McCain challenges Rudy to a game of "Who's dumber?"

By: Rob
Published On: 5/13/2007 5:24:24 PM

Can this field get any worse?  As if on cue to one up Rudy after my last post, John McCain tops his one previous "credibility-killing moment" today:

Last month, the senator insisted that there are parts of Baghdad are safe for Americans to go for a stroll and that General Petraeus travels around the city "almost every day in a non-armed Humvee." Obviously, that was wrong. McCain took this to the next step, of course, when he went to a Baghdad market, surrounded himself with 100 soldiers, three Blackhawk helicopters, and two Apache gunships, and then told reporters that he was able to walk freely in Iraq's capital.

Tim Russert asked him about this on Meet the Press this morning. McCain responded:

"I'll be glad to go back to that market -- with or without military protection and Humvees, etc."
It's hard to believe anyone will be impressed by this misplaced bravado, but it's worth remembering that the day after McCain took a heavily-protected stroll that market, 21 Shia market workers were ambushed, bound, and shot at the same location.

Nevertheless, McCain thinks he can go for an unescorted walk in Baghdad? It's as if he's given up on being taken seriously altogether.

The foolishness of his statement today is mind boggling.  He thinks Iraq is safe enough for a United States Senator and presidetial candidate to stroll around outside the Green Zone without any military protection?  And he wants to be the Commander in Chief of this war?  Yikes.  The once-proud members of the GOP continue to circle the drain by supporting this failed war. 

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Michael Holmes CNN special (vadem - 5/13/2007 7:33:10 PM)
This documentary, Month of Mayhem, aired last night and is about to be shown again tonight.  Maybe McCain should tune in because the depth of fear and chaos is even more than we usually hear about from the journalists.  They are the only ones telling the truth about Iraq right now.  Progress my sweet patoot.  Our so called civilian leaders are treating us, the American public, as though we're blind and dumb.  McCain is showing everyone he's become an old fool.


One of Giuliani's Albatrosses -- the WTC HQ Decision (PM - 5/13/2007 7:59:10 PM)

According to Raw Story, Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace grilled Giuliani on his decision to put the emergency response command center in the World Trade Center in 1997.  It's been reported elsewhere that advisers said it should be located elsewhere.


"Your director of emergency management suggested, recommended, that you not put it [in the World Trade Center] because it had been a target in 1993. Why did you do that?" asked Wallace.

"My director of emergency management recommended 7 World Trade Center," replied Giuliani.

"I've got a copy right here of Jerry Hauer's directive to you," Wallace came back, "and I -- there were meetings in which Jerry Hauer said that it's a bad idea and the police chief, Howard Safir said it was a bad idea."

Giuliani insisted that Hauer recommended the World Trade Center as a "prime site" for the emergency response command center for the city.

http://rawstory.com/...

Rudy also argued:


"And we had a virtual command center," he said. "So when that command center was inoperable, within a half hour of September 11, we were able to move -- or within a half hour on September 11, we were able to move immediately to another command center."

Look for this matter to be debated quite a bit if Rudy wins the GOP nomination.



To me, it's not that McCain looks like an "old fool"... (Dianne - 5/14/2007 8:50:57 AM)
It is unbelievably scary to think that a top tier Presidential candidate would make the statement "I'll be glad to go back to that market -- with or without military protection and Humvees, etc." 

Just think about, carefully, it for a moment... would we want someone leading our country, making decisions that affect our daily lives and destiny, who would, on national television, make such a frightening and alarming statement such as that? 

What would cause a man to say such an irrational thing such as that?  Does he realize (or is he capable of realizing)the fatalistic nature of such an adventure?  Just looking at it from a mental health aspect, I find that statement delusional.  http://en.wikipedia....

In the most recent Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, a delusion is defined as:

A false belief based on incorrect inference about external reality that is firmly sustained despite what almost everybody else believes and despite what constitutes incontrovertible and obvious proof or evidence to the contrary.