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McCain Lays Out His Principles, Shaped By His Past
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ABC News' Jan Simmonds Reports: Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) Thursday laid out a laundry list of principles he aspired to pursue as President.
"To keep our nation prosperous, strong and growing we have to rethink, reform and reinvent: the way we educate our children; train our workers; deliver health care services; support retirees; fuel our transportation network; stimulate research and development; and harness new technologies," said John McCain Thursday in Jacksonville, Florida.
Speaking at the Air Field at which he was once the Executive Officer, McCain cited how his past would shape his approach to the nation's problems.
"Soldiers are taught to expect the unexpected and accept it, and revise, improvise, and fight their way through any adversity," he said invoking the lessons he learned as a soldier.
McCain was joined on stage by his family, including his 96-year-old mother, and Florida's Republican Governor Charlie Crist, McCain touted that he would pursue balancing the federal budget "not with smoke and mirrors but by encouraging economic growth and preventing government from spending your money on things it shouldn't."
He urged that in order to save Social Security and Medicare, government must avoid do without "the tricks, band-aid solutions, lies and posturing that have failed us for too long while the problem became harder and harder to solve."
Additionally the Arizona Senator called for simplifying the tax code making it 'more pro-growth and pro-jobs," developing an energy policy that "encourages American industry and technology to make our country safer, cleaner and more prosperous," and developing a better way to assist uninsured Americans to become insured "without bankrupting the country, and ruining the quality of American health care that is the envy of the world."
During his speech before several hundred supporters, McCain noted how the lessons of teamwork and sacrifice he learned as an officer of the Navy and during his time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam shaped the man he is today.
"I became dependent on others to a greater extent than I had ever been before. And I am a better man for it,” said McCain speaking about his days at the Hanoi Hilton. "We had met a power that wanted to obliterate our identities, and the cause to which we rallied was our response: we are free men, bound inseparably together, and by the grace of God and not your sufferance we will have our freedom restored to us."
In closing, McCain rejected an aura on inevitability and called for the country to be forward looking towards the promise of a prosperous future.
"Nothing is inevitable in America," said McCain. "We're the world's leader, and leaders don't pine for the past and dread the future. We make the future better than the past. We don't hide from history. We make history."
April 3, 2008 in Hunter, Duncan | Permalink | User Comments (4)
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John McCain is corrput (lobbyists run this campiagn) and arrogant, self-righteous and a pompus ASS. Anybody who has the gall to do what he has done to destroy our military, promote more wars, and come up with cockamamie ideas like a global carbon tax, taxing human activity, while exempting polluters with "carbon offsets"; Is seriously nuts. WHat is so damn envirimential bombarding Afghanistan, and Iraq with toxic depleted uranium, that has a half life of over one million years? If he wants to go bomb Iran, I suggest "Slim Pickens McCain be on that bomb himself. His insipidness knows no bounds. If he was the John McCain of 2000, he would never be given the nomination. Fortunately for him, he clung to W. so much that the stench and the absence of purpose that plagued W. has infested John himself. Bob Dole didn't work in '96, and McCain won't work in 2000. Maybe in bothe circumstances, that's exactly what was and is expected of them. It sure would make alot of paralells between to two as striking as they truly are.
Posted by: cba | Apr 3, 2008 11:53:34 AM
cba - Right on! You are absolutely correct.
Posted by: FreeCrazyThinker | Apr 3, 2008 11:59:27 AM
It appears thus far, that McCain is going to enjoy the diatribes from some of O's camp, if he is the nominee. It's really hard for some of them to speak without total disrespect for the other candidates. Hillary knows that. If O is the nominee, I might just have to do what McCain's 96-year old mother said: "Just hold your nose and vote for him!" Smart lady. Intelligence comes in all ages of packages.
Posted by: georgia | Apr 3, 2008 12:31:57 PM
Navy? Check. McCain? Check. Relevant to "principles"? Check. So what is it, Jake, that offends you about this issue?
Posted by: liberty | Apr 3, 2008 2:56:36 PM
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