All in all I think President McCain has done a good job. True, most of his Presidency seems to consist of vetoing stupid stuff being passed by Pelosi and Reid, like that budget busting stimulus. I realize that Senator Obama and his supporters are running around claiming "We can do better that 7.8 percent unemployment." (The 10 percent quoted by a poster includes "underemployed" and discouraged workers.) But the trends seem to have turned around from the high of 8.2 percent in September.
The "invasion" of Iran, which consisted of air and missiles strikes of Iranian nuclear facilities, as well as the special ops raid that recovered proof of the Iranian nuclear program, appears to be a complete success. The Iranian opposition seems to have been emboldened and reports are that there are large parts of the countryside that are now out of control of the Mullahs. There is street fighting in Tehran that may lead to the overthrow of the Mullahs.
The surge in Afghanistan has had a good effect, with the introduction of sixty thousand more troops. Karzai's successor seems to be cleaning up corruption and the Taliban is in flight back to Waziristan, where the Pakistan Army is getting ready for a Spring offensive.
Vice President Palin's speech in Toronto, which was about the new North American energy compact, was actually well received. True, Chris Matthews and the other Palin haters are focusing on her slam on "environmental wackos", but her advocacy helped get the Energy Bill passed which included both more drilling and more money for alternative energy.
I know that President McCain has been criticized for not going to Copenhagen, but after the climate-gate revelations, what else could he do? Even a hypothetical President Obama would not have been silly enough to push a cap and trade system now that we know global warming is a hoax...
Now if only President McCain could get the tax cuts extended. True, the deficit has gone down thanks to his vetoing of liberal spending bills, but the expiration of tax cuts threatens the economic recovery.
Alright, here's my stance.
McCain is a good man. I like John McCain. He's doing a great job. Unfortunatly he is having to deal with alot of shit that still hasen't washed over from the Republicans. I believe alot of problems that McCain is having would not be a problem if Barack one because he was a Democrat and wouldn't have the Bush stygma that McCain has.
The Invasion is allegedly not going well as you say, in fact nobody really knows what is going on there at the moment. What I've heard is that the Mullahs are in fact coming down hard on the rebels. If there is going to be a revolution against them, it's going to be long, hard and painful.
Karzai's successor is his
nephew!
Palin's speech was not well recieved in Canada. There was a lot of protests, including a huge one outside that I'm pretty sure they did not show on Fox news. And I'm pretty sure you wouldn't have gotten many of the glaring errors concrening my country in her speech. For one thing, she went to far with the whole idea of Canada mixed up with the Yukon, which seems to be the only part of Canada she has experience with.
Also, the whole environmenral wackos comment you heard was addressed to a good percent of the people at that confrence, not including the protestors outside. You may not be aware of this, but there is more to Canada then just the McKenzie Brothers, Beer and Donuts. In fact, from my experience of my country, we have very little in common with people like Mrs. Palin.
Climate change is real. Your country will kill all of us. I'm a writer, I will make sure history remembers the last days of America as a painful tyrannny under a mad and slowly dieing brontosaurus. I will be making a plane trip to Coppenhagen shortly, from there I will live in self-imposed exile. Considering how much my country feels your country's every little adjustment, I don't want to be anywhere near that sniviling excuse of a country of yours.
Say hello to the Soviet Union for me