"Oh, lord. Somebody walked on his lawn again.
"I have never seen anything like this in my life. I thought Jimmy Carter was bad, but he pales in comparison to this president in my view," he said in an interview on Phoenix radio station KFYI. McCain said that situation in Syria has become a regional conflict and that al Qaeda-affiliated groups have become involved. "It is spreading throughout the region, and sooner or later it will affect the United States of America if you allow a place to become a base for al Qaeda," he said. "We now have thousands of fighters of this - radical, extremist, al-Qaida affiliated people pouring in from all over the world into Syria, fighting against our guys, who are the good guys and also not doing much fighting against Bashar Assad."
Jesus god, just go away, OK? The world is not going to give you another war and nobody's interested much in the judgment of someone who sought to put Sarah Palin within reach of The Button. But, I confess, I don't get quaffing the vintage Haterade on Jimmy Carter who, in the long view of American political history, has done far more than John McCain ever has. The worst thing that ever happened to Carter was the Iranian hostage crisis, which was touched off when Carter allowed the Shah into this country, which Carter did partly at the behest of Henry Kissinger, the hem of whose garments McCain has been clutching ever since he came to Washington. I realize that one of the primary means of burnishing Carter's dim successor, who unfroze Iranian assets and later sold the Iranians missiles, is to run down Carter, who didn't, but it's 2014. There has to be something better."
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