By Danny

Mar 31, 2009 8:15pm

McCain to Obama: Don’t Be Like LBJ

ABC News’ Teddy Davis reports: Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has been largely supportive of President Obama’s plans to bolster U.S. forces in Afghanistan but he said Tuesday that his former rival should go a step further and commit now to boosting US forces in Afghanistan next year by 10,000 additional troops. By waiting until later this year to evaluate the level of forces needed, McCain thinks Obama is opening himself up to the charge that he is behaving like former President Lyndon Johnson during the Vietnam War. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., told a foreign policy group on March 31, 2009, in Washington, DC, that President Obama should commit now to boosting US forces in Afghanistan next year by 10,000 additional troops.
Ferdous Al-Faruque/ ABC News "The second thing I would have done, probably, is went ahead and announced the overall additional 10,000 troops, rather than be accused of a Lyndon-Johnson-style incrementalism," said McCain. "Because it’s very clear what General McKiernan asked for." McCain made his remarks in Washington, D.C., while participating in a Q&A with Robert Kagan of The Foreign Policy Initiative, a hawkish group which was recently organized by Kagan, a former speechwriter for Reagan Secretary of State George Shultz, Bill Kristol, the founder of the Weekly Standard magazine, and Dan Senor, a former spokesman for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. Although Defense Secretary Robert Gates said as recently as Sunday on Fox News that the Obama administration has "fulfilled all the requirements that Gen. McKiernan has put down for 2009," McCain’s remarks could tap into concerns among senior officers that Obama is pursuing a piecemeal approach to the troop build-up in Afghanistan by not looking ahead to 2010. "He was obviously referencing the Vietnam War," McCain spokeswoman Brooke Buchanan told ABC News when asked about the invocation of LBJ. Instead of calling for 17,000 additional troops for Afghanistan when he first took office followed by 4,000 additional troops last week followed by what McCain expects will be 10,000 additional troops next year, the Arizona senator thinks Obama should talk with US commanders, anticipate the level of forces needed, and act now to prepare the public. "We will and can and must succeed," said McCain. "But it’s not going to be easy and there may not be an Anbar awakening." ABC News’ Martha Raddatz and Luis Martinez contributed to this report.

User Comments

Personally, I’d rather have NO troops in the mid-east.
But, I’ll be patient. I do believe the current administration is heading in the right direction.
I can only surmise I would not have this calm and confidence had Mr. McCain taken the presidential oath of office.

Posted by: dassis | March 31, 2009, 8:36 pm 8:36 pm

Newsflash, Senator McCain, you were not elected, and subsequently these are not your calls to make. Get over it.

Posted by: iamwomaninMI | March 31, 2009, 8:59 pm 8:59 pm

We need to stay out of Afghanistan. No one there is hurting us right now. This will be further loss of American blood and treasure. Look where Afghanistan ended for Russia. Put those American soldiers here guarding the Homeland. Spend the treasure right here, not over there. We can’t fix Afghanistan. Can we fix America first?

Posted by: mercury57 | March 31, 2009, 9:00 pm 9:00 pm

The US needs to stop being the world’s Band-Aid because we can’t get it right here at home. Why should the Afghans get a bail-out? What do they do for the US? Plenty of people out there who want to work & live to protect their own future. Sending 10k troops to protect us from Mustafa and his pals is pointless.

Posted by: Jabadoggie | March 31, 2009, 9:14 pm 9:14 pm

McCain is a poor student of history, and would have blundered if he were the president on Afghanistan. “Incrementalism” isn’t what doomed us in Vietnam; it was that the war was unjust and the reasons for getting into it in the first place were either lies or misguided. Sound familiar? Secondly, we don’t need the massive force that he had called for last year and before. The Soviets already tried that approach, and it didn’t work.

Posted by: w_roos | March 31, 2009, 9:15 pm 9:15 pm

Russia’s Vietnam is about to become Americas third! How many quagmires can this country take???

Posted by: hmn... | March 31, 2009, 9:32 pm 9:32 pm

Hey, McCain, you weren’t elected, so why don’t you shut up already? It’s bad enough you embarrassed yourself during your campaign and inflicted Sarah Moron Palin on us. Just go away. You have no credibility anymore after the mess you made of things and how far you showed us you were willing to go to win. Again, in case you missed it, you lost. Now shut up already.

Posted by: Oh Please | March 31, 2009, 9:36 pm 9:36 pm

I wish MCCain would shut up. We voted for Obama not McCain/Bush Policy. MCCain just dont get it. Obama aproving rate is 66 percent. MCCain needs to get into the 21 centrey. I see nobody is really listening to the Republicans but the Republicans.

Posted by: gl | March 31, 2009, 9:43 pm 9:43 pm

I bet MCcain get a hard on just talking about the war. This is why he was not elected becasue he would have us fighting all kinds of war all over the country. You and the Republicans took your eye of the Afans war to fight your Iraq war for Bush so shut the F UP old MrWar and take a sleeping bill and laid it down for the next 4 or 8 years and let the one the American people elected – President Obama run the show.

Posted by: gl | March 31, 2009, 9:48 pm 9:48 pm

TYPICAL NEOCON RESPONSE, MORE YOUNG BOOTS ON THE GROUND. THAT MR. McCAIN – - – - IS WHY YOU LOST!!!
What is clear to most Americans, and what is becoming clear to leaders around the globe, is that President Obama is serious about using all available resources to work through its differences with other nations.
The U.S. is not just a “one trick pony” knowing only how to use her military might. Having military prowess is a good thing and for many reasons. BUT HAVING SMARTS and WISDOM TO GO ALONG WITH THAT MILITARY PROWESS IS THE GREATEST. Neither McCain, Bush Jr., Cheney, or the NEOCONS understood that simple precept.

Posted by: Perusing-Through | March 31, 2009, 9:48 pm 9:48 pm

Hey, McCain, you weren’t elected, so why don’t you shut up already? It’s bad enough you embarrassed yourself during your campaign and inflicted Sarah Moron Palin on us. Just go away. You have no credibility anymore after the mess you made of things and how far you showed us you were willing to go to win. Again, in case you missed it, you lost. Now shut up already.

Posted by: huhuhuhu | March 31, 2009, 9:49 pm 9:49 pm

OK, let’s say we just packed it up and headed out of Afgan…Let OBL reestablish himself as a relevant figure in the mideast and the leader of jihad. Let OBL, once again, destabilize the entire Mid East, AGAIN, Pakistan then is overtaken by insugents and radicals, putting the entire planet at risk when nuclear material is compromised and gets in the hands of the wrong people…then you wake up one morning with not planes hitting a building, or a train in Mafrid that is blown up, but nuclear detonations in our country and other countries. These insugents in Afgan are not just a group to keep our military busy, these are legit threats to civilization. They do not care about you, your twitter, your kids, your anything. They just want to kill as many of us as possible and die a martar. If we don’t do it, no one will. Do see any other nation standing up to take this head on? NO! That;s why we are the country we are today. Because we take the tough assignments. I agree with McCain. Nip this in the bud now…If your a doctor and you see a symptom for a serious disease, do you say “Ah, they’re fine now. Let;s wait until it becomes a full blown disease, then we’ll put the anti-bodies in him”…NO, you tackle the problem head on before it becomes a bigger problem. Wake up.

Posted by: realistnga | March 31, 2009, 9:50 pm 9:50 pm

ahhh, 62 million people(48%)of the voting populus thought he was a better choice than Obama and from what i am reading in the blogs many that voted for Obama would change their vote to McCain.

Posted by: Boxcar | March 31, 2009, 9:54 pm 9:54 pm

Oh wow, this sure is a refreshing change from the comments at AOL News (and the news part is a stretch). You can tell that a lot of the community still drags their knuckles along the ground!

Posted by: Lauren | March 31, 2009, 9:59 pm 9:59 pm

Leave it to McCain to have the “experience” to bring up LBJ…
http://www.political-buzz.com/

Posted by: matt | March 31, 2009, 10:00 pm 10:00 pm

Boxcar – Dream on with you lies. Yea, if all you read if Fox nosie then yea you would think thank that. 48 percent of this world a still dump with are mostly the evil Republicans. You republicans lose so we don’t have to listen to loser. Obama have a 66 approve rating so that me so it looks like more people are staring to realized President Obama is the right choice.

Posted by: gl | March 31, 2009, 10:03 pm 10:03 pm

Who cares what McCain says? He’s a chronic flip flopper who got absolutely smoked in an electoral landslide.

Posted by: Rich | March 31, 2009, 10:04 pm 10:04 pm

AOL News – is just like listing to FOX NOSIE. ALL RACIST REPUBLICANS!

Posted by: GL | March 31, 2009, 10:05 pm 10:05 pm

Actually, while I am glad Sen. McCain is not our president, he does have a good point. I respect his views on matters like these.

Posted by: stuart2560 | March 31, 2009, 10:05 pm 10:05 pm

What has gotten into all these Obama-bots? Do you really want the government to have this much control in your lives? Does it not frighten you that the prez of the US fired an executive at a private company? Does it not frighten you that the government is spending money that we don’t have or our grandchildren don’t have? Does it not bother you that the Chinese basically own this counret with all the debt we have towards them…and it’s growing? Are you that drunk off the kool-aid that you can’t see what is taking place…or is it that you know what’s taking place and you like the fact that the government will tell you how to live, what to drive, how spend your monet etc etc…it doesn’t matter if this was a Demo, Liberal or Republican…this scares the absolute crap out of me.

Posted by: realistnga | March 31, 2009, 10:05 pm 10:05 pm

Does it not frighten you,Does it not frighten you,Does it not frighten you. NO! what frighten me was McCain/Palin.

Posted by: Thecat | March 31, 2009, 10:22 pm 10:22 pm

BUSH, CHENEY, RUMSFELD, MCCAIN, GONZALES ET. AL ARE GUILTY OF VIOLATING The Logan Act (18 U.S.C.A. § 953 [1948]).
THEY ALLOWED THE 9-11 ATTACKS THROUGH NEGLIGENCE AT BEST, THEN STARTED A WAR FOR OIL IN IRAQ, WHILE LETTING THE REAL PERPETRATORS GO IN AFGHANISTAN. NOW, THEY ARE TRYING TO CONFUSE THE AMERICAN PUBLIC.
FOR ‘HANOI TRAITOR’ MCCAIN TO ATTACK OBAMA OVER AFGHANISTAN IS TELLING, INDEED.
THE ROLE OF THE WHOLE BUNCH OF NEO-CONS IN THE CURRENT ECONOMIC MESS, PRECIPITATED BY 9-11 AND IRAQ, SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED BY CONGRESS, THE ‘HOUSING FOR ALL’ SCANDAL WAS
JUST A RUSE USED BY THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION ALONG WITH 200 BUCK TAX GIVEAWAYS TO PULL THE WOOL OVER THE EYEES OF THE PUBLIC AND BUY THEIR SUPPORT FOR THE WAR AND LOOTING OF THE BANKS.

Posted by: CHUCK | March 31, 2009, 10:28 pm 10:28 pm

John, knock knock… you didn’t win… Obama is President of these United States.

Posted by: MrSleepy | March 31, 2009, 10:29 pm 10:29 pm

It’s not your call McCain, and if you mean well perhaps give advise when asked or in private. This is clear message McCain doesn’t respect majority of American people WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA. What happened to him not being sore loser. IT’S NOT YOUR CALL, BUT OBAMA’S.

Posted by: zorra | March 31, 2009, 10:35 pm 10:35 pm

For all the obama supporters here, read this post…see if you think any of it apploes to YOU!
http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2009/03/31/the_top_seven_techniques_liberals_use_to_lie_about_conservatives

Posted by: ConservativeGal2 | March 31, 2009, 10:38 pm 10:38 pm

Time to get the hell out of there. NOW

Posted by: Jimmy | March 31, 2009, 10:39 pm 10:39 pm

w_roos:
If John McCain is a poor student of history, you have shown yourself to be no student at all. The BS you shovel in your post shows that you are either too young to have been through the Vietnam years, or got all of your news through the nightly news on TV; in either case, you have made it abundantly clear that you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Short Lesson: President Dwight D. Eisenhower is the one who got us into Vietnam; he did this at the request of the government of South Vietnam – it was not some unilateral “adventure”. From there, things escalated and we soon found ourselves committed beyond what anyone had anticipated. Should we ever have gotten involved in a ground war in this area? Probably not. Once committed, should we have sold our allies there down the river when it became fashionable in this country to protest the war? Absolutely not!
Here’s the biggest shock of all to those who were not there or, once again, got all their news from the TV: WE WON THAT WAR!! There was not one major battle over there that we lost, and we had the North Vietnamese ready to quit fighting and come to peace talks in the position of a vanquished foe. The thing that kept them fighting at all? They were given the hope of a political victory by the anti-war protesters in this country. It became clear that, if they kept fighting, even though they were losing badly, this country would become so splintered and demoralized that they could win at a conference table what they could never win in combat. They were right; to our everlasting shame, we abandoned a people we had sworn to protect – our word as a nation became worthless.
Now, our new President appears to be headed for the same mistakes; he needs to hear some advice from those who have been through this before. This Democrat extends thanks to Senator McCain for his efforts on behalf of the grunts in the field and the country as a whole, and his willingness to assist his old rival, rather than sitting back and letting that rival tread down a path already shown to be strewn with land mines ready to blast the unwary.
I wonder how many of my fellow Democrats would have been willing to share such insights with McCain if the election had gone the other way?

Posted by: Walker Evans | March 31, 2009, 10:49 pm 10:49 pm

Walker Evans…well said.

Posted by: ConservativeGal2 | March 31, 2009, 10:59 pm 10:59 pm

The war to capture or kill Osama was lost in 2001. That’s why Bush went into Iraq. Obama will have no success against the Taliban in Pakistan, maybe in Afghan, but unless the Pakistani army acts against them there is no chance for the USA to do so. Musharef could have handled it, with increased pressure, but the present government is too soft. Why no US success? Same reason as in 2001. What is it? Did you miss it then? You sure sound like you did. You never got it, but Bush and Cheney did. Why was it a lost cause in 2001? Do speak up if you know. The same reason it will fail now. What is it? Why the silence? OK, I’ll tell you, you don’t deserve it, but I’ll tell you. Because just as the US was preparing to drop daisy cutters on Pakistan, the Muslim purists attacked Kashmir, and brought India and Pak to the very brink of nuclear war. It was in all the papers. Most of you guys didn’t read about it? Stalemate. Ergo Iraq.

Posted by: JB | March 31, 2009, 11:06 pm 11:06 pm

Obamanomics is the middle of the end of my life of freedom!

Posted by: MightyMike | March 31, 2009, 11:08 pm 11:08 pm

Please just be pro american that is all.

Posted by: Ramonna | March 31, 2009, 11:10 pm 11:10 pm

It’s not your call McCain BOTTOM LINE – THIS IS TO ALL YOU WHO THINK OBAMA NEEDS TO LISTEN TO MCCAN. Mccian lose and you fools need to realized that.
ConservativeGal2 – Your party lose so why don’t you get lose as well! McWar lose and I am so glad he did. McWar have no problem with spending our money on wars and more wars, but have a real problem with spending moeny in the USA like Health care becasue McWar is set for life with his Health care.

Posted by: gl | March 31, 2009, 11:24 pm 11:24 pm

McWar is at it again taking about the war when it is the ECONOMY HE NEEDS TO BE TAKING ABOUT. We is the Republicans budget McWar? Oh’ that right you no nothing about the ecomony. McWar that we are still fight Vietnam War.
IT IS THE ENCOMY YOU OLD MCWAR FOOL!

Posted by: GL | March 31, 2009, 11:28 pm 11:28 pm

Mr.McCain you are not elected the president.Let the president OBAMA do everything you just do look.

Posted by: linh | March 31, 2009, 11:28 pm 11:28 pm

Nice posters everyone ! but let me tell you, having a different opinion in the USA is not illegal but Constitutional. Why Afghanistan ? because that is where the criminals that killed over 3,000 americans are hiding and controlling all terrorists cells, yes terrorists. Let’s see what you Lampoons are going to say if we get attacked again….

Posted by: frank | March 31, 2009, 11:31 pm 11:31 pm

Memo to Sen. McKranky:
Show some class like other presidential election losers. Zip It!
By the way, this professional lifetime obsession you have with the blilnking red-light on the camera is wearing thin. Pres. Obama has been very gracious to you. You have responded with your standard Repube thinkly veiled smart-ass, sarcasm

Posted by: B. Bear | March 31, 2009, 11:35 pm 11:35 pm

At least LBJ was a “natural born citizen”, When will the President release a copy of his original birth certificate (not the abstract on the internet) on file in Hawaii? I mean, like, really, when will the press start to hold him to account, starting at the most elemental level? Who is this guy, anyway? Is the constitution “Just words… just words”?

Posted by: Terry | March 31, 2009, 11:40 pm 11:40 pm

McCain is right to warn Obama on his handling of the Afghan fight.
Mac really needs to warn Obama about how LBJ handled paying for his unpopular war. Simply put LBJ printed the money he needed to stay in Vietnam as well as for his Great Society programs. This resulted in the inflation that Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter could not control.
Obama is heading down this same path. The incredible spending approved by his Budget an Stimulus packages cannot be financed by borrowing alone. The Chinese and Saudis won’t buy all the debt notes that Obama offers. The President will have to print what he needs. The inevitable result will be spiraling inflation – probably beginning early 2010.

Posted by: MAS1916 | March 31, 2009, 11:41 pm 11:41 pm

“OK, let’s say we just packed it up and headed out of Afgan…Let OBL reestablish himself as a relevant figure in the mideast and the leader of jihad. Let OBL, once again, destabilize the entire Mid East, AGAIN, Pakistan then is overtaken by insugents and radicals, putting the entire planet at risk when nuclear material is compromised and gets in the hands of the wrong people…then you wake up one morning with not planes hitting a building, or a train in Mafrid that is blown up, but nuclear detonations in our country and other countries. These insugents in Afgan are not just a group to keep our military busy, these are legit threats to civilization. They do not care about you, your twitter, your kids, your anything. They just want to kill as many of us as possible and die a martar. If we don’t do it, no one will. Do see any other nation standing up to take this head on? NO! That;s why we are the country we are today. Because we take the tough assignments. I agree with McCain. Nip this in the bud now…If your a doctor and you see a symptom for a serious disease, do you say “Ah, they’re fine now. Let;s wait until it becomes a full blown disease, then we’ll put the anti-bodies in him”…NO, you tackle the problem head on before it becomes a bigger problem. Wake up. ”
ALRIGHT!!!!! SOMEONE HERE IS TALKING SOME SENSE!!!!!
And again:
“Nice posters everyone ! but let me tell you, having a different opinion in the USA is not illegal but Constitutional. Why Afghanistan ? because that is where the criminals that killed over 3,000 americans are hiding and controlling all terrorists cells, yes terrorists. Let’s see what you Lampoons are going to say if we get attacked again….”
AMEN!!!!!! Some of you whiny wusses seem to have forgotten the horror of the 9/11 attacks already. We CANNOT ignore the terrorist threat or we may not be so lucky next time. McCain knows what he is talking about and hopefully the current administration has some backbone to complete the mission in Afghanistan.

Posted by: JustMe | March 31, 2009, 11:44 pm 11:44 pm

Frank – the point is McWar and the rest of the Republicans should have never taken their eye of this war to start a war in Iraq. Afghanisten should have been the only war we should be fighting, but no Bush and all his cronies lied to the American people in put the Iraq war in full gear and forgot all about the war in Afgan so we really don’t want to her what McWar thinks or the Republicans. 8 years were enough.

Posted by: gl | March 31, 2009, 11:46 pm 11:46 pm

ConservativeGal: Why would we bother to read any of the junk that has you and other sore losers looking for reasons not to support our President? McCain lost. Barack H. Obama is POTUS. This is not the Middle East. We don’t divide our nation when things don’t always go our way. But, you don’t get it, do you?

Posted by: Mike from Carolina | March 31, 2009, 11:46 pm 11:46 pm

Where was McCain 7 and a half years ago when we should have been hunting down Bin Laden instead of chasing Sadam?

Posted by: jiml1956 | March 31, 2009, 11:49 pm 11:49 pm

MAS1916 – I am so sick of reading you right wing nuts comments about Obama needs to listen to MCCain. We didn’t elected your party to run things GET THAT! ALL YOU RIGHT WING NUTS SHUT THE F UP. YOUR PARTY WAS NOT ELECTED TO GIVE THEIR IN PUT! 8 years of you right wing nuts is enough already. You nuts just don’t get it. McCain/War nut would have us fighting for 100 years in IRAQ if he was elected and wouldn’t care about Afgan war. He is just taking to make himself relavent. He is not relavent and needs to keep he stupid mouth shut becasue he is not the President. If we thought he would do the job than he would be the President BOTTOM LINE! President Obama have a 66 Approve rate and don’t need no advise from McWar dump ass!

Posted by: gl | March 31, 2009, 11:54 pm 11:54 pm

Terry: Did you insist on seeing the birth certificate for any other POTUS? NO !. There will be no double standard for Obama just because he is black and Hannity & Co. put out a suggestive rumor. The President of the United States is not oblidged to respond to nonsense. BTW, all BC’s are private and not open to public scrutiny w/o the consent of a principal party on the document. I repeat: There will be no double standard for Barack Obama. Get it?

Posted by: Mike from Carolina | March 31, 2009, 11:55 pm 11:55 pm

Where was McCain 7 and a half years ago when we should have been hunting down Bin Laden instead of chasing Sadam?
Yea, where was he?

Posted by: gl | March 31, 2009, 11:56 pm 11:56 pm

Mike from Carolina etal…you have demonstrated the Five Pillars of the Liberal Faith:
1. Hysteria…ie crisis…crisis….
2. Denial of reality…self explanatory
3. Thought control..might not recognnize that one
4. Name calling…..lots of that here
5. Projection of guilt
Classic

Posted by: ConservativeGal2 | March 31, 2009, 11:58 pm 11:58 pm

The neocons are still at it. Time for a revolution and hang them high–literally.

Posted by: John adams | April 1, 2009, 12:02 am 12:02 am

John McCain seriously needs a coronary. Kristol needs to be hanged as soon as humanly possible.

Posted by: John Adams | April 1, 2009, 12:05 am 12:05 am

John Adams—are you threatening peoples lives???? Be careful with that one!

Posted by: ConservativeGal2 | April 1, 2009, 12:11 am 12:11 am

John Adams – Revolution? Really, are you prepared for such an eventuality? Wouldn’t you be swept away? Don’t you rely on the “status quo” for your very security? Isn’t better to hope for peace?

Posted by: Terry | April 1, 2009, 12:24 am 12:24 am

other countries don’t want to help usa, in Afghanistan maybe we should just pull out also, give it back to the Talban, and al queda,, we should not be fighting this alone

Posted by: trueno | April 1, 2009, 12:25 am 12:25 am

Mike from Carolina — Was there any question for any previous president? Why don’t you insist on the same certainty for this president? Double standard?

Posted by: Terry | April 1, 2009, 12:27 am 12:27 am

Conservative Gal: Coming from you that’s complimentary. BTW, I don’t stoop to name calling but I do describe behaviors. I leave name calling to Hannity and followers. Those who don’t agree with you aren’t neccesarily in denial PS- I’d bet you couldn’t actually define “Liberal” if your life depended on it. It’s just more name calling.

Posted by: Mike from Carolina | April 1, 2009, 12:31 am 12:31 am

Ok fine….I hope the Taliban invades Pakistan. Then we can nuke both the dam countries back to the stone age. Problem solved. Worked in Japan.

Posted by: mercury57 | April 1, 2009, 12:34 am 12:34 am

Hey John,
If we want to hear your opinion, we’ll vote for you next time…

Posted by: Radgash | April 1, 2009, 12:36 am 12:36 am

gl – chill baby, isn’t just a discussion of the issues? Can’t we agree to disagree?

Posted by: Terry | April 1, 2009, 12:41 am 12:41 am

Terry: There has been no question from any credible, objective or responsible person or organization: just a rumor spun on talk radio for those who opposed Obama in the first place. The POTUS should not dignify such with any attention. BTW, the Gov. and Sec. of State from Hawaii have certified the authenticity of BO’s birth record. But, of course, that’s not good enough is it? Does the term “Red Herring” mean anything to you, because that’s all the BC issue has ever been.

Posted by: Mike from Carolina | April 1, 2009, 12:57 am 12:57 am

Mike, check out this link ….
http://24ahead.com/s/obama-citizenship

Posted by: Terry | April 1, 2009, 1:00 am 1:00 am

It is time to boycott liberal business’s that are failing. To make them fail. That includes all mom and pop stores that promote any thing green.We need to promote conservative ideals . Not fund not socialist BS. We can drive them out. That includes boycotting Oprah and other liberal shows like the view.Shallow worthless items that liberals love we should avoid. Liberal stuff costs too much.

Posted by: John3 | April 1, 2009, 1:00 am 1:00 am

Every time McCain opens his mouth I am reminded why I didn’t vote for him..

Posted by: unshrub | April 1, 2009, 1:12 am 1:12 am

One thing for sure is Walker Evans needs mental help as his idea of ‘nam shows he never was out of the USA, but home spending his daddy’s $$$ on good times w/the ladies! rayo

Posted by: rayobilly | April 1, 2009, 1:24 am 1:24 am

“McCain to Obama: Don’t Be Like LBJ” In other words, Don’t grow your hair long after your term(s) in office…

Posted by: Jerry Rosen | April 1, 2009, 1:25 am 1:25 am

It is hilarious to watch this political theatre. Obviously “the agenda” and stage is set to bomb the heck out of Afghanistan villages and occupy parts of Pakistan. We want to destabilize Pakistan and setup camp next to China and Russia.
The real agenda is that our next war station is over there, do you think the military complex wants us to FEEL SAFE? Our $1 trillion defense budget isn’t for freeze dried meals suckers…we need to clear stock to build out more.
This is not about terrorism, you can’t bomb a country into oblivion and have the people love your flag.

Posted by: divan | April 1, 2009, 1:33 am 1:33 am

Doen’t McCain and Bush have enough blood on their hands? You can’t destroy an idea, with force. Otherwise the Christians and Hitler, would have wipped out the Jews. You need a Peaceful approach.

Posted by: traveler | April 1, 2009, 1:40 am 1:40 am

Is McCain, Chaneys inside man, to the Senate. Chaney admits to having inside men, who will seek to destroy democracy.

Posted by: traveler | April 1, 2009, 1:43 am 1:43 am

Why can’t McCain seperate himself from Bush and Chaney?

Posted by: traveler | April 1, 2009, 1:44 am 1:44 am

Traveler, why can’t the President separate himself from Bush and Chaney? Isn’t he following the same policies in Iraq and even more so in Afghanistan? Shouldn’t you check out this link?
http://24ahead.com/s/obama-citizenship

Posted by: Terry | April 1, 2009, 1:57 am 1:57 am

I see McCain’s comments as being valid because it looks like Obama is heading down the same path as LBJ. Maybe if the Liberals would take off their history blinders, they’d see it too.

Posted by: Jeff56 | April 1, 2009, 2:24 am 2:24 am

I weep for the future of our great nation. From/for both sides of the aisle.

Posted by: George | April 1, 2009, 2:49 am 2:49 am

TO ALL THE LOW IQ BOZOS WHO SAY BARACK OBAMA IS NOT A US CITIZEN.
HIS BIRTH WAS RECORDED IN THE HONOLULU ADVERTISER NEWSPAPER, AUGUST 13, 1961, AND IF YOU KNEW HOW TO SEARCH GOOGLE, OR CALL THE NEWSPAPER YOURSELF, YOU WOULD HAVE FOUND IT.
http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/7558/obama1961birthannouncemcr9.png
SO, DID THE ALIENS PLANT THAT THERE…?
-OR DID 250 TABS OF RUSH LIUMBAUGH’S FAVORITE OXYCONTIN GET IN YOUR BEER???

Posted by: CHUCK | April 1, 2009, 3:01 am 3:01 am

HERE’S ANOTHER OBAMA BIRTH CERTIFICATE DATA:
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_in_the_usa.html
HOWEVER, WE DO KNOW THAT…
John Sidney McCain III
WAS BORN IN THE US PANAMA CANAL ZONE, WHICH HAS NEVER LEGALLY BEEN A PART OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

Posted by: CHUCK | April 1, 2009, 3:05 am 3:05 am

C’mon….let the president do his job..
stop the political partisan…
McCain and the Republican…do what the americans need now…stop the political partisan..we are going no where..it’s time to unite to fix the problem facing our great nation…and for all those self pity,cannot accept the fact that the bush and republican screw up the economy for the last 8 years attitude and just want to blast pres. obama…grow up or stay in the hole..’coz it will take another 8 years for you to come out!!!!

Posted by: Itrustabc7 | April 1, 2009, 3:43 am 3:43 am

chuck..stay in the hole..human being like you..should stay in the hole!!!

Posted by: Itrustabc7 | April 1, 2009, 3:45 am 3:45 am

Chuck: Excellent presentation of confirmed facts re: Obama’s birth place. The problem is there are those not really interested in the truth; only negative spin. Here’s an example: On the Phil Humphries’ Show, Hawaii’s Governor explained in a live interview that the Secretary of State had reviewed and certified the authenticity of the birth certificate. Phil Humphries never replayed that interview; not even once. Had it been something negative, untrue or not, he certainly would have played it over and over

Posted by: Mike from Carolina | April 1, 2009, 3:56 am 3:56 am

Itrustabc: ” Chuck. . .stay in the hole”. ********** If you can’t refute the facts, attack the person. I love it when Dittoheads don’t have an intelligent response and resort to mindless babble.

Posted by: Mike from Carolina | April 1, 2009, 4:02 am 4:02 am

McCain graduated 5th from the bottom of his class at the Naval Acadamy. Leave the strategy to those who know what they are talking about.

Posted by: JB | April 1, 2009, 4:15 am 4:15 am

As usual, the Republican whinny’s read the first paragraph, thought they had something to chew about, and began commenting rather than inform themselves before posting irrelivencies to the article. Didn’t work in the past 8 years, and won’t work now Conservative gal, ChicagoBob123, and the rest of the Limbaugh wanna-a-bees. Here’s a paste from the article to make clear what this staged interview was all about, and who was behind it. PASTE; McCain made his remarks in Washington, D.C., while participating in a Q&A with Robert Kagan of The Foreign Policy Initiative, a hawkish group which was recently organized by Kagan, a former speechwriter for Reagan Secretary of State George Shultz, Bill Kristol, the founder of the Weekly Standard magazine, and Dan Senor, a former spokesman for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. Makes one wonder what was the motive was by ABC to print this article?

Posted by: abaloneca1 | April 1, 2009, 4:28 am 4:28 am

I voted for President Obama. I have a message for John McCain: YOU LOST, GET OVER IT!

Posted by: Al | April 1, 2009, 4:41 am 4:41 am

When will that sore loser John McCain stop crying about his loss to President Obama? Gosh McCain is really annoying. McCain lost 9 states that President Bush carried in 2004. We elected Obama, not McCain!

Posted by: Al | April 1, 2009, 4:48 am 4:48 am

John? Iraq?

Posted by: Jordan | April 1, 2009, 5:36 am 5:36 am

If McCain had All the answers to War…what happened then?

Posted by: sngeorgia | April 1, 2009, 6:52 am 6:52 am

LOL!!!!!!
Go ahead and Attack McCain for telling you now what the liar that you put in office is going to do in a few months!
Where are the troop pullbacks? Where is my tax break (I’m in the 95%)? Where is my small business tax break? Where is the Hope and the Change??????
I hope you ignorant zealots who elected The Great Hope / The One now realize that he is no different than Bush. A politician. A millionairre. A liar.

Posted by: Cami | April 1, 2009, 8:01 am 8:01 am

Why are we sending troops to Afghanistan????
Everyone knows Al Qaeda is rooted in Pakistan! Even Obama has said it.
He is fighting the wrong war in the wrong place. Just like Bush. We will never get Bin Laden.

Posted by: tdog | April 1, 2009, 8:05 am 8:05 am

Hey itrustabc7,
Are you kidding me?
Stop the “partisan” (sic) after the last eight years of liberal slander / treason?
Bush made the economy bad? After congressional (Democrat) driven deregulation of housing and banking led to this whole economic mess? After run away / huge deficit spending by Congress? Yes… to all you buffoons who think the President spends money… he does not have that power. In this document called The Constitution of the United States of America, it is clearly written that Congress spends the money.
Stop blogging itrustabc7. You are just wasting space for legitimate, intelligent debate.

Posted by: Tim | April 1, 2009, 8:17 am 8:17 am

McCain has more foreign policy experience in his little finger than than rookie has.

Posted by: chad | April 1, 2009, 9:15 am 9:15 am

On Obama’s birth certificate – a few days ago, I googled it and found it posted online. He was born in Hawaii.
On LBJ and Bush – Vietnam was a useless war and became known as LBJ’s war. Iraq was equally useless and became Bush’s war. If Obama keeps on the same course with Afrans that he is now on, we will be there for decades and will lose thousands of American soldiers for no good reason. It will then become known as Obama’s war. We need that like we need another Rush.

Posted by: beto | April 1, 2009, 9:22 am 9:22 am

On Obama’s birth certificate – a few days ago, I googled it and found it posted online. He was born in Hawaii.
On LBJ and Bush – Vietnam was a useless war and became known as LBJ’s war. Iraq was equally useless and became Bush’s war. If Obama keeps on the same course with Afrans that he is now on, we will be there for decades and will lose thousands of American soldiers for no good reason. It will then become known as Obama’s war. We need that like we need another Rush.

Posted by: beto | April 1, 2009, 9:22 am 9:22 am

We spend millions of dollars training and educating military officers in the art of war. By the time a soldier gets a star on his uniform he is more qualified to run a war than any person on Capital Hill, certainly more than anyone in the White House. Why aren’t we listening to the generals? President Obama has never worn our nation’s uniform yet he thinks he knows more than all the generals in the Pentagon. I wonder if he tells his dentist how to fill a tooth or tells his doctor how to read an x-ray. You have professionals working for you Mr. President, use them.
Our government has always been too quick to enter war. The only justified war of the 20th century was WW2. We were attacked. American involvement was not justified in the other conflicts.
Once this war is over we should close all military bases in other nations and use those troops to guard our border and defend our nation. Never again should we send troops into harms way unless we are willing to be 150% committed to victory at all cost. Unless a conflict is absolutely necessary to the security of the United States and the country is willing total commitment, we need to stay out of it.
Lets learn from our mistakes.

Posted by: Oonogil | April 1, 2009, 9:50 am 9:50 am

“Why are we sending troops to Afghanistan????
Everyone knows Al Qaeda is rooted in Pakistan! Even Obama has said it.
He is fighting the wrong war in the wrong place. Just like Bush. We will never get Bin Laden.”
Are you kidding? You must be kidding, right?

Posted by: silky | April 1, 2009, 9:58 am 9:58 am

Obama … please don’t follow McCain’s advice.
You were correct. He is erratic.

Posted by: newz4i | April 1, 2009, 10:24 am 10:24 am

The only intelligent move a president can make regarding war can be done by calling the joint chiefs to a meeting and give them three statements. “Win the war. Let me know if you need anything. Call me when your done.” Anything more or less only demonstrates ignorance and a lack of wisdom. Stay out of the way and let the generals do their jobs!

Posted by: Oonogil | April 1, 2009, 10:42 am 10:42 am

wow. It’s amazing that a senator is doing his job and stating what he believes and everyone calls him a ‘sore loser.’ There is nothing wrong with what McCain is doing. He is not attacking Obama and he does know an thing or two about war, so he is offering his advise. There is nothing wrong with that…whether he was a presidential candidate or not, his stance would be the same. He, like Obama, is an elected official who is in office to represent the people. Why is it that when he does so, people call him a sore loser? These are the same people who complained that Bush didn’t listen to the opposing party, which he didn’t. So, two wrongs suddenly make a right? I thought Obama wanted to ‘reach across party lines.’ With that comes the obligation to hear the other side’s view on issues. It is not to tell the opposing party that ‘we won, get over it.’ There is nothing wrong with what McCain is saying. It’s a democracy. We are able to have opposing views, which this is not. This was just a suggestion. I do not see how anyone can find fault in that.

Posted by: stdntDrvr | April 1, 2009, 10:50 am 10:50 am

Sorry John I voted for you but this Obama’s call and we are looking for different approach (one that works).
If we wanted a president to act like another president I would pick Truman – a man who did what was right for Americans.
So Obama for better or worst you are my Truman for the next 4 years, I just hope you are up to the hype.

Posted by: a citizen | April 1, 2009, 10:50 am 10:50 am

stdntDrvr is right. McCain is doing his job.
citizen -
I fear we might have another Truman.
Truman did what he thought was right in Korea but notice we still have troops there. MacArthur would have ended that war and left China unable to attack South Vietnam. Truman cost a lot of American lives by keeping MacArthur from doing what he was trained to do.
Eisenhower was the last president qualified to dictate tactics to a general. I know, Obama was elected to office and the generals work for him. I pay my doctor and my lawyer too but I listen to their advise and let them do their jobs. If anyone I pay doesn’t do a good job I find a replacement but I let a professional do what I pay him to do.

Posted by: Oonogil | April 1, 2009, 11:10 am 11:10 am

Hey, you Obama supporters, why don’t you pull you head out of your butts and listen for once. You have to quit talking for a moment to hear what someone like McCain has to say. He supported the troop surge in Iraq, and guess what, it WORKED! Yes, something G.W. Bush did worked. Regardless, McCain knows more about Vietnam than the entire Obama administration combined. So regardless of whether they do as he suggests, don’t brush him off due to your own arrogance and self righteousness. One must listen to learn.

Posted by: Bill V. | April 1, 2009, 11:53 am 11:53 am

“Newsflash, Senator McCain, you were not elected, and subsequently these are not your calls to make. Get over it.”
————————————–
iamwomaninMI,
Seems to me plenty of liberal senators were very free giving public advice to Bush! Learn how to take it as well as give it!

Posted by: Mike_C | April 1, 2009, 12:28 pm 12:28 pm

Mr McCain: I have two words for you “you lost.” if the people thought you had the ideas… you would be president. It is easy to be an armchair quarterback. I use to think you were a wonderful guy but during your negative campaign, I realized you were not the person I thought you were.

Posted by: talmag | April 1, 2009, 12:46 pm 12:46 pm

stdntdrvr: You are right this is a democracy..I didn’t think he was a sore loser but I am wondering now. He needs to support Obama especially now with the Afghanistan war. For him to say it is not as difficult as Iraq is wrong. That is precisely where Bush made his mistake. That is where the real terrorists are not in Iraq. We came there and bombed their cities and we did not belong there. Of course, we had to straighten the mess out but was it worth the loss of lives? I don’t really believe so. We only made a few more enemies.

Posted by: talmag | April 1, 2009, 12:53 pm 12:53 pm

I do not see where McCain said that Afghanistan is not as difficult as Iraq. He is stating the Obama should commit another 10,000 troops, which is what the General asked for.
McCain has always came out and put in his .02 This is nothing new, really. The media putting it on the front page just because of the campain. That’s not McCain’s fault nor is he doing so because he is upset that he lost. This is something that he has always done.
Sure, we shouldn’t have invaded Iraq. I don’t deny that at all…but Bush did have the support of Congress. Dems and Reps alike. It wasn’t a partisan decision to invade Iraq. Everyone made their decisions based on the same data. It’s just the data was inaccurate. Not quite sure who to blame, because I was not there to follow the paper trail.

Posted by: stdntDrvr | April 1, 2009, 2:13 pm 2:13 pm

It’s just John McCain struggling to stay relevant in a world that has left him behind.

Posted by: Dave | April 1, 2009, 4:51 pm 4:51 pm

The troop surge that “worked” in Iraq came about 4 years too late. General Shinseki, at the outset of the invasion, stated that we would need at least 250,000 troops to occupy Iraq. He was ridiculed by Rumsfeld and forced to resign….Where was McCain and all his wisdom then??? General Shinseki was right, and everyone else was wrong. Even McCain.

Posted by: Dave in NM | April 1, 2009, 4:54 pm 4:54 pm

I think that McCain forfeited his claim to being wise when he picked Sarah Palin as his running mate.

Posted by: Some guy | April 1, 2009, 4:57 pm 4:57 pm

I’m with McCain Folks. After all during Obamas campaign he promised It would Not Be Politics As Usual. He Promised a Transparent Administration, & policy posted 5 days befor he signed it. Even Congress passed Trillans of Stimulas Dollars WithOut Reading It First And Obama Signed It!!! And Obama Promised He Would Tell Americans The Truth!! Change We Could Believe In – Obama said, & Millions Of Americans Voted For. Time For Obama to Pony Up – DELIVER! Don’t You Obamabots Want What You Voted For? OR Are You All Just Present – No Substance !!!!

Posted by: from Ohio | April 1, 2009, 8:48 pm 8:48 pm

MCcain is an old fool that doesn’t know when it’s time to fade into darkness. He ran for president twice and got bombed both times. He needs to leave the national stage and turn things over to younger republicans who are more up to date on issues in the modern world. Perhaps his daughter could replace him as someone who could speak to modern issues that affect the young majority in this country. Fade to black old man.

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