{"id":2806,"date":"2008-03-28T09:19:47","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T09:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/politics\/mccain-walking-out-on-bush\/2806\/"},"modified":"2008-03-28T09:19:47","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T09:19:47","slug":"mccain-walking-out-on-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/politics\/mccain-walking-out-on-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain walking out on Bush?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\" id=\"ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lblBody\"><strong>In a sudden turn of events, Republican Bush-faithful Senator John McCain is distancing himself from the US president&#8217;s go-it-alone approach. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a Wednesday speech at the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, the presidential hopeful said just because he embraces US President George W. Bush&#8217;s foreign policy goals does not mean he supports his go-it-alone tactics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our great power does not mean we can do whatever we want whenever we want, nor should we assume we have all the wisdom and knowledge necessary to succeed,&#8221; said the 71-year-old Republican.<\/p>\n<p>The Arizona senator called for stronger ties with allies and stressed that the United States must lead by &#8216;attracting others to our cause&#8217; and &#8216;defending the rules of international civilized society&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to listen &#8211; we need to listen to the views and respect the will of our allies,&#8221; he asserted, calling himself a &#8216;realistic idealist&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The unexpected change-of-position comes as the Republican candidate has recently touted Bush&#8217;s policies on various occasions, saluting him as &#8216;a leader that has made this world a better, safer, freer place&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail.aspx?id=49205&amp;sectionid=3510203\">SBB\/AA<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a sudden turn of events, Republican Bush-faithful Senator John McCain is distancing himself from the US president&#8217;s go-it-alone approach. In a Wednesday speech at the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, the presidential hopeful said just because he embraces US President George W. Bush&#8217;s foreign policy goals does not mean he supports his go-it-alone tactics. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1616],"tags":[27,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-2806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"category-usa-news","8":"tag-bush","9":"tag-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}