I think this is a huge deal and am surprised I cannot find a diary already about it (apologies if it has already been covered and missed it, but I did a search first.)
On Sunday McCain said the following:
"If I had been told by the Pentagon that I couldn’t visit those troops, and I was there and wanted to be there, I guarantee you, there would have been a seismic event," McCain told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos in an interview to air Sunday on "This Week".
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When I heard this, I was outraged.
Isn't McCain supposed to be all about respecting the military, respecting the generals, listening to what they say (with respect) and acting accordingly?
But in the quote above, it sounds like he, in his little shriveled up body, thinks he's BIGGER than the Pentagon? If the Pentagon says something that goes against his personal wishes or agenda, he is going to set off a SEISMIC EVENT??? What an effing attitude!
Barack respected what the Pentagon had to say. But here McCain is treating the Pentagon as some peon that has no right, business, or claim to do anything except roll out a red carpet for his war hero ass to strut on. What an effing attitude!
I know McCain thought that quote would make him sound great. He is the great POW who sheds mother of pearl tears for wounded soldiers, who cares more about visiting the wounded than even the air he breathes. He, unlike Obama, would never let a little thing like the entire US military complex get between him and the wounded troops.
But to me that quote reveals the real McCain. It shows he does not respect the military at all. He somehow thinks that he is bigger than the Pentagon and will shake it to its core if it gets in the way of whatever grandstanding he has in mind. It reflects what attitude he would bring as CIC.
Isn't this the very thing that was wrong with Bush/Rumsfeld? They didn't respect what the generals told them. If they heard something they didn't like, they got angry. They threatened. They bullied.
McCain in the quote above is revealing himself to be just that same kind of person. If the Pentagon gets in his way, there will be a seismic event! And this is his attitude when he is just a Senator! He doesn't even have the right to assert this kind of behavior in his position. This is the attitude of someone with a gargantuan degree of self importance. What would he do as CIC?
The quote above embodies exactly what deeply worries me about McCain. He is unreasonable. He is irrational. He is unstable. He will throw great big huge temper tantrums if anyone gets in his way. He will intimidate and fire people who try to save us from his bad decisions. And he is sanctimonious and self-righteous enough that he feels it is his holy right to behave in this arrogant manner.
But, then, I forget, he is a war hero. And there is nothing bigger or more important than a war hero. Nothing anywhere. That's John McCain.