McCain Coasts on Illusion We Want to Believe: Margaret Carlson

[Kber]

April 11 (Bloomberg) -- As I was watching General David Petraeus being questioned in congressional hearings, I finally got why Senator John McCain has an even chance of being president in spite of supporting a war that most Americans are against.

As he'd done so many times before, McCain said we can win if we just pull up our socks and banish our defeatism. ``We can now look ahead to the genuine prospect of success,'' he said, ensuring ``that the terrible price we have paid in the war, a price that has made all of us sick at heart, has not been paid in vain.''

Don't I wish? Don't we all? I don't buy his take on the war but, like half of America, I want to. Deep down, we can't accept limitations on our good intentions. We hate to hear that a military surge didn't produce a political surge that created a Jeffersonian democracy or some reasonable facsimile thereof.

Another six months you say? OK. I'll buy the prospect that the next six months will be THE six months that makes all the months before worth it.


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[uponit7771]

1. Hmm, how does McSame defeat that this was a blunder to begin with in the GE? It was the

...dumbest thing he could've done was to tie himself to this war in any way.

Instead of saying lets get out he's saying "stay the course" and makes him self Bush like...

Many also tie the economy to the billions being spent in Iraq, that makes McSame open on too fronts