What Patriotism Means to Obama, McCain (Iran-Contra defender and Keating Five member)

[ProSense]

What Patriotism Means to Obama, McCain





McCain can give lip service with comments like this:

If you find faults with our country, make it a better one. If you are disappointed with the mistakes of government, join its ranks and work to correct them.

But let's explore the real McCain:

McCain Defended Reagan, North During Iran-Contra Scandal

Just 48 hours after jumping on the Bush appeasement bandwagon, John McCain is probably regretting his leap. First, it was revealed that the tough-talking Republican presidential nominee was for negotiating with the Hamas government in the Palestinian territories before he was against it. Then Americans learned that in 2003, Mr. Straight Talk favored engagement with the terror-sponsoring state of Syria. Now in his accusations against Democrat Barack Obama, John McCain conveniently forgot Ronald Reagan's dealings with Tehran during the Iran-Contra scandal. Given his defense the Reagan administration at the time, McCain's selective amnesia comes as no surprise.

On Thursday, McCain tried to back up his appeasement charge against Obama by citing the mythical resolve of Ronald Reagan.

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Sadly, Ronald Reagan did in fact negotiate with those very extremists during the Iran-Contra scandal of 1986 and 1987. Desperate to secure the release of American hostages held in Lebanon by Iranian proxies, the Reagan administration concocted a convoluted - and illegal - scheme to sell weapons to Tehran and then funnel the proceeds to the Nicaraguan Contras in violation of U.S. law. (The stranger than fiction plot included national security adviser Robert McFarlane's clandestine trip to Iran bearing gifts, among them a cake and a bible with handwritten verse from President Reagan.)

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While Senator McCain "criticized the administration's handling of the Iran-Contra affair" and claimed the Administration's assertion that the Sandinista military campaign was a threat to the United States was ''not credible," during the Congressional Iran-Contra hearings McCain nonetheless defended his party's president.

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During the 2000 presidential campaign, the New York Times noted McCain's defense of Reagan in highlighting his conservative credentials in the GOP nominating race against then Governor George W. Bush:

"Unlike the governor, he does not support federal financing of the arts. And he voted to convict President Clinton, is strongly pro-military, defended Ronald Reagan during the Iran-contra inquiry and has a long history as a deregulator."

A March 2006 profile in Current Biography revealed both McCain's attitude toward Ronald Reagan's Iran-Contra scandal and his empathy towards one of its key perpetrators, then Lt. Colonel and now Fox commentator Oliver North:

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Of course, neither Barack Obama nor John McCain is an appeaser. But John McCain is a revisionist historian and a bad one at that. He once believed in precisely the type of diplomatic flexibility and nuance he scoffs at now. And no doubt, John McCain the self-described "foot soldier in the Reagan revolution" stood by his hero Ronald Reagan during the Iran-Contra crisis he now seems to have forgotten.

Meet McCain, member of the Keating Five

The Oliver North File




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[ProSense]

1. No comments? n/t

[blm]

2. Your alertness is appreciated. I only wish more Democrats could wrap their brains around these

matters - the country would be better off by far.

[ProSense]

3. Does anyone really believe this can be ignored?

The MSM is laying the path for McBush, the patriot.

[mod mom]

5. You have to believe the * clusterf#@! that has hit this nation tends to be overwhelming

even to the most ardent defender of democracy.

I am worked that folks are hearing "double digit leads" and talk of a landslide and quickly forget what the criminals may have lurking in the wings (think October surprise "terrorist" attack mixed with results produced from e-voting machines known to deliver inaccurate, unreliable info subject to tampering. How quickly those double digit leads can vanish into thin air.

It's obvious that corporate media is failing (again) to focus on serious lapses in ethics that surround both McCain & his staff. Couple this with their lingering stories focusing on how Clinton supporters are not on board ( Do you really know any Clinton supporters that would vote for McCain?), and you can already guess they are beginning their case as to explain how McCain could have possibly pulled off an upset. Been there done that.

[ProSense]

6. Agree, your second paragraph nails it. n/t

[flpoljunkie]

4. Thanks for this post, Prosense.

[ProSense]

7. 'Putting country first' (McCain's new ad???)

'Putting country first'