"We've got to stop this protectionist, NAFTA-bashing," the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting told a town hall meeting at Savvis Inc., an information technology company.
McCain said his potential Democratic opponents were wrong to threaten pulling out of NAFTA to force Canada and Mexico to negotiate more protections for workers and the environment in the agreement.
If that threat is made, McCain asked, "What are the other countries in the world going to think about the agreements we've negotiated with them?"
I'm just pulling this out of my ass-but perhaps they will think that the US respects the rights of workers to work in safe conditions, the rights of the people in communities to have a decent environment in which to live, and so on. Perhaps these other countries that Mccain worries about will respect the US for knowing when to admit that something is WRONG and has been WRONG from the beginning...
(But don't trust Clinton to pull out of NAFTA)
Speaking of Pulling Out:
SPITZER SWALLOWS his pride:
"Scandal-hit NY governor resigns
Mr Spitzer announced he was resigning with wife at his side
Spitzer statement
New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has resigned, after being linked to a prostitution ring.
Flanked by his wife, he told a news conference he could not allow "private failings" to disrupt public work. He is to hand over power on Monday.
Mr Spitzer again apologised for not living up to the standards he demanded of others - but he gave no details.
Mr Spitzer had allegedly been identified arranging to meet a prostitute in a Washington hotel."
notice he was FLANKED by his wife...
"you son of a bitch" maybe.... or perhaps:
"remember that threesome I promised you for your birthday? well you can forget it".
Of course this wouldn't have happened to him if he was black. Just ask old no job Geraldine:
A Hillary Clinton adviser has resigned over her comment that Barack Obama would not be ahead in the race for the White House if he were not black.
Geraldine Ferraro, a vice-presidential candidate in 1984, announced she was stepping down from an honorary role on Mrs Clinton's finance committee.
Earlier, she had told US network ABC that her remarks had been "spun by the Obama campaign as racist" but were not.
Mr Obama in turn rejected the idea that being black was a big advantage.
Mrs Clinton has distanced herself from the comments, quoted in a US newspaper interview last week.
Because we all know that the power base in the US is in the hands of blacks...-I don't know if you can tell, but this is a BIG FUCKING ROLE OF MY EYES YOU TWAT IF YOU THINK THAT BEING A BLACK MAN GIVES YOU AN ADVANTAGE IN THE US.
Speaking of Black...The real force behind Barak is:
But every family has its drunk uncle:
"Monster' row exposes intense rivalry
By Kevin Connolly
BBC News, Washington
The words "off the record" have a kind of magical power in the overlapping world of journalism and politics.
They allow politicians to talk freely to journalists without having their words publicly attributed to them.
And the phrase enables ideas to be floated, insults to be traded and rumours to be circulated with more freedom than would be possible if every word that passed your lips was formally identified as yours.
But there is a limit to the magical powers of the expression, as the strange case of Samantha Power and the Scotsman newspaper demonstrates.
You cannot just blurt out something sensational and then use the words retrospectively like a kind of cloak of invisibility to escape responsibility if you are having second thoughts.
It is an odd lapse - Samantha Power is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and a Harvard academic who knows the rules of the game, and how the game is played.
So when she was discussing Hillary Clinton with the Scotsman and said "she is a monster... she is stooping to anything", it was not enough hastily to add "that's off the record".
The damage - at least to Ms Power's future in the campaign - had been done.
In the fast-moving and unforgiving world of American politics, Ms Power - who advised Barack Obama on foreign policy issues - has already "decided" to resign, issuing, as she went, a not entirely convincing statement in which she spoke of her admiration for Senator Clinton's leadership and public service."
rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrright...
WAIT WAIT When I said MONSTER, I was saying that she was a MONSTER in the bedroom, like good... uh, no, er... wait when I said MONSTER, I meant like a MONSTER truck ralley, that the trailer trash would vote for her... no, er... I meant that I admire her greatly for her leadership abilities... yeah that's it, that's the ticket...
Meanwhile, Romney sends love-note to Mccain durring Math class:
Can I be your VP-check yes or no:
Romney made clear Tuesday night he's interested in being McCain's running mate. (Getty Images)
(CNN) — Mitt Romney's message came through loud and clear to John McCain.
The Arizona senator joked Wednesday he got the impression Romney is interested in the No. 2 spot on the Republican presidential ticket after watching a recent interview with the former Massachusetts governor.
"I got that impression from him watching his interview last night, I got that impression," McCain said laughing on his campaign plane in New Hampshire."
Their campaign slogan will be something like:
MORE EARNIN' LESS LEARNIN'-the best campaign slogan since:
THIS IS SERIOUS:
Mercenary to be sent to Colombia
A Russian court has approved the extradition to Colombia of a former Israeli army officer.
In 2001, Yair Gal Klein was tried in his absence in a Colombian court for training guerrillas.
He was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in jail for training paramilitary groups in "terrorist techniques".
He was detained by Russian police at Moscow airport last year following a tip off from Interpol, as he was about to board a flight to Israel.
Mr Klein is also accused of working as a mercenary for the Medellin drug cartel, a charge he denies.
A spokeswoman for Moscow city court said Mr Klein had 10 days to appeal to the Supreme Court.
If he did not do so, the extradition order would take effect.
Colombia's paramilitary militia groups were formed in the 1980s to protect landowners from attacks by left-wing guerrillas.
The militias are themselves accused of killing thousands of people.
More than 30,000 paramilitaries have handed in their weapons and surrendered to police in recent years, under a peace deal that offered reduced jail terms.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/americas/7291689.stm
And finally, but certainly not least, in the news this week: you can rest easy folks, particularly women between the ages of 18 and 45. Army Wives will return soon to fill you up with a nice dose of clever manipulation:
Watching Army Wives Watching ‘Army Wives’
By FELICIA R. LEE
FORT DRUM, N.Y. — Poor Denise Sherwood. Her nasty son smacks her around. And she just learned that the Blackhawk helicopter carrying her husband, Maj. Frank Sherwood, was shot down in Iraq. So maybe the real Army wives at this post near Syracuse, watching Denise on TV in the hit Lifetime drama, “Army Wives,” would show her some love, or at least cut her some slack?
Nah.
“Nobody answers the telephone that way,” one of them commented when Denise breathlessly picked up the receiver and said, “This is Major Sherwood’s wife.”
The eight women gathered here recently to watch Episode 4 of the new one-hour series said that identifying yourself by your husband’s rank would be like announcing his income, a definite no-no on the post.
Despite their critique of the show, the real Army wives are among an average of 3.6 million people who have made “Army Wives” the highest-rated series in Lifetime’s 23-year history. Shown Sunday nights at 10, the 13-episode series, which began on June 3, is shot in Charleston, S.C., at a fictional post called Fort Marshall and is based on the book “Army Wives: The Unwritten Code of Military Marriage” by Tanya Biank, herself an Army brat turned Army wife. Ms. Biank is now a consultant to the show.
Still, the real Army wives said, the plots often feel more likely to play out on Wisteria Lane (“Desperate Housewives” on ABC) than at this 107,000-acre post in upstate New York, which is home to 17,000 soldiers and their families (another 14,000 people) and has about 3,500 troops in Iraq. The first episode ended with the Army wife and ex-cop Pamela Moran (Brigid Brannagh) giving birth on a pool table in a bar surrounded by the rest of the wives and an Army husband. She swigs vodka from a bottle as an anesthetic and admits — she is white and the twin babies are black — that she had been hired as a surrogate.
Mrs. Urquhart said some of the stories rang true, like Denise’s desire to go to Iraq to find her husband. “I had a friend who thought her husband was dead,” she recalled. “The first thing she did was she wanted to get on a plane.”
Still, entertainment means bending reality said Mark Gordon, principal of the Mark Gordon Company (which created “Grey’s Anatomy”) and another executive producer of “Army Wives.”
And despite their quibbles, some of the women at Fort Drum declared themselves fans. “The plotlines were fabulous,” said Deborah Stellfox, who has two children and whose husband, Lamar, has been in the military for 26 years. “The problems were the technical aspects. Hollywood writers writing about the military is like men writing about childbirth.”
But, she said, “you notice that we keep watching, week after week. That says something.”
I'm starving now. All that TV talk just does something to me...
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