Last night on 60 Minutes, John McCain asked if Sarah Palin is ready to be President of the United States. While McCain repeatedly says “Absolutely” he continuously shakes his head in the negative. How can your words say yes while your body language screams NO? Where are those “body language experts” now?
He also says he will continue the Bush Doctrine in starting preemptive wars with good intelligence and if we were absolutely certain of the threat. Well, that’s heartening to know. And about war with Russia? That depends on their behavior. Which is nothing at all like our behavior. I’d like to ask the Senator: How did all that Iraqi intelligence work out for us? Wasn’t it considered good intel? And how’s that Iraq/Afghanistan thing working out for us? Oh, right. In both cases, not so well.
Watch the clip.
TheZoo 
Thanks for posting this, MsJ. I’m glad that you noticed that head shaking, too. It was obvious to me that McCain has doubts about Palin. As someone that spent a good part of their career as a Psychiatric Nurse, I know that body language tells the truth about what a person is really thinking and feeling. Words are just words. Our bodies don’t lie. When doing group therapy, we always used the person’s body language to question what was really going on inside someone’s head and heart.
I noticed that too, MizzJ. Body language speaks volumes, and McCain ain’t hiding nothin’.
And when Pelley was asking McCain some questions where he had to think on his feet — a rare thing in that interview — McCain looked like a caged animal.
MsJoanne, the Bush Doctrine is about “preventative war” , not “preemptive war”. The difference is that in preemptive the threat is mobilized and on its way, in preventative, the threat is in the minds of the wager, and on Fox News in those taglines with question marks at the end (e.g. “Will Iran use it’s nuke when it gets one?”)
I love how he says that the people are vetting Palin now and loving her…funny that since she is repeating the same speech, verbatim, at every stop on their campaign trail…no questions, nothing unscripted.
Oh, and as a reminder, Senator McConfused, SPAIN is an ally.
And let’s talk a little more of what being a president is all about – holding the dogtags of a dead soldier? THAT is what you think being a president is all about?
Honestly, every interview this man gives further and further disqualifies him from high office. Hell, he shouldn’t even be a Senator.
ThbT, this is from Wikipedia:
I don’t care if it is called preemptive or preventative…a preemptive action (as Bush said) is, to me, preemptive war.
And in the case of Iraq, it was a preemptive war based on lies…to me THAT is the Bush Doctrine: attack and invade whomever the hell you want to based upon manufactured data.
In that 60 Minutes interview, McCain says the longest he ever lived anywhere was in Hanoi.
What does this mean for the people of Arizona?
John McCain (R-Hanoi)