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Showing Original Post only (View all)Rachel Maddow Smacks Down John McCain, ‘You need to know what you’re talking about’... [View all]
Source: Politics USA
Rachel Maddow smacked down the defacto foreign policy leader of the Republican Party, Republican Senator John McCain, for being both wrong and incompetent on foreign policy...
...Noting that the Republican Party still hasnt admitted they got Iraq wrong, and that they ran Mitt Romney who has zero foreign policy experience, Rachel Maddow sees Republicans as allowing McCain to be their voice for foreign policy. This is a problem for the country since he is so often completely wrong on the subject.
After playing a Chris Hayes montage of McCain getting it wrong repeatedly entitled Arm the Rebels, Maddow delivered the final blow:
...There is a basic level of interest and competence required even of the opposition party on the subject, even if the country has decided they dont want to put you back in the White House, not after what George W Bush did with it. Even if youre just in congress, even if youre just the opposition, you need to know what youre talking about. You need to have a basic level of competence. And doing what John McCain says is not a reasonable substitution for basic competence on this subject.
Read more: http://www.politicususa.com/rachel-maddow-smacks-john-mccain-you-youre-talking-about.html
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Rachel Maddow Smacks Down John McCain, ‘You need to know what you’re talking about’... [View all]
Indi Guy
Nov 2012
OP
This is a good reminder. I did not know that. Our racist past continues to haunt us in even the
libdem4life
Nov 2012
#22
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coalition_unwilling
Nov 2012
#24
Truly, as it illustrated the willingness to share, yea to sustain in many cases, but the Western
libdem4life
Nov 2012
#26
I love her command of context. She is the best teacher of politics and policy on television.
ancianita
Nov 2012
#9
I agree! In fact, that segment should be shown on the Senate floor to rebuke McCain's
pacalo
Nov 2012
#27
An excellent point that repukes nominated someone without foreign policy experience
hughee99
Nov 2012
#13
I'm so tired of hearing how the GOP is supposed to be great at foreign policy...
Indi Guy
Nov 2012
#35
Good points and welcome to DU carolo. I'll add McCain's involvement with Charles Keating.
bluesbassman
Nov 2012
#43