[Peace-discuss] Policy insulated from politics

[E. Wayne Johnson]

We know how McCain and his "This is McCain Country" thugs deal with dissent.

http://www.liberty4urbana.com/drupal-6.8/node/282

(Watch the last 12 minutes or so if you can't bear the whole 50+ minutes.)



McCain's thugs snatched away the blue Fort Moultrie flag just seconds
after this picture was taken.  We got it back, weeks later.





On 6/21/2009 9:52 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> [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
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