While the corporate media try to distract us, the Washington Post slips in a story about an intelligence assessment on what the new president will face:
An intelligence forecast being prepared for the next president on
future global risks envisions a steady decline in U.S. dominance in the
coming decades, as the world is reshaped by globalization, battered by
climate change, and destabilized by regional upheavals over shortages
of food, water and energy.
The report is from the top U.S. intelligence analyst, and hardly should be news to readers of this blog. Yet these issues are not being covered widely and barely register with the duhs and ignos who may vote. It also concludes: "that the one key area of continued U.S. superiority —
military power — will "be the least significant" asset in the
increasingly competitive world of the future, because "nobody is going
to attack us with massive conventional force."
So tell me how the Republicans, the party that wrecked America, the trigger-happy and half out-of-it McCain and the dangerously inexperienced and "faith based" Palin will address any of this? "Abstinence-only thinking"?
Meanwhile, the Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan finally comes to the conclusion about President-elect McCain that has evaded most of the coddled national press — his "base" — but that any journalist in Arizona already knew. Worth reading.
You may have seen this interview by Bill Moyers of Andrew Bacevich, but just in case:
https://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/blog/2008/09/so_and_so_on_the_american_drea.html
So my answer is McCain/Palin will go for the big gun right away as that is all they really understand.
You state that the Republicans are the party that wrecked America. Haven’t the Democrats controlled Congress for most of the last 8 years?? After all = Congress makes most of the policy decisions?? I am a registered independent primarily because the parties and people like you spend more time talking bad about each other rather then actually doing anything of a positive nature.
Republicans controlled Congress for most of the past eight years. Democrats only won a tenuous majority in both houses in 2006. And it was not large enough to override filibusters or vetoes.
Republicans have controlled the White House and/or Congress for 26 of the past 28 years. It is the party that wrecked America.