1. Electing an elder man who perhaps forgot where Spain was on the map, or if that wasn’t the case, someone who doesn’t bother to ask for clarification when asked a question he doesn’t understand. (Imagine strategy meetings?)

2. Electing a man who considers the democratically elected leader of an ally an “enemy” simply because they don’t share the exact same ideologies.

And as for Jojo…Could you send you address and we could ship over the Franco memorabilia from here in Spain that you seem to so cherish. Perhaps Germany has a few Hitler busts lying around that you might want too?

http://troyshouse.blogspot.com

I will not pretend to be a conservative. I am not. However, I am truly sympathetic to true conservatives who have become apologists for an incompetent campaign and candidate. I could have been a Goldwater conservative, but the republican party of today holds no sway for me. It is has become more concerned with dictating moral edicts than holding true to its fiscal foundation. The bailout is proof of this.

Maybe the republican party can be returned to its conservative roots when President Obama gets them riled up. Then, they can throw out the Bush neocons and all the BS out there to return to roots of fiscal responsibility.

McCain’s campaign also noted that since Zapatero pulled Spanish troops out of Iraq, he has still sought a coveted White House meeting. Representatives of his government have met with the campaigns to discuss the issue.

It seems quite possible in all this that McCain had stopped paying attention to the interview, but still got the policy line right on Spain by sticking to platitudes.

But it’s hard to imagine McCain saying this of a NATO member and European democracy, even one whose government is currently not seen as friendly: “I am willing to meet with any leader who is dedicated to the same principles and philosophy that we are for human rights, democracy and freedom and I will stand up to those who are not.”

for a second there i thought you were talking about Sarah Palin.

so you’re basically saying that a good hearing aid can fix all this. haha!

TR was a moderately liberal Republican (when such creatures existed) who would have been comfortable in his party likely through the 60s or even the 70s, not unlike Javits or Keating or Brooke. He was an aggressive regulator of the excesses of Wall Street and big corp abuses - but he was no Populist. He once said, “It will never be any harder for a working man to make an appointment with me than it will be for a rich man - nor any easier.”

I’d guess that McCain identifies with TR’s bucking of his own party (in Roosevelt’s time, pro-big business legislators)and with his interventionist, even imperialist, foreign policy. TR believed in an almost radical form of what we today call American exceptionalism - that the US had the responsibility to spread its democratic institutions to the far corners of the earth - more of a Bush, neo-con position than a McCain idea.

The combination of aggressive energy, vast intelligence, and political deftness that we now see clearly as the hallmarks of the skills that TR brought to the presidency are greatly needed but sadly lacking in 2008. We have an untested cipher running against a duplicitous moral and mental midget.

Where have you gone, Teddy Roosevelt - and people of such calibre? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you….

I really take exception to you saying that Josh Marshal’s site should be dressed up like a clown. TPM may be wacky at times but the core of it citizen reporting and facts and footnotes and official documents to back up what they say. They dig, you spin and apologize. That makes you a sad clown. You must be pretty determined to see your party win at all costs to the American public because you, Rick Moran are a smart man and a brilliant writer. Your job just requires too much creativity and far-reaching spin to make a point. If McCain wins and I’m sure he won’t - he would be smart to put you on his staff.

And the following article on an Obama presidency destroying America? Pure poppycock. Absolute diatribe, a filthy representation of the facts.Pure spin….pure fiction. We know better so please - don’t give yourself a heart attack trying to spin McCain’s disastrous campaign…

See my “Blogs and the 2008 Election” post above. Marshall’s site has degenerated into highlighting the latest insignificant, irrelevant slip of the tongue or the latest Palin rumor all day all the time. This guy got an award for journalism and he’s practicing partisan hackery.

Where do I ever say an Obama presisdency would “destroy America?”

This is a quote from that article. You tell me where I say that Obama would “destroy America:”

“Yes, an Obama victory would be bad for America. But if this country can survive a Jimmy Carter, a Herbert Hoover, and a George Bush, it can certainly survive an amateur and fakir like Obama. It will be his incompetence that probably saves us in the end. He has yet to prove himself a success at anything except getting elected. He was a failure as a community organizer, a failure as head of the Chicago Annenberg Project, a failure as a state senator, and a non-entity in the short time he has been a US senator.

With a record like that, how much do we really have to worry about?”

As any fool can see, I say exactly the opposite - that an Obama presidency will NOT destroy America.

I know you’re stupid but I had no idea you lacked basic reading comprehension skills. Try a JC in your area. I’m sure they can help.

ed.