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Friday, July 20, 2012

John McCain, Please Broaden Your Horizons


Apparently Michelle Bachman is causing quite a stir because of some comments she has made regarding Huma Abedin, an assistant to the Secretary of State.  The comments and the story are quite unimportant to me – this is what politics is reduced to when a voice like Ron Paul’s is squelched.  However, I find the following statement by John McCain quite interesting:

Wednesday, Sen. John McCain rose to Abedin’s defense on the floor of the Senate, not naming Bachmann, but clearly aiming fire in her direction. "When anyone, not least a member of Congress, launches specious and degrading attacks against fellow Americans on the basis of nothing more than fear of who they are and ignorance of what they stand for, it defames the spirit of our nation, and we all grow poorer because of it," McCain said.

Let’s try it another way:

When anyone, not least a member of Congress, launches specious and degrading attacks against fellow human beings on the basis of nothing more than fear of who they are and ignorance of what they stand for, it defames the spirit of the attacker, and we all grow poorer because of it….

This sums up American foreign policy and attitude toward the Middle East.  The statement is funny coming from John McCain.  The results of this attitude are not funny.

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