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FVZA_Colonel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 05:56 PM
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Did McCain seriously just say this?
Edited on Thu Oct-09-08 05:58 PM by FVZA_Colonel
I'm about to go to class right now, and on the West Coast, but apparently on ABC World News McCain told Charles Gibson that Obama's career was started "by two washed-up old terrorists who are unrepentant about wanting to destroy America."

Anyone who's seen the broadcast already: did he really say this?
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 05:57 PM
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1. I think the thing that is eating his brain has finished its meal...there is nothing left.
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liberalmuse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 05:59 PM
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3. LOL. That's a new one!
And beautifully put!
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crossroads Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:00 PM
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5. LOL good one! nt
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The Magistrate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:01 PM
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6. Excellent Line, Ma'am
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rvablue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:17 PM
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13. That's so funny! n/t
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L0oniX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:41 PM
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21. ...
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woo me with science Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:51 PM
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24. Oh my god.....LOLOLOLOLOL nt
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 05:57 PM
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2. MCain should be an authority on washed-up
Describes him to a "T"
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DefenseLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 05:59 PM
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4. Bob Dole just fell off the stage.
Which is worse John, losing the election or losing your dignity? Doesn't matter which is worse because you have lost both.
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Gato Moteado Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:01 PM
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7. if he said that, i guarantee he is about to meet a shitstorm....
obama will light up that rancid old corpse.
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PetrusMonsFormicarum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:02 PM
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8. So what!
McSame's career was launched by a couple of washed-up North Vietnamese soldiers who were unrepentant about wanting to destroy America.
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OneGrassRoot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:02 PM
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9. I thought I heard that! Yep, I heard "two washed up old terrorists" as well. n/t
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:15 PM
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12. Ayers has a twin of the same name now? "Two"??
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OneGrassRoot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:18 PM
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14. Yeah, it was weird...we'll need to watch the clip when it's ready...
but McCain was being dismissive as Charlie was questioning him about harping on this. Although obviously I'm biased, I interpreted it as a clumsy way of lumping Obama in with Ayres with the "terrorist" label.
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nsd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:20 PM
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15. He probably meant Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. It's still a wacko thing to say. /nt
Edited on Thu Oct-09-08 06:21 PM by nsd
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:21 PM
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16. He means Bernadine Dohrn
Ayers's lifemate and part of the Weather Underground.
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:34 PM
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17. So was SHE on the board of that organization, too? Or does McLiar
just make shit up as he goes along?

Oh, nevermind.
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nsd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:37 PM
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18. Ayers and Dohrn are married.
The coffee or cocktail party or whatever Ayers hosted for Obama before his first State Senate run was at his house, which is presumably also Dohrn's.
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:39 PM
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20. Well, until somebody can tell me what they were tried for and convicted of,
I don't give a damn. It's water long since under the bridge.
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FVZA_Colonel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:48 PM
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23. Wasn't it hosted for the outgoing person, and at it
she brought Obama up and said she was supporting him to follow her?
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nsd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 07:00 PM
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28. You might be right.
I'm not sure. In any case, I agree that it was a pretty trivial interaction. To say that it started Obama's career is absurd.
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:55 PM
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26. In 1995
Alice Palmer wanted to introduce Barack Obama to local Chicago Liberals. That "meet and greet" was held in Ayer's and Dohrn's living room.
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The Blue Flower Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:04 PM
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10. Once again: how will he face his colleagues in the Senate after this?
nt
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AllentownJake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:05 PM
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11. He won't
He never has. He's always been a bully according to the people in his own party.
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Virginia Dare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:56 PM
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27. I know he is quickly becoming a pariah for both parties...n/t
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jberryhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 07:39 PM
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30. He's taking "How To Be Shunned" lessons from LIEberman /nt
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KewlKat Donating Member (867 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:38 PM
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19. Transcript...video stops short of this statement and
Edited on Thu Oct-09-08 06:40 PM by KewlKat
the next video mysteriously doesn't work..........

GIBSON: You don't think he's been thoroughly vetted, having gone through all the primaries and all the campaigning, running for president as long as you have? Two years?

MCCAIN: No, actually I don't. In fact, Sen. Clinton in their debates said that the American people didn't know enough about him, including his relationship with Mr. Ayers. That's what she said. And I agree with that. He said he was a guy in the neighborhood. We know that's not true. He said -- he wrote down a piece of paper that he would take public financing for his presidential campaign if I would. He betrayed the trust of the American people there.

He looked in the camera twice during the debate with Sen. Clinton and said, "I will sit down and negotiate with John McCain before I decide to forgo public financing for my campaign." He never called me. He looked in the camera and told the American people something that was patently false. He told the American people about his relationship with Mr. Ayers, that he was a guy in the neighborhood.

He wasn't a guy in the neighborhood. He launched his political career in his living room, in Mr. Ayers' living room. And I don't care about two washed-up old terrorists that are unrepentant about trying to destroy America. But I do care, and Americans should care, about his relationship with him and whether he's being truthful and candid about it.

ENTIRE TRANSCRIPT HERE: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/Story?id=5993781&page=1
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:42 PM
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22. And Sarah Palin made a chirpy "keep up the good work" video
for the AIP, an organization founded by a person unrepentant in his hatred for America.
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Greyskye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 06:54 PM
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25. He said something very similar on this video:

http://www.clipser.com/watch_video/821266

Think it was somewhere between 10-13 minutes in.

Don't eat before watching - it's a McCain/Failin campaign rally with the angry mob in full force. :puke:
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Hansel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 07:28 PM
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29. It's like watching a remake of "The American President"
Senator Bob Rumson, take a bow.
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vaberella Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 11:12 PM
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31. Yes he did. He reiterated this on Hannity's show. n/t
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