Diplomacy, demeanor and lying.

[ColbertWatcher]

Poll question: Diplomacy, demeanor and lying.

I learned a long time ago to weigh a person's behavior as more valid when that behavior contradicts what that same person says. It's always been my way of telling if someone is lying to me.

During the first debate, McCain refused to look at Obama; at one point in the second debate, McCain dismissed his Senate colleague with a nickname. When John McCain says he respects Barack Obama, at the same time he cannot look at him or say his name, it proves McCain is lying. Eugene Robinson offered an explanation by saying that McCain needs to create a personal narrative based on hate toward his opponent in order to argue or debate with him.

If Robinson is correct and McCain needs to hate an opponent in order to argue or debate him, how will this go over with leaders of other countries? From what I've seen the only honorable thing about McCain is that he isn't a very good liar. He telegraphs his intentions through his demeanor and make--in my opinion--would make any efforts of diplomacy virtually impossible.

Obviously the U.S. president would not be the first person to meet with other world leaders. But, once if he were elected and he was to meet with any, would John McCain be able to hide his contempt for leaders he would feel the need to hate. Or, would he be able to hide his manufactured hatred for leaders he cannot remember if he's supposed to hate or not (like how he forgot that Spain was an ally).

To contrast, instead of relying on TV ads or surrogates, Obama called out McCain for singing about bombing Iran to his face.

Now my question:

Does John McCain's demeanor during the debates show what kind of diplomat he would be? And would that be beneficial or a detriment for America?

This is purely hypothetical and dependent on another GOP theft of a U.S. election.

[YDogg]

1. does he even argue about his temper?

[ColbertWatcher]

2. McCain?

He doesn't acknowledge what he doesn't acknowledge.

[YDogg]

3. he's a freakin' psycho

[AndyTiedye]

4. McCain Thinks Most of the People in the World Are "Gooks"

[ColbertWatcher]

6. So true.

He wouldn't last in a meeting with any Asian country.

[MissMarple]

5. McCain is a rogue....how deep is the irony?

Fighter pilots are ...great guys. We love them, we need them. But how many are of presidential stature, well, what presidential stature used to be?

He is as diplomatic as a rogue elephant in the Taj Mahal.

[Baldameer]

7. McCains whole persona and party is in question.

I for one am tired of the fear and seething hate from the NeoConservatives. I'm just sick of it and quite frankly they need to grow up, perhaps take advantage of the mental health benefit passed recently, because it is not healthy to feed off of or induce fear. These past 8yrs we have all been living in an insane asylum frantically looking for the fountain to throw through the window.

I'm old enough to remember when the majority of American candidates on both sides checked such baggage of fear and deemed it a weakness and replaced it with resolve, steel and optimism. Sure there has always been dirty pool in politics and some moderate fear thrown to caution for political gain, but nothing to the effect and magnitude demonstrated by the NeoConservatives, which has only been equaled by the dark regimes of past and present. It has been an 8yrs of crisis after crisis after crisis and a few catastrophes thrown in for good measure. It didn't have to be this way, when in fact it was made this way, because of a lack of responsibility, foresight, negligence and ignorance and dare I say a lack of genuine affection and respect for the American people and our allies.

We were divided, told to mistrust, led down blind alleys of false truths by the all too willing media and the Neoconservative spin machine.

The fear card has been played to death and a mass majority are fed up. When John McCain says "Country First" and then in the next moment plays the fear card to insinuate Barack is a terrorist, I have to think to myself we have Osama Bin Ladin in Afghanistan that needs to be dealt with and rather than discuss the true nature of concern, he tries to project lies to the public and play a dangerous game that is only rivaled by the Nazis. Those of us who read history, know all too well what game they are playing and the nature of it is hellish and fiendish.

Over here in Indiana you have Barack speaking of change and hope and over in another town John McCain is frantically pacing the stage inciting a vertitable lynch mob and in some other state Palin is gathering her diminion that the KKK would be proud of.

"Love" is a strong word, in fact the strongest word to my knowledge and one that drives people to overcome any fear, but there is also another strong word that drives fear from our minds and that is "Hope." The hope that we all will one day learn to love and respect each other.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge said it best... "In politics what begins in fear usually ends in folly."

Well it truly seems that way as of late.

[ColbertWatcher]

8. Well said and what a debut! Welcome to DU! n/t

[Baldameer]

9. Thanks for the welcome..

:)