Enemies won't test me, McCain says

[sabra]

Source: CNN

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama's foreign policy positions could encourage America's enemies to test it during the early days of an Obama administration, Sen. John McCain said Wednesday.

"And the thing that probably may encourage them a little is that Sen. Obama has been wrong," McCain said in an interview aired on CNN's "The Situation Room" on Wednesday.

"He was wrong about the surge in Iraq. He still fails to acknowledge that he was wrong. I mean, remarkable," the Republican presidential nominee continued.

"He was wrong when he said Georgia should show restraint. He was wrong when he said he would sit down across the table from Ahmadinejad, Chavez and the Castro brothers. He was wrong about those. So I can understand why the American people might be concerned."

Enemies would not similarly challenge McCain, he said, because he's already been tried.

"They know I've been tested," he said. "They know I've been tested. I've been tested many times."

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/22/mccain.blitzer/i...

[electron_blue]

1. LOL McCain predicts the future! Yesterday he said the next President will be tested

by enemies. Today he says he won't be tested by enemies. Ergo.... McCain will not be President.

[Maeve]

2. Oh, there you go, using LOGIC!

Being tested forty or fifty years ago immunizes you, right Johnnie?

[liberal N proud]

5. He said the next President would be tested but he said he would not be

John McCain will not be tested because John McCain will not be President.

[cosmicone]

18. He says he has already been tested ...

he may even be thinking he has already been president before ...

remember him saying, "My friends, I know how to do this. I've done this all before."

[msongs]

3. enemies will send a seductive woman, knowing McCain is an adulterer lol

[patrice]

4. That there is proof enough that the man is not qualified for this job. He will not be Ready.

[bowens43]

6. Are lies and stupidity al McPappy has left?

[Bigmack]

7. Yet another reason...

to not vote for McSame... he's delusional.

Our economy is on the ropes, our military is overextended, and world opinion of the US is low. What better time for other powers to test the new Pres?

New guys always get tested one way or other.

[mulsh]

8. tested and failed, repeatedly

for a guy who's in more pockets than link and has a long history of shoddy performance, intellectual and moral failure he sure can brag.

[Mark E. Smith]

9. Taking a dump tests McCain

Getting dressed tests McCain. Tying his shoes tests McCain.

[high density]

10. That's a stupid comment

I guess we're back to, "vote for me, I'm a POW!" McCain has a very small scale idea of "testing."

[RaleighNCDUer]

11. Disconnect:

Does he really think ALL enemies are the same? Communist jailers tested him once - what does that have to do with Islamist terrorists? Russian nationalists?

Was he ever tested in a situation where he could direct military retaliation? Where he could take ANY direct action at all? He was never a leader in the military - he flew a plane and took orders. In the senate he was one voice in a hundred. Fer gawds sake, Sarah Palin has had more executive experience than he has.

And BTW, the surge did NOT work. What worked was ethnic cleansing. The only reason the level of violence decreased was because the enclaves stabilized after 2 million Iraqis were relocated internally and another 2 million fled the country. Obama cannot, however, publicly dispute his claim that the surge worked because once he is president he is going to have to deal with the Iraqi leadership (who know the truth of it) and cannot afford to preemptively alienate any faction by telling the truth about them. Therefore, he won't "admit" the surge worked, but neither will he spell out what actually happened. Once our forces are out of there, then he will be able to speak his mind. It's called "diplomacy".

[no_hypocrisy]

12. "Bring it on" Parte Deux.

[pipi_k]

13. Wow...I am so on the fence

Sometimes I think he's just following the script and doesn't really believe the shit he spews


Other times I almost feel sorry for the guy because he looks....senile. And disconnected. And like he really believes what the voices are telling him....


sad.

[Mz Pip]

14. So he's psychic now

He's been tested. He's been tested. He's been tested.

Has his IQ been tested?

[Stuckinthebush]

15. What an arrogant ass

That's just what we need. Four more years of an arrogant ass as presdient.

Jeez.

[Maineman]

16. No need to test McCain. He will react just like Bush did.

Although probably with more lethal violence.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

17. Well, McKeating5 was good at crashing planes, does that qualify?

[LynnTheDem]

19. McCain was for the next president being tested before he was against the next

president being tested.

And McCain is an old fool.

[damntexdem]

20. What? Instead they'll let him crash everything all on his own?

I wouldn't trust them to be so hands-off.

[DS1]

21. Waiting till after 4 pm for the State Dinners will be McCain's biggest test

[SteelPenguin]

22. that's why Al Qaeda wants McCain

They know they can provoke him into doing more shit to piss off the majority of the world, further eroding our nations standing. They fear Obama because they know that not only will he respond fairly but he'll do so with the rest of the world behind him, and even many parts of the Arab world will respect him a hell of a lot more than McCain BECAUSE his father was muslim, and he respects the religion.

The last thing Al Qaeda wants is an Obama presidency.

[RussBLib]

23. He's been tested alright. And he's failed.

John McCain is right he was tested. He was tested in the Naval Academy and graduated 894th out of 899. He was tested again when he was put in an airplane he responded by crashing. He was tested as other POW's were and he broke when others didn't. He was tested when he came home and his beauty queen wife wasn't the same woman and he left her for a younger, richer, more beautiful woman. He was tested when he was approached by Charles Keating and fellow congressmen and he chose corruption over honor. More recently he was tested along with other Americans on 911 and he chose to publicly blame the wrong party and advocate for the wrong war. He was tested with our current economic crisis and responded with the fundamentals of our economy our strong. He was tested with dropping poll numbers and chose a dishonorable campaign.

McCain has failed every test and he wants us to trust him with our safety?

[alison]

24. Well it's nice to know that McCain is a psychic.

What an ass.

You've been tested, and you failed. Your arrogance is blatant and sickening.

[tbredbeck]

25. Surge, Baby, Surge!

The Surge is tactical in nature, something that really should be below the radar screen of the president. Wasn't one of Vietnam's problems the micro-managing of the war by McNamara, etc?

And the idea that enemies won't test McCain is total bullshit. It really is "Bring 'em on" part two.

You don't say that out loud.

[City Lights]

26. When were you tested, John?

Find me some examples and get back to me, mkay?

[xxqqqzme]

29. Why is he never asked that question?

He says he was tested ALL th time. It is part of his stump speech; his debate babble and interview BS. Just when were you tested John?

[mitchum]

32. Apparently he failed PLENTY of tests at Annapolis...

resulting in his graduating at the bottom of his class

[HopeHoops]

27. Of course not, John - they already know you are a, wait, what's that 'c' word you like again?

[NoGOPZone]

28. Bush thought the same thing when ignoring PDBs saying Bin Laden was determined to strike in the US

The result was 9/11. We don't need another one, John.

[la la]

30. I seriously think...

he's suffering from onset dementia/alzheimers. I'm not being facetious---i mean it.

[FUCK_BUSH]

31. He is right, because McSmae himself+Failin are the enemies of this country

[catnhatnh]

33. All I can say John is....

"Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin"....the handwriting is on the wall. You have been weighed and weighed, and measured and found wanting.

Your bible spouting asshole supporters should LOVE that quote.

[olddad56]

34. No, they would never test a man would has blundered his way through his life...

and has a history of being a hot head. I think other countries would be more apt to welcome the change in our government and test the diplomatic approach first with Obama.

These 'enemy states' don't hate America, or American people, they hate our government.

[Zhade]

35. Yeah, because you aren't going to be president, you fucking douchebag!

NT!

[truthisfreedom]

36. You're gonna handle this country just like you've handled your campaign and those umm... 5 planes?

How many millions of dollars worth of military equipment did you turn into junk when you were "tested?"

[GoddessOfGuinness]

37. He's even as delusional as Dumbyass

McSame.

[ngant17]

38. World events don't happen in a predictable, straight-line trajectories

there are all sorts of complex events which can't be predicted and won't be predicted. Whether or not someone will be tested by unpredictable events is impossible to answer.

If he's saying he so de-sensitized to atrocities and mass-murder, that he wouldn't have any reaction to being "tested", then we most certainly will have some kind of Raygun-clone of a automaton in office.

Whether or not this is a desirable feature in a US President, I would be more concerned about his life expectancy from simple old age and natural causes, and the fact that we wouldn't be able to predict what kind of forces would take over in his absence, at it would be conceivable that they would use VP Palin as their puppet.

Just as frightening, even if Obama hasn't been fully tested and tempered, this silly vapid Palin has even less of that quality for us.