I’m voting my conscience:McCain, the least of three evils. Doug on May 18, 2008 at 11:34 PM

You and the rest of the electorate.

Obama gets the racist, anti-Israel vote and McCain gets the rest.

Those same Wright-supporting lefties need to compare Sen. McCain’s actual statements to Jamie Rubin’s single quote to see a real textbook example of out-of-context.

It’s unfortunate that the vast majority of our voting population is content to remain blissfully unaware of anything that is not fed to them by the MSM. After all, if the NYT, WaPo, MSNBC, CNN, NPR, etc. say it, it must be true, right?

The very life-blood of the “vast, left-wing conspiracy” is the subversion of truth. How many voters will ever know the truth of what McCain actually said?

It is truly nice that you would play dice with the lives of 300 million Americans for four years under Barack Obama just to make sure the Dhimmicrats are blamed for every single problem under the sun in that administration. It really doesn’t matter to you that over the next 4 yrs, a nuclear device could go off, delivered by Islamic radicals, which could eliminate a couple of million Americans in an instant, because our leader Barry believes in talking with and negotiating with (an activity which means you give something away in exchange for what you want), but not attacking our enemies.

How nice that you believe we have the luxury of not standing up to Evil men where they exist, and in every activity they pursue. Perhaps they truly are the Minutemen Michael Moore suggests? After all, Iraq from 2004 to 2007 is a perfect example of what happens when Good citizens do nothing to oppose the Evil men in their midst. Perhaps because they were intimidated by all the families beheaded, burned, shot, stabbed, tortured, and finally killed horribly, just so the Islamic Nazis could get their way, politically, we should forgive them, like we could forgive the Republicans, for not doing anything to stop the violence and terror taking place in their own lands, and across the world. Whataya say? Let’s just let Evil have its way for 4 yrs. What’s the worst that could happen?

Of course, I think you’re wrong. Just like Barry.

J. D. Pendry – Sergeant Major, USMC, Retired

Keemo on May 17, 2008 at 7:55 AM

Now there’s a Man that’s RIGHT! Thanks for that kernel of Absolute Truth, Sergeant Major. I’m with you. Press on.

Subsunk

Subsunk on May 17, 2008 at 8:45 AM

wow

At the ripe old age of 23 I cried while watching the Republican Convention that gave the nomination to Gerald Ford. On Election Day that November I had my one and only migraine but went to the booth to vote for President Ford. I knew Jimmy Carter was going to win but thought he was such a nice man, what could go wrong in four years. As we all know President Carter was and is a disaster. He is the gift that keeps on giving. I am truly underwhelmed with many of Senator McCain’s views but you really need to think about the long term implications of a Obama presidency. Look at the respect and cache’ that is given former President Carter even though he was a total failure on every level. Given the adulation already accorded to someone who is not even a full term Senator I shudder to think of the long term effects of even one term.

Cindy Munford on May 17, 2008 at 10:36 AM

When will the Washington Post issue its retraction?

Johnny Mathis said it best “The Twelfth of Never”

Sounds like Elizabeth is not part of the same family unless related somehow.

Rubin is married to Judith Oxenberg Rubin, who served as the New York City Commissioner of Protocol for four years under Mayor David Dinkins. The Rubins have two grown sons, James and Philip. [9]

And:

Rubin has been a member of Hillary Clinton’s campaign team for the Democratic Nomination. He caused some controversy when he described Lord Trimble the Nobel Peace Prize winner and former First Minister of Northern Ireland as a “crankpot” for stating that Hillary Clinton’s claim to have been “helpful” in the Northern Irish peace process was, “A wee bit silly”.

’nuff said??

Shivas Irons on May 16, 2008 at 8:25 PM

Not quite besides the other comment about his sisters position at the NYT we also need to note that is daddy is Clintons Economic advisor and was Sec of the Treasury under BJ Bill.

He said he only had this particular quote he said that was e-mailed to him.”

Which means Jamie Rubin is a tool. He did not even care enough about his own reputation to verify his own interview.

I wonder who emailed it to him.

EJDolbow on May 17, 2008 at 12:22 AM

Rubin has a post up at HuffPo where he hits bottom and keeps on digging

The question and answer I released yesterday was a full question and a full answer. Nothing was left out of the question or the answer. Nothing is taken out of context. But in order to avoid further controversy and distraction, I have dug out what I believe to be all of the discussion on Hamas during our interview. The full interview is in a DVD being shipped to me. But a British journalist transcribed what she said was all of the discussion of Hamas.

I think the video kills the whole not taken out of context BS.

I might agree with your contention if we did not face the Islamic extremist and Iranian hegemony threats.

I understand your trepidation dmann, I share it. It’s obvious that we disagree on what path will deliver us the best outcome in the long run, but I think it clear we both have the best interests of our country at heart.

Either of us could be right, but I sincerely hope that the best outcome prevails, whether your scenario or mine.

ShoreMark on May 16, 2008 at 10:52 PM

It is truly nice that you would play dice with the lives of 300 million Americans for four years under Barack Obama just to make sure the Dhimmicrats are blamed for every single problem under the sun in that administration. It really doesn’t matter to you that over the next 4 yrs, a nuclear device could go off, delivered by Islamic radicals, which could eliminate a couple of million Americans in an instant, because our leader Barry believes in talking with and negotiating with (an activity which means you give something away in exchange for what you want), but not attacking our enemies.

How nice that you believe we have the luxury of not standing up to Evil men where they exist, and in every activity they pursue. Perhaps they truly are the Minutemen Michael Moore suggests? After all, Iraq from 2004 to 2007 is a perfect example of what happens when Good citizens do nothing to oppose the Evil men in their midst. Perhaps because they were intimidated by all the families beheaded, burned, shot, stabbed, tortured, and finally killed horribly, just so the Islamic Nazis could get their way, politically, we should forgive them, like we could forgive the Republicans, for not doing anything to stop the violence and terror taking place in their own lands, and across the world. Whataya say? Let’s just let Evil have its way for 4 yrs. What’s the worst that could happen?

Of course, I think you’re wrong. Just like Barry.

J. D. Pendry – Sergeant Major, USMC, Retired

Keemo on May 17, 2008 at 7:55 AM

Now there’s a Man that’s RIGHT! Thanks for that kernel of Absolute Truth, Sergeant Major. I’m with you. Press on.

Subsunk

Squid Shark on May 17, 2008 at 12:30 AM
Amnesty for 12-20+ million people. For a lawyer, you have a disturbing lack of regard for that whole “rule of law” thing. And tell me, how is it going to be different from the last time? Reagan’s amnesty worked great, huh?

As far as getting off oil: it’s impossible at this point, and will be for the foreseeable future. It’s amazing how many people don’t understand that there aren’t cheap, abundant, easy sources of energy just lying around waiting for us to use them. Sources of energy are very, very rare in the universe. Cheap, easy, and abundant ones are even more rare. Oil is a blessing from [deity of your choice].

misterpeasea on May 17, 2008 at 1:49 AM

He’s a Democrat. Natch.

Keemo on May 17, 2008 at 7:55 AM

Hear, hear. And thanks.

Video shows Jamie Rubin lied

Toldja!

Jimmy Carter, you are the father of the Islamic Nazi movement. You threw the Shah under the bus, welcomed the Ayatollah home, and then lacked the spine to confront the terrorists when they took our embassy and our people hostage. You’re the runner-in-chief.

Bill Clinton, you played ring around the Lewinsky while the terrorists were at war with us. You got us into a fight with them in Somalia and then you ran from it. Your weak-willed responses to the U.S.S. Cole and the First Trade Center Bombing and Our Embassy Bombings emboldened the killers. Each time you failed to respond adequately, they grew bolder, until 9/11/2001.

John Kerry, dishonesty is your most prominent attribute. You lied about American Soldiers in Vietnam. Your military service, like your life, is more fiction than fact. You’ve accused our military of terrorizing women and children in Iraq. You called Iraq the wrong war, wrong place, wrong time, the same words you used to describe Vietnam. You’re a fake. You want to run from Iraq and abandon the Iraqis to murderers just as you did the Vietnamese. Iraq, like Vietnam, is another war that you were for, before you were against it.

John Murtha, you said our military was broken. You said we can’t win militarily in Iraq. You accused United States Marines of cold-blooded murder without proof and said we should redeploy to Okinawa. Okinawa, John? And the Democrats call you their military expert! Are you sure you didn’t suffer a traumatic brain injury while you were off building your war hero resume? You’re a sad, pitiable, corrupt and washed up politician. You’re not a Marine, sir. You wouldn’t amount to a good pimple on a real Marine’s ass. You’re a phony and a disgrace. Run away, John.

Dick Durbin, you accused our Soldiers at Guantanamo of being Nazis, tenders of Soviet style gulags and as bad as the regime of Pol Pot, who murdered two million of his own people after your party abandoned Southeast Asia to the Communists. Now you want to abandon the Iraqis to the same fate. History was not a good teacher for you, was it? Lord help us! See Dick run.

Ted Kennedy, for days on end you held poster-sized pictures from Abu Ghraib in front of any available television camera. Al Jazeera quoted you saying that Iraqi’s torture chambers were open under new management. Did you see the news, Teddy? The Islamic Nazis demonstrated another beheading for you. If you truly supported our troops, you’d show the world poster-sized pictures of that atrocity and demand the annihilation of it. Your legislation stripping support from the South Vietnamese led to a communist victory there. You’re a bloated, drunken fool bent on repeating the same historical blunder that turned freedom-seeking people over to homicidal, genocidal maniacs. To paraphrase John Murtha, all while sitting on your wide, gin-soaked rear-end in Washington.

Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Carl Levine, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Russ Feingold, Hillary Clinton, Pat Leahy, Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, the Hollywood Leftist morons, et al, ad nauseam: Every time you stand in front of television cameras and broadcast to the Islamic Nazis that we went to war because our President lied, that the war is wrong and our Soldiers are torturers, that we should leave Iraq, you give the Islamic butchers – the same ones that tortured and mutilated American Soldiers – cause to think that we’ll run away again, and all they have to do is hang on a little longer. It is inevitable that we, the infidels, will have to defeat the Islamic jihadists. Better to do it now on their turf, than later on ours after they have gained both strength and momentum.

American news media, the New York Times particularly: Each time you publish stories about national defense secrets and our intelligence gathering methods, you become one united with the sub-human pieces of camel dung that torture and mutilate the bodies of American Soldiers. You can’t strike up the courage to publish cartoons, but you can help Al Qaeda destroy my country. Actually, you are more dangerous to us than Al Qaeda is. Think about that each time you face Mecca to admire your Pulitzer.

You are America’s “AXIS OF IDIOTS.” Your Collective Stupidity will destroy us. Self-serving politics and terrorist-abetting news scoops are more important to you than our national security or the lives of innocent civilians and Soldiers. It bothers you that defending ourselves gets in the way of your elitist sport of politics and your ignorant editorializing. There is as much blood on your hands as is on the hands of murdering terrorists. Don’t ever doubt that. Your frolics will only serve to extend this war as they extended Vietnam. If you want our Soldiers home as you claim, knock off the crap and try supporting your country ahead of supporting your silly political aims and aiding our enemies.

Yes, I’m questioning your patriotism. Your loyalty ends with self. I’m also questioning why you’re stealing air that decent Americans could be breathing. You don’t deserve the protection of our men and women in uniform. You need to run away from this war, this country. Leave the war to the people who have the will to see it through and the country to people who are willing to defend it.

No, Mr. President, you don’t get off the hook, either. Our country has two enemies: Those who want to destroy us from the outside and those who attempt it from within. Your Soldiers are dealing with the outside force. It’s your obligation to support them by confronting the AXIS OF IDIOTS.

America must hear it from you that these self-centered people are harming our country, a betting the enemy and endangering our safety. Well up a little anger, please, and channel it toward the appropriate target. You must prosecute those who leak national security secrets to the media. You must prosecute those in the media who knowingly publish those secrets.

Semper Fi,

J. D. Pendry – Sergeant Major, USMC, Retired

Somebody at HotAir was yammering the other day about how participating in Operation Chaos was a dereliction of their civic duty, and trying to impress us with awesome words like etymology (which reminded me of this, by the way).

How is voting for McCain, when you don’t agree with the liberal crap he spews, any less of a dereliction of that sacred duty?