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Rebuffing Obama, McCain a No-Vote on Syria: Courtship by the president comes up short
TIME ^ | 09/04/2013 | Noah Rayman

Posted on 09/04/2013 9:16:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Sen. John McCain pulled his support Wednesday for the Senate resolution authorizing limited strikes in Syria, a blow to President Barack Obama’s campaign to get congressional approval for military action in the war-torn country.

McCain, the Arizona Republican and Obama’s 2008 White House rival, has long been a strong advocate for intervention in Syria’s civil war, and Obama doggedly courted McCain’s support for the measure authorizing military force, including during a meeting at the White House on Monday. But McCain said the limited actions that would be authorized by the resolution don’t go far enough in responding to Syrian leader Bashar Assad’s alleged use of chemical weapons last month.

“In its current form, I do not,” McCain said Wednesday when asked if he supports the measure, the Associated Press reports.

McCain had previously said it would be “catastrophic” for Congress to turn down Obama’s request. While Obama won the support of House GOP leaders on Tuesday, McCain’s opposition could make it harder to bring other Republican foreign policy hawks aboard. On the flip side, it may make it easier for Obama to win support from war-weary Democrats.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: collaborator; mccain; syria
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1 posted on 09/04/2013 9:16:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

McCain isn’t against the war, he just wants some regime change to be followed by nation building. Its where the real money is.


2 posted on 09/04/2013 9:18:33 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek

RE: McCain isn’t against the war, he just wants some regime change to be followed by nation building. Its where the real money is.

What about Iraq? We left that place in a mess and now we want to create another one?


3 posted on 09/04/2013 9:19:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

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4 posted on 09/04/2013 9:19:55 AM PDT by Nachum (I am Breitbartacus!)
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To: cripplecreek

McCain twists like a weathervane.

Tomorrow he’ll be all for it.


5 posted on 09/04/2013 9:20:30 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: SeekAndFind

“Catastrophic?” You and Obama get a room, McNutball.


6 posted on 09/04/2013 9:21:21 AM PDT by martiangohome
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To: SeekAndFind

Obama will blow him a big, sloppy kiss & McCain will come around.


7 posted on 09/04/2013 9:22:01 AM PDT by DJ Frisat ((optional, printed after my name on post))
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To: Nachum

The two will be yucking it up by this afternoon. A Liberal/RINO love fest.


8 posted on 09/04/2013 9:22:11 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: SeekAndFind

LOL. So John McCain earns himself another epithet: Senator As-The-Wind-Blows. Lindsey Graham will be next. He always follows McCain’s lead.


9 posted on 09/04/2013 9:22:30 AM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: SeekAndFind

I guess McCain and Obama are fighting over who gets to push the NUKE
button and start WW3.


10 posted on 09/04/2013 9:22:38 AM PDT by tennmountainman (Stop Worrying And Just Learn To Love The Bomb!)
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To: Col Frank Slade

“McCain twists like a weathervane.”

Twisting slowly in the wind. Not a bad vision, I must say.


11 posted on 09/04/2013 9:22:41 AM PDT by beelzepug (if any alphabets are watchin', I'll be coming home right after the meetin')
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To: SeekAndFind

Obama is just going to have to buy off some Senators as he did when he got Obamacare passed.


12 posted on 09/04/2013 9:22:46 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: SeekAndFind

The stench that is McCain doesn’t go away, does it?


13 posted on 09/04/2013 9:23:25 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: SeekAndFind

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2.....Waiting for his little sidekick Graham to say “Me too”!


14 posted on 09/04/2013 9:24:14 AM PDT by kempster
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To: cripplecreek

“McCain isn’t against the war, he just wants some regime change to be followed by nation building.”

It worked so well in Iraq, I understand why he is so adamant that we apply the same magical formula in Syria, too! (/s)


15 posted on 09/04/2013 9:24:21 AM PDT by MNGal
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To: SeekAndFind

That’s what I told my congressman and challenged him to find even 1 beacon of freedom our intervention has created in the mideast.

At this point, I say let China deal with the mideast oil and mideast problems.


16 posted on 09/04/2013 9:24:29 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: SeekAndFind

In it’s current form.....what a jerk, he’ll vote for it with bells on.


17 posted on 09/04/2013 9:24:52 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: SeekAndFind

So now it isn’t catastrophic.

What a numnutz!


18 posted on 09/04/2013 9:24:52 AM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I read that McLame is only withholding support for a broader military strike.


19 posted on 09/04/2013 9:25:30 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the people. T Jefferson)
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To: SeekAndFind

They’re reading this wrong...McCain is opposed to the draft resolution because it is too limited in what it would allow Obama to do. McCain wants to jump into Syria whole hog.


20 posted on 09/04/2013 9:25:31 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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