McCoot responds: Agrees w/ B*sh's Remarks to Knesset (Obama like a Nazi Appeaser)

[npincus]

So, smearing an opponent on foreign soil is what McCoot considers a "clean" campaign? OK, let's play ball.


http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/15/mccain-agrees-with-bushs-remarks/

Senator John McCain, who has been critical of President Bush on the environment and other policies this week, on Thursday morning wholeheartedly endorsed Mr. Bush’s veiled rebuke in the Israeli Knesset on Senator Barack Obama that talking to “terrorists and radicals'’ was no different than appeasing Hitler and the Nazis.

“Yes, there have been appeasers in the past, and the president is exactly right, and one of them is Neville Chamberlain,'’ Mr. McCain told reporters on his campaign bus after a speech in Columbus, Ohio. “I believe that it’s not an accident that our hostages came home from Iran when President Reagan was president of the United States. He didn’t sit down in a negotiation with the religious extremists in Iran, he made it very clear that those hostages were coming home.'’

Asked if he thought that former President Jimmy Carter, who struggled with the hostage crisis, was an appeaser, Mr. McCain replied: “I don’t know if he was an appeaser or not, but he terribly mishandled the Iranian hostage crisis.'’

Asked if he thought Mr. Obama was an appeaser — the Democratic candidate has said he would be willing to meet with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran — Mr. McCain sidestepped and said, “I think that Barack Obama needs to explain why he wants to sit down and talk with a man who is the head of a government that is a state sponsor of terrorism, that is responsible for the killing of brave young Americans, that wants to wipe Israel off the map, who denies the Holocaust. That’s what I think Senator Obama ought to explain to the American people.'’

Mr. McCain’s aides, some of whom used to work for Mr. Bush, said they had not coordinated with the White House on Mr. Bush’s remarks and that they were not aware of what the president was going to say in the Knesset.

[Eurobabe]

1. You know this will never stay clean

McInsanity will just rely on surrogates to do his dirty work. :eyes:

[redqueen]

2. I doubt anyone expected Old John McCain not to endorse & participate in gutter politics.

Can't wait to hear Obama's response.

[DearAbby]

3. I do like how Obama responded promptly

even to the chimp...Obama is a busy street, no weeds are going to grow there!

[SoonerPride]

4. McSame will get creamed by Obama on this

watch

[NatBurner]

5. kick- just for "McCoot"

i like that one lol

[Occam Bandage]

6. As McCain gets older, his marbles get looser, it seems.

[blm]

7. Reagan and Bush ARMED TERRORISTS/EXTREMISTS thru illegal operations uncovered by Kerry in IranContra

and BCCI.

[robertpaulsen]

21. And the hostages came home from Iran in 1981 due to GHWB's October Surprise.

Robert Parry spelled it all out for anyone who has eyes to see and ears to hear:

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/102506.html

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/102706.html

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/102906.html

[slinkerwink]

8. kicking to show the lameness of McCain

[ej510]

13. McSame is not very intelligent.

Dubya and McSame = Moron!

[slinkerwink]

14. no, he's not intelligent at all

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Cool he was given a chance to distance himself

and now he has come fully for the politics of fear.

Ah... when the Mexican President spoke against his opponents, who had taken over Congress, a month ago... while in the US, he was roundly criticized.

By all parties


That is what should have happened to McBush.

By the way, this is a lame way to go after the Jewish vote, but I fear it will PARTIALLY work. I know some folks for whom O is dangerous... and I will be the first to say it... the fear is also partly based on racism... naked racism. Oh and I will not even try to convince those folks that they are wrong.

[DefenseLawyer]

10. Good. I want McCain agreeing with George as often as possible

The only thing better than the worst president in our lifetime giving a lecture to his successor on foreign policy is having the worst president in our lifetime's elderly clone point out that he sides with a total failure.

[WinkyDink]

11. McCain doesn't "know" about Pres. Carter?? LYING SONOFABITCH. Carter tried to RESCUE the

hostages, only to be TREASONOUSLY betrayed by Oliver North.
http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/104

And President Reagan had ZERO to do with the return of the hostages, other than to TREASONOUSLY plot to KEEP them such until his Inaugural Day (IOW, before he left the podium, RR could hardly have done anything both substantive and legal about the hostages).

[flpoljunkie]

15. Thanks for the link! Have excerpted "The Release of the Hostages" section.

VI. The Release of the Hostages

In October 1980, the Carter Administration finally negotiated an agreement between the US and Iran, to unfreeze Iranian assets for the return of the hostages. As a result, the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal is set up at the Hague. <19>

On October 22, the Iranians' persistent demand of U.S. weapons was suddenly dropped. <25> Bani-Sadr says the demands were dropped because there were two separate agreements: the official one with Carter in Algeria, and the secret one with the Reagan campaign, that the hostages should not be released during Carter's Administration. In return, Reagan would give them arms.

On Jan 20, 1981, Ronald Reagan was sworn in as President of the United States. The hostages were released moments afterwards.

[ima_sinnic]

12. another great Obama speech will come out of all this, just wait and see

he has a gift for turning shit into gold for his own campaign. The more they smear him, the more he will attract voters who will hear the truth and the common sense in his words. Poor poor mcsame and bushit are still on the low road, heading off the cliff.

[bridgit]

16. The world is a dangerous place. But fear is not always the response to it. Fear...

as a response to everything, including the world, is all republikans have. This is the point I would normally say, "The poor dears." But they aren't poor...and there's nothing 'dear' about republikans.

Neither would we care to have the mis-perception of what appeasement really looks like painted upon us, or our candidates, by the appeasers themselves

[myrna minx]

17. This is making me sick.

:puke:

[helderheid]

18. WOW!

:wow:

[helderheid]

19. rec this 1000 times. Every DUer needs to see this!

[helderheid]

20. Just watched him on the teevee

[Vinca]

22. More proof McBush is just more of the same.

Bomb first, ask questions later.

[BenDavid]

23. obama reacted too damn fast and shows how inexperienced he

really is and is thin skinned. This is one of the many problems obama will have IF he is the nominee. If one will think about what bush said, then go back in time and look at the same comments bush has made over the last seven years. I am not defending bush but obama reacted too fast when the comments were not intended for him. Obama has made an ass of hisself once more.....

[TBF]

24. Obama is exactly who the remarks were aimed at. Just because Dana comes out to do

spin control does not mean the intent was not there. I know you're not defending Bush, you are once again making an argument for Hillary. It's over, she has lost. It is time to move on.

[nadinbrzezinski]

25. So you have no problem with the PResident of the US

using national politics before a foreign legislative body or for that matter politicizing the 60th anniversary of the foundation of a strong ally?

Your concern is dully noted

(By the way you answer attacks such as this IMMEDIATELY) this is the lesson of the swift boating in 2004 you dullard!

[Forkboy]

26. Time for your pony to learn a new trick, Chumley.

[npincus]

27. my Lord, your hatred of Obama has twisted your senses!

Even the WH does not deny they were referring Obama. Reacting TOO fast? Where were you in 2004? Kerry's slow reaction time cost him that contest. Obama's SO good... geting the response in quickly enough so that the early nes cycles report the incident with Obama's smackdown. THAT is an excellent operation,

Get over the fact that Hillary won't be our nominee. If you are a Democrat, you ought to show some loyalty to the party by not attacking our likely candidate.

[TeamJordan23]

28. Another reason why Obama should reject public financing - McCain using smear tactics. nm