Posted on 05/15/2008 12:59:50 PM PDT by Texican72
While no one knows who first uttered the sentiment "It’s better to say nothing and seem a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt," Republican presidential hopeful John McCain’s speech this week on climate change certainly supports the phrase’s validity.
McCain spoke at the facilities of Vestas Wind Technology, an Oregon-based firm that manufactures wind-power systems. The irony of the setting was rich given McCain’s outspoken opposition to pork-barrel spending.
He even risked his presidential hopes by criticizing ethanol subsidies ahead of the all-important Iowa caucuses. Next to solar power, however, wind power is the most heavily subsidized form of energy.
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Nah. Things are just starting to get sporty.
...Americans love to fight - traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble player; the fastest runner; the big league ball players; the toughest boxers. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans despise cowards. Americans play to win - all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost, not ever will lose a war, for the very thought of losing is hateful to an American....
-- Lieutenant General George S. Patton, March-June 1944
He doesn't have to. All he has to do is make the nominations. If the Senate fails to confirm, that's their problem...as the Court's liberals retire or die off, leaving the decisions to the younger and more recently [last eight years] appointed Justices.
Not quuite. He's agin it without a congressional declaration of war. Which, in the immediate aftermath of 09/11, should have been a relatively straightforward matter.
The idea of a U.S. Presidential candidate not only promising to remain within the constitutional limitations and boundaries of the highest office in the land, but actually doing so seems to be a pecularity in these times. And I'll admit that unlimited, near-dictatorial power for a chief executive makes fighting national enemies easier, whether they be foreign, domestic, real or imagined.
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