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McCain Defends Obama Against Impeachment For Benghazi, Will ‘Give President Benefit Of The Doubt’
Mediaite ^ | May 12, 2013 | Jordan Chariton

Posted on 05/12/2013 4:24:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Senator John McCain, who famously defended his then presidential opponent Barack Obama against an islamaphobic supporter during a 2008 campaign rally, defended President Obama once again on ABC’s This Week Sunday, cautioning his Republicans colleagues to cool it with talk of impeaching the President over the Benghazi attacks and its aftermath.

In response to Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) invoking the “I word,” McCain called for caution:

“With all due respect, I think this is a serious issue,” McCain told guest host Martha Raddatz. “I will even give the president the benefit of the doubt on some of these things. We need a select committee.”

On how much blame former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton deserves, McCain was much less generous:

“I think the Secretary of State has played a role in this…she had to have been in the loop in some way, but we don’t know for sure.”

McCain next turned his ire on the now official 2016 Republican attack-ad on Clinton’s “what difference does it make?” outburst during her Benghazi hearing....

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: benghazi; libya; mccain; obama; treasonousbastard; warmongeringidiot
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
No surprise here!

McCain being McCain.

61 posted on 05/12/2013 4:55:05 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The GOP is dead.


62 posted on 05/12/2013 4:55:41 PM PDT by Dallas59 (Q: The worst president in US history?)
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To: The Cajun

This is a good sign, McCain always on the wrong side of an issue when it counts.

Means this issue is starting to count.


You’re right. It makes me smile.


63 posted on 05/12/2013 4:55:50 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it. Their minds have been stolen.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I'm going to stick this in this thread: I'm watching a movie and the lady heroine is in a high rise building and the bad guys want to kill her and a little kid she's responsible for, got separated from her.

In the course of events, here she is with a gun in her hand and one of the bad guys in front of her. He says, “Can you handle a big gun like that?” She says, “MY DADDY IS FROM TEXAS”, and she shoots him twice and a third time in the middle of his forehead.

Attaching this movie to Benghazi: WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE”, Clinton says. I say to her, “It means life and death if you can't kill the enemy, ex-Secretary of State Clinton.” The woman in the movie had a weapon and wasn't afraid to use it multiple times to save the kid and herself. Our brave men tried to save our people and themselves, couldn't kill all the enemies, not enough weapon fire and it was Clinton's and Hussein's fault - THAT'S WHAT DIFFERENCE IT MAKES. Clinton/Hussein make me sick. And, my daddy was from Texas, too.

64 posted on 05/12/2013 4:57:29 PM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And McCain makes me sick, too.


65 posted on 05/12/2013 4:58:52 PM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: machogirl

“My Senator makes me want to vomit.”

I feel sorry you have that piece of s for your senator. I don’t know how you stand it.


66 posted on 05/12/2013 5:00:29 PM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

You must be glad that you don’t live in San Fran nan’s district. LOL

You are to be commended for the ability to cope with all those bastards.


67 posted on 05/12/2013 5:01:16 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it. Their minds have been stolen.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And this is why I say impeachment is a waste of time and money. The House may impeach, but the spineless Senate will do nothing. McCain’s allegiance is strictly to his fellow politicians. He has forgotten that anything else matters.


68 posted on 05/12/2013 5:01:30 PM PDT by pallis
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To: muawiyah

No, what you’re witnessing is the real McCain.

The guy is nothing but an undercover agent for the RATS.


69 posted on 05/12/2013 5:05:21 PM PDT by 353FMG ( I do not say whether I am serious or sarcastic -- I respect FReepers too much.)
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To: RoosterRedux

If you check, you will find he crashed more planes than he didn’t. I don’t think he ever made a kill in a plane.


70 posted on 05/12/2013 5:07:14 PM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: Moonman62

"We both will help al Qaeda with weapons transfers
and cover it up against the American people.
What can possibly go wrong?"

71 posted on 05/12/2013 5:07:23 PM PDT by Diogenesis (De Oppresso Liber)
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To: 353FMG

This time it’s a massive stroke ~ get ready for a new senator from Arizona!


72 posted on 05/12/2013 5:07:26 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Marcella

I try not to think about it.


73 posted on 05/12/2013 5:07:47 PM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: 353FMG

“McFlake” is turning out to be Johnny’s twin.


74 posted on 05/12/2013 5:10:00 PM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: tomkat
I love Sarah, but hope she's as ashamed of '08 as I am.

With all my heart, I believe Sarah Palin and John McCain need to have a very public and nasty divorce.

Mrs. Palin, please put the 2008 campaign permanently in the past, except for the moment Piper smoothed Trig's hair. Everything else, please put behind you. (Can she hear me?)
75 posted on 05/12/2013 5:10:20 PM PDT by Resettozero
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To: Pollster1
There's a hell of a lot of Senate seats coming up for grab.

This could be the deciding factor...but it's still about 47%.....stuck on stupid.

76 posted on 05/12/2013 5:13:59 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I wish he’d get drunk and crash behind enemy lines again.


77 posted on 05/12/2013 5:16:33 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Moslems reserve the right to detonate anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: Resettozero
.. the moment Piper smoothed Trig's hair ..

((sniffles))

78 posted on 05/12/2013 5:16:43 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Tell me, please, why I should not believe that this guy is compromised and in office specifically to undermine conservatives? Four people died, they lied about the You Tube video, whistleblowers come out and refute their story line, and McLame is going to take the president at his word? What about the IRS targeting the Tea Party John? Did you take the president's word on that as well? I just can't understand why this guy has an R after his name.
79 posted on 05/12/2013 5:17:18 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle (Hil)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“With all due respect, I think this is a serious issue,” McCain told guest host Martha Raddatz. “I will even give the president the benefit of the doubt on some of these things. We need a select committee.”

McCain wants a Senate select committee...

Such a committee would include him, of course. And it would be chaired by a Democrat, with McCain as ranking member, of course.

A Senate select committee thus becomes a means of killing two birds with one stone:

a. Giving Harry Reid and the Democrats a means of obfuscating and eventually smothering the controversy.

b. While giving Senator John Sidney McCain important face time.

By McCain's standards, that's a perfect solution...

80 posted on 05/12/2013 5:17:27 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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