August 15, 2008
— Ace Speaking of Georgia, McCain said:
My friends, we have reached a crisis, the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War. This is an act of aggression.
"The first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War" is of course wrong. He's attempting to underscore the seriousness of Russia's aggressions and unveiled imperial ambitions, but he does so by denigrating the various other crises we've faced since then.
So, he's wrong, and the remark is dumb.
But here's how one lefty blogger responds:
Not the invasion of Kuwait? Or the first Gulf War? Or the Afghan war? Or the second Iraq war? Or Darfur? Or Bosnia? Or 9/11? It's this kind of emotional hyperbole that should worry people about McCain in the White House. He's a drama queen on these issues. With a finger on the trigger.
Which lefty blogger is accusing McCain of "emotional hyperbole" and being a "drama queen"?
If you guess the answer, I'm impressed.
This lefty blogger routinely displays his gross lack of self-awareness, often accusing others of faults that he has in high spades redoubled.
But this -- this -- shows past-mastery in obliviousness that I just didn't know was possible.
The man frequently called "Mr. Excitable" and who trades in unhinged conspiracy theories that would make Lyndon LaRouche blush really, really needs to take a good hard look at himself, try to get past the sweaty, desperate narcissism, and contemplate the possibility of his own flaws.
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Posted by: JackStraw at August 15, 2008 01:25 PM (VBon8)
Posted by: Sean M. at August 15, 2008 01:27 PM (e6v7s)
Posted by: Splunge at August 15, 2008 01:31 PM (WeKQS)
My bet is that he meant something like "first serious crisis with Russia". Sure there were things like Russia helping Saddam and Iran but that would be problematic rather than crisis.
Eh.
Posted by: abw at August 15, 2008 01:37 PM (FJ/ua)
And I think he means, "Hey, this is like Russia starting Cold War II," but he's trying to talk that down, so again, he wound up talking nonsense.
It's very eh. It's just amazing to see La Sullivan calling anyone else a "drama queen."
Posted by: ace at August 15, 2008 01:38 PM (1WR4H)
Posted by: Jack Bauer's Evil Brother at August 15, 2008 01:49 PM (k8yg6)
Posted by: mymy at August 15, 2008 01:50 PM (OouT6)
Hold me, Ace. Tell me everything will be okay.
Posted by: grc at August 15, 2008 01:51 PM (h4JIA)
Jack Cafferty is one media idiot that has played this up.
Posted by: jp at August 15, 2008 01:54 PM (jlauK)
Posted by: joe at August 15, 2008 02:01 PM (jvG2F)
Posted by: Noel at August 15, 2008 02:09 PM (4gHqM)
Posted by: runninrebel at August 15, 2008 02:13 PM (qAMnO)
You overlooked the two recent posts where Obama-boy:
1. Endorsed the theory that Karl Rove got Georgia to provoke the Russians in order to create a foreign policy crisis that would help McCain
2. Said that the Cold War was not really about democratic freedom vs. totalitarianism, but about American hegemony.
What a delusional twerp.
Posted by: Evil Old Rich White Guy at August 15, 2008 02:16 PM (H8vOt)
I was told today by an Obama supporter that McCain sounds like a "warmonger" on the subject of Georgia.
So, you see, that makes him worse than Surfing Obama on the subject.
I'm still trying to get my eyes to un-roll.
Posted by: MamaAJ at August 15, 2008 02:24 PM (X6Zdh)
Posted by: me at August 15, 2008 02:51 PM (w+qGb)
McCain is a drama queen. He will take a small conflict and transform it into World War III. Just don't say "who knew?"
Consider yourself warned!
Posted by: Alan at August 15, 2008 02:57 PM (6nEhR)
He will take a small conflict and transform it into World War III. Just don't say "who knew?"
If he somehow "transforms it into World War III" we'll all be dead and nobody will be around to ask questions.
On the other hand, you won't be around to be smug about it either, so there is a bright side.
Posted by: Steve the Pirate at August 15, 2008 03:24 PM (ad6Xd)
Posted by: toby hussein 928 at August 15, 2008 03:24 PM (evdj2)
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at August 15, 2008 03:47 PM (9p0nw)
First off he is not wrong. This is the first crisis that America has faced since the Berlin Wall that could give the US a serious defeat. The first gulf war, The Iraq war, 9/11 the Afgan war while all big events at face value when placed in the scope of world affairs and the continued exsistence of the USA they were small beans.
Russia with its nuclear weapons has the possibility of destroying this country. Not since 1989 has America faced this type of serious crisis. We have not been tested at this level since 1989. No one thought for a minute that Iraq would defeat us in 1990 nor in 2003. 9/11 while big did not threaten our very existence. The Afgan war? Please America was fighting against calvery while we used Airplanes. Dufur? Bosina? Little piss ant crisis compared to the Georgian crisis.
We now face a country with nuclear weapons, thousands of tanks, aircraft, 300 million people, the next to best weapons in the world and the will to use all of them. To compare this event to the others, misses the magnitude of this event and inflates those other events into something they were not.
The Iraq war has cost us 4,000 soldiers in 5 years. a war with Russia could cost us 4,000 soldiers in day. It could cost us millions of civilians in an hour.
McCain is dead on and is not using Hyperbole. Those that don't understand that need to check their facts.
Posted by: unseen at August 15, 2008 03:54 PM (aVGmX)
Posted by: David Ross at August 15, 2008 04:02 PM (J/i/9)
Posted by: David Ross at August 15, 2008 04:03 PM (J/i/9)
Posted by: Blackiswhite, Imperial Agent Provocateur at August 15, 2008 05:37 PM (DrUzc)
I think what McCain meant is that this is the first crisis since the Cold War that has the potential to spill over, and affect Europe, the United States, China, etc, affecting the whole international community equally - which isn't true of any of those things that Sullivan mentioned.
Although that is true of the nuclear arms race between India and Pakistan back in the day, that never got as hot as this.
So I don't know, although I wouldn't have said the statement as unqualified as McCain put it, he might have a point as far as this being one of the larger emergencies to face the world.
As for Sullivan, yeah, he fell out of the Retard tree and hit every branch on the way down. Isn't he the guy that Hitchen's called a lesbian?
Posted by: BoB at August 15, 2008 05:46 PM (DgoS8)
Let's not cast aspersions on Lyndon LaRouche. He be da man!!! And mentioning Sullivan (Suliman???) and LaRouche in the same sentence is an insult to LaRouche.
How about bringing back the LaRouche for President panoply? (Oops, forgot, he's a convicted felon. Oopf, again, run him as a democrap. Fixed.)
sarc off
Posted by: codekeyguy at August 15, 2008 06:36 PM (+WuRB)
Posted by: mississippicraig at August 15, 2008 06:48 PM (/BPla)
Consider yourself warned!
Posted by: Alan at August 15, 2008 02:57 PM (6nEhR)"
Go ahead, Alan. Warn me.And then tell me why Obama will be so much better with all his talk of tough diplomacy. And then tell me, convincingly, why Vladimir Putin is holding his sides as the pain from his numerous guffaws about Obama doing anything but whining as Russia absorbs its former states.
And then bring me a juice box.
Posted by: Nom de Blog at August 15, 2008 07:07 PM (e321h)
Why does Vladimir Putin do anything but laugh at Obama's words?
Posted by: Nom de Blog at August 15, 2008 07:08 PM (e321h)
Posted by: Kensington at August 15, 2008 11:22 PM (xFNQx)
Also his repeated hysterical calls for war here! War now!
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