Much been happening around here? I just took a quick look at activity stats and it seems I’ve some catching up to do. Perhaps you’ve noticed the unbloggy bug is going around (election season withdrawal?); I got hit hard but am getting back up on my feet.
One thing I did observe over these recent days is that poor old Grampa McCain is still railing at anyone and everyone to ‘get off my lawn!’.
But the Sunday gasbags must like that; he remains the reigning champion for appearances at those (sooo tired) secular services – I believe it’s 88 times on Meet the Press alone.
I think the old dear needs people to believe that Vietnam Iraq was a necessary and just war.
You can have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, or democracy. But you cannot have both.
Hi Moe
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Hi Don! Still catching up!
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Hi Moe, All is well in the buried northeast…
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Glad to hear it – battened down and some good snacks at hand? I just posted some snowfall numbers – wowza!!
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WOWZA is right. Some of the snowbanks in my neighborhood are close to six feet high….
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Are you putting up photos?
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In a short while I will be. I already have some posted from last night and early this morning. Go to my blog and check them out…
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Wow. It must be something . . . in the pictures you can tell how fast it’s coming down. And by the way, THANKS for did-you-knows.com. What a gem – so much fun!
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You’re welcome. At times during the storm, there was complete white outs…
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You’re right about John, Moe, the guy craves attention. His record shows he is a natural risk taker and he just might be addicted to the adrenalin rush that celebrity brings. That said, I have great admiration for his military accomplishments, somewhat checkered as they are, and particularly for his courage and endurance as a POW.
When he was grilling Chuck Hagel in the recent confirmation hearings, repeatedly insisting that Hagel answer yes or no to whether his opposition to the Iraq surge was a mistake, I really wished Hagel had said this:
“Senator, if you will agree to answer my question with a yes or no, I will answer yours, and my question is this: Was the Vietnam war, the one you fought in and to which you lost 6 years of your life, a political blunder and a waste of your sacrifice?” One-word answer, please. Yes, or no?
Glad you’re back, Moe.
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Jim, I too honor him for his military service and his years as a POW. But he is really past his ‘sell by’ date now and sees the taking up of arms as the immediate answer to everything. Guy hardly ever saw a war he didn’t like and has wanted to get into more wars.
Has he said anythng at all about Vietnam in recent years? I don’t even know what his opinion of that war was?
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Your question prompted me to try to look it up, Moe, and all I could find significant about McCain’s opinion of the Vietnam war was from his campaign year of 2008. The reference says that he “thinks the war was winnable“, but that of course doesn’t directly address whether he thinks it was worth the blood and treasure our country put into it. My guess is that he doesn’t even think of it that way. I think he reacts to war like a gunfighter would, not like a politician. McCain is a professional military guy and a congenital risk-taker, and in my opinion everything he says has to be taken in that context.
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I agree completely… that’s also my impression of him. You and I remember what ‘winnable’ meant back then … I think it was Westmoreland who wanted to nuke the place?
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Obama told Biden to take McCain with him to Germany to cool off it seems!
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LOL.
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I never EVER see John McCain on television without thanking God that he lost in 2008. If only he’d lost his Senate seat, too.
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I’m often reminded that the self-described mavericky maverick sure does sound a lot like every other cranky old right-wing coot. How was he mavericky again?
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There was a time desertscope, up till the late ’90’s, when he regularly challenged his own party when they went all stupid – and was often reviled for it. It’s still amazing to me that THAT John McCain would be so careless as to put the likes of Palin on a presidential ticket.
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