Mccain attacks Obama, but gets confused about Iraq…AGAIN!
Posted on December 24th, 2009 by admin
John McCain said this today in Rochester, New Hampshire: “This is a clear choice that the American people have. I had the courage and the judgment to say I would rather lose a political campaign than lose a war. It seems to me that Obama would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign.”
This is the ninth presidential campaign I’ve covered. I can’t remember a more scurrilous statement by a major party candidate. It smacks of desperation. It renews questions about whether McCain has the right temperament for the presidency. How sad.
Scurrility Update: Readers should note that I said that I can’t remember a more scurrilous statement by a major party candidate. Smart politicians leave the scurrilous stuff to their aides; in fact, a McCain spokesman expressed these words almost exactly on July 14. There is a reason why politicians who want to be President don’t say these sort of things: It isn’t presidential. A President exists in the straitjacket of literality. His words mean something. So John McCain has to literally believe that Barack Obama would “rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign.” I can’t imagine that he does. He popped off, out of frustration.
The reality is that neither Barack Obama nor Nouri al-Maliki nor most anybody else believes that the Iraq war can be “lost” at this point. The reality is that no matter who is elected President, we are looking at a residual U.S. force of 30-50,000 by 2011 (a year ahead of the previous schedule). The reality is that McCain should be proud that he helped salvage a disastrous situation by pushing the counterinsurgency plan. It’s something to run on. But, at this point, McCain must sense that it’s not a winning hand. Obama, the poker player, has drawn to an inside straight: the Iraqis favor his plan over McCain’s long-term bases. That must be galling. But it’s no excuse to pop off the way McCain did. It was, shockingly, unpresidential.
http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/07/mccain_meltdown.html
During an interview with Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), CBS Evening News host Katie Couric noted that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) said recently that “there might have been improved security [in Iraq] even without the surge” and asked McCain, “What’s your response to that?”
After first calling Obama’s claim “a false depiction of what actually happened,” McCain proceeded to falsely claim that the surge “began the Anbar awakening”:
McCAIN: I don’t know how you respond to something that is such a false depiction of what actually happened. Colonel McFarland was contacted by one of the major Sunni sheiks. Because of the surge we were able to go out and protect that sheik and others. And it began the Anbar awakening. I mean, that’s just a matter of history.
But in a puzzling move, the CBS Evening News did not actually televise McCain’s false claim tonight. As MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann reported, “CBS curiously, to say the least, left it on the edit room floor. It aired Katie Couric’s question, but in response, it inserted part of McCain’s answer to another question instead.”
http://geniusofinsanityworld.blogspot.com/2008/07/john-mccain-confused-on-sunni-awakening.html
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December 24th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
shut the up, …
shut the up, ur to stupid to be posting in here. go collect some cans.
December 24th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
well go to the …
well go to the school for special education kids, u’ll find plenty of the canidates there. I think ur did has an overbite
December 24th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
God both McCain and …
God both McCain and Palin don’t know shit. Thank god America has some sense left in their population by NOT electing them.
December 24th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
I fail to see how …
I fail to see how that makes any sense. I get that you think he ‘doesn’t debate others’ or what have you but I have seen much evidence that the invitation has been there for many.
O’Reilly clearly does whine and whimper and denying that is cherry picking. I can at least admit that Olbermann is a blatantly left leaning commentator and that I like him for that but why are you not able to admit that O’Reilly is essentially a child? Especially if you aren’t a fan. He’s a bullying child.
December 24th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
O’Reilly is bully.. …
O’Reilly is bully…. agreed. Whines and whimpers? Don’t think so. Still I think he’s a pompous and I don’t care to watch him.
“Bathtub Boy” is the kid who is so comfortably fascinated with being in the bathtub that he refuses to get out and do what he needs to do.
December 24th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
O’Reilly doesn’t …
O’Reilly doesn’t have courage, he’s a bully. He whines and whimpers when someone responds just has harshly.
Either way, I’m not going to argue some point about something that is clearly opinion based. You either like them or you don’t. It doesn’t really matter in the long run. Are there not more important things to worry about?
By the way, what does ‘Bathtub Boy’ refer to? That is what I meant by my question. Where does it come from?
December 24th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
“Bathtub Boy” is …
“Bathtub Boy” is the name coined by John Gibson, who had worked with Olbermann and often had to fill in for K.O. when he refused to come from under his desk to do his show.
Well read? Could be! Intellectual? Maybe! I’m still left with the impression that he’s educated far beyond his intelligence.
O’Reilly? Another pompous talking head! However O’Reilly does have the courage to face those who would disagree with him.
Who do you see Olbermann facing? Bill Maher, Michael Moore, Al Franken…???
December 24th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
First off… …
First off… bathtub boy? Where does that come from?
Second of all if you don’t like him don’t watch him. Personally, I rather like him as the liberal, logical and correct answer to Bill O’Reilly.
I enjoy watching a well read, intellectual for my news. I like that he is unapologetic about his political leanings. FoxNews claims to be fair and balanced. I’d have less of a problem with them if they just came clean.
December 24th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Keith “Overbite” …
Keith “Overbite” hahhahahahha. you libs. Obama, McCain. McCain isn’t even a republican, he’s like an idependent. We need a conservative as a republican canidate.
December 24th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Keith Olbermann ( …
Keith Olbermann (A.K.A. Bathtub Boy): The other human waste.
Here we have a shining example of one educated far beyond his intelligence.
December 24th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
this guy needs to …
this guy needs to move to North Korea, he will feel at home over there.
December 24th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
McCain made love to …
McCain made love to all the stupid in that speach
December 24th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
the rhetoric …
the rhetoric prodeath antichrist? hahahaha please.. grow up.
December 24th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
fox news is the best
fox news is the best
December 24th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Obama gets confused …
Obama gets confused about which country has nurtured him again and decides to tax it to death.
December 24th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Republicans are …
Republicans are more fun!
1.Nobama the rhetoric prodeath antichrist
Or
2.Team maverick inc..
Arnold the Terminator
Joe the plumber/ joe the foreign policy advisor
Sarah palin pitbull hockey mom with lipstick
That wants to drill baby drill we just dont know who or when
cranky 95 year old John McCain / pow that crashed his plane 5 times and just wont die and has a hard on for osama bin laden, who is hard of hearing, when listening to the beach boys hears bomb iran instead of babara ann!
December 24th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
tbh mccain has lost …
tbh mccain has lost the plot
obama ftw!!!
December 24th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Yet another …
Yet another McCainFail.
December 24th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
cud someone tell …
cud someone tell this old fool to stop saying we r winning the war!
December 24th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
That’s what your …
That’s what your last g/f said too
December 24th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
no you really hear …
no you really hear your moms voice calling me from my bedroom to give her more cock.
December 24th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
get off the pc …
get off the pc little boy, you’re mamma’s calling…
December 24th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
o i kno tons about …
o i kno tons about u and aside from sucking at insulting people, your retarded republican family has lots of dirty hos which ive helped myself to many times. i also know that you secretly want to suck mccains dick so you bought him a gallon of viagra. theres much i dont even want to say besides from the fact you cant realize how pathetic u are.
December 24th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
You know nothing …
You know nothing about me. I know plenty about you… Your’re a idiot.
December 24th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
fuck off keith, ur …
off keith, ur a face