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John McCain: Liar
Yes, the news over the weekend was that the "straigt talk express" had derailed.
John McCain LIED about Mitt Romney in Florida (in an apparent desperate attempt to change the subject). McCain tried to say that Romney had ADVOCATED a definite timetable for withdrawal from Iraq. That was a flat lie. Romney merely said, while ALWAYS opposing a deadline for withdrawing, what is OBVIOUS: the President and the Iraqi government ALWAYS have to discuss "milestones" and "timetables", in the course of deciding what to do in Iraq. We, in fact, had a TIMETABLE for the troop surge (subject to change). Romney correctly said that you NEVER tell the enemy what you are thinking of doing. None of this was ADVOCATING a definite timetable from withdrawal from Iraq. Romney was merely describing the PROCESS that ANY President (including McCain) would have to follow in Iraq (if the President were responsible). It would be INSANE (sometimes an accurate description of McCain) to not TALK to the Iraqi government, PRIVATELY, about goals and timetables in Iraq. Both the Iraq government AND the Bush Administration have ANNOUNCED that they have talked about benchmarks and goals (albeit flexible ones). That is ALL that Romney said was obviously being done. Romney was, of course, right.
As Andrew McCarthy pointed out, look how McCain is taking advantage of his attack on the Frist Amendment here (McCain/Feingold). McCain's "reforem" prevents organizations from pointing out LIES of a candidate (or organization supporting a candidate) within 30 days of a primary. That means that NO GROUP could point out McCain's LIE about Romney in Florida. Now ROMNEY himself can talk about it. But otherwise you have to rely on the MEDIA (that is why McCain/Feingold was really a MEDIA POWER GRAB, as well as being an attack on the First Amendment).
As I have stated in this blog, I am faimiliar with McCain from way back. That is because I not only pay attention to politics, but because I used to be a regular listener of the Imus in the Morning radio program. That was MORE THAN A DECADE AGO.
I can assure you: McCain is full of it: a suck up to the media rather than a true "straight talker". He got the REPUTATION for straight talk by SUCKING UP TO THE MEDIA. He has always said what he thinks will endear him to the press atany particular time--whether it is consistent with what he said yesterday or not. McCain has NEVER been intellectually consistent, or interested in FACTS. It is no accident that the McCain/Kennedy immigration (amnesty) bill is all about DECEPTION (see the more than fifty entires in this blog under the general heading of "illegal immigration deception").
Nope. This is another case of the "emperor having no clothes." McCain has NEVER been about "straight talk". He has ALWAYS been about TALK promoting HIMSELF.
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1/31/08 8:29 AM
You are dead on, I really didn't care about either of the two. But McCain was blatantly distorting the facts when he stated Romney had a timetable. The quote had the word "Timetable" in it, but it had nothing to do with troop withdrawl.
The entire demeanor of McCain made me sick, and I really wanted to like him after Rudy's crash.
It is obvious McCain will bring nothing new to this country.
I'm so bored of this guy's bumper sticker style approach to real problems.
It's too bad nobody has the sense to see through him.
At this point, I'm actually more interested in what Obama has to say.
Ron Paul, who I thought was a complete "loon" probably had the most to offer last night with the following,
"You know, the country is in bankruptcy. And when I listen to this argument, I mean, I find it rather silly, because they're arguing technicalities of a policy they both agree with.
They agreed with going in; they agreed for staying, agreed for staying how many years? And these are technicalities. We should be debating foreign policy, whether we should have interventionism or non-interventionism, whether we should be defending this country or whether we should be the policemen of the world..."
It made Romney look foolish, and McCain appear plain dumb.