McCain: America "can't afford" another Obama WH

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., waves after addressing the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012.

/ AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

Updated: 9:06 p.m. ET

(CBS News) In remarks at the Republican National Convention four years after he accepted the presidential nomination himself, John McCain railed against President Obama for his foreign policy record, lamenting what he cast as a "demand for leadership" in America, and calling on voters to elect Romney "the next leader of the free world."

The Arizona Senator, speaking on the second night of the convention festivities -- and his 76th birthday -- accused Mr. Obama of leading the nation "away from our proudest traditions of global leadership" during his tenure as president.

Targeting Mr. Obama over his decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, for his position on Syria, and for the impending "sequester" cuts that threaten to impose major cuts to the Defense Department, he argued that "we've let the challenges we face, both at home and abroad, become harder to solve."

"Our president is not being true to our values," he said, accusing the president of failing to take inadequate action in Syria.

"We can't afford another $500 billion in cuts to our defense budget - on top of the nearly $500 billion in cuts that the president is already making," he continued. "His own secretary of defense has said that cutting our military by nearly $1 trillion would be "devastating."

"And yet, the president is playing no leadership role in preventing this crippling blow to our military," he added.

The across-the-board spending cuts are the result of a bipartisan congressional committee's failure, late last year, to come to a deal to reduce the deficit. A law that tasked the so-called "supercommittee" with reaching that deal dictated that the automatic cuts, which will hit the Defense Department with about $500 billion in reductions, would go into effect in the event that no deal could be reached.

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McCain was one of 19 other Republican senators to vote for the bill, which passed by a bipartisan vote of 74-26.

The former presidential hopeful also ripped on Mr. Obama for a spate of recent high-level national security leaks, arguing that "we can't afford to have the security of our nation and those who bravely defend it endangered because their government leaks the secrets of their heroic operations to the media."

As he skewered the president's record on foreign policy and national security, McCain painted Romney as a  leader who would stand up for good over evil, justice over tyranny, and love over hate.

"The demand for our leadership in the world has never been greater. People don't want less of America," he said. "I trust that Mitt Romney has that faith, and I trust him to lead us."

[keysersoze1]

Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
Evil minds that plot destruction
Sorcerers of death's construction
In the fields the bodies burning
As the war machine keeps turning
Death and hatred to mankind
Poisoning their brainwashed minds
Oh lord yeah!

Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor
Time will tell on their power minds
Making war just for fun
Treating people just like pawns in chess
Wait 'til their judgement day comes
Yeah! (Guess they just need a 'stent' in the military to make them manly men 4 more wars, yeah! Let's just cut all the vets benefits to buy more ammo. Buncha freeloaders they are, just like old people, let 'em eat cake & die; besides, China will loan us the money, AGAIN).

Now in darkness world stops turning
Ashes where the bodies burning
No more war pigs have the power
Hand of God has struck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees the war pig's crawling
Begging mercy for their sins
Satan laughing spreads his wings
oh lord yeah!

Have you seen the little piggies
Crawling in the dirt
And for all the little piggies
Life is getting worse
Always having dirt to play around in.

Have you seen the bigger piggies
In their starched white shirts
You will find the bigger piggies
Stirring up the dirt
Always have clean shirts to play around in.

In their sties with all their backing
They don't care what goes on around
In their eyes there's something lacking
What they need's a damn good whacking.

Everywhere there's lots of piggies
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon.

[keysersoze1]

• Ryan claimed that President Obama threatens Medicare because the Affordable Care Act reduces the cost of Medicare costs by $716 billion over 10 years. The truth is that those savings come primarily from slowing the rate of growth in payments hospitals and doctors and do not take away any benefits from seniors, unlike Ryan's plan to end Medicare by turning it into a voucher program in which seniors rather than the government will bear increasing health care costs. Moreover, Ryan's own Medicare plan contains the same $700 billion in costs savings. It just goes to show that a good defense is a good offense with the man who wants to end Medicare as we know it claiming it's President Obama who wants to cut Medicare.

• Ryan accused President Obama of "adding more debt than any other President before him." The truth is that the biggest driver of the debt have been the Bush tax cuts, the unfunded wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the Republican-backed Medicare drug program which wasn't paid for, all of which Paul Ryan voted for.

• Ryan blamed Obama for the shutting down of a GM plant in Ryan's home district in Janesville, Wisconsin. The fact is that the plant shuttered in 2008 while George Bush was still President. President Obama's program to keep GM alive saved hundreds of thousands of jobs.

• Ryan gave moving homilies to the responsibility of the strong to protect the weak. The truth is that the Medicaid cuts in Ryan's budget would deny health care to millions of the poor and prevent millions more middle class families from affording nursing homes.

• Ryan appealed to young people without jobs living in their parent's homes. Cuts to student loans in Ryan's budget would deny millions of them the chance to go to college and obtain the skills to get high-paying jobs.

• Ryan blamed President Obama for last summer's downgrade of the U.S. credit rating by Standard and Poor's. But S&P itself stated that the downgrade was caused primarily because Congressional Republicans, like Ryan, refuse to consider raising revenues.

Ryan is a master practitioner of The Big Lie, the propaganda technique in which if you lie big and often enough, people will believe the lie.

"It's not a lie if you believe it."

George Costanza

[ejr1953]

No John McCain, we cannot afford to invade another country in the Middle East.

[AOCGUY]

I must admit after voting for Obama in 2008 I was disappointed in his tough talk that would almost always end up in his caving to the GOP. The day he took office he was ideally poised to get the things he had talked about during the campaign done but in a effort to appear bipartisan he squandered that opportunity.

That said the imminent nomination of Romney/Ryan has convinced me that my only option in November is to vote for four more years.

[stupa5]

You still around McInsane time to retire!

[AOCGUY]

That's something for the citizens of Arizona to decide.

[infantryman1968]

by ZionistCensorship August 30, 2012 6:44 AM EDT

Halliburton

Dec. 8, 2008......The Birmingham Star is reporting that KBR, a former subsidiary of Halliburton, is accused of some pretty treasonous and awful things.
In one class-action suit Joshua Eller, a civilian who worked for the U.S. Air Force in 2006 at the Balad air force base northeast of Baghdad, alleges KBR 'knowingly and intentionally supplied to U.S. forces and other individuals food that was expired, spoiled, rotten, or that may have been contaminated with shrapnel, or other materials'.
KBR 'supplied water which was contaminated, untreated, and unsafe', Eller charged, detailing a number of examples.
He said Halliburton and KBR 'shipped ice served to U.S. forces in trucks that had been used to carry human remains and that still had traces of body fluids and putrefied remains.'


LOL!


You and Obama renewed all of the Haliburton No Bid war Contracts 3 times in the past 3 years..........

[RollotheNorman]

Yeah they were already in place on the ground, that's usually the way these bids work. Still doesn't me there wasn't a conflict of interest on Dick's part. Dubya's too, KBR or Kellogue-Brown & Root is a old mainline Texas construction company that handled civil contracting for DOD in VietNam.

[infantryman1968]

Obama and his followers will be judged by the American People on Nov 6 for the past 4 years, not 8 years of Bush.

Change we can believe in is coming, deal with it.

[AOCGUY]

You are absolutely correct, however the judgement will be tempered by a critical assessment of what America would face with a Romeny/Ryan team in the WH. In the end it looks to be four more years.

[infantryman1968]

by sweetcakesmaria August 30, 2012 5:46 AM EDT
Simply amazing that Republicans have completely purged the 8 years before Obama became President from their memory banks. They do not seem capable of remembering that the Country was in a George Bush directed sink hole when Obama took over. If Republicans had cryed and complained about some of Bush policies, the Country never would have been in a recession when Obama became President.


LOL!


Obama and his followers will be judged by the Amercian People on Nov 6 for the past 4 years, not 8 years of Bush.

Change we can believe in is coming, deal with it.

[TJphoto]

Never in my life have I ever seen a politician squander the opportunity to became an American Statesman as John McCain. He just reverted back into a bitter Senator of the Republican party after the election.

[holalanemeir]

How can we trust what you say when you picked Apalin as your vp?