Guest Patriot Games Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/McCain_Best_commander/2008/04/08/86281.html Poll Finds McCain Best Commander-in-Chief Tuesday, April 8, 2008 Americans say Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the presumed Republican presidential nominee, would be a better commander-in-chief than the Democratic candidates: Sens. Hillary Clinton (N.Y.) or Barack Obama (Ill.), according to a new poll. The poll by the Everett Group found that 51 percent of Americans think McCain would be a better commander-in-chief than Clinton, at 32 percent. When asked about Obama and McCain, the survey found that 53 percent favored McCain while 35 percent viewed Obama as a better commander-in-chief. "A commander-in-chief has to keep America strong at home and around the world, but John McCain seems intent on proving he's the wrong person for the job," said Karen Finney, communications director for the Democratic National Committee. "In the coming months, the American people will get to know the real John McCain, the 3rd Bush-termer who has not put forward a plan on Iraq other than to say he's willing to keep troops there for 100 years, the McCain that time and time again has gotten the facts on the ground wrong, the McCain who can't say how he would continue to pay for the war or how he would restore balance to America's military and national guard forces," she told Cybercast News Service. Bernard Finel, a senior fellow with the liberal-leaning American Security Project, said that while the results are not surprising because polls have shown McCain consistently strong on the war on terror, "he hasn't really been challenged by anyone on national security at this juncture." "I think those numbers will drop off once he gets a direct head-to-head challenge from one of the Democratic candidates," Finel said. Finel added that it's "hard to disentangle it from other issues." "Even though people say they trust him more on national security or on terrorism issues, the same polls will show people are favoring Obama or Clinton against him in national polls," he told Cybercast News Service. Finel noted that the majority of Americans see the economy as the biggest issue in this next election. "While voters have some broad sense of Senator McCain's personal history, they readily acknowledge that they know little about his positions and record on the issues they care about the most-especially the economy and health care," Finney wrote in a memo. "When voters hear what Senator McCain has said and done on those issues, they see someone who has a backward looking approach and who is badly out of touch with the realities average people face in their lives today," Finney added. "No one can be totally prepared for the presidency," Bob Maginnis, a Defense Department analyst, wrote in an op-ed in Human Events. "Arguably the president's most important role is that of commander-in-chief and Sen. John McCain has demonstrated a treasure chest full of characteristics, experiences and well-considered proposals that suit the position and time," he said. Maginnis also refuted the DNC's claims that McCain would continue the Bush administration's policies. "McCain promises a number of significant changes," he said. "He will not limit the counterterrorism efforts to stateless groups operating in safe havens," said Maginnis. "He points out that Iran, the 'world's chief state sponsor of terrorism,' continues its quest for nuclear weapons. He fears an Iran protected by a nuclear arsenal would be even more willing and able to sponsor terrorist attacks." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Topaz Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 ADOLF HITLER SCHWERIN, GUSTLOFF'S FUNERAL SPEECH OF FEBRUARY 12, 1936 .. . . BEHIND every murder stood the same power which is responsible for this murder; behind these harmless insignificant fellow-countrymen who were instigated and incited to crime stands the hate-filled power of our Jewish foe, a foe to whom we had done no harm, but who none the less sought to subjugate our German people and make of it its slave - the foe who is responsible for all the misfortune that fell upon us in 1918, for all the misfortune which plagued Germany in the years that followed. Those members of the Party and honorable comrades of ours all fell, and the same fate was planned for others: many hundreds survived as cripples or severely wounded, blinded or lamed; more than 40,000 others were injured. And among them were so many loyal folk whom we all knew and who were near and dear to us, of whom we were sure that they could never do any harm to anyone, that they had never done any harm to anyone, whose only crime was that they devoted themselves to the cause of Germany. In the ranks of those whose lives were thus sacrificed there stood also Horst Wessel, the singer who gave to the Movement its song, never dreaming that he would join those spirits who march and have marched with us. And now on foreign soil National Socialism has gained its first conscious martyr - a man who did nothing save to enter the lists for Germany which is not only his sacred right but his duty in this world: a man who did nothing save remember his homeland and pledge himself to her in loyalty. He, too, was murdered, just like so many others. Even at the time when on January 30 three years ago we had come into power, precisely the same things happened in Germany, at Frankfort on the Oder, at K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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