Talking About Foreign Policy? May I See Your Passport, Please?
Sen. John McCain has stated categorically that Sen. Barack Obama should not have the audacity to offer his ideas on foreign policy without first going to the country in question.
Like McCain did with his highly publicized stroll down a block in the heavily fortified Geen Zone to a pre-swept market, wearing a flak jacket, surrounded by combat troops armed to the teeth and under the watchful protection of a couple of BlackHawk helicopters to demonstrate how well the "surge" has worked, despite the fact that publicity photos of his promenade were tightly cropped to leave out his bodyguards -- all one hundred-and-some-odd of them.
According to McCain's waterboarded logic, effective foreign policy is based on entry stamps in your passport. In McCainland, that means you have to go to Iraq, to be "authorized" to talk about Iraq.
Hmmmmm.... perhaps we should be holding McCain to his own standard: travel there first, talk policy later. When was John McCain last in Tehran? Havana? Caracas? Pyongyang?
Thinking about "bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb-ing" Iran, John? Just a minute please... sorry but we don't see your visa. Wanna overthrow Raul and Fidel? Sorry, but we don't see where you were admitted to the country. Got plans to hunt down Hugo? Um, not so fast. We don't see your boarding pass. Tempted to try to corner North Korea? Kim Jong Il didn't let you past the 38th parallel.
Oh, I see... That rule doesn't apply to you, just your Democratic opponent.
Uh-huh... ri-iiiiiiiiiiiiiii-ight.
Like McCain did with his highly publicized stroll down a block in the heavily fortified Geen Zone to a pre-swept market, wearing a flak jacket, surrounded by combat troops armed to the teeth and under the watchful protection of a couple of BlackHawk helicopters to demonstrate how well the "surge" has worked, despite the fact that publicity photos of his promenade were tightly cropped to leave out his bodyguards -- all one hundred-and-some-odd of them.
According to McCain's waterboarded logic, effective foreign policy is based on entry stamps in your passport. In McCainland, that means you have to go to Iraq, to be "authorized" to talk about Iraq.
Hmmmmm.... perhaps we should be holding McCain to his own standard: travel there first, talk policy later. When was John McCain last in Tehran? Havana? Caracas? Pyongyang?
Thinking about "bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb-ing" Iran, John? Just a minute please... sorry but we don't see your visa. Wanna overthrow Raul and Fidel? Sorry, but we don't see where you were admitted to the country. Got plans to hunt down Hugo? Um, not so fast. We don't see your boarding pass. Tempted to try to corner North Korea? Kim Jong Il didn't let you past the 38th parallel.
Oh, I see... That rule doesn't apply to you, just your Democratic opponent.
Uh-huh... ri-iiiiiiiiiiiiiii-ight.
