{"id":68057,"date":"2006-10-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2006\/10\/02\/mccain-a-t-il-peur-de-2008-comme-hillary\/"},"modified":"2006-10-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-02T00:00:00","slug":"mccain-a-t-il-peur-de-2008-comme-hillary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2006\/10\/02\/mccain-a-t-il-peur-de-2008-comme-hillary\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain a-t-il peur de 2008, comme Hillary?<\/em><\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

McCain a-t-il peur de 2008, comme Hillary?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

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\t2 octobre 2006 Chaque congr\u00e8s d’un parti dominant au Royaume-Uni a son invit\u00e9 US : Clinton au congr\u00e8s travailliste, John McCain (r\u00e9publicain, favori \u00e0 la nomination r\u00e9publicaine aux pr\u00e9sidentielles pour 2008) pour les conservateurs. Cela a permis au leader conservateur David Cameron d’ironiser, hier : \u00abLabour had the last president of the United States, we wanted the next one.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tJustement, les ambitions de McCain, voil\u00e0 ce qui nous int\u00e9resse surtout dans son intervention au congr\u00e8s conservateur, plut\u00f4t que ce qui s’est dit \u00e0 ce congr\u00e8s. McCain a profit\u00e9 de cette tribune improvis\u00e9e pour faire un discours qui s’adressait clairement aux \u00e9lecteurs US signe que les special relationships<\/em> n’emp\u00eachent pas que chacun reste concentr\u00e9 sur sa propre sc\u00e8ne nationale.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tSelon le Guardian<\/em> de ce jour :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abWith little over five weeks to go before elections for the US Senate and House of Representatives, the man most likely to be the Republican candidate for the presidency in 2008 made two pointed references to affairs back home attacking George Bush for being a big government conservative and seemingly being deceitful about the course of the war in Iraq.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbBoth times he accused Mr Bush – without naming him of hypocrisy.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbConservatives came to office to reduce the size of government and enlarge the sphere of free and private initiative. But lately we have increased government in order to stay in office.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbAnd, soon, if we don’t remember why we were elected we will have lost our office along with our principles, and leave a mountain of debt that our children’s grandchildren will suffer from long after we have departed this earth. Because, my friends, hypocrisy is the most obvious of sins, and the people will punish it.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbTory rank-and-file members applauded the attack on the US president’s profligacy. Starting with a a swipe at parties who value [their] incumbency more than [their] principles, it ended with this seeming warning that the Republicans almost deserve to lose the coming elections.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbSen McCain then moved on to criticising the Bush administration’s presentation of the conflict in Iraq. In his low rumble, he warned not to attempt to placate public apprehension with false promises of swift victory and passing dangers.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThey have seen enough of this war, in Iraq, Afghanistan and on our own streets to know better. We have an advantage over some countries. We serve a practical and stouthearted people. They can stand the truth better than they can stand deceit and hypocrisy.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tMais au-del\u00e0 de cette cuisine \u00e9lectorale, un aspect du discours de McCain doit retenir notre attention. Il est mentionn\u00e9 en passant par le Guardian<\/em> mais il pourrait se r\u00e9v\u00e9ler comme son aspect le plus important :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abThat said, Sen McCain made repeated references<\/em> to his own advanced age<\/em><\/strong>, and stopped far short of<\/em> actually declaring his hand<\/em><\/strong>. Indeed, embarrassingly, the Tories showed his original 2000 campaign bid video as build-up.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n

John McCain et les incertitudes du processus d\u00e9mocratique<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n

\tQu’est-ce qui est int\u00e9ressant dans ces remarques de McCain r\u00e9sum\u00e9es par le Guardian<\/em>? McCain, qui n’est pas un timide lorsqu’il s’agit de proclamer ses ambitions, l’est tout \u00e0 fait dans cette occurrence. Il mentionne son \u00e2ge (70 ans cette ann\u00e9e) comme un obstacle majeur \u00e0 ce que tout le monde suppose \u00eatre sa candidature, alors qu’il se garde bien d’annoncer, dans ce m\u00eame discours, qu’il est candidat.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tCette timidit\u00e9 est en contraste complet avec les bruits courant autour de lui depuis des mois. Elle est en contraste complet avec ce qu’on \u00e9crit sur lui. Par exemple, cet article du New York Times<\/em> du 21 ao\u00fbt<\/a> dernier. L’article (\u00abMcCain Mines Elite of G.O.P. for 2008 Team<\/em>\u00bb) ne s’interrogeait m\u00eame pas \u00e0 propos de sa candidature mais, la tenant implicitement pour acquise, d\u00e9crivait la formation de l’\u00e9quipe qui allait l’entourer pour la campagne. Autre diff\u00e9rence consid\u00e9rable : dans cet article, les lignes McCain et Bush \u00e9taient d\u00e9crites comme quasiment identiques, au contraire du discours de McCain chez les conservateurs britanniques.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tL’article notait en conclusion : \u00abMr. McCain and Mr. Bush have grown closer politically in the past few years because of a shared commitment to a decisive battle against terrorism and the insurgency in Iraq, although it is unclear if support for the war will win votes in 2008.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t()<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbDespite his past challenges to Mr. Bush, many who served in the president’s campaigns or his administration are lining up behind Mr. McCain.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbAmong the more prominent members of the Bush team who said they expected to play a role in Mr. McCain’s candidacy, if he chooses to run, are Mark McKinnon, a Texas political media consultant who has worked for Mr. Bush for years; Terry Nelson, political director of the Bush 2004 re-election campaign; Nicolle Wallace, that campaign’s communications director; Wayne L. Berman, a Washington lobbyist, friend of Mr. Bush’s and prolific fund-raiser; and F. Philip Handy, chairman of Jeb Bush’s two races for governor in Florida and a major supporter of the president.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbMr. McKinnon said that Mr. Bush and his chief strategist, Karl Rove, had been careful not to signal their preference among potential successors. That said, Mr. McKinnon added, I think a lot of people are surprised at the extent to which there has been rapprochement between the Bush and McCain worlds.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbHe said Mr. McCain’s biggest challenge would be assuming the role of front-runner rather than free-speaking insurgent or underdog. He has to be the leader of not just a movement, but the party, Mr. McKinnon said. That’s a whole different drill.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tComment expliquer ces diff\u00e9rences et l’attitude inattendue de McCain \u00e0 Bournemouth, o\u00f9 avait lieu le congr\u00e8s? On notera plusieurs points :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t Si McCain s’est rapproch\u00e9 de GW Bush comme le signale l’article du New York Times<\/em>, il reste n\u00e9cessaire pour lui de rassembler un \u00e9lectorat plus centriste, comme l’article du Guardian<\/em> le signale. Cela semble ressembler \u00e0 la quadrature du cercle.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t Le rapprochement effectu\u00e9 ce printemps de McCain vers la droite \u00e9vang\u00e9liste chr\u00e9tienne extr\u00e9miste (allant de pair avec son rapprochement suppos\u00e9 de GW Bush) risque de l’entra\u00eener dans une position de surench\u00e8re. McCain a pu juger indirectement, \u00e0 propos de Hillary Clinton<\/a>, de l’extr\u00e9misme des positions des dirigeants des chr\u00e9tiens fondamentalistes. S’il veut \u00eatre soutenu par cette fraction importante de l’\u00e9lectorat bushiste (et m\u00eame, un \u00e9lectorat bushiste qui commence \u00e0 reprocher \u00e0 Bush sa mod\u00e9ration), McCain doit abandonner toute id\u00e9e d’une position par certains \u00e9gards centriste, toute id\u00e9e empreinte de la moindre mod\u00e9ration.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t La question qui se pose \u00e0 McCain, comme, d’une autre fa\u00e7on, \u00e0 Hillary Clinton, est bien de savoir si l’on peut, aujourd’hui, parvenir \u00e0 \u00e9tablir une majorit\u00e9 aux USA sur un programme suffisamment large pour aller de la droite radicale au centre. La r\u00e9ponse semble de plus en plus devenir n\u00e9gative.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLe discours de McCain \u00e0 Bournemouth \u00e9tait une occasion id\u00e9ale d’affirmer sa dimension pr\u00e9sidentielle dans un environnement international. Il ne l’a pas fait. Notre hypoth\u00e8se est que McCain conna\u00eet les m\u00eames doutes que ceux<\/a> que conna\u00eet Hillary Clinton. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tCes doutes concernent la possibilit\u00e9 quasiment physique pour une personnalit\u00e9 d’un certain poids, avec des options claires et un programme affirm\u00e9, d’\u00eatre \u00e9lue aux USA aujourd’hui. Ils concernent la possibilit\u00e9, pour les USA, de voir se poursuivre le processus normal de fonctionnement du syst\u00e8me (qu’on nomme cela d\u00e9mocratie si l’on veut). McCain ne peut-il prendre \u00e0 son compte la phrase que disait un observateur politique d\u00e9mocrate \u00e0 propos d’Hillary : \u00abShe <\/em>[He?] believes there is no trust between the two political sides and that we can’t function as a democracy without it.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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