McCain's mixed signals on foreign policy

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Source: Los Angeles Times

Sen. John McCain is well-known for scorching denunciations of Democrats, who he says would raise the "white flag of surrender" by cutting off funds for U.S. troops in Iraq.

But 15 years ago, it was McCain himself who startled colleagues by proposing to cut off money for a struggling and embattled U.S. force in another perilous place: Somalia.

On the campaign trail today, McCain is seen as an unyielding hawk. But before his first presidential run in 2000, he declared he would work with the Democratic Party's brain trust to devise his foreign policy.

And while he now describes himself as a "foot soldier in the Reagan revolution," he infuriated Republicans as a freshman congressman in 1983 by trying to thwart President Reagan's deployment of troops in Lebanon.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/la-na-mccainpolicy16mar16,0,3445817.story?track=ntothtml

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1. "foot soldier in the Reagan revolution"

Reagan's dead. Maybe John can sign up to guard his grave. That shouldn't be too tiring.

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2. Ohhh, fodder for the general election debates! n/t

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3. A 25 year congressional voting record: An opposition researcher's wet dream

That's longer than the combined number of years Clinton and Obama were in the Senate, plus Obama's time in the state senate.

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4. There is soooooo much.....

all over the country showing an ad over and over with GE ads showing McCain saying more on a number of occasions (on film) that he doesn't understand much about economics (but he owns Greenspans's book, doncha know). This election will be anything but a breeze, but if the Dems fuck it up when facing a Republican candidate at this point in history when that Rep has soooooo much to use against him, I just freaking give up.