McCain comes down firmly in the “Obama is a fool, not knave” camp
It’s not as though what John McCain says matters at this point. However, he is still a US senator, and—although it may seem several lifetimes away—he was Barack Obama’s Republican opponent in his first presidential race, way back in 2008.
Here’s what McCain had to say yesterday about Obama:
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Thursday called President Obama “the most naé¯ve president in history” because of his foreign policy tactics.
Russian President Vladimir Putin “played us so incredibly,” McCain said on a Phoenix radio station.
“This is the most naé¯ve president in history,” he said.
“The naé¯veté of Barack Obama and [Secretary of State] John Kerry is stunning,” he added, citing the administration’s plans for Iran and Syria.
Now, in a way, that’s a hard-hitting comment. It certainly deals in extremity: McCain says “most naé¯ve…in history” and “stunning.”
These are not mild words on McCain’s part. But they betray a profound misunderstanding of what might be going on here. We’ve had the “Obama, fool vs. knave” discussion on this blog many times, and the answer is not something we even have to be certain of (although by now I’m pretty sure it’s “both”) in order to see that McCain isn’t even considering the “knave” possibility.
How hard is it to see that Obama has a philosophy of foreign policy intervention that, even giving him the benefit of the doubt, seems at best to be focused on reducing our power and influence, and making us into a clone of various western European countries? That’s not naé¯veté, that’s intent, and the intent is crystal clear.
And that’s at best. At worst—well, you fill in the blanks. I have filled them in several times, but if you’d like a refresher, it’s here:
[Obama’s] not just interested in smallness and irrelevance for their own sakes. He’s interested in weakening America’s influence, and in doing so he allows other forces to rise, forces that previous administrations had opposed. Those forces could be summarized as being either leftist or Islamicist, depending on the country and the situation. In studying Obama’s decisions in the foreign arena, it is difficult to escape the idea that Obama prefers that these groups gain more power around the world. And since he can’t come out directly for them, sometimes he must support them by apparent indirection and inaction.
The Obama Doctrine.
I was going to end this post with a statement to the effect of, “Maybe it’s McCain and many other Republicans who are the naé¯ve ones.” That may be very, very true. But then I reconsidered and thought, “Perhaps not all of them are as naé¯ve as they appear.” Perhaps at least some of them actually know more than they let on and are just being quiet about it, because they realize that saying it would put them in the “crazy, racist, extremist, hateful” camp.
That’s the beauty of the Obama presidency.
Bullseye.
Or the ugliness.
Yep.
We (the USA) badly need a real leader to step forward…
Since I consider McCain a knave, I would expect him to say exactly what he did. I don’t think it has anything to do with race, for him or most of his ilk. He is just about as corrupt as Zero, that’s the sum of it. The only people who truly believe race is irrelevant are the ones who are engorging themselves and their own as corruptocrats. A race free idealism is part of the capitalism of socialism.
“That’s the beauty of the Obama presidency.” Oxymoron.
If McCain retires or drops dead get back to me. Other than that anything he says or thinks is deep in the DGAS region to me.
He is a classic enabler of evil.
Ano baka.
Although I’m sure a lot of regular people who believed the same about Obama would like to displace their worries on McCain.
That’s a difficult position to be in.
Ever notice how knaves very often actively attempt to be thought fools to good effect until found out, but actual fools are very rarely thought of as possible knaves?
The difference is knavenly calculation.
The question for me was always evil by intent or evil by mistake.
Why is he not considered both a knave and a fool, he has shown us what he is. I consider him a useful fool, a knave who thinks he knows what he is doing.
How can you guys say such nasty things about Mr. Keating’s best buddy?
I’ll skip discussion of Obama, who anyone with a brain could have seen through. McCain was in the Senate since 1987 with John Kerry and just now he discovers Kerry is naive?
Words fail me. The Senate confirmed Kerry 94-3. McCain didn’t vote against Kerry. I can’t definitively say but as far as I can tell McCain voted to recommend Kerry for the job as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations committee.
If Kerry is naivete is “stunning” and unparalleled in the history of the US, and McCain couldn’t figure that out despite having three decades to do so that makes McCain the biggest fool in the world.
Well, I would not expect McCain to come out and say that Obama was actually intentionally harming the US. Even if he believes it.
Of course, McCain is highly flawed, so I don’t much care what he thinks. But I think a number of high level people are muting what they actually think about the guy.
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About the Forgotten WAR MIAS AND OBUMA
3067 to 3828 of 7853 MIAS are Still in North Korea
On March 8, 2012 the US Announded it would go to North Korea for the MIAS
On March 21, 2012 THIS ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNDED it WOULD SUSPEND TALKS WITH NORTH KOREA
Oct 2014 North Korea announded it would Move the remains of 5,000 MIAS en masse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_in_action#Korean_War
So if you DONT AGREE WITH OBUMA POLICY ON MIAS CONTACT YOUR CONGRESSMAN-Prehaps COngress can reopen talks with North Korea AND BRING OUR MISSING SONS HOME TO THE USA