McCain Mocks Idea Of...Talks With Enemies, Despite Fact That Majority Of Americans Favor It»

[babylonsister]

Who's advising this clown?


http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/02/poll-favor-negotiations/

McCain Mocks Idea Of Presidential Talks With Enemies, Despite Fact That Majority Of Americans Favor It»

Speaking at the America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) meeting today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) derided the idea of direct talks with the Iranian leadership, as favored by Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), mocking “the hope that we can talk sense into them“:

{W}e hear talk of a meeting with the Iranian leadership offered up as if it were some sudden inspiration, a bold new idea that somehow nobody has ever thought of before. Yet it’s hard to see what such a summit with President Ahmadinejad would actually gain, except an earful of anti-Semitic rants, and a worldwide audience for a man who denies one Holocaust and talks before frenzied crowds about starting another.

McCain has compared negotiating with Iran to Neville Chamberlain and the appeasement of Hitler prior to World War II. Last month, he insisted Obama “ought to explain to the American people” why he wants to negotiate with Iranian leaders.

It turns out Americans don’t require much explanation. A new poll shows that a majority of Americans favors direct presidential meetings “with leaders of foreign countries considered to be enemies of the United States”:


The poll found that about six in 10 Americans favor direct presidential talks with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad specifically. “Both positions enjoy broad popular appeal, with majorities of men, women, younger and older Americans, and those from different regions of the country all saying direct presidential-level talks with Iran and other enemies are a good idea,” Gallup reports.

McCain has said that “the American people want a president who is prepared to lead our country in a dangerous world.” Apparently he hasn’t listened to how they want that president to lead the country.

[Parche]

They

Wouldn't be our enemies, if you had a good talk with those Countries

Something that Condoloser-Rice-A-Roni has never done, and is the worst Sec Of State ever

:grr: :grr: :grr:

[Parche]

1. They

Wouldn't be our enemies, if you had a good talk with those Countries

Something that Condoloser-Rice-A-Roni has never done, and is the worst Sec Of State ever

:grr: :grr: :grr:

[electropop]

2. McCain is too weak and timid to talk to enemies, unlike our strong Dem candidate.

[boobooday]

3. Now, McCain is "experienced" and so he knows

That "talking" with enemies means the bombs are going to pile up here at home, the inventory will become too much, the money will stop flowing, and then you either need to sell some or drop some, and you can't do that with a bunch of namby-pamby TALKING going on.

:mad: :mad:

[Fridays Child]

6. Which explains why he doesn't care, just like Bush, what the majority of Americans think.

As long as those deep, fascist pockets are happy, McCain is happy.

[NJmaverick]

4. He is the 2 canidate

Too old
Too out of touch

[maxsolomon]

5. tried & true GOP tactic

position yourself as masculine & paint your opponent as feminine. that's what * did to Kerry, his dad to Dukakis. its their tactic until it fails. and it hasn't yet.

[DaveJ]

7. I think people are now more focused on maturity vs childishness

My guess is, most people consider it childish to refuse to talk to people for whatever reason.

Perhaps mature/childish will become a greater concern than male/female. At least I hope. Perhaps this will replace the gender role dilemma.

Younger people see their parents acting more childish than they do and are getting sick of it.

[maxsolomon]

12. historically, "childish" old people vote

young people SAY they will vote & then don't.

until that changes, the tactic won't change.

[VP505]

8. How the hell do you

resolve differences or come to an agreement that is acceptable when you don't talk to all parties involved, it called give and take and both sides have to be willing to do so or you never solve anything? The GOP brain just doesn't seem capable of understanding that. Fifty years ago we, the USA might have been in a position to act in a one sided way but not now and sure as hell not in the future.

[DinahMoeHum]

9. McCain's sorry ass would still have been in a Hanoi prison. . .

if Nixon and Kissinger hadn't talked with the Vietnamese way back then.

:evilfrown:

[treestar]

10. Stunning. How does he know it would be

" an earful of anti-Semitic rants, and a worldwide audience for a man who denies one Holocaust and talks before frenzied crowds about starting another."

If he hasn't talked to him, he really doesn't know that. If he talked to him and that's what he heard, he'd have an excuse not to talk to him. How elementary is that?

[graywarrior]

11. I'm seeing McCain stickers all over North Conway.

These people are souless.

[anonymous171]

13. He's probably afraid of being in the same room as these "scary foreigners."

[LSK]

14. WHERE THE FUCK DOES THIS ASSCLOWN GET OFF???

HE STILL THINKS THE MOST FAILED WAR IN US HISTORY CAN BE WON.

A WAR HE FAVORED ALL ALONG.

HE DOESNT HAVE A FUCKING CLUE.

:grr: :grr: :grr:

[babylonsister]

17. He doesn't appear to have one, does he. Now all we need is for

the m$m to cover McCain and Obama honestly. But will that happen?

[malaise]

15. Did he say

So?

[libnnc]

16. so how does he justify his buddies

dealing with Iran in the 80s?


hmmmmmmm?

Asshole.