See for yourself. You don't place bets in the other party's primary unless you're scared of losing to someone specific in November.
The Democratic Party, afraid of John McCain.
Elsewhere, the Dems are trying to raise money(democrats.org/100years) by showing a clip of McCain at a rally where he says we may need to have a presence in Iraq for a hundred years. They act like it's some secret quote they found. But McCain supporters are not hiding McCain's positions from anyone. In fact, we think that the policies and principles implied when McCain makes such are positions that will win the support of the American people in Nov '08.
Here's the video:
McCainVictory08 blog With Both Hands has a Democrat fundraising letter that speaks of this video like it's some secret footage every McCain backer wants to hide. In fact, McCain doubled-down on this position during his victory speech in New Hampshire:
"The work that we face in our time is
great, but our opportunities greater still. In a time of war, and the terrible
sacrifices it entails, the promise of a better future is not always clear. But I
promise you, my friends, we face no enemy, no matter how cruel; and no
challenge, no matter how daunting, greater than the courage, patriotism and
determination of Americans. We are the makers of history, not its victims. And
as we confront this enemy, the people privileged to serve in public office
should not evade our mutual responsibility to defeat them because we are more
concerned with personal or partisan ambition.
Whatever the differences
between us, so much more should unite us. And nothing should unite us more
closely than the imperative of defeating an enemy who despises us, our values
and modernity itself. We must all pull together in this critical hour and
proclaim that the history of the world will not be determined by this
unpardonable foe, but by the aspirations, ideals, faith and courage of free
people. In this great, historic task, we will never surrender. They
will."
Meanwhile, the Dems want to pull out of Iraq, abandon freedom-loving Iraqis to the new Saddam Hussein or al-Qaeda spinoff and claim that Obama is the new JFK. Here's what JFK said in his inaugural speech:
"We dare not forget today that we are
the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and
place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new
generation of Americans -- born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by
a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness
or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always
been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the
world.
Let every nation know, whether it
wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any
hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the
success of liberty.
We dare not tempt them with
weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain
beyond doubt that they will never be employed."
Somehow I doubt JFK's promises were as empty as Barack Obama's. Whenever I hear Obama speak, I think, "Good speech, pretty obvious, positive stuff." It's what courageous men and women are fighting for in Iraq.
The mantle of acting on the principles laid out here by John F. Kennedy in his 1960 inaugural, in a speech dominated by foreign policy, is held not by Barack Obama, who wants to abandon the Iraqis' struggle for freedom, but by John McCain.
Posted by StandUpforMcCain on January 10, 2008 5:22 PM
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