McCain gets an earful from voters on Syria

[jakeXT]

(CNN) – Sen. John McCain, whose endorsement of President Barack Obama's plan to launch military strikes against Syria provided the president a key Republican backer, faced vocal opponents of military action during a town hall in Arizona Thursday.

McCain has long advocated a more muscular American approach toward Syria, calling for a plan to oust President Bashar al-Assad from power. But on Thursday many people who showed up to a town hall in Phoenix said that getting more involved in the civil war would lead to unintended consequences.

"We didn't send you to make war for us. We sent you to stop the war," one man said to applause.

Another man, holding a bag of marshmallows, declared Congress was going soft on its duties to represent voters.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/09/05/mccain-gets-an-earful-from-voters-on-syria/


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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017143478

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. "Muscular"?

Bad journalism just got worse.

[ebbie15644]

2. they sent him to stop the war, seriously?

They don't pay attention at all to what he says. There isn't a war that McCain WON'T support.

[JoePhilly]

3. Don't "Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb" Syria!

That would have been funnier.

[alsame]

4. I'm sorry, but as much as I

appreciate these people confronting him, any constituent who doesn't know McCain is a warmonger hasn't been paying attention. He should have been voted out years ago.