I know you’ve probably all seen this, but here’s the McCain remix on the Barack Obama “Yes We Can” video
This pretty much sums it up. “American won’t have a problem with troops being in Iraq for 100 years”? People got sick of it after about 2 years, and remain so.
And none other than Ron Paul weighs in today in the Tribune. It’s not really a surprise, but he doesn’t like McCain:
“I can not support anybody with the foreign policy he advocates, you know, perpetual war. That is just so disturbing to me,” Paul said. “I think it’s un-American, un-Constitutional, immoral, and not Republican.”
He forgot illegal. Virtually the only reason Dr. Paul began to stick out in this campaign is people seeing him as the only Republican onstage in the debates who opposed the war in Iraq. All of his other positions wouldn’t have gotten him any attention-they’re actually fairly similar to most conservative positions, which for practical reasons, most conservatives won’t say out loud, like eliminating the Fed and the IRS etc. His p0sition on Iraq is what “made” him (besides his necessary reliance on the internet for campaigning). As George Will put it, Ron Paul makes the case that not only can you oppose the War and be a conservative, but that if you are a conservative, you must oppose the war.
Honestly, for anyone who thinks like the person I mentioned in the previous post, and will vote for McCain because he’s a “deficit hawk” needs to think about just what the last five years in Iraq have done to our deficit, and then think about what it would be like a hundred years from now. America and Iraq, third-world allies.
And none of this “the hundred years quote is taken out of context” mess. McCain’s already embraced indefinite occupation.
Feel free to disagree.
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