McCain backtracks after blaming Obama for shooting in Orlando

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Thursday walked back comments that President Obama was "directly responsible" for the mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub that left 49 people dead and 53 more wounded.

"I misspoke," McCain said in a statement.

"I did not mean to imply that the President was personally responsible. I was referring to President Obama's national security decisions, not the President himself."

The Arizona senator earlier Thursday said Obama was responsible for the shooting because he allowed for the growth of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) during his presidency, ABC News reported.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/283807-mccain-on-obama-remarks-i-misspoke

[forgotmylogin]

1. Sit down, grandpa.

You're drunk again.

[mcar]

2. Too late, foolish man

I so hope he loses in Nov.

[63splitwindow]

3. Backtracked IMMEDIATELY only because he saw...

[narnian60]

9. Love that!

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

4. ... and this is good news for John McCain? n/t

[MFM008]

5. Bitter old man

Always hated Obama probably more than the VC.
BUT he got it out there didnt he? Its out there and were talking about it.
So its ONE mission he accomplished..............

[TexasBushwhacker]

28. It took him decades to quit calling Vietnamese

"gooks" - as recently as 2000. I can only imagine what he calls Obama behind closed doors and I'm sure Trump has plenty of slurs as well.

[pennylane100]

6. I think that John McCain should realize that he has become a laughing stock.

He has lost any credibility that he ever had. So Obama himself did not cause the massacre, it was his nation security decisions. So, according to him, Obama is not responsible for his own policies. Makes a lot of sense (if you have a screw loose.)

He should have left after his terrible choice of running mate when he ran in 2008. That alone makes him unfit to run the country.

[elleng]

7. Oh right, 'President Obama's national security decisions,'

which clearly were not decided by President Obama.

[allan01]

8. sputter sputt sputt old man .

[Night Watchman]

10. Senility?

My grandmother suffered from it. She was not, however, a US Senator. Thank you for your service, John, but it really is time to go home.

[onehandle]

11. He should legally change his name to McCain/Palin. nt

[Siwsan]

12. What an old fool

It is time for him to find a hobby that has nothing to do with government.

[truthisfreedom]

13. Which means the same thing, you old coot.

Nothing coming out of that dry hole of yours resonates with anyone but racists.

[kimbutgar]

14. Loser is going to get his a$$ handed to him in Nivember

People in Arizona are disgusted with him. Let him get voted out he'll get a crushy job with a defense contractor.

[scottie55]

15. McCain Who's Idea Was It To Blow The F Out Of Iraq?

Not PBO's.

You and you buddies founded ISIS/L.

Don't forget.

[bucolic_frolic]

16. Senile Dementia

not knowing the meaning of causality

The Founders put no age restrictions on Congress

Generally they didn't live long enough to have old age dementia,
or Alzheimer's as it is now called

I'm not saying that's the case here, but what will happen if
some incumbent actually gets to that point?

The aides and staff just keep covering it all up?

Suppose it applies to judges too, anyone with lifetime job security

[Botany]

17. No John we have ISIS because of w & Cheney's war in Iraq.

Which BTW you were all for if I remember correctly.

[Wellstone ruled]

18. Little Lindsey must have

had a chat with him. The Guy is a total disaster,all his Stupid statements are coming back at him bite him in his ass from his Democratic opponent .

[world wide wally]

19. "I like the guys who didn't get captured"

[davidthegnome]

20. Misspoke indeed.

That's what happens when you shove republican talking points up your ass and vomit them out your mouth. Screw you, McCain.

[riversedge]

21. McCain should put himself out to pasture.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

22. Policy differences aside, McCain has become just plain Incompetent. Time to go. . . nt

[hibbing]

23. Just once, I wish he could get on those Sunday morning talk shows

So he could explain what he really meant. Those shows never have him on.


Peace

[The CCC]

24. McCain backtracks after blaming Obama for shooting in Orlando

No McFool you didn't misspeak. You deliberately lied. Obama had nothing to do with the Status of Forces agreement that George Bush made with Iraq. It is POS's like you that won't even discuss our war in Iraq.

[GeorgeGist]

25. For John ...

[Jester Messiah]

26. He didn't fucking "misspeak."

He just forgot his filter for a moment and said out loud what he usually keeps confined to his head.

[1StrongBlackMan]

27. I, for one, am actively working for ...

a Senator Ann Kirkpatrick!

http://www.kirkpatrickforsenate.com/landing/e160616s/

Though, I suspect she will be too conservative to garner the support of most DUers, these days.

[underpants]

29. As posted here yesterday about McCain

[Dawson Leery]

30. Non hero is going to lose badly to Anne Kirkpatrick.