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McCain Sounding Obama-esque
Here's a portion of that speech that David mentioned earlier today. It's kind of hard to tell which presumptive nominee is speaking.
If I am elected President, I will work with anyone who sincerely wants to get this country moving again. I will listen to any idea that is offered in good faith and intended to help solve our problems, not make them worse. I will seek the counsel of members of Congress from both parties in forming government policy before I ask them to support it. I will ask Democrats to serve in my administration. My administration will set a new standard for transparency and accountability. I will hold weekly press conferences. I will regularly brief the American people on the progress our policies have made and the setbacks we have encountered. When we make errors, I will confess them readily, and explain what we intend to do to correct them. I will ask Congress to grant me the privilege of coming before both houses to take questions, and address criticism, much the same as the Prime Minister of Great Britain appears regularly before the House of Commons.
A lot of this is admirable (who knows if it'll actually happen, but it's nice to hear), especially the last line about taking direct questions from the rank and file of Congress. But if McCain wants to "set a new standard for transparency," he might ask his wife to release her tax returns. That would meet the current standard of transparency.
Update: I would also add that the cause of political reconciliation isn't furthered by implying your opponent is a Nazi appeaser.
POW McCain is a historical myth maker in the same way as President Bush is. It is easy?like almost everything that slips from the lips of Republican authority these days, to blame Chamberlain for "appeasement" and claim that if he had declared War then all would have gone so much better for the allied forces in the war against fascism. Such childish statements are unbecoming of a would be President of the USA, but they do reveal just what kind of character POW McCain represents as well as an indication of his ability to analyze the world we live in. The proper question in relation to Chamberlain is simply what was Chamberlain to do? He was caught in the middle of a dilemma to which no good solution existed and thus he chose what he believed was the lesser of multiple evils.
In 1938 the perception of the Soviet Union by England and France was deemed an equal or perhaps even a greater threat than Nazi Germany. While the Soviets desired to be protective of Czechoslovakia (Because they were "Slavic") they also had their demands in terms of forming a coalition with France and Great Britain. In exchange for aiding to resist the expansion of the Nazis into Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union demanded the right to annex Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Finland (by annex I mean invade). The two European Superpowers powers refused to allow the Soviets to occupy these countries while the Nazis in simultaneous secret negotiations with the Soviets said that they would go along with such an arrangement.
So as I said what was Chamberlain to do? If he denied the Germans access to Austria and Czechoslovakia he would have had to allow the Soviets the right to occupy the Baltic States. That too would be appeasement. The truth of the situation was further confused by the fact that it was doubted that the Soviets could be counted on in a conflict with Nazi Germany due to internal purges of Stalin which weakened them militarily. The Soviets viewed France and Great Britain as their biggest enemies in terms of creating their "global revolution", after all they represented the Status Quo of global dominion. During WWI the Russians had more or less left the war as the conditions for the Russian Revolution crystallized thus dividing Russia from within but also abandoning their commitment to their allies. So the situation was that in 1938 Chamberlain did not have any sound possibility to contain the Nazis without willingly allowing the Soviets the right to an Anschluss (annexation) of their own. The failure of POW McCain to recognize the difficulty of Chamberlain's position is perhaps an indication of his own ineptitude to understand the world he so desires to influence as a president or perhaps the only thing the aging POW McCain remembers from his history lessons of World War II is a punchline from "The Godfather".
POW McCain is a historical myth maker in the same way as President Bush is. It is easy?like almost everything that slips from the lips of Republican authority these days, to blame Chamberlain for "appeasement" and claim that if he had declared War then all would have gone so much better for the allied forces in the war against fascism. Such childish statements are unbecoming of a would be President of the USA, but they do reveal just what kind of character POW McCain represents as well as an indication of his ability to analyze the world we live in. The proper question in relation to Chamberlain is simply what was Chamberlain to do? He was caught in the middle of a dilemma to which no good solution existed and thus he chose what he believed was the lesser of multiple evils.
In 1938 the perception of the Soviet Union by England and France was deemed an equal or perhaps even a greater threat than Nazi Germany. While the Soviets desired to be protective of Czechoslovakia (Because they were "Slavic") they also had their demands in terms of forming a coalition with France and Great Britain. In exchange for aiding to resist the expansion of the Nazis into Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union demanded the right to annex Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Finland (by annex I mean invade). The two European Superpowers powers refused to allow the Soviets to occupy these countries while the Nazis in simultaneous secret negotiations with the Soviets said that they would go along with such an arrangement.
So as I said what was Chamberlain to do? If he denied the Germans access to Austria and Czechoslovakia he would have had to allow the Soviets the right to occupy the Baltic States. That too would be appeasement. The truth of the situation was further confused by the fact that it was doubted that the Soviets could be counted on in a conflict with Nazi Germany due to internal purges of Stalin which weakened them militarily. The Soviets viewed France and Great Britain as their biggest enemies in terms of creating their "global revolution", after all they represented the Status Quo of global dominion. During WWI the Russians had more or less left the war as the conditions for the Russian Revolution crystallized thus dividing Russia from within but also abandoning their commitment to their allies. So the situation was that in 1938 Chamberlain did not have any sound possibility to contain the Nazis without willingly allowing the Soviets the right to an Anschluss (annexation) of their own. The failure of POW McCain to recognize the difficulty of Chamberlain's position is perhaps an indication of his own ineptitude to understand the world he so desires to influence as a president or perhaps the only thing the aging POW McCain remembers from his history lessons of World War II is a punchline from "The Godfather".
I seem to remember Bush saying similar things back in 2000; "uniter not a divider". Turned out to be nothing more than a preview of the Orwellianism that he was to introduce into government.
POW McCain is a historical myth maker in the same way as President Bush is. It is easylike almost everything that slips from the lips of Republican authority these days, to blame Chamberlain for "appeasement" and claim that if he had declared War then all would have gone so much better for the allied forces in the war against fascism. Such childish statements are unbecoming of a would be President of the USA, but they do reveal just what kind of character POW McCain represents as well as an indication of his ability to analyze the world we live in. The proper question in relation to Chamberlain is simply what was Chamberlain to do? He was caught in the middle of a dilemma to which no good solution existed and thus he chose what he believed was the lesser of multiple evils.
In 1938 the perception of the Soviet Union by England and France was deemed an equal or perhaps even a greater threat than Nazi Germany. While the Soviets desired to be protective of Czechoslovakia (Because they were "Slavic") they also had their demands in terms of forming a coalition with France and Great Britain. In exchange for aiding to resist the expansion of the Nazis into Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union demanded the right to annex Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Finland (by annex I mean invade). The two European Superpowers powers refused to allow the Soviets to occupy these countries while the Nazis in simultaneous secret negotiations with the Soviets said that they would go along with such an arrangement.
So as I said what was Chamberlain to do? If he denied the Germans access to Austria and Czechoslovakia he would have had to allow the Soviets the right to occupy the Baltic States. That too would be appeasement. The truth of the situation was further confused by the fact that it was doubted that the Soviets could be counted on in a conflict with Nazi Germany due to internal purges of Stalin which weakened them militarily. The Soviets viewed France and Great Britain as their biggest enemies in terms of creating their "global revolution", after all they represented the Status Quo of global dominion. During WWI the Russians had more or less left the war as the conditions for the Russian Revolution crystallized thus dividing Russia from within but also abandoning their commitment to their allies. So the situation was that in 1938 Chamberlain did not have any sound possibility to contain the Nazis without willingly allowing the Soviets the right to an Anschluss (annexation) of their own. The failure of POW McCain to recognize the difficulty of Chamberlain's position is perhaps an indication of his own ineptitude to understand the world he so desires to influence as a president or perhaps the only thing the aging POW McCain remembers from his history lessons of World War II is a punchline from "The Godfather".
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