Video of McCain I found. Is it a well known thing?

Heypecka · 10-07-08, 03:33 AM

Found an apparently unwatched YouTube video of a Stanford interview of John McCain. It seems almost perfect for an Obama Campaign commercial. McCain. In it he talks with great regret about his involvement in the Keating S&L scandal. He also gives George W Bush a grade of A/-A on foreign policy, while only giving Clinton a C or B . Links below. Its kind of long, so u might want to read the transcript instead. Is it a well known video?

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YouTube - WORTH THE FIGHTING FOR: A Conversation with John McCain

Transcript: Hoover Institution - Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson - WORTH THE FIGHTING FOR: A Conversation with John McCain

Frolicking Dinosaurs · 10-07-08, 07:18 AM

Whoops - McCain better go take some 'golly bygosh <wink> <wink>' lessons from Palin ASAP.

Middleground · 10-07-08, 09:05 AM

Damn, I was kinda hoping he was an actor in Lemon Party. Oh. well.

donc · 10-07-08, 09:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Frolicking Dinosaurs

Whoops - McCain better go take some 'golly bygosh <wink> <wink>' lessons from Palin ASAP.

You betcha.

JMak · 10-07-08, 02:59 PM

Not sure what's so bad about that video.

His expression of regret wrt Keating scandal ain't incriminating at all. He's expressing that his judgment in that episode failed him and led to an appearance of impropriety that can kill the credibility of a politician. That's it.

And he was giving a grade to Bush between September 11, 2001 and the interview date of November 2002. So why do you think that's at all important? And here's his reasoning:

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The minus is that he has not, perhaps, followed the dictum of Teddy Roosevelt about talking softly and carrying a big stick. We've got to be much less aggressive in that we want to be much less confrontational with our allies.

Gee, you'd think Democrats would be happy about that. But nope. Instead, they'll take McCain's comments in this interview out of context and try to hang him out to dry on it...

BTW - this interview has remained rather well unknown because it is so truly unremarkable.

tryreading · 10-18-08, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by JMak

Not sure what's so bad about that video.

His expression of regret wrt Keating scandal ain't incriminating at all. He's expressing that his judgment in that episode failed him and led to an appearance of impropriety that can kill the credibility of a politician. That's it.

And he was giving a grade to Bush between September 11, 2001 and the interview date of November 2002. So why do you think that's at all important? And here's his reasoning:

Gee, you'd think Democrats would be happy about that. But nope. Instead, they'll take McCain's comments in this interview out of context and try to hang him out to dry on it...

BTW - this interview has remained rather well unknown because it is so truly unremarkable.

There is no appearance of anything.

McCain got free flights and vacations from a banker he should have been regulating, and then McCain applied direct pressure as a United States Senator to stop an official government investigation of this criminal banker.

Now, was McCain sorry after he got caught doing these things? Sure he was. Everybody's sorry after they're caught...

Tashah · 10-19-08, 05:07 AM

I have no idea why folks are so enamored of video. Anyone with the requisite software and a modicum of talent can manipulate a video much like one can Photoshop an image file.

Hatuey · 10-19-08, 10:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Tashah

I have no idea why folks are so enamored of video. Anyone with the requisite software and a modicum of talent can manipulate a video much like one can Photoshop an image file.

Ummmm we don't have that technology yet Tash. Stop dreamin'.