Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

McCain campaign responds: 'Hysterical diatribe'
politico.com ^ | 05/16/08 | bensmith

Posted on 05/16/2008 12:13:37 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3

This general election campaign is getting off to a rollicking start.

From McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds:

It was remarkable to see Barack Obama’s hysterical diatribe in response to a speech in which his name wasn’t even mentioned.

These are serious issues that deserve a serious debate, not the same tired partisan rants we heard today from Senator Obama. Senator Obama has pledged to unconditionally meet with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- who pledges to wipe Israel off the map, denies the Holocaust, sponsors terrorists, arms America’s enemies in Iraq and pursues nuclear weapons. What would Senator Obama talk about with such a man? It would be a wonderful thing if we lived in a world where we don’t have enemies.

But that is not the world we live in, and until Senator Obama understands that, the American people have every reason to doubt whether he has the strength, judgment and determination to keep us safe.

Oddly, McCain's response also contained the claim he'd distorted Defense Secretary Robert Gates' willingness to meet the leaders of Iran, but didn't contest Obama's point that McCain had suggested meeting with Hamas.

UPDATE: Cancel that. The McCain campaign sends over video of a second 2006 interview from the same day in Davos in which, unlike in his interview with Jamie Rubin, McCain suggests that aid and the peace process can only "resume" when Hamas agrees to "renounce" their commitment to the state of Israel.

That's a different tone, though it doesn't really contradict the the first interview, in which McCain was asked directly about American diplomats meeting with Hamas, and seemed to answer in the affirmative.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2008; appeasement; israel; kenesset; mccainobama; presbushknesset08; presidentbush; wot
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-30 last
To: CaliforniaCon

“Obaminations.”

I like that very much. It is one of those “Why didn’t I think of that??” things.


21 posted on 05/16/2008 1:14:17 PM PDT by unkus
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: massgopguy

Nice to see the McCain camp grow a set. If they don’t think the MSM (his former “base” as one of his aids put it in 2000)aren’t going to go to any length to destroy him, then they’re a bunch of fools and aren’t even worthy of a part time gig at the DMV.


22 posted on 05/16/2008 1:50:24 PM PDT by wny
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: RoseofTexas

That picture, as much as any other, really shows Michelle Obama’s “inner Black Panther”.


23 posted on 05/16/2008 1:51:09 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: Lancey Howard

I heard some guy call in to WOWO radio and say Michelle reminds him of Aunt Esther on Sanford and Son. She does! HA HA!


24 posted on 05/16/2008 1:57:43 PM PDT by raisincane (Dims think we're all oblivious to the obvious)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: TitansAFC; meandog; onyx; MARTIAL MONK; Kuksool; freespirited; Salvation; furquhart; mossyoaks; ...
Obama is slapped down after getting testy about President Bush's speech yesterday

The McCain List.
Common sense conservatism

25 posted on 05/16/2008 1:59:21 PM PDT by Norman Bates (Freepmail me to be part of the McCain List!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: massgopguy
This is why I don’t like voting for people younger than me for higher office

Do I ever agree with you! About the same age here…

Conflict resolution techniques may work well enough in interpersonal relationships within a safe, protected Western society where good faith is expected and the golden rule is generally applied…conciliatory gestures may work in this context, as individuals negotiate more or less freely.

The boomer-left has long simplistically asserted that the same golden-rulism can be applied successfully to geo-strategic relationships between nation states, as if policy were not made by thousands of individuals on each side who have free will. “All you need is love -- dat de de de dah”. Down the blind alley charging we go!

In the real world, policy is worked out within and among separate coalitions (often tribal) that typically cannot trust each other as they vie for power over that nation’s foreign policy stance.

Solipsism in the form of “everyone thinks like we do” blinds the boomer-leftist mindset to an inconvenient truth –not everyone thinks the same. The willingness to negotiate in and of itself is perceived by some as contemptible weakness. Look how Carter screwed it up after leftists in Iran siezed the hostages!

Naive Carter wrote a letter to Khomenei apologizing for our past misdeeds and asking for forgiveness, probably thinking that would allow Khomenei to also concede without losing face. It backfired badly. Not everyone thinks the same.

26 posted on 05/16/2008 3:23:40 PM PDT by nascent skeptic
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: massgopguy
Arrogant senses of entitlement and youthful zealotry do not a good candidate make.

It really is a matter of maturity of judgment. Obama is a malignant leftwinger, which automatically screws his judgment, but even so he doesn't have the sense to wash his hands after wiping his a&&.

27 posted on 05/16/2008 3:49:09 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...
From McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds: It was remarkable to see Barack Obama's hysterical diatribe in response to a speech in which his name wasn't even mentioned. These are serious issues that deserve a serious debate, not the same tired partisan rants we heard today from Senator Obama. Senator Obama has pledged to unconditionally meet with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- who pledges to wipe Israel off the map, denies the Holocaust, sponsors terrorists, arms America's enemies in Iraq and pursues nuclear weapons. What would Senator Obama talk about with such a man? It would be a wonderful thing if we lived in a world where we don't have enemies. But that is not the world we live in, and until Senator Obama understands that, the American people have every reason to doubt whether he has the strength, judgment and determination to keep us safe.
Obamastinians *know*, however, that the Jews from the Israeli Mossad perpetrated 9-11.
28 posted on 05/16/2008 7:17:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Profile updated Monday, April 28, 2008)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nascent skeptic

Obama is about my age, but he’s like a youngster to me. Some people just don’t grow up.


29 posted on 05/16/2008 8:00:28 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT (Green, but not gullible)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: CharlesWayneCT

Yeah, I thought about it and it’s not really about chronological age.

I was thinking that once the boomers came of age, and the guilty-feeling ones began to help push these ideas out in the late 60’s, it would mostly be younger people that would allow themselves to be influenced. Many boomers never bought into it in the first place, of course.


30 posted on 05/17/2008 12:53:00 PM PDT by nascent skeptic
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-30 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson