McCain: 'It's very clear who Hamas wants' in the White House

Source: CNN

(CNN) — John McCain said Friday that “it’s clear who Hamas wants to be the next president of the United States” — the second time in as many weeks that his campaign has referenced positive remarks by Ahmed Yousef, a member of that group, about Barack Obama.

On Friday, the presumptive Republican nominee was asked about the Hamas leader’s comments on a campaign conference call with bloggers.

“…I think it's very clear who Hamas wants to be the next president of the United States,” said McCain. “So apparently has Danny Ortega and several others. I think that people should understand that I will be Hamas's worst nightmare…If Senator Obama is favored by Hamas I think people can make judgments accordingly.”

A week ago, the Arizona senator’s campaign sent supporters a fundraising e-mail that said Hamas approved of Obama’s foreign policy vision, and is hoping for his victory this fall.


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What I said is probably stupid. Sorry. :)

....Hamas doesnt like stupid little assholes? Bastahds

asshole. (Can I say that here?)

That is the bottom line.

How can he say something like that and mean it?

What is up with Republicans and associations?

I don't know if you can say the rest here. This is my first day posting.

:hi:

(As it should be!)

an unprincipled PRICK myself...is THAT allowed? :evilgrin:

often for the clean campaign he's going to run.

He's slime.

And what you said.

...right?

I guess that old trick worked last time. Why not try it again? Just say the terrorist of the week wants your opponent to win the White House.

At least this time, they can hardly accuse Obama of 'looking French'...

I can't say he's be the worst nightmare for the US, because I think we have that now, but it looks like he's working on catching up if given the opportunity

NOT!

"Deja Moo- the feeling you've heard this bull before"

It just makes a good cover for election fraud.

Really, I'm far more scared of our administration than Hamas. I wish more people shared my POV :evilgrin:

Hamas probably wants the same person that 55% of the American people will vote for next November.

If McSame wants to get in the gutter, we can destroy him in a week.

This kind of stuff really gets my pannies in a wad. Even the National Jewish DEMOCRATIC Council is trying to get people to freak out about all of this Hamas stuff (but I think I was unsubscribed after I gave them what-for over an email lambasting Jimmy Carter).

:banghead: I just can't fucking take it anymore!!! :banghead:

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

McInsane what POS he is.

They never stop with the arrogance and the hate. Unbelieveable.

Not a bad idea.

McCain thinks we should decide who to vote for based on what Hamas thinks? He wants to give Hamas the power to decide who our president will be?

Why do Republican presidential candidates always want to give so much power to America's enemies and terrorists? Remember we had to vote for Reagan, because Khomeini supposedly didn't want him elected; we had to vote for Bush, because bin Laden supposedly didn't want him elected. In reality, of course, the opposite was true in both cases, but the Democratic candidates did not exploit that reality or even challenge the Republican assertions.

BS comment. To Bad the MSM won't ask McSame that, I hope that at least one of our candidates will.

I wonder McCain should be able to make that statement without documentary proof.

I think it is good to hear that some peace will be possible for the Israeli-Palestinian issue. If Carter softens up the ground and other leaders in the region are saying peace will be possible in the next election, why shouldn't the peacemakers (maybe not Hamas so much---I'd like to see what kind of governance they've offered the Palestinians) call for the candidate that think will want to bring peace.

there's nothing else going on in our country but I/P.

its also quite clear who the KKK wants as president, and just as relevant.

Have you got that $2,300 check from Osama hidden John?

Why all of a sudden is Hamas the topic of conversation, and not Bin Laden, Afghanistan, or Iraq?

The old misdirection play.

Hamas wants. They don't vote here. I do. What I want is a whole lot more important than what Hamas wants.

Interesting that the only candidate that will even fucking talk with them is a person of color.

And John McCain's sideways comments are nothing but cleverly-disguised racism.

judge accordingly I guess.

Go fuck yourself, John McCain. Did he not know that Hamas just very recently said they would be open to a complete resolution with Israel?

of fascist conservative rule. We wouldn't want our country back if it makes Hamas happy now would we?

Since when does Hamas or any other foreign national governing body set the tone for U.S. elections?

The allegation in and of itself is preposterous.

I would think that preacher McCain sought out that said those bigoted Catholic things would suggest more about the candidate than Hamas.

Jeez, can't this guy be more original??

:evilfrown:

someone they can NEGOTIATE with instead of "bomb, bomb, bomb (fill in the blank)" and yeah, I bet McCain is their worst nightmare...hell, he's the 'worst nightmare' for most of us and the world!

Does that mean that McCain has met with Hamas and discussed this with them????????????

I thought they don't talk to each other.

sarcasm on.

What happened?! I'm so disappointed in Granpa Mcbush. :(

On a different note this whole US vs them is only helping supporters of Hamas to keep funding them. Obama is the president that will begin the action to end this jihad against the western world. If McClinton fear mongering works.... America will be damned. Remember you reap what you sow. This country is not doing good. We gained nothing by going to Iraq. Hamas and Al-Qaeda will only gain more supporters. That's how Bin Laden was able to escape capture.


Obama's multiracial background is the key to uniting and understanding this world. He is the future.

What does his biracial background offer the Middle East peace process?

Don't his policies speak more to how he will behave than his parentage?

His Christan/Muslim background is a great asset into solving turmoil between the Muslims and Christans in the Middle East. Obama is a person that many ppl in multicultural countries will identify with. He will not dismiss ppl because of their religion. Obama unlike other politicians has not put all Muslims in the Islamic extremists bubble.

Fuck off McCain, war monger. McCain, the Senator who DOES NOT WANT PEACE

I am going to have to take a second look at Obama! If Hamas likes him, maybe I can, too!

:hi:

Because they know that right wing ideologues will keep making the same foreign policy mistakes over and over whereas a Democratic Administration will seek to pursue strategies for peace and progress that will erode their base in the region

And BTW which party was trading with Islamic fundamentalists during the 1980s? Give you a clue Senator McCain, it wasn't the Democrats

I don't know if you'd want to start with the 1980s. I think it goes back to the revolution movements in the 1950s and 1960s.

John McCain

Hamas has flourished under the incompetent foreign policy of the Bush administration.
McCain has said he would offer more of the same, so if Hamas had a vote, they'd in all
likelihood vote for McCain. Bush has not hurt them at all, and has increased their recruiting
and membership strength beyond anything they could have reasonably expected under an
administration with a halfway sane foreign policy. Hamas has everything to gain from
more of the same. I'd have to bet that their wish candidate is named John McCain. A
Democratic president is likely to be more open to issues that concern Palestinians. That
would be poison to the Hamas recruiting efforts. Hamas will be rooting for the Republicans.

This is what this is. He is making this implication.

Disgusting.

Obama is having a bad enough time being a Christian in a black church. Add in Muslim. Stir in radial sect. Equal hysterical rumors. My fear is another stolen election.

Because it is obviously not true (and wouldn't mean shit if it were true).

Much like Bush and Cheney IMPLICITLY tied Iraq to 9/11 when it wasn't true, McCain is doing this now. Many Americans aren't particularly informed when it comes to the nuances of who is who in the Middle East. They just know that Obama sounds like "Osama" and 527 groups funded by the RNC, FOX News, and right-wing radio talk show hosts have said he is a Muslim. They also know that Hamas is a Muslim "terrorist" (many people would disagree with that classification) group. The connection is implicit, and it is a way of preying on the ignorance of the American public to get another four years of pro-rich policies by using the terrorism and "national security" (whatever that means) card.

Islam is fastest going religion in this world. I highly doubt the 1.5 billion muslims feel their religion is wrong.

even the "accusation" of being a Muslim is taken as dangerous.

Things are so screwed up that millions of peaceful adherents of a particula faith are tarred in the name of continuing warfare in the middle east, and continuing Republican power back home.

He's not a Muslim. But why should it matter in the least? We can't be fooled into fighting back at only the surface part of this issue - that cedes the bigotry to them as legitimate.

McCain is letting other countries decide our fate. McCain thinks what other countries think about our presidential candidates is more important that what we think.

why do republicans so often trumpet the electoral desires of foreign organisations and terrorists?

more important, why does the media pass along such transparent crap, and why do the masses lap it up?

That's what the headlines should be saying. But no.

The Faux News bobbleheads will nod in sage agreement with mccain that hussein obama has been endorsed by terrists. oh the humanity, pass the smelling salts and get me my fainting couch.

But he'll happily endorse you, John McCain, because you're from the same crap organization which in seven short years has made America the hated laughingstock of the world.

He's a clever fellow, too. He knows that stupid American voters will come out to vote against whomever he tacitly endorses. That's why he backed John Kerry in 2004.

Gee, come to think of it, it's almost as if he's working for the GOP.

The answer is still President Obama.

:shrug:

He has lost his mind...

-Hillarious Clinton

Yep, he's her guy. Two peas in a pod.

previously: McGovern -- bomber pilot, war hero
previously Nixon ran the PX shop; gambled.


you could say he was a little war profiteer.


who got slimed with the 'coward' label? who had to defend himself against "Acid, amnesty and abortion" bullshit ads.

the spirit of Richard Nixon lives today.

and their fondest dream is "4 more years"

..."I think that people should understand that I will be Hamas's worst nightmare…"

Here we go again...another dumb fuck white man has to prove his macho with tough talk. When is this insane shit gonna STOP? Is that all there is to American elections anymore...who can spew the meanest and toughest sounding BULLSHIT? Of course there are a lot of ignorant white folk out there that eat this shit up...we are sooo screwed.

GODDAMN THIS COUNTRY IS FUCKED UP.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/23/hagee-katrina-mccain

On September 18, 2006, Pastor John Hagee — whose endorsement Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said this past Sunday he was "glad to have" — told NPR's Terry Gross that "Hurricane Katrina was, in fact, the judgment of God against the city of New Orleans." "New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God," Hagee said, because "there was to be a homosexual parade there on the Monday that the Katrina came."

:grr: :banghead: :nuke:

But wait! There's more!

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/28/hagee-mccain-endorsement

Demonstrating how wildly out of the American religious and political mainstream Hagee's views are, McCain's acceptance of Hagee's endorsement was condemned today by conservative William Donohue, president of the Catholic League. Calling Hagee a "bigot," Donahue said the right-wing pastor has waged "an unrelenting war against the Catholic Church" by "calling it 'The Great Whore,' an 'apostate church,' the 'anti-Christ,' and a 'false cult system.'"

John McCain. The clear choice of insane fundamentalist bigots on this side of the globe.

God protect us from the likes of McCain!!!

full bore on this in Sept. Maybe they're hedging their bets, and using the broad brush, just in case they don't face the candidate they expected. Roll it out early and splash it around, I guess.

Any insult against any Democrat will resonate after all...

wants YOU in the White House, mr. mcsame? This bush/mccain Iraq war has done wonders for al Qaeda recruitment!

WHY are we not hearing that from EVERYBODY with a D after their name???!?!?!?!?!

WHY the HELL can't our side hit back and hit back hard??????

has a hard time coming up with simple-minded, catchy sound bites that the corporate meedja will pick up and propagate.

I think we should start having "Simple-minded, catchy sound bite" contests for the Dem campaign!

Btw, the McVeigh-McCain thing is growing on me.

as far as I can tell they would prefer McSame! so they all can continue their war party!!

nightmare too.

-"Bwaaaaaah! Bwaaaaaah... Why did it work for you and not for me? WHyyyyyyyyy?"

"Bwaaaaaah! Bwaaaaaah..."

McBu$h:
-"Why did you have to go and screw-up my legacy-peace plan for a Palestine state, johnnie-baby, huh?"

As al Qaeda and Iran are grateful for all the things George Bush has done to make them stronger, so too will they be grateful for the endless opportunities provided by the old dog.

and they prefer ANYONE BUT MCSAME!!

Some other MFing stupid fear-mongering liar...

They have endorsed Barak and yet slammed Carter after his peace talk endorsment of an Egyptian plan on the table
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=979_1208406215

go figger