NYT: McCain's soothing tones in trip abroad

[maseman]

Source: MSNBC/NY Times

PARIS - Senator John McCain’s trip abroad this week — which took him from the Middle East to No. 10 Downing Street to the Élysée Palace here — was more than just a Congressional fact-finding trip, or even a candidate’s attempt to appear statesmanlike.

It was also an audition on the world stage for Mr. McCain in his new role as the Republican presidential nominee. And it offered him the chance to test his hope that he could repair America’s tattered reputation by shifting course on some of the policies that have alienated its allies, in areas like global warming and torture. But he is making his foray even as he embraces what much of the world sees as the most hated remnant of the Bush presidency: the war in Iraq.

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James M. Goldgeier, a political scientist who studies trans-Atlantic relations at the Council on Foreign Relations, said of Mr. McCain: “There are positions that he’s taken that are very different from that of the Bush administration, and sound much better to European ears, on climate change and torture.”

“But then you’ve got Iraq,” Mr. Goldgeier added.


Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23764537

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DON'T let people think that this neo-con is any different than Bush. He is just as war-loving as Shrubby and won't put any end to the Iraq occupation nor slow up against Iran.

"bomb bomb bomb...bomb bomb Iran..."

[opihimoimoi]

1. Heavy drinking in the past has his brain muddled....Smooth talking? Its an act...

[acmavm]

2. And once again the NYT starts its lying, scheming line of shit to put another

war-mongering, conniving, crooked republican in the White House.

[annabanana]

3. "Council on Foreign Relations" ?

Who are they? And why don't they know that McCain voted to ALLOW torture?

[spanone]

4. i saw that NYTimes headline....they enabled the war now they enable a warmonger