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McCain calls for closing Guantanamo
Mar 26, 2008, 16:48 GMT
Washington - John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, called for the closing of the Guantanamo Bay prison for alleged terrorist detainees.
'I believe we should close Guantanamo,' McCain said in a foreign policy address in Los Angeles, where he argued that the United States cannot go it alone in the world and must respect the views of valued allies.
'Our great power does not mean that we can do whatever we want, whenever we want,' said McCain, 71.
The Arizona senator said that the United States must play a leading role in the world in combating global warming and cannot ignore the effects of climate change outside of America's borders.
'The risks of global warming have no borders,' he said.
The United States must also help guide the vast Indian and Chinese economies into the international market, McCain said.
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Is McCain suddenly a twat ,victim of the great global warming swindle ????See our next episode 'SP4 weasels out a can of worms ....
...he's not really a conservative.
and who the hell does mccain thinks he is may i ask.
he's just another george in my book ..another hitler in the makeing
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SP4:Like I said...Mar 26th, 2008 - 18:09:23
...he's not really a conservative.
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Yeah, he must not be a Conservative.
HE HAS A BRAIN ...
www.news.com/2300-11395_3-6235636-1.html?tag=nefd.also
Scientists are citing 'rapid climate change in a fast-warming region of Antarctica' as the cause of an initial collapse of the Wilkins Ice Shelf. The damage got started at the end of February when an iceberg dropped off and triggered the 'runaway disintegration' of a 160-square-mile portion of the 5,282-square-mile shelf.
The ice shelf, which scientists speculate has floated in the Antarctic region for hundreds of years, is succumbing to recent rises in temperature in the area--an average of 0.9 degree Fahrenheit every 10 years for the last 50 years.
Per the story:
'The United States must also help guide the vast Indian and Chinese economies into the international market, McCain said.'
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www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2007/12/mccain_its_a bou.html
'McCain suggested to reporters Monday that American consumer culture offered a short cut to expertise. 'The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should,' McCain said. 'I've got Greenspan's book.''
(He also needed Lieberman's help in discerning Sunni from Shia recently)
McCain deserves credit for his own life experiences, but that does NOT make him a President. McCain offers nothing except a continuation of the past 8 years.
'McCain suddenly an economist?'
Compared to his competitors he is. Both the cackling shrew and the America hating thief want to bankrupt the country by creating gigantic entitlement programs that will run our national debt up over our GDP by the end of their first term. Not to mention what $500 a barrel oil will do to to the US economy after the liar or malcontent in chief turn over Iraq to al Qaeda.
washingtontimes.com/article/20080314/NATION/382087024/1001
Republicans yesterday forced Sen. Barack Obama to vote against what they labeled his own $1.4 trillion spending plan, cobbled together from his presidential campaign promises — one of a series of budget votes that will provide political fodder for the rest of the election year.
Mr. Obama and Sens. John McCain and Hillary Rodham Clinton jetted back to Washington yesterday to vote during the annual budget free-for-all that compresses votes on a host of contentious issues into a single day.
That meant taking positions on border security, energy independence, President Bush's tax cuts and Democrats' spending plans, each of which might come back to haunt the three major-party candidates still vying for the chief executive's slot, and could be used in this year's Senate elections as well.
The Arizona senator voted for every one of the Bush tax cuts offered yesterday, while Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama only voted to extend those for low-income workers and families with children.
All three teamed up late last night to take on the congressional sacred cow of pork-barrel spending, but failed spectacularly, losing 71-29 in their effort to enact a one-year ban on so-called earmarks.
'We found out tonight that there's only one place in America that doesn't get it,' Mr. McCain said after the vote.
He did better gaining support among his fellow Republicans — 22 more of whom voted for the ban — than did his Democratic opponents, who were only able to muster three other Democrats. They were all joined by Sen. Joe Lieberman, Connecticut independent.
[...]
Republicans' 'Obama spend-o-rama' amendment epitomized the day.
Sen. Wayne Allard, the Colorado Republican who is retiring after this year, offered the amendment, though as he explained on the floor to Sen. Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, 'It wasn't my idea.'
That came after Mr. Schumer, walking by his desk, was heard in the gallery telling Mr. Allard, 'You're such a...' as his voice trailed off and became unintelligible to those in the galleries surrounding the Senate floor.
Mrs. Clinton, eager to make sure her opposition was recorded, voted twice — once from the desks and, in case the clerk didn't notice, she strode into the well of the Senate to be certain.
Near the end of the allotted time, Mr. Obama, who had been in an office just off the Senate floor conferring with a group of senators who back his presidential bid, strode to the floor with those supporters and all of them voted no.
The Illinois senator looked over the chamber and demanded to know who orchestrated the stunt. Spotting Mr. Allard, he yelled to him, 'You working this hard?'
'Vote yes,' Mr. Allard shot back — though even he didn't vote for the amendment himself, drawing a rebuke from Sen. Barbara Boxer, California Democrat: 'Did you vote against your own amendment?'
'The ice shelf, which scientists speculate has floated in the Antarctic region for hundreds of years, is succumbing to recent rises in temperature in the area--an average of 0.9 degree Fahrenheit every 10 years for the last 50 years.'
One of the most telling things of the 21st century is the information age and how dildos like the one above, with all of this capability, still cannot read.
The word above to scrutinize is 'speculate'
That is not scientific fact.
Go back to the 5th grade.
Poor Johnny, running the playbook.
Can anybody explain the meaning of the previous post,don't count on the author to make sense at all,anybody else please.I'm sure SP4 was actually trying to explain something ,but what ?
...that's for sure!
Try working on it yourself. You'll figure it out in about....30 years?
'...oh!...heloo Johnny....how's th ee lection goin...know what ya mean....they cin be damn brutal....noooo...nevah got t me....cept thim jokes aboout bein stu pid,...but thit wnet aways whin ol Kerry boyh bit th dust....boyh!, his men reallah hated im....go figure...'
'What?....gitmo?...what abooout it Johnny....yeees, ah knew yoou were in a POW camp....yeees ah read y' book...nooo ah don't wanna sign copy, very nahce o you though...'
'No, johnny, we ain't closin it...noooo, we ain't leavin I rak, or Afghinstan boyh....outa th question...yep, you and hillarah an O'bama...sounds Irish t me...you all are gonna hav t deal with it! It's what y a git Johnny, fer greenlahgtin it....of all people Johnny!...haell yes you knew!....you all sat up thire fer 10 years pickin on ol Dad an sayin he shoulda dealt with saddam! Well here comes dumb ol GW, yoou an your new girlfriend dee cahde t' jes say 'git er done, George!'
'waell ah did Johnny...ol Sad am is toast, and yoou all wanna go back an eat top steak at th May flowah with thit New York Govnah an his floozy!...waell ah'll join ya, in aboout 14 months Johhny!
'N git out thire an campaign Johnny! Ah'll hep ya too! Y' cin pick on me all ya want, Ah'll git ya sum rose gardinin tahme, pictures with Laura, th works boyh...but it's yours t lose....N' git out thire an make daddah proud! If'n ya win, ah'll eave sum o thim salmon flavored cee gars thit Bill left fer ya, unna th desk! Reel calmin, thim cee gah's...!''
i just puked.thanks to ess pee four
...don't ever say I never did anything for ya!
McCain. He does not have leadership qualities because he has no plan....just like Bush. Just a lot of empty words. McCain is a fraud.
...don't look now, but here is a guy who is pretty goddam plain and seems to have a pretty specific recommendation.
Close it.
What could be plainer than that?
McCain, is, in a word, an independent. He has passed legislation that has pissed off BOTH parties. He has gone against Bush's machine.
Yet, bigots like you will simply dismiss him.
The dems NEED McCain the conservative. If they do not have this, they are screwed! Now, we hear how it's going to be four more years of Bush, even though his congressional record is nothing like that.
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NoharnessMar 26th, 2008 - 17:26:37
There is no global warming, John, just poorly placed weather stations. Over half of them are sitting in parking lots, or on roof tops or next to airconditioners. It's an illusion. The data is bad.
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