[Peace-discuss] Policy insulated from politics

[C. G. Estabrook]

[Boy, that last election was important!  Why, if McCain had been elected, the 
war in the Middle East might have been expanded with billions of dollars more, 
we might be killing children in a country we're not even at war with, rendition 
and enhanced interrogation might still be on the books, Gitmo might still be 
open, a world-wide prison system without habeas corpus might still exist, 
preventive detention and internment without trial might have been established, 
banks might have been paid off without regulation, universal healthcare might 
not exist, the government might be promising to restore only a small fraction of 
the jobs lost and to do nothing for people losing their homes, and only the rich 
would have profited from the change of administrations.  That would have been 
awful.  --CGE]

	McCain: Obama has 'done well' as president so far
	Sun Jun 21, 11:48 am ET

WASHINGTON – Sen. John McCain says his opponent in last year's presidential 
campaign, Barack Obama, has "done well" in his first five months in the White House.

The Arizona Republican says that using a legislative scorecard to judge the 
presidency so far, Obama has achieved all his legislative goals.

On the down side, McCain says that Obama's successes in Congress have come with 
little or no Republican support.

McCain also is critical of Obama for setting a date for closing the detainee 
facility at Guantanamo Bay without first developing a comprehensive plan for 
what to do with its prisoners.

And the Arizona senator says Obama should speak out more in support of 
protesters in Iran.

McCain appeared Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090621/ap_on_go_co/us_mccain_obama