McCain Shifts Position on More US Troops to Afghanistan

AkaDad - the count on McCain's flip-flops is now up to 70! Of course, that was yesterday's total - McCain pulled another one today. The self-professed candidate of “straight talk” and “experience” spent today changing his position on gay adoption, adopting Senator Obama’s position that we need more troops in Afghanistan after having resisted taking that position, flip flopping on whether he’d send U.S. or NATO troops (he actually offered three different explanations on where those additional troops would come from), and referring to a country that hasn’t existed since 1992 for the second time in two days.

The reason why the media gives McCain a pass when he flip flops or shows his age with mis-quotes or appears dumbfounded when ask questions about Viagra or etc....has everything to do with making this election competitive. If the media devoted as much attention to McCain's every step the way they do toward Obama the Republican party would be forced to forfeit this election.

McCain graduated from the US Naval Academy 894th in a class of 899. He wrecked five jets before they finally got rid of him. Obviously he is not the brightest bulb on the tree. He was shot down by an out-of-date Soviet missile by men with no experience in anti-aircraft warfare because he did not follow the rules of evasion taught at the Academy. Let's just say the man has only one oar in the water.

He disses two in five people on the face of the earth by referring to all Asians as “Gooks.” He may be viewed as a “hero,” but I don’t think being shot down qualifies him for the job of president.

John's conscience:

Not to mention that the government can no longer sneeze without fueling the Chinese economy. Who is it that we owe most of our money to? We should be deathly worried that China may eventually no longer need us.

"He's never been to Afghanistan, he's never been briefed on Afghanistan personally by the commanders." McCain

Based on this reasoning, I suppose Roosevelt should have gone to Poland and France before deciding to enter WWll>

What is the *real* reason that John McCain advocated surrendering Afghanistan to the Taliban, as he has sense the beginning of the Iraq war?

Could it be that John McCain is loyal to the America's enemies?

Besides getting more of our troops killed, how will McSame be different than Bush? Is Phil Graham McSame's brain? Face it..this man is senile and incompetent. After looking stupid to the world the past 8 years, it will be refreshing to have an articulate and intelligent commander that I can be proud of again; one that can at least read a tele prompter.

Wisdom You have the wisdom of a republican Rush Limbaugh listener. Obama said when having conversations with immigrant communities in the wake of 9/11 his meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, have been of an urgent quality. They have stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly. Therefore he has reassured them that he will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction. This simply means he would not allow our government to mistreat these Americans any more than he would allow any other group or type of people to be persecuted by our government. Obama is a man to be admired for standing up for us all.

West Coast Messenger:

Get your facts straight. Those 'present' votes? Yeah, those amounted to maybe 1-3% of his total votes cast, and most of the time--for instance on an anti-abortion bill--that was what the pro-choice groups wanted him to do.

Obama leads McSame in every category except foriegn policy, which McSame leads in simply because he is old and has been in Washington all his life. What will McCain do? Whatever GW wants him to do. What's the difference between McSame and Bush,,,just ask Mark Sanford. Want more of the same.....stay loyal to your party instead of your common sense. This has been the worst 8 years of my life, and I want nothing that even resembles GW for the next 8-years. Nothing against the man, but his time has come and gone.
Obama will follow the direction of his cabinet, fresh ideas and competency, not the out of touch Phil Graham and Lieberman type.

WestCoastMessenger - Experience doesn't count for much when the principle is wrong. 26 years of experience should have taught McCain better. The concept of doing the same thing over and over and over, hoping for a different outcome doesn't make it right.
This election is about Judgment. Repeatedly, Obama is showing significantly better judgment on issues than McCain. This most recent flip-flop of McCain's is just one more in a long line of 'shifts'. The last thing we need is a POTUS that continues the experience we've seen the past 7 years. More of the same isn't good enough.

Hearings on Afghanistan were held at the COMMITTEE level.

Are Republicans mearly ignorant, or just willing to tell any lie?

Mccain flip flops and the media ignores him.He is so incompetent!

Wasn't Obama supposed to be looking into more troops being supplied by NATO? You know, the committee he was supposed to be chairing? Any progress on that, or has Biden been doing it for him? It looks like Obama failed in that responsibility. McCain is reminding him of what he should have been doing as chair of that committee. And just why do we even need to stay in Afghanistan? Do as Ron Paul suggested and the get the h**l out of the Middle East! Let them blow all of us up together! Easy solutions for simple minds, huh?

Is this now 63 or 64 flip-flops for McCain? I've lost track.

These left wing liberal views on Afghanistan that McCain is now showing are just the influence of that ex-democrat Joe Lieberman. McCain's campaign is being infiltrated with radical ideas from within.

Hey Millie,
Right, Obama was talking about an increase in troops for Afgahnistan when he was an Illinois state senator voting present all the time. Experience you can count on.
=======================================
Obama and trust -- don't count on it.
=======================================

McCain outpolls Obama 72 to 48 on the commander-in-chief attribute. It looks like he is more trustworthy than Obama. I don't support McCain, but I don't trust Obama on making commander-in-chief decisions or anything else. I'd like to see Hillary back in the race so we have a better choice. She should consider jumping back in since Obama has reneged on the promises he made when he was attempting to steal votes from Hillary.
========================================
Obama -- just messin' with you man!!!!!
========================================

I say will all vote for General Custer

Mcbush will set us free..if not in this

World then in the Next....

The US Military should have reported

and got more troops before ...

how is it Obama called for it

almost a year before Mcbush?

The big difference is that McCain decides policy and policy changes after he has been to the war zone and spoke with the commanders...not before.

O'Carter continually tries to decide policy prior to getting pertinent information, then he has to reverse himself and "shift emphasis."

Whatever term is used by whatever campaign, weaseling out is what it amounts to.