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John McCain Blames Obama for The George Bush Manufactured Problems In Iraq

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What else is new? Republicans, including John McCain himself have blamed Obama for everything that has gone wrong in this world since the beginning of time.

Sitting in his weekly chain on CNN, John McCain continued spitting his nonsense simply because like Fox News, he often goes unchallenged. For whatever reason now, Republicans and McCain are blaming Obama for the calamity that is Iraq.

Iraq, remember that place, where the Bush administration and Dick Cheney told 935 lies to fool us into an unnecessary war, where thousands of Americans were killed and thousands more dismembered? That place where John McCain and these same Republicans voted to invade? Yea, that Iraq… is now somehow Obama’s fault! Can’t you see the connection? It’s as clear as… night!

So on CNN’s State of the Union, McCain said that because of Obama, the terrorist group ISIS is roaming the land doing whatever they will. McCain is blaming Obama for pulling out the troops and ending the war…although the end of the war and its terms were negotiated before Obama even became president, under the Bush administration.

But of course, this point went unchallenged.

The senator said Obama’s targeted strikes in Iraq aren’t enough.

“That’s not a strategy. That’s not a policy,” McCain said. “That is simply a very narrow and focused approach to a problem, which is metastasized as we speak.”

McCain called for airstrikes in Syria and for the U.S. to give weapons and supplies to the Kurds in order to fight ISIS.

“There’s a vacuum of American leadership all throughout the Middle East,” he said.

CNN host Candy Crowley asked McCain to respond to the widely-held belief that he opposes everything Obama does when it comes to foreign policy.

“I predicted what was going to happen in Iraq,” he said. “And I’m predicting to you now, that if we pull everybody out of Afghanistan, not based on conditions, you’ll see that same movie again in Afghanistan.”

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John McCain Thinks Impeachment May Be “Warrented” But Votes Not There

Arizona senator John McCain is pushing back against all the impeachment talks, because although he believes the president should be impeached for… being president, McCain is pushing back because he realizes that “there just aren’t the votes” in congress for impeachment.

“We’re not gonna impeach the president of the United States,” McCain told Phoenix radio station KFYI. “There just aren’t the votes there even if we believed that it was warranted.”

Saying that Democrats are happy with talks of impeaching the president because they’re able to raise funds off the issue, McCain implied that if Republicans win the Senate in November, then anything, even impeachment, is possible.

“I think the Democrats view [impeachment] as a good way to raise money to use against us, and I don’t want to let that happen. But I do believe the President has broken more laws by executive order — let me put it this way, I think he’s abused the executive branch in a way I don’t recall any other President doing that, by these executive orders that are just directly contrary to the law.”

Listen to the audio here.

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Fareed Zakaria Slams John McCain’s Claim That World is Worse Off With Obama -Video

Arizona Senator John McCain has been upset with President Obama since Obama kicked his butt in the 2008 presidential elections. So every chance he gets, McCain tries to chastised the president even when it’s clearly not warranted.

In his last appearance on CNN, McCain blamed Obama for everything that has gone wrong in the world, claiming the world is in “greater turmoil than at any time in my lifetime” and it is a “direct result of an absence of American leadership.”

CNN’S Fareed Zakaria rightfully disagreed, and took a moment to gently slam McCain in this Washington Post op-ed, by giving the senator a history lesson on all of the arguably much worse wars and struggles that occurred after McCain was born by before Barack Obama became president.

Last night, Zakaria sat down for an interview with his “future boss” Jon Stewart to elaborate on what he meant. Citing the Cold War, the war in Vietnam and the 1973 war between Israel and Egypt, Zakaria tried to give McCain some perspective.

When Stewart brought up the Civil War as yet another example, Zakaria replied, “You might have forgotten, that wasn’t in McCain’s lifetime… Though I can understand the mistake.”

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Jon Stewart Slams John McCain – Challenges Him to A “Wrong Off” – Video

What’s a “Wrong Off” you ask? Well, it’s where opposite sides come together and point out areas where the other side have said something that turned out to be wrong. In this case, Jon Stewart is challenging Republican Senator John McCain because in an interview on Sunday, McCain threw the first hit at Stewart, implying that no one cares or pays attention to Stewart because Stewart is often wrong on the issues.

Stewart took offense to McCain’s statement and the challenge was born.

Will the Republican Senator accept the challenge? Don’t bet on it! He already know he would lose against Stewart. After all, Stewart is not exactly Fox News!

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John McCain Accidentally Calls Hillary Clinton “President”

Senator John McCain of Arizona accidentally referred to Hillary Clinton as “President” today in an interview. He immediately realized his mistake and quickly took it back.
But was it really a mistake or was the senior senator from Arizona practicing for inevitable in 2016.

McCain was responding on CBS’ Face the Nation to a compliment from Clinton calling him her ‘favorite Republican.’

He uncomfortably laughed it off before mistakenly elevating her to the job she’s expected to campaign for in 2016.

‘I hope this part of the program is blacked out in Arizona – please cut,’ he joked as he made a slashing gesture over his neck. ‘I respect Secretary, Senator Clinton. I respect her views. We have had disagreements on a number of issues.’

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He then acknowledged Clinton’s frontrunner status in a rather unorthodox way.

‘I think it’s my job to work with every president,’ McCain said, before quickly adding while comically contorting his face with mock fear, ‘If she is – regrettably – if she attains the presidency.’

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The GOP is Lying – Bush Made The Decision To Bring The Troops Home, Not Obama – Video


Once again, Jon Stewart of The Daily Show is leading the way, pointing out a simple fact that the rest of the so-called main stream media is missing – the same Iraq failures that lied us into war in Iraq, are the same ones beating the drums for more troops to re-invade Iraq, and they’re blaming Obama for withdrawing the troops in the first place.

Failures like John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Bill Krystal, Paul Wolfowitz and the rest of the Republican caucus have piled on the president at a time of foreign conflict, and they are dragging the president through the mud because he chose to carry out Bush’s original plan in bringing all American troops out of Iraq.

Stewart pointed out their backwards thinking when he said, “four wrongs make a right.”

Stewart showed John McCain doing what he does best – lying, saying that “the decision was made by the Obama administration to not have a residual force in Iraq.”

Of course that was a lie and McCain knows it. But like the rest of his Republican buddies, blaming Obama is the way to go!

Asking “why did Obama snatch defeat from the jaws of victory,” Stewart played a clip of Fred Kaplin explaining that the decision to bring the troops home was in fact, made by the Bush administration before Obama was even elected in 2008.

“President Bush signed a treaty at the end of 2008, The Status of Force Agreement,” Kaplin said in the clip, “which said that all US forces, not just combat forces, but all US forces would be out of Iraq by the end of 2011!”

So they are blaming Obama for a treaty that was already signed before Obama even took office. These liars are amazing!

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Blaming Obama For Iraq Is Like “blaming your current lover for the herpes you got from some dude 10 years ago”

He’s rude. He’s a pundit. Put those two together and you get rude punditry that, after you’ve past the rudeness, the punditry makes a whole lotta sense.

So Iraq is apparently falling into the hands of some very bad people and like expected, Republicans found their scapegoat.

As with everything else in their eyes, president Obama is to be blamed. After all, it was he who ended the decade old war in Iraq, a war that cost Americans over a trillion dollars and thousands of American lives. Obama even had the nerve to bring the remaining troops back home to their families. The Audacity!

So the uprising in Iraq now is obviously Obama’s fault. This according to Republican Senator John McCain.

“Everybody in his national security team, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, ought to be replaced,” the Arizona Republican warmonger said. “It’s a colossal failure of American security policy.”

Of course, Senator John McCain and all of his warmongering buddies in Congress who decided to invade a country that had nothing to do with September 11th, are now deflecting blame to Barack Obama,  the one man in Washington that stood against the Iraq invasion from the very beginning.

But the Republicans and their deflection game is being called out,  and no one calls them out better than The Rude Pundit!

Once more, Barack Obama’s presidency is swallowed and squandered by the devastated landscape George W. Bush left behind.

Obama is already getting the blame for the uprisings, the Sunni on Shiite violence, the radical Kurds taking what they always wanted (aided by average, everyday Kurds). It’s like blaming your current lover for the herpes you got from some dude ten years ago because he’s there and why the fuck not direct your rage at someone who is convenient instead of yourself and your own stupid decisions.

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LET’S SWAP JOHN MCCAIN AND SARAH PALIN FOR SOME HUMMUS

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 OK this is it. The height of Republican hypocrisy . I truly cannot take it anymore. I can’t. President Obama swapped five Gitmo detainees, who have been found to be guilty of nothing other than maybe despising George W. Bush, (if this were a crime I would be on death row by now along with many others) for our last remaining POW of Bush’s many wars. Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was released by the Taliban as the five detainees were sent home. Right away there was Republican outrage over the swap. Of course the guy who was a POW himself John McCain has been extremely vocal in his criticism.

McCain of all people should be championing this. He knows what years in captivity can do your mind, body and spirit. He knows that the people in Gitmo are being held illegally. He knows this but denies it. He claims to be against torture but in the next breath will say that holding human beings illegally is not torture. Yes it is. Those prisoners in Gitmo have as much right to their freedom as Sgt. Bergdahl does. McCain is once again a no good hypocrite, one of rapidly deteriorating mental health as well.

Sarah Palin who had just recently prayed for the quick and safe return of Bergdahl, is now condemning Obama for the swap. Palin has even less worth than McCain. She prays that something will happen even though you and I know she doesn’t believe in shit. However prayer is as far as she goes. When it comes to actually doing something to make that prayer come true she is at a loss. She would praise God but condemn Obama for doing the exact thing she has been praying for. But of course she wouldn’t have any real ideas, or solutions, because she is the quitter from Alaska. She is a soulless, brainless entity that is of no use.

Let’s forget for a moment about the details surrounding the disappearance of Bergdahl. Some are calling him a hero, others a traitor. This is neither here nor there. He is an American who was being held captive by the Taliban and his return is welcome and the right thing to have happened. Once again Obama accomplishes a major foreign affairs issue with little drama and no violence or deaths. Our country wanted him back and he is back. Safe. Ted Cruz said he would have sent forces in to get him. And a hundred American soldier deaths later we might have him back, albeit maybe not in one piece.

If there was to be any criticism coming it certainly can’t be from the same people that had no problem at all with their hero Ronnie Reagan sending deadly weapons to our enemies in return for hostages. Right? I mean this is a no brainer, isn’t it? Thousands of weapons that could in turn kill us and our soldiers swapped for hostages. I mean that is far far worse than just five dudes for one soldier right? Let’s do the math. Oh well most Republicans can’t add so I guess that is out the window!

You really can’t wrap your mind around the hypocrisy. Yet there they are, loud and clear calling Obama a criminal. Saying that what he did was an impeachable act. This is the kind of stuff they are saying. Yes, they fully backed their hero Reagan, the man of their wet dreams (the only kind of wet dreams Republicans can have anyway). But when it comes to that black, socialist, welfare loving, free health care giving President Obama, well then it’s just an outrage!

I will give them some of their own medicine. If you don’t agree with the safe return of an American soldier, you are not a patriot. You are a traitor. You should live somewhere else.

Speaking of that I would like to propose a trade. To the Taliban I send John McCain and Sarah Palin. In return I would like some of your best hummus. I think that’s fair.

Hey, I said I only wanted their best, right?

Mike.Caccioppoli@yahoo.com

@CaccioppoliMike

My blog  America The Not So Beautiful

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John McCain Continues His Call For War – Russia vs The US


If it’s Sunday, John McCain is on a television network somewhere calling for a war somewhere in the world and this Sunday was no exception. On CNN’s Candy Crowley’s The Situation Room, McCain – who is slowly becoming a regular on Crowley’s program – called for the United States to step up our military presence in Ukraine against Russia.

McCain of course would disguise his new military presence in Ukraine as a support group.

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on Sunday called for economic sanctions against Russia, arguing that they would be effective since its economy depends on oil and gas exports.

“Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country,” he said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

While McCain said that in the short term Russia has won Crimea, the U.S. can still work to help Ukraine gain that land back in the long term.

McCain said that in addition to sanctions the U.S. needs a long term military plan to help Ukraine, but not one that will lead to American troops in the region. The senator suggested aid to the Ukrainian military so “at least so they can defend themselves.”

Based only on our past track record, sending in military “support” to Ukraine will not de-escalate the situation, but looked upon as a move of aggression by the opposition, in this case Russia. At that point, the obvious will be true. If our military is there and Russia attacks, then we will be bound to protect ourselves and Ukraine, thus, war!

Nice try McCain, nice try.

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John McCain is Upset – Blasts His Own Republican Party – Video

The Mavericky Maverick is mad again. Watch, as Senator John McCain pants around his podium on the Senate floor, slamming single sheets of paper down, upset and irate with members of his own party over the IMF and the whole Russia/Ukraine thing.

AATTP explains;

Aid to Ukraine passed without IMF language, but many non-Reagan Republicans voted against it. In January, Obama and Democrats tried to pass a reform to the IMF legislation, but failed. Had it passed, perhaps this embarrassment would’ve been avoided for the Senator. He brought up a valid point: the Republicans shouldn’t be arguing about fixing the IMF language; the focus should be on the deaths of thousands of people and how to end it.

“I’ve been embarrassed before on the floor of the Senate, I will tell the President. But I haven’t been embarrassed this way about members of my own party.”

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McCain and Lindsay Blame Obama for Shiite-Sunni Fighting in Iraq

John McCain and Lindsay Graham need to get a room already. They’re once again criticizing the Obama administration for violence erupting in Iraq between the Iraqi government and its opposition.

In a joint statement denouncing the violence that erupted last week, when Iraq’s Shiite-led government sent military forces into Sunni-dominated Anbar province to end anti-government protests, McCain and Lindsay cast blame squarely on the back of the Obama administration.

The ensuing violence that sparked continued the long fighting tradition of Shiite against Sunni, but these Republican congressmen say it’s Obama’s fault.

“While many Iraqis are responsible for this strategic disaster, the administration cannot escape its share of the blame. When President Obama withdrew all U.S. forces from Iraq in 2011, over the objections of our military leaders and commanders on the ground, many of us predicted that the vacuum would be filled by America’s enemies and would emerge as a threat to U.S. national security interests. Sadly, that reality is now clearer than ever.

“The Administration must recognize the failure of its policies in the Middle East and change course. America has lost time, options, influence, and credibility over the past five years, and we cannot afford to remain disengaged any longer.”

In a briefing on Friday,  the State Department addressed the Iraqi violence and denounced any suggestion that the administration was at fsult.

“Let’s be clear who’s responsible for the violence. It’s the terrorists who were behind it,” said State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf. “That’s why we are partnering with the Iraqi government very closely to fight this shared threat. At the end of the day, we can certainly help them fight it, but we also want to help them build their own capability to do so themselves.”

Besides a private room, what do McCain and Lindsay want?

They of course voted for the Bush led invasion of Iraq in the first place, an invasion based on a lie. And they were both against Obama’s effort to end the conflict a decade later.

But what would make these two happy, would be a continued American military presence in Iraq indefinitely, irregardless of the financial costs or the American lives that would be lost.

Well guys, that’s not going to happen. The decade long war is over. American troops are home with their families and we are not spending another trillion dollars to continue the unnecessary war you both approved.

Go get a room and work out your issues in private. Leave the administration, the American military and the American tax payers out of your fantasies.

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John McCain Considering Another Run

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Tuesday that he is considering running for another term in 2016, when he would be 80 years old.

“I’m seriously thinking about maybe giving another opportunity for you to vote for or against me in a few years from now,” McCain said on KFYI-AM in Phoenix. “I’m seriously giving that a lot of thought.”

Asked by host Barry Young to clarify if he was saying he might run again, McCain said: “That would not be wrong.”
The New York Times’s Mark Leibovich, who is in Arizona following McCain, first tweeted the news.

McCain, the 2008 GOP presidential nominee, is in his fifth term. He has never taken less than 56 percent of the vote and easily dispatched a primary challenge in 2010 from former congressman J.D. Hayworth.

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