John McCain in bid to heal rifts with Europe - ‘America needs a better image’

The Sunday Times (UK) ^ | March 16, 2008 | Sarah Baxter

[NormsRevenge]

‘America needs a better image’ ^

allow me..

Barf!

[the invisib1e hand]

When he received the president’s blessing at the White House, “Johnny Mac”, as Bush calls him, felt a tingle of excitement. “It is daunting and humbling to think you are that close to it,” McCain said. “It hit home for the first time that it’s possible I could be there.”

oy.

[AuntB]

““We need to do a better job on America’s image,”

Take care of your own image, Mr. McCAin. That would help.

[JoanneSD]

If I did not know better I would think this was from a Democratic candidate...

[Afronaut]

I want socialist to love me? I want corrupt Marxist societies to be the high water to judge my country?

reason #239 not to vote for Juan.

[calcowgirl]

He predicted they would bond over the issue of global warming. McCain is a passionate environmentalist, who takes the threat of climate change seriously. “I know it’s a prime issue for Gordon Brown as well as Tony Blair and I’m expecting him to raise the issue with me,” he said. Friends believe it will be a “mood-changer” for America’s reputation in Europe, which soured when Bush refused to sign the Kyoto protocol early on in his presidency.

[farmer18th]

Wonderful. John thinks Europe actually knows something--the continent that gave us fascism, communism, and is now the happy benefactor of a runaway breeding Muslim population.

We need better than Annaopolis flunkie John McCain.

[headstamp 2]

“We need to do a better job on America’s image,”

I guess being the hope of the free world to the point people routinely risk there lives to get here isn't good enough anymore.

How about defending and affirming what this country is all about rather than playing into this bogus “America the Boogeyman” stereotype.

Naming Lindsey Graham as your vice presidential pick should seal the deal, Johnny.

(rolleyes)

[vaudine]

Ditto the barf. McCain and many Americans (esp. libs) agonize over our image. I cannot see one d@#n thing we can do about it, as the news media and our progressive elites in DC and Hollywood do everything they can to denigrate our country.

This same news media gave us McCain. We were not permitted to truly choose due to the tainted vote in NH and other places where progressives and media selected and touted McCain. He is too old, too set in his opinions and too obstinate to change. However, given the other two candidates, we are bound to vote for him and hope for the best, while pining for someone like Fred, John Bolton or even Mitt--someone with a modicum of reality.

vaudine

[mass55th]

No Senator, Europe needs to get their heads out of their asses, and realize there is evil in the world that wants to destroy them.

[AuntB]

McCain thinks he can fix Kyoto....

“I am committed as President to pursue the efforts to reduce greenhouse gasses immediately. That includes joining Kyoto as long as we have India and China involved. It would not be fair to the planet to say the two largest growing economies who are greenhouse gas emitters are not part of it. Second of all there is a political reality and the American people would not support our engagement, joining in Kyoto without India and China.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963705/posts

[NormsRevenge]

The American people had no choices, imo, and now all they can do is begrudgingly go along with the play and squabble amongst themselves as the worse possible outcome ism ,likely assured, no matter who is in office in 2009.. the political primary process has been perverted and is nothing more than a charade. The media and foreign interests have played the process like a fiddle, and now we will all end up paying thru the nose for their deceit and treachery.

When the candidates left standing are the best we have to lead this nation ,, who in their right mind can even pretend to believe this is the best we can do.

[calcowgirl]

“A lot of us are kind of proud that an African-American and a woman can compete seriously for the nomination of a major party. I believe that one day we’ll have one on the Republican ticket – just not this time.”

So does this mean we will have a white male veep candidate? Mel Martinez, perhaps? ;-)

[EternalVigilance]

I would suggest an alternative title:

"John McCain goes French"

[Grimmy]

Europeans have been spewing hatred and ridicule of the US since there’s been a US.

Welcome to the ranks of the knee crawlers and intellectual inbreeds, McCain. Graft those lips of yours right onto that nasty europeaser propaganda spigot like a good little mouth breeder.

[dforest]

Frankly, our image would improve if we elected people unlike McCain and the present Demonrat contenders.

These people at the top make us appear like cheap ho’s.

Nothing good is coming out of the rest of the world. Looks like nothing good is going to come out of the US either with the Marxist global elites running the show.

Returning to the nation the founders set up would do much to cure the ailing Republic.

[yankeedame]

John McCain in bid to heal rifts with Europe - ‘America needs a better image’

You mean like this??

[goldfinch]

“There is a very real connection between oil at $109 a barrel and national security,” he said. “We are sending nearly half our trade deficit to countries that do not like us very much and some of it is ending up in the hands of terrorists. That’s a fact.”

If America and Europe do not lessen their dependence on oil, he wondered: “What happens if there is a cataclysmic event which cuts off this supply?”

I totally agree with this statement. It is the primary reason we should develop alternate energy sources.

[vaudine]

Dear John: (and how I truly wish this was a bonifide "Dear John" that would dismiss you from my life forevermore) I do not support Kyoto in any shape or form no matter who else signs on.

Actually, you are giving yourself an out because China and India will never sign (unless they can figure a way to trick you into signing and then fudge on their agreement).

It is just that you lose my trust and respect by being bamboozled into the global warming hoax. Listen to someone outside the beltway--don't you know HUNDREDS of reputable scientists are renouncing global warming for the hoax it is?

vaudine