Posted on 06/14/2008 10:16:25 PM PDT by melt
WASHINGTON - Republican presidential candidate John McCain admitted on Saturday it can be difficult at times to be proud of the United States.
“I’ll admit to you … that it’s tough in some respects,” McCain said when asked by a questioner at a town hall meeting how to be proud of the country.
“We have not always done things right and we mismanaged the war in Iraq very badly for nearly four years.”
McCain’s wife, Cindy, pounced on Michelle Obama, the wife of presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama, for saying in February that she was proud of her country “for the first time in my adult life.”
The Arizona senator said it was important for the United States to be more humble and inclusive.
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No, I don't. But read my tag line. If we keep electing people like Juan McPain were still heading in the Socialist direction. Please tell me where you think I'm wrong here.
Nope.
He never said that.
All he said was, he never found it hard to be proud to be American.
As far as countries go, America has by far done more good for more people, than any country that ever existed in human history. The Marshal Plan alone, whereby we pumped billions of American dollars to bring back Europe's broken economies(including our vanquished enemies in Germany and Italy), is unmprecdeneted in the annals of human history.
We’re doomed.
Makes me want to stay in bed on election day with the covers pulled over my head. I’m ill just thinking about pulling the lever for either one of these clowns.
But in the end the odds are I’ll vote for the Republican clown.
Voting for Barr would be about as good as staying home. May as well let Hussein have it if that’s the case.
you just said it - that’s the reality, folks, like it or not. A vote for Barr (or Paul) is just a vote for b. hussein obama.
And your argument is? Please stop sounding like a denizen of the DU. It's really embarrassing here.
I’ll tell you what’s embarrassing...a forum that purports to love this country willing to give it over to the likes of Barack Obama...that’s not only embarrassing, it’s pathetic.
So what will you do if our next election makes Obama look like the less insane choice? Once your on the Crazy Train, it's hard to get off.
Exactly .... I have never found it tough to be proud of the USA, most of the world would be dead if not for the good old USA
I know, Joanne - almost every day is disheartening when he says this kind of thing - WTF is he thinking??? In light of the REALLY dangerous opposition we face this November, someone on McCain’s end better get him with the program really fast.
That statement is about as bad as what Michelle ma
Belle Obama said about being proud for the first time in her life of this country.
How is it that this great nation has such poor selections for the highest office in the land..Good God..save us.
God save us, please?
“But read my tag line. If we keep electing people like Juan McPain were still heading in the Socialist direction. Please tell me where you think I’m wrong here. “
I like your tag line and agree. Here’s the deal we face - one of these two candidates will be the next president of the united states of america. Which one of those two, all things considered, will you choose (or most fear for our country)? And remember, voting is a treasured privilege.
So what will you do if our next election makes Obama look like the less insane choice?
Not possible, imho. BHO is a danger to this country, without parallel.
Crikey, folks!
Hook, line, and sinker — screaming reels and rod bent over backwards as the fishing line goes soaring out into the depths, never to be seen again...
MSM puts out the bait, and FReepers rise to it, chomp down hard and do the bolt. Sheesh!
Taken word-for-word, then, from the Reuters blog:
>> “I’ll admit to you … that it’s tough in some respects,” McCain said when asked by a questioner at a town hall meeting how to be proud of the country.
True. Who could claim to be permanently proud of their country? I can’t — and I got three of them to owe allegiance to. Every country does things that sometimes makes patriots ashamed. In your case, were you *really* proud to have been a part of a collective experience, the Royal “We”, that elected Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton into office? That produced a doofus like AlGore-Inventor-of-the-Internet-and-Global-Warming? Or howabout the traitors John Kerry or Jane Fonda? Proud of all that? Guess what: they are all Made-in-America stuff-ups.
>> “We have not always done things right...
Bleeding obvious, that one! Else 9/11 would never have happened, ay. The b@stards would have been stopped ere they ever got onto the aeroplanes. So which country ever does everything right? None of mine do.
>> “...and we mismanaged the war in Iraq very badly for nearly four years.”
Yup. The middle four, before The Surge: mismanaged beyond a joke. Few would disagree with that — and it wasn’t the President’s fault. Or the military’s.
>> The Arizona senator said it was important for the United States to be more humble and inclusive.
As opposed to what: arrogant and unilateral? Who could disagree with that? Certainly none of America’s Allies. This is a self-apparent Truth, not a criticism.
>> “I think we can be proud of America because of what we’ve achieved and accomplished in this world,” he said.
No shirt, Sherlock! What was your first clue?? This too is a self-apparent Truth, not a criticism.
>> “What we have to do is tell our friends around the world that we will be proud of America because of what we’re going to do.”
Spot-on: be proud of where you came from, where you are, and where you are going.
Who in the FRee Republic could reasonably complain with any of that?
I’d love to see the complete speech, prior to it being sodomized and buggerated by Reuters. They have clearly reported bad news that they have invented for the occasion.
Me, I see nothing objectionable in anything McCain is reported to have said.
It’s nice bait, but I’m not biting.
Because you and I - ‘normal people’ - don’t go into politics.
It's very complicated over there and we did the wrong thing.
Don't believe me? Maybe you'll learn something from this:
Thank you. I’ve been trying to say that, but everybody is just foaming at the mouth...and that’s just what the press wants us to do. For smart people, we sure are predictable.
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