But why, oh why, would he say something as sloppy as “I think it’s a pretty good timetable” of Obama’s plan, even if he planned on qualifying it, knowing that the media will be off to the races with it? Bad end to a bad week.

Because McCain is a moron. We nominated a Moron to be our candidate for President. We nominated a guy who loves to agree with his opponents. That’s why I’m not looking forward to the debates with Obama. It will go something like this.

Obama: My plan is embraced by the Iraqi People, the Iraqi Parliament, and the Iraqi President is a good starting place. Obviously, it may be affected by future conditions which we can only guess about at this time, but it’s a good starting place.

McCain: As with the plan to cut the Deficit put forward by Senator Obama, I think that his plan to withdraw the troops from Iraq a good idea, and when I’m President, I look forward to implementing the plan with the greatest chance of success in the long run.

Just a few little pieces of information for you all before you take this logistically impossible argument prime time. There are roughly speaking, twenty million containers of freight that enter or leave the United States eastern seaboard every year. There are more than twenty million that enter or leave the Western ports every year. Wait, there’s more. The Military is not the only owner of Ro-Ro or Roll On Roll Off Freight carrying cargo ships. Wilhelmson is one of a number of shipping lines that has Ro Ro ships for wheeled or tracked cargo.

I would love to let you all see some of the huge cargo carrying ships that are out there these days, ships that can carry nearly 5000 containers on them. There are more than just one or two of them as well. Many shipping lines also lease entire ships. Logistics isn’t impossible, not anymore, not to anyone in the industry. So that excuse is about worthless.

Now, the conditions on the ground may or may not warrant the removal of troops, and that is a decision that is made by the Iraqi Government, and our own State and Department of Defense people. However, the “Logistically Impossible” argument is bull and IIWTP (IF I WAS THE PRESIDENT) and someone offered me that excuse, I’d tell him to leave his resignation on the desk when he left. Obviously I work in Transportation, and I know what kind of logistical transportation capability there is.

SoulGlo on July 25, 2008 at 6:26 PM

Based on conditions on the ground. That’s the difference between McCain and Obama. Obama wants to get out in 16 months no matter what.

Obama was pitching a 16 month time-table for withdraw 16 months ago. It would have been a failure then, and would be a failure now.

Similarly, ten years ago Democrats were preventing drilling in ANWR because it wouldn’t give us oil “for ten years”. Wrong then, wrong now.

Don’t these idiots learn?!?

I wouldn’t be surprised if you see troop reductions starting in Sept of this year.

bnelson44 on July 25, 2008 at 7:44 PM

I agree, should be about time start to pull at least some of the surge numbers out.

MB4 on July 25, 2008 at 9:00 PM

How much do you charge to haunt a house?

One step backward,

Two steps back…

catmman on July 25, 2008 at 6:30 PM

Two bits, four bits, six bits, a peso
All who think that McCain will wake up
Stand up and say so!!!

Athough this can be twisted against McCain, and undermines his previous pronouncements that such a fast schedule was unfeasible, hey, when conditions and facts change, policy can (and often should) change as well. It’s not clear to me the war……

You do realize, she beat him electorally. She smoke him in the large states and she smoked him down the stretch. He had a good month when nobody really knew him.

TheBigOldDog on July 25, 2008 at 8:47 PM

Well in 2000 Al Gore beat Bush in the popular vote and “smoked” him in most of the big states.

How did that work out for him?

Hardly. We’ll look back on the this week as the week when Obama jumped the shark and all McCain needs to do is not hurt his viability.

TheBigOldDog on July 25, 2008 at 6:33 PM

With all the #hit around you just know there has got to be a pony there someplace.
- Ronald Reagan

Well, I hope you realized that was a joke (?). Or my attempt at one.

Wolfson ran Hillary’s campaign. Or was a major player in it.

SteveMG on July 25, 2008 at 8:25 PM

You do realize, she beat him electorally. She smoke him in the large states and she smoked him down the stretch. He had a good month when nobody really knew him.

16 months sounds like a “pretty good timetable,” says … McCain

Well its too late McCainy
Now it too late
Tho you really are trying to fake it
Somethin inside your plans has died and you cant hide
And you just cant fake it
Its too late McCainy
Its too late
Now Juan
Its too late

Commanders say 16 months is logistically improbable

I thought that it was suppose to be impossible.

Well in any case -

Nuts!
- General Anthony Clement McAuliffe

I guess McLame needs to convince me voting for him is better than staying home. I’m all ears John.
dhunter on July 25, 2008 at 8:25 PM

Allow me to make a suggestion:

The American Conservative Union has released its report on Congress for 2007, and John McCain will welcome the results. Despite missing a number of votes while campaigning for President, McCain voted often enough to win a rating of 80, a significant improvement over the 65 he got in 2006. That approximates his lifetime rating of 82.16 and gives McCain a little more ammunition for his argument to represent conservative values.

How did Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton score with the ACU? Barack Obama actually scored marginally higher than his caucus at a 7, having supported the ACU on earmark disclosure alone. Hillary gets a big, fat zero for 2007, after getting a whopping eight in 2006, as did Obama. For those who see no difference between McCain and the two Democrats, this serves as a reminder that while McCain drifts to the middle on some issues, a large chasm exists between the nominees that will face off in November.

So does this information help you at all in your decision to either back “McLame” or to simultaneously help to prevent Obama from becoming president?

SteveMG on July 25,2008 at 8:25PM.

SteveMG: Hey its Friday night,relax!

I haven’t researched it yet,and I love humour
injected into politics,and yes Steve,your a
sly fox,hahaha!:)

bnelson44 on July 25,2008 at 7:43PM.

bnelson44: I thank-you for McCain’s HeadQuarters,
I thought i already had it,but I didn’t,
again,thanks for the link.:)

Howard Wolfson

Well, I hope you realized that was a joke (?). Or my attempt at one.

Wolfson ran Hillary’s campaign. Or was a major player in it.

http://imustimes.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/jacobs-obama-to-iraq-its-all-eye-wash/

SteveMG on July 25,2008 at 7:46PM.

SteveMG: It just seems,that every time a Republican
has a an election campaign,the number 1 problem
is,when an accusation is levelled,why for the love
of gawd,do they take a week or so(im exaggerating),
to respond!

And,if it were the Slick Willy campaign,they had
enough political hacks,to respond at a moments
notice,and no,I don’t want a Republican to stoop
to a liberal campaign,but,how about,at least an
attempt to respond in a timely fashion,say at least
the same friggin day!

And,here’s the 64 dollar question,is there a co-
ordinated effort by the RNC and McCain,or does he,
McCain run the campaign,so to speak?

And,this is where the VP,would take up the slack,
so to speak,on the campaign trail,and BTW,the soon-
er the better,would be nice!!!

So Spirit, is he supposed to say that 16 months is absolutely impossible, terrible and out of the question even if conditions allow it and the military says it can be done?

Now I have my doubts that it will happen, but I think people are nitpicking here.

Terrye on July 25, 2008 at 7:20 PM

Defend it if you want, it makes no difference, but it’s a bad decision to say no, no, no then but it’s a good idea in an answer to one question. It gives Obama credibility on an issue where he has none. Nitpicking, eh maybe, but remember it was an unforced error if you hear in debate or in ad later.