McCain bumrushed Sandinista in '87

As four-star General Wesley Clark has stated and I concur, Senator " Questionable Conduct " McCain doesn't have sound enough judgement to be our President. Time and again, he has displayed behavior that is questionable and negligent, to put it, kindly. The people of Arizona, if those are only rumors, I am hearing, need him more than America does. He should stay in the Senate, if that is what the voters of Arizona want !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.

That was 21 years ago, McCain is older, more mature and mellower. If he becomes president he would never do anything like that now. He'll have his people do it.

So? He was one of Ortega's stooges and a commy. My only question is why McCain didn't hit him harder.

I won't vote for McCain, but as politicians go, I like him and always have, and strangely, this story makes me like him even more.

Jeff,

Your comment explains why America is hated by a good part of the world.

It is also why so many think America's public statements about rights and freedom are just so much crap.

This is the behavior of thugs you praise.

rnc Jeff,

You chickenhawk QWERTY chairborne commandos crack me up. McCain was there on a diplomatic mission dealing with men with guns who did their killing up close and personal, not from the cockpit of an aircraft. That hothead could have gotten himself and others killed.

I like knowing a president has a pair between his legs, unlike bush who wears his around his lobbyists wrists.

Ahh, yes, Doug your namecalling is as mature and relevant as usual.
Chuckman, you and Canada don't get an opinion. Ortega as President of Nicaragua, is a state sponsor of the terrorist FARC group in Colombia. He deserves the derision and scorn of the entire democratic international community and it's a testament to the uselessness of the UN that he's not. Sure, Ortega's stepped back from the Marxist positions he took during his first Presidency since his reelection, but when he and the Sandinistas were in power during his first term the country was run as a communist arm of the Soviet Union.
Also, In 2006, Hillel Neuer, the executive director of UN Watch, expressed concern that election of Ortega, described as having "highly substantiated" charges of sexual abuse raised against him, to the Presidency of Nicaragua, could undermine worldwide NGO efforts against child abuse and sexual violence. Nice company you keep, there, Canadian.
Your comments explain why your are hated by a good part of me and why your statements about rights and freedom (while ignoring the rights of the stepdaughter that alleges Ortega sexually abused from the age of 11 on up) are really just "so much crap."

It's also important to note (as liberal Swamp writer Frank James has taken pains to NOT inform the reader) that Cochran and McCain have been on opposite sides of the earmarks debate in the senate for more than a decade.
McCain is dedicated to cleaning up our government and has never asked for nor taken a single earmark - money appropriated by congress to influnential members districts - in more than 20 years. Cochran, meanwhile, is a dedicated earmarxist who has directed millions of dollars in federal pork to his state through the corrupt, unconstitutional practice.
In short, Cochran hates McCain because McCain wants to shut off his pork spigot and let the voters keep their money.

rnc Jeff,

Get yourself on down to the recruiting station, commander guy. Go to Iraq and grab some men with guns. I'll give McCain, this much at least put his money where his mouth was. Unlike some people.

Bravo for McCain. What the article omits, as expected, is that the Sandinista National Liberation Front is a Marxist Nicaraguan political party that was revolting against the elected Nicaraguan government. The Sandinistas were supported by the Soviet Union via Cuba, as well as Democrats in Congress. Jimmy Carter withdrew his support for the Nicaragua government, tacitly supporting the Marzist guerrillas headed by Ortega. Source: Library of Congress.

JEFF,

America supports Columbian paramilitary which works closely with farc....what are you talking about?

Right after you, Dougie ;) Go down to the recruiting station and hold your breath. I'll be there shortly. Not that you care, but this thread has nothing to do with the fighting in Afghanistan or Iraq, but I know how you have trouble with the facts.

Typical Jeff,
Someone exposes his errors and he completely ignores it and fails to apologize. Although he does comically suggest Doug has "trouble with the facts".

To the seriously misinformed "friend of Jackson" who thinks the US government supports FARC. Nope, wrong again.

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (Spanish: Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – Ejército del Pueblo), also known by the acronym of FARC or FARC-EP, is a self-proclaimed Marxist-Leninist revolutionary guerrilla organization.

The FARC is described as a terrorist group by the Colombian government[1], the United States Department of State,[2] Canada[3] and the European Union.[4][5] Cuba and Venezuela instead refer to the leftist rebels as insurgents

Jackson, you're as seriously misinformed on this thread as you were on the one where you said Venezuela wasn't in OPEC (there's some trouble with the facts if I've ever seen it). Why don't you leave international topics to those who know what they're talking about?

Not to worry, McCain's hands will be too arthritic to pull a stunt like that again. He may not even stay awake during the proceedings. Should he become president, more than likely, he will need one of those emerency alert necklaces, to alert the Secret Service when he has fallen and can't get up or when he has hit a foreign diplomat and gotten a boo boo

rnc Jeff,

Between 1976-1980 I was a crew chief on a B-52, what were you doing?

"Not to worry, McCain's hands will be too arthritic to pull a stunt like that again." Classy! I hope the 99% voting AARP set sees that post. Obama can keep the rock the vote kids, we'll take the experienced.

McCain was slapping him around because he wouldn't hire any of McCain's campaign aides. McCain likes to have his aide's salaries underwritten by dictators. Look at Tom Loeffler, Doug Goodyear, Charlie Black, Rick Davis. McCain just wants to make sure his boys are getting a cut of the action. If they don't McCain get's rough with them. He's the Tony Soprano of politics.

So you weren't in a war, either, like Senator McCain was, dnc Doug? Or did you fight before April 30, 1975? Alright, then, we're even! Let's go sign up, buddy boy! Remember, hold your breath a long, long time. I'll be there eventually. Don't stop. I'm glad your peacetime service qualifies you to judge John McCain's in your warped mind.

Good to hear from John 'Big Oil" Chuckman from the frozen tundra.

Doug - weren't you Air Force? Do you expect pilots to be on the ground fighting? Each branch has their own duties in war and none should be light of. You should know better.

Obama would have been kissing Ortega's butt and probably taking notes on yo be a real good communist. Then again his 54% payroll/income tax rate shows that Obama is a quick study.

"Between 1976-1980 I was a crew chief on a B-52, what were you doing?"
Posted by: Doug "Hussein" Zook | July 2, 2008 5:30 PM
1976-1980? Wow, Goldbrick. Really put your life on the line there, didn't ya?