Ma'am; If you please...Show yourself to be an adult...What America may be most hated for is that we do what we want all the time portraying ourselves as either noble, or the victim. We do not warn. We do not negotiate. We threaten everybody at the same time that our stick, the stick we could actually hit some one with without hitting ourselves is growing profoundly shorter. Now, here is what Mr. Mccain is saying: that we cannot talk to leaders because we give them legitimacy even when we do not wish to. This is an old and even ancient consideration that has never worked for peoples or humanity as a whole. It is not to some despot in Iran, or a playboy in North Korea that we talk to, but to the whole people, and they talk to us, only through the medium of our governments. Do I fear to show to Iran the respect they deserve? They do deserve respect, Correct? They are human beings having human concerns? They do have a history far longer than ourselves? They have endured much and over come much. They are intelligent and brave. When they reach our shores they make fine Americans, industrious and enterprising. Why should we not show them respect? Tell them your troubles, and share theirs. We are all human beings...Get through this life and this world together. We are not chinese emperors concerned with face. We is just folks here, and they is just folks there. We need to live together, so why not admit that we must find common ground?... Some one is making money on war and is selling the republicans of this country the notion that we might gain ground on others with threats and ostentatious displays of pride and violence. These people are using you. They will not use me. We should remember that we are not a monarchy, but a democracy, with government by the people. We have to stop fighting the whole world because we cannot afford to, and must learn how to make some few friends because friends who know us, and can care for us is the best defense we can have against violence. It is ignorance that breeds contempt, and we have far too much contempt for people who are, in many cases, our moral superiors. Do not make a fool of yourself. Do not let the merchants of misery make a fool of you. Mr. Mccain is a relic of the past. He is the standard bearer of policies that have never worked in any time... He should be respectfully set aside. ...Thanks...Sweeney

Here's the deal, Saunders. Your great war hero can't even find the courage or presence of mind to look his opponent in the eye. Never did once. Just looked down at the floor or off into space or anywhere he could find where he didn't have to face up to Obama like a man. It was pretty darn pathetic. Lucky for him Obama was too much of a gentleman to call him on it. He would have been batted right out of the ball park.

Re: Masako;...Sir, One thing is certain: If Mr. John Mccain had died trying to deprive Vietnam of her national independence, he wouldn't be here now trying to sell the little independence we have left to the rich, and a handful of foreign powers. The guy does not get it. The people who support him do not get it. They won't do it, but if they had the nads the whole bunch of them would buy a copy of Das Capital so they could figure out how their economy does not work so they could not fix it on purpose rather than living by the braille method, feeling their way through billions of dollars that actually equal the lives of many thousands of people who cannot live without what wealth they have produced. ...Where is the sense of having our enemies of a few short years past supporting us with communism when we cannot survive capitalism? The thought is baffling, but they actually claim capitalism works because the ideal of capitalism works. So does tape worm-ism work for tape worms, but for no other species.... Two things none of these people can figure out are the magic word, and the magic number. The magic word is enough. And the magic number is enough. Anyone with will, talent, and ambition can squeeze enough wealth out of his society to serve himself well. Enough such people and the beast will die. We have too many non productive people living off too few productive people. We have liquidated the wealth of generations to pay interest on inflated prices. The price of property sinks because the price of interest has sucked the profit out of every property and process. We need enough. We need to say enough is enough. Drawing blood from generations unborn will kill them in the womb. Shall we kill our dreams, our freedoms, our hopes, and our children for interest and profits beyond all reason? We need to say enough! ...Thanks again...Sweeney

Re: James A, Sweeney: Yup, McCain wasted his heroism fighting against a war for Vietnamese independence. You got that absolutely spot on. Just about nobody gets that. Not even our blessed Pat Buchanan, it seems. ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Remember the Domino Theory? After the Vietnamese threw us out, just like we threw out the English during our war for independence, the Russians and the Chinese (as if they just loved each other because they were both "communist" countries) were supposed to step in and carve up the new territory. But what happened was that Pol Pot started turning millions of Cambodians into skulls and bones, and the ONLY country to stand up to him was Viet Nam. And that without a stitch of support from the U.S. Truly one of the biggest blemishes on the image of our manifest destiny, every bit as bad as what we did to Iraq.