gift that keeps on giving despite a cult following that misses the forest because the trees are in the way.
Hillary Clinton brings to mind Forrest Gump when he said, "Stupid is, as stupid does." She is truth challenged and shamelessly makes up stories for the ignorant. Even CBS TV mocked her Bosnia story. Another gift that keeps on giving.
John McCain who has been in Congress for a long time brings to mind my favorite saying, "If you are not part of the solution then you are part of the problem." He is not part of the solution.
Posted by: Les at March 28, 2008 04:06 PM
Darth it is so very sad, how much our country has changed. There are still many warriors around, those of us on here and elsewhere that see what is happening and want to do what we can to keep it from sinking further into a third world country or a country run totally by the left/socialist/communists.
But my heart almost can't break any more then it is now that's for sure.
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 28, 2008 06:00 PM
Tom you are so right, I feel like that too.
This is such a hard election on all of us. The Operation Chaos was and is a great idea and it is working too. But we still have November to deal with and the future. I guess we will be doing a lot of what on earth? and oh NO and praying in the future....like we are now.
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 28, 2008 06:06 PM
ER, there were others too that felt the same about that, Duncan Hunter, and Fred Thompson too.
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 28, 2008 06:08 PM
Bob none of them are any good that's for sure.
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 28, 2008 06:10 PM
Lynn, yes, it seeems the bold and good men are the ones we all know in our lives, on here and offline and very few maybe only a handful in politics and they aren't running for President.
When watching that John Adams show on HBO I think a lot about all of this.
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 28, 2008 06:14 PM
Jack thank you so much, it took me awhile to write it.
I agree with your comment too. Nick's nephews are all Democrats and one of them said the other day he might vote for McCain, Nick turned to him and said good idea, it won't hurt you that bad ( meaning how dissapointed he would be not to vote for his own dem party candidate) you will still be voting for a Demcorat that way. Then Nick had to explain to him what RINO stood for. He had never heard the term before.
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 28, 2008 06:24 PM
Les, thanks for the run down on each of them. Good one.
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 28, 2008 06:26 PM
I love the miniseries, John Adams.
My husband is a distant relative of Adams through a Gillett Adams, son of a Sam Adams about 75 years before John and Sam, the cousins.
I like how John told the French that "my sons will study business and agriculture, so their children will have the right to study art, music, etc."
Let's not give that away.
Posted by: Lynn at March 28, 2008 07:13 PM
Lynn, that is wonderful, how totally neat. I liked that too when he said that, I got tears in my eyes when John Adamas said that. I don't want to give that away either, you're so right.
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 28, 2008 11:45 PM
John Adams was a great Founding Father and Samual Adams beer is just as grrreat! Check out their quotes on www.wallbuilders.com and check out the archives and document categories. Our nation was FOUNDED through DIVINE PROVIDENCE x X x ...Read the 1599 Geneva Bible too... the one our forefathers read on the shores of Jamestown and Plymouth Rock.
Posted by: darthcrUSAderworldtour07 at March 29, 2008 12:13 AM
Darth thatis a wonderful website, thank you for putting it here. And thanks too for the other information.
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 29, 2008 12:28 AM
False preachers like bigot Jeremiah Wright have been identified over 2,000 years ago: 2 Timothy 3:1-7
"But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God - having a form of Godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them...."
Sounds FAMILIAR, eh? Paul got it right over 2,000 years ago!
Posted by: drstrangeloveb52isok at March 30, 2008 12:47 AM
