You know it’s bad when your president is selling us out to his Islamic fellow travelers, and the man who is supposed to lead the opposition declares known terrorists to not be so bad, and we should support them.
All of a sudden, al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood are our buddies? Really McCain?
Arizonans, we tried to tell you this guy was bad news back in 2010. We won’t be rid of him until 2017, if then.
I volunteered to drive to Arizona and walk neighborhoods if you folks needed it. I was told you had things under control, you didn’t need me.
I told you then what I’m telling you now, John McCain is human filth. He is the worst of the worst. The results of his actions would be the same as Obamas.
Obama knows and deals with the terrorists. McCain doesn’t know, and thinks he’s smarter than everyone else, and blunders into the same groups and supports them because they agreed to talk with him.
He is a major world class ass hat clown.
First, in the spring of 2013 the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 15-3 to arm the Syrian rebels. That was 15 republicans and democrats voting yes. The two antiwar dems and the isolationist Rand Paul voted no.
Obama worked up a plan, which involved the CIA with the CIA doing the actual vetting. Obama submitted the plan back to Congress and the intelligence committee approved it.
So CIA would vet each group, train the group, and give them the weapons. But there were no anti-aircraft weapons, only anti-tank weapons. The rebels complained that they needed anti-aircraft weapons because the barrels bombs assad was using were killing not only rebels but also women and children. Plus the rebels said pace of the program was very slow.
Congress began talking about spending more money to speed it up and giving them anti-aircraft weapons, but then the airliner got shot down in Ukraine so they all stopped talking about it.
Now they are talking about it again.
After long experience at watching the political scene and having worked with a House campaign, a Senate campaign, and in the campaign of several local elections, I have to say, very few people care as much about tearing down the corrupt system as the people who are getting a slice of the pork care about keeping it in place. The majority just take their toys and stay home rather than putting out the sustained effort fixing the system would take.
McCain brings home the bacon for the right money interests in Arizona so there will always be plenty of money to buy votes and to convince those who don't like him to stay home and not bother voting.
That's what you get with democracy, the high bidder wins or the vote is ignored.
Look at how much democracy is respected when states have a referendum that outlaws queers marrying one another, the result doesn't suit the people who pump money into politics so democracy doesn't apply. When they can buy an election, though, democracy trumps everything else including all the rights of the who voted against the winner.
And that's why the US was founded as a Republic, not a democracy, so that the We The People would actually have a say by voting for State Representatives who in turn chose the Senators.
Now? Tough turkey, you can't work at the State election level and influence anything Federal other than by having more money than the opposition. Even then, the winner in any given State is still limited by the flood of money that flows into Washington to beat down anyone who doesn't go along to get along. There aren't fifty States where you might get caught passing money under the table to buy yourself a Federal Senator, there's only the Federal Department of Justice which is controlled by the incumbent President with predictable results.
We're enjoying the "great benefits" that flow from progressives convincing the public to go for the Seventeenth Amendment. The Senate approves judges and other appointments and Senators were supposed to be at the beck and call of each states' House of Representatives and therefore very sensitive to the current views of the people of the State.When that power over Senators vanished and Senators couldn't be touched for six years at a time the idea of States Rights became null and void, replaced by the auctioning off of Senate seats with bidders nationwide free to add to the bid.
"Don't pay, you have no say", throughout history that's what democracy has always ends up being and that's what we now have.
JMHo