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An exchange between President Bush and David Gregory, “journalist”- Bush slaps him down and it was well deserved. THIS is the President Bush I love.

..Gregory (third): “Sir, with respect, if other countries interpret the Geneva Conventions as they see fit — as they see fit — you’re saying that you’d be okay with that?”

Bush: “I am saying that I would hope that they would adopt the same standards we adopt; and that by clarifying Article III, we make it stronger, we make it clearer, we make it definite. And I will tell you again, David, you can ask every hypothetical you want, but the American people have got to know the facts. And the bottom line is simple: If Congress passes a law that does not clarify the rules, if they do not do that, the program is not going forward.”

Gregory (fourth): “This will not endanger U.S. troops, in your — “

Bush: “Next man.”

Gregory (fifth): This will not endanger U.S. troops —

Bush: “David, next man, please. Thank you. It took you a long time to unravel, and it took you a long time to ask your question.”

Bush needs to do this more often. And people need to stop worrying themselves into hissydom over what others might think. WHO CARES???

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John McCain is coming to my state this weekend (NH) and he is the subject of much talk here. Many GOP minded folk just don’t think he has what it takes to be our next President. I have to agree. We all respect his service in Vietnam, and the horror he endured while being held as a POW.

U.S. Sen. John McCain is due in New Hampshire this weekend and we somehow don’t think it is just to watch the NASCAR race in Loudon, as great an event as that surely is.

Sen. McCain comes here because he wants to be our next President. But the question is being asked, in the midst of the most difficult and challenging war we have ever faced, can the nation afford a President McCain?

No. I don’t think we can afford McCain as President. Why? Because he is still living in the 1960’s. He sees all enemies as he saw the VC. The new enemy is much worse and wants to take out America.

This is a new kind of war waged by a ruthless, extremist enemy that cares nothing for Geneva Convention niceties. The enemy is out to impose its religious views on the western world in general and the United States in particular and it attacks innocent women and children as well as our men and women in uniform. And if the latter are taken prisoner, they are burned, butchered or beheaded.

We cannot treat these enemies with kid gloves and respect and cookies and milk. We have to be as ruthless and determined with them, as they are to us.

Sen. McCain is fighting the wrong war when he equates stateless Islamic jihadists with nations with whom we have fought in the past. You don’t read Miranda rights to barbarians or worry about “what the world thinks” when you are fighting an enemy that is out to destroy you. If McCain can’t understand that, New Hampshire citizens must question why they should support him for President.

Exactly. It’s high time we stop worrying about what the WORLD thinks, because WE are the target (right now). The free world is not (yet). McCain doesn’t get it. And I don’t think he ever will.

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