John McCain, cranky, warmongering madman, again: Why does the New York Times print these lunatic rav

[DonViejo]

John McCain, cranky, warmongering madman, again: Why does the New York Times print these lunatic ravings?

An out-of-control McCain calls for Obama to draw a red line in Crimea. The New York Times just goes right along

PATRICK L. SMITH

One develops an odd liking for John McCain over time—attenuated but not grudging. The Republican senator who once found virtue bombing Vietnamese rice farmers reliably brings clarity to purposes the foreign policy clique shrouds in mists of good intent for the sake of public consumption.

McCain has just made his second visit to Ukraine since December. And finally someone says it like it is. I hope all our liberal hearts, happy to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Washington and a legitimacy-challenged provisional government well-seasoned with ultra-rightists as they attempt to draw a complicated, divided country into the neoliberal order with one swift yank, come to some sense. It is time now. Cut it out with the Kool-Aid, friends.

McCain said many stunning things during his visit to Kiev just before the weekend, and then in an astonishing piece of Manichean logic timed to coincide with the Kiev grandstand Saturday when it appeared on the New York Times opinion page (under the headline “Obama has made America look weak”). We can be but grateful that the 2008 presidential candidate chose Sarah Palin as first mate in that campaign, so sinking his destroyer before it reached port.

This guy is dangerous, residing back there in the Evil Empire cosmos. He sees Ukraine on the very eve of a Russian invasion. (Never mind that no serious analyst of any stripe counts this Vladimir Putin’s intent.) As to Putin, “His world is a brutish, cynical place, where power is worshiped, weakness is despised, and all rivalries are zero-sum…. We must rearm ourselves morally and intellectually to prevent the darkness of Mr. Putin’s world from befalling more of humanity.” (Could John Foster Dulles or Cotton Mather match this for the evangelical flourish, this depiction of the Beelzebub in our midst?)

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[djean111]

1. "His world is a brutish, cynical place, where power is worshiped, weakness is despised, and all

rivalries are zero-sum"
Perfectly describes the GOP, really. And the zero-sum thing is, sadly, common to both parties.

[snappyturtle]

2. OMG! McCain has lost it. Can you imagine,as bad as things are now, where we

would be had McCain been elected President? He's a self proclaimed mind reader
and fortune teller.