McCain defends Palin's contradiction on Pakistan - Page 2

aps · 09-30-08, 05:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Family Guy

I'm suggesting that he needs to throw a Hail Mary and that out of desperation he might dump her. He's not the same McCain, he's sold out to become President and will do anything to achieve his goal and that includes completely compromising his "principles."

You are preaching to the choir. I am so hoping he loses because I hae lost all respect for him and would cry if he won.

Truth Detector · 09-30-08, 01:07 PM

I found the condescending interview with Couric fascinating in that all the media are concerned with Palin's lack of foreign experience, which is the case with MOST Presidential candidates, but so lacking in curiosity about Obamas.

The only thing more amusing than watching the Liberals desperate attacks against this woman because they are so scared, is the notion that Obama's trip to Berlin is what constitutes foreign policy experience.

Tell me Liberals, what foreign policy was Clinton involved in before he became President?

Many if not ALL Presidential Candidates have little foreign policy "experience."

But in the minds of people desperate to impugn rather than have an honest debate, the Liberal media has now once again raised the bar for all candidates that they need to have military experience to talk about matters of the military, foreign policy experience to have opinions on foreign policy and must have a diploma in economics in order to have an opinion on the economy; however, their Liberal candidates are exempt from these requirements because they are entitled to lead the country because they care.

Couric: In preparing for this conversation, a lot of our viewers … and Internet users wanted to know why you did not get a passport until last year. And they wondered if that indicated a lack of interest and curiosity in the world.

Say what? Gee this is an important criteria for a VICE President don'tyaknow.

Here's the same questions for Obama and what he might have said:

Couric: You've cited Illinois proximity to Canada as part of your foreign policy experience. What did you mean by that?

Obama: Well...um, well you know Katie, um, this is what I meant by being "close", um....to international borders and how it allows me to see and to understand, um, well, um the issues that confront the world.

Of course you know that as the ordained one, um, well, um I will be able to bring the world together and they will once again love America for the simple fact that I am, well, um, Liberal.

Couric: Well, explain to me why that enhances your foreign-policy credentials.

Obama: Well Katie, um, well of course you must have missed my speech in Berlin. This, um, well, it um, it proves that people in other countries must want me to be President, and um, isn't that what is really important?

Couric: Have you ever been involved in any negotiations, for example, with the Russians?

Obama: Well Katie, um, well, you know, that is a great question because, it shows, um, well it shows that you have done your homework. Actually, I watched a negotiation with a foreign President once. But of course, um, well, this is not the issue; the real issue is, um, well, the fact that McCain's VP candidate doesn't have any foreign experience either.

Exclusive: Palin On Foreign Policy, Katie Couric Interviews The Candidate About Watching Russia, Her New Passport And Her Opinion Of Obama - CBS News

niftydrifty · 09-30-08, 01:15 PM

here's the hilarious video and transcript of McCain's explanation of the comments to Couric:

Exclusive: McCain, Palin Answer Critics, Katie Couric Asks Palin If She Contradicted McCain On Pakistan And Her Response To GOP Criticism - CBS News

aps · 09-30-08, 01:24 PM

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Originally Posted by niftydrifty

here's the hilarious video and transcript of McCain's explanation of the comments to Couric:

Exclusive: McCain, Palin Answer Critics, Katie Couric Asks Palin If She Contradicted McCain On Pakistan And Her Response To GOP Criticism - CBS News

They both look like utter fools. Let's blame it on "gotcha journalism." They make me sick.

niftydrifty · 09-30-08, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by aps

They both look like utter fools. Let's blame it on "gotcha journalism." They make me sick.

McCain-Palin Launches Pre-emptive Attack on Media

Jessica · 09-30-08, 03:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Hatuey

Like we'd tell Bin Laden 'yeah we know where you are so you're coming' an hour before we decide to take him out not only giving him time to hide or escape but also pissing off the Pakis.

Not an hour. Bush gave him a two-month head start.

BWG · 09-30-08, 06:30 PM

Let me see if I understand this correctly.

From the OP

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McCain chided Democrat Barack Obama during Friday's presidential debate for saying publicly he supports striking terrorist targets inside Pakistan if the Pakistani government is unable or unwilling to do so.

OK, it seems to me that McCain is not saying Obama is wrong about going after terrorist targets inside Pakistan, just that he should not be saying such things out in the open, right?

Butttttt......

In a McCain interview with DefenseNews that was originally published Oct. 16, 2007

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Q: Does the U.S. have any options with regard to al-Qaida and reputed al-Qaida strongholds in the federally unregulated areas in Pakistan? Other than what seems to be sort of a status quo of waiting for them to come over the border, the Pakistani Army occasionally launching a strike to - well, it's hard to say for what end because they don't seem to be sustained efforts. What are the U.S. options there?

McCain: I think they're very difficult options. I think that if we knew of al-Qaida - more specifically Taliban, it's mainly Taliban that are operating in these places - that we have to do what's necessary. We don't have to advertise it. We don't have to embarrass or humiliate the Pakistani government.

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Q: So if you were president and you knew that bin Laden were over there, you had a target spotting, you could nail him, you'd go get him?

McCain: Sure. Sure. We have to, and I'm sure that after the initial flurry, that whoever our friends are, wherever he is, would be relieved because, as I mentioned to you before, he's still very effective in the world, very, very effective. We see his tapes come out and they motivate and they inspire and they recruit and they instruct radical Islamic extremists and that's, I think

Transcript of interview with Sen. John McCain - Defense News

Didn't McCain just say, publicly, he supports striking terrorist targets inside Pakistan?
The exact same thing he's chiding Obama about.

Objective Voice · 09-30-08, 06:46 PM

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Originally Posted by BWG

OK, it seems to me that McCain is not saying Obama is wrong about going after terrorist targets inside Pakistan, just that he should not be saying such things out in the open, right?

Butttttt......

Didn't McCain just say, publicly, he supports striking terrorist targets inside Pakistan? The exact same thing he's chiding Obama about.

Though he didn't come right out and say it, it's obvious what he meant. So, yes. He'd "go after al-Quaida, the Taliban and any terrorist group using the Afghan/Pakistan boarder as a save haven. You bet! It's just for political reasons he'd prefer to keep it on the DL. (Shhhhhhh....)