Posted on 08/02/2009 10:45:50 AM PDT by Maelstorm
It’s just like the old Huey Lewis song from “Back to the Future” where the occasional doo-wop performer sings about going back in time.
Because hearing John McCain this morning sticking up for Sarah Palin makes it feel like the 2008 campaign season again. It’s like McCain has morphed into Marty McFly. And Palin is perhaps, George McFly. And the media, maybe, is Biff.
Then again, this analogy might be an abject failure.
Regardless, McCain — appearing on CNN’s State of the Union said he was “…saddened by the fact that there are still such vicious attacks on her and her family.”
“I’ve never seen anything quite like it,” he added.
When asked about the former governor’s decision to step down, McCain said it was a decision he supported. “People make decisions, what they think is best for their own future, their state, the country and their family. And I’m not aware of all the influences,” he said.
“Sarah, I think, made, clearly, the best decision,” he added. “I think she will continue to contribute. I think she will continue to be a force.”
As for the “vicious attacks” he referenced, there were no specifics. But Palin supporters could — and have — come up with a laundry list of grievances.
(Excerpt) Read more at features.csmonitor.com ...
“Resist Enslavement to Big Central Government” -Sarah Palin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0e-eqK0530
American citizens need to wake up to the counterfeit ideas and false "hopes" offered by politicians who use "promises," just as the rest of us use "currency."
They buy votes with "promises" in order to gain power to themselves and their ilk. Then, when "hopes" are dashed, "the people" they have promised to help (the naive, the poor, the ignorant--even the "educated" who are ignorant of liberty vs. tyranny) find themselves enslaved, working for those who have purchased their power in the most despicable manner--by offering "hope and change." Thus it has ever been.
The people who founded America were not so "dumbed down." Hear two of them:
"It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens and one of the noblest characteristics of the Revolution. The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle [usurpation of power] and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much . . . to forget it." - James Madison
" . . . nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers, and destroyers press upon them so fast, that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon the American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the penshioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited, and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity, and frugality, become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, lusury, foppery, selfishness, meanness and downright venality swallow up the whole society." - John Adams
Further, it was not just the founding leaders who were well-informed about their constitution and approaching threats to its protections. By the Year 1830, when the French jurist Tocqueville traveled America, he wrote admiringly of the citizenry, observing that even the backwoodsman was far more well-read and informed than those in other parts of the world, and that they understood their Constitution, and had with them a Bible and a newspaper. Sadly, beginning in the mid-20th Century, our "government" schools removed the ideas of liberty from the nation's textbooks, largely under the guise of a counterfeit idea of "separation of church and state," and the citizenry is uninformed as to the difference between tyranny and liberty.
Today, with all modern means of communication, Americans possess little understanding of threats to their liberty and, thus, risk losing it to charlatans whose only goal is power.
Mclaim. She prevented a complete landslide victory for Obama now just go home to limberdick village
I am certainly not a McCain fan — but he seems to be saying the right things and supporting Gov. Palin in a sincere way. That’s a good thing, and I have to tip my hat to the Senator from Arizona.
Of course the media didn't begin to criticize Palin until the last few weeks.
Who writes this crap? Who believes it?
Considering most of the attacks during the campaign and after wards were coming from people in his OWN campaign, no wonder he couldn’t think of any. I respect McCain as a war hero and as a American hero, but he never stood up and defended her, not once during the campaign, and it was like pulling teeth with him after wards to say anything nice about her
McCain is not a leader, nor does he have any real vision of America. He operates at the margin and snipes at small things. Railing about this or that earmark in a pork-laden piece of legislation is not necessarily a bad thing, but it is not visionary or inspiring. McCain's whole career has been spent fussing about process, not about setting an agenda for America.
In the end, he is not a bad man, but he is a small man.
McCain is irrelevant and would have continued to be so if it wasn’t for Palin. And the CSmonitor is on the same level as the Huffington Post.
Very true observation.
Makes sense. Resurrection usually does follow a crucifixion.
Well, pat ole' McInsane on the back and rub his bald spot. < / sar >
Seems to me several days late and a few dollars short.
Personally, I love to see him resign and take sissy boy Lindsey Graham with him
McCain proving again he’s a loyal patriotic American, a rational politician who shuns extremists, and a gentleman who sticks up for those unfairly attacked.
McCain has ALWAYS had duplicitous tendencies.
Well said. He either does not possess a fundamental "black or white" moral belief system in his DNA, or he's purposely hiding it for some reason.
Exhibit A is his statement that he is "saddened" by the attacks against Sarah and her family. My words would have been more like "I am completely outraged by the vicious, intentionally destructive, inhumane, lying, and hypocritical attacks".
Hey McC, tell your big mouthed daughter to shut her face when it comes to insulting Sarah.
For him or her?
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