McCain: Obama Is 'Near Delusional In Thinking The Cold War Was Over'

[DonViejo]

IGOR BOBIC – MARCH 7, 2014, 12:43 PM EST

What détente?

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) ratcheted up his rhetoric against President Barack Obama on Friday, accusing his administration of being "near delusional" in their assessment of Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose forces have occupied the Ukrainian Crimea.

"I think many things and I'll try to be brief," McCain told Andrea Mitchell on "MSNBC." "One is a fundamental understanding of Vladimir Putin. They have been near delusional in thinking the Cold War was over."

"Maybe the President thinks the Cold War is over," he added, "but Vladimir Putin doesn't and that's what this is all about."

If the Cold War never truly ended, it sure fooled former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, the latter of which famously peered into Putin's soul and proclaimed him "a very straight forward and trustworthy" man.

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[Rex]

1. Pure projection on McCain's part.

The fact that this man is a senator...should scare the crap out of people!

[TwilightGardener]

2. Has anyone noticed that wherever McCain visits in the world, trouble soon follows?

He's a shit-stirrer from way back. Someone should take away his passport and make him take a nap.

[Zorra]

3. I have some issues with Obama, but I will be forever grateful that he trounced Gramps

and Church Lady in the 2008 election.

cuz like, ya know...

...

[Thinkingabout]

4. Did McCain take his advice from Palin? I am very thankful McCain and Romney was not

Elected. I would hate to think of the wars we would be involved with under their watch. It makes an Obama win more important everyday. I guess we could say since George W looked into Putin's eyes and saw his soul we should not fear anything.

[Cali_Democrat]

5. WAit....what the fuck?

Don't Republicans constantly use the bogus claim that Reagan won the Cold War?

So they're finally admitting he had nothing to do with the fall of the USSR? The war isn't even over!!!11!!

It's all so confusing....

[joeybee12]

6. Essentially, this dumb phucker is exposing the GOP lie that Reagan ended the Cold War...

Thanks McLame Poopy-Pants

[CJCRANE]

7. "Tear down that wall".

Maybe we're in an episode of the Twilight Zone where the Berlin Wall never came down...

[Dawson Leery]

8. and his bimbo daughter.

She is posting the same nonsense on her twitter account.

[SomethingFishy]

9. Oops. Here's McCain on his Wiki saying how NATO won the cold war:

"McCain's 2006 foreign policy rating, compiled by the Almanac of American Politics (2008), was 58% conservative, 40% liberal. 2005 figures were similar: 54% conservative, 45% liberal.[5] In March 2008, McCain said that the United States should "strengthen our global alliances as the core of a new global compact – a League of Democracies – that can harness the vast influence of the more than one hundred democratic nations around the world to advance our values and defend our shared interests." He said that the United States did not single-handedly win the Cold War, but rather the NATO alliance did so, "in concert with partners around the world.


So did NATO win it in concert with partners around the world... or are you just full of shit McCain?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_John_McCain

[BeyondGeography]

10. But then Obama re-started the Cold War because he beat me

[Blue_Tires]

11. Fun with archives: Aug. 18, 2008....

"The Cold War is over, the Soviet empire is gone and neither one is missed," McCain told a convention of US military veterans in Florida.

"Least of all is that empire missed by the once captive nations of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine and Georgia.

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