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gatorboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 11:19 AM
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McCain denies ever saying Iraq is safe even though he said it on television. Live.
Edited on Wed Mar-28-07 11:24 AM by gatorboy
McCain denies his "Straight Talk" on how safe Iraq is even though it was taped for television. Live.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/28/roberts-cnn-mccain-iraq/

Faced With Facts, McCain Denies His Own Straight Talk

Yesterday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) told CNN that that President Bush’s escalation in Iraq is going so well, “General Petraeus goes out there almost every day in an unarmed humvee.” On Monday, he told radio host Bill Bennett that there “are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods, today.”

This morning, during an interview with McCain, CNN’s John Roberts rebutted McCain’s assertions, stating, “I checked with General Petraeus’s people overnight and they said he never goes out in anything less than an up-armored humvee.” He added that a new report by retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey “said no Iraqi government official, coalition soldier, diplomat reporter could walk the streets of Baghdad without heavily armed protection.”

Faced with overwhelming evidence that he was wrong, McCain denied he’d ever said it: “Well, I’m not saying they could go without protection. The President goes around America with protection. So, certainly I didn’t say that.”
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acmavm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 11:23 AM
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1. McCain is becoming known for being the shifty lying crook he
is. Funny, he sure was able to fool a lot of people for a LOOOOONNNNNNGGGGG time.
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AndyA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 11:24 AM
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2. McCain: unfit to be President. He can't even lie well.
Does he think we're stupid enough to not check? Does he think there isn't a record of his statement?

I know * does the same thing, but c'mon, John, how many Turnip trucks do you think we have in America?
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Democrat 4 Ever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 11:26 AM
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4. Either a liar or senile. I'm pretty sure he qualifies in both categories. eom
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AndyA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 11:31 AM
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11. I think you may be right.
I shudder to think about Reagan's last days in office. His Alzheimer's had to have been kicking in well before he left. Add to that Nancy's psychic advisor.

Bush I was just as bad, although I don't think he was losing his mind while in office, but I could be wrong.

Now we have *, and at the very least he's an out of control alcoholic, very likely a drug abuser. Add that to his generally weak personality, brain functions, and intelligence, and it's a recipe for disaster...or basically, what we have now.
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badgerpup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 12:10 PM
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27. Ya gotta admit, Nancy and her astrologer didn't do too badly...
...they pretty much tried to keep things on an even keel.

King Log as opposed to King Stork, if you see what I mean...
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bryant69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 11:25 AM
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3. "So, Certainly I didn't say that?"
Does that work? "Look officer of course I would never speed, so certainly I didn't speed."

I suspect it works better when the whole DC press corps inexplicably kisses your ass 24 hours a day.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 11:33 AM
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12. I think he's lucky this time--we're only giving him a warning
If he keeps up this behavior, we're goiing to have to take his bus and his driver's license away from him.
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The_Casual_Observer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 11:27 AM
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5. McCain has no idea what words are coming out of his mouth.
His brain is fried, he's like a another ronald mcdonald reagan.
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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 11:27 AM
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6. He's a walking joke now.
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CrazyOrangeCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 11:28 AM
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7. He's demented.
Needs to go sit around the Conoco station and play pinochle with the other old fossils.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 11:34 AM
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14. Seriously. Has he been checked for Alzheimer's?
He's been way off lately.
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CrazyOrangeCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 12:09 PM
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26. I think that is what it is.
I've been around old folks when they were in the early stages.

They wake up, and everything that happened yesterday is gone.

Hope to god I die before I get like that.:scared:
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 11:29 AM
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8. McCain is washed up he came to Florida this week and Gov Crist
....did NOT give his endorsement
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Done Donating Member (680 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 11:30 AM
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9. It depends on the definition of the word "say". nt
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HCE SuiGeneris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 11:30 AM
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10. And he wants to be our next
pretzledent... I don't think so :silly:
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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 11:51 AM
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17. This one has lowered the bar so low
maybe a senile old fuck would be better.
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shaniqua6392 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 11:33 AM
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13. Weathervane McCain....
whichever way the wind blows! He should make a trip to Iraq soon and walk the streets of Baghdad. Prove it jackass. I think he is suffering from Alzheimer's Disease the way he keeps forgetting shit.
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DCKit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 11:38 AM
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15. Headline: GOP lawmakers to organize a walking tour of Bahgdad"
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louis-t Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 11:44 AM
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16. Mc Cain has been trying to win the wingnut vote.
Edited on Wed Mar-28-07 11:44 AM by louis-t
He wants * s hardcore crazies to back him. Sorry John, you won't even come close to the 30% that back stupidface.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 11:52 AM
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18. Then we got him in a
"senility trap"! He's gone. Next.
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Hav Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 11:53 AM
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19. .
If it was CNN, why weren't they prepared to show the actual footage of what he said for the case he denies it? After all, he either makes the CNN guy look incompetent or he makes him look like a liar.
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DCKit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 11:56 AM
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21. I saw it, and also Michael Ware rip him a new asshole
while a gunfight went on a few blocks behind him.
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kittenpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 12:22 PM
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29. Michael Ware smacked him down. "I don't know what 'Neverland' the senator is living in..."
snap
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 11:54 AM
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20. god, I am stunned at CNN for even bothering to factcheck or follow up
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EVDebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 12:00 PM
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22. McCain also said we'd be in Iraq '10, 20 yrs, that's not so bad'
Edited on Wed Mar-28-07 12:04 PM by EVDebs
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10A16F738550C708CDDA00894DC404482

and here

http://www.spectrumz.com/z/fair_use/2004/09_04.html

""Sen John McCain expects United States military to remain in Iraq for 'probably' 10 or 20 years, that's not so bad...""
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bklyncowgirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 12:02 PM
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23. Poor John, having a senior moment maybe?
The sad demise of a once promising Republican politician.
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 12:03 PM
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24. I think he is exhibiting the early signs of Alzheimers n/t
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here_is_to_hope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 12:03 PM
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25. He is rather
pathetic these days.
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Laurab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 12:17 PM
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28. I hope Jon Stewart catches this one
for anyone who thinks McCain is still a "maverick". The Daily Show can just about write itself these days....
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Tarheel_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 12:24 PM
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30. Agreed...and I hope Bill Maher caught this one too......
n/t
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Jacobin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 12:24 PM
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31. Heheh. CNN replaying the whole thing now
He is toast
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Blackhatjack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 12:39 PM
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32. Boy you can see the future attack political ads coming on this one...
Two sound bites contradicting one another, each with the date and time they were made(to show how closely in proximity he made two conflicting statements).

He is serving himself up on a silver platter to his political opponents. It is just too easy for his opponents' political strategists.
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 12:43 PM
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33. Pathetic. Just pathetic.
Edited on Wed Mar-28-07 12:45 PM by Hissyspit
In a special 9/11 first anniversary issue of Time Magazine, McCain called for and justified with 9/11 the invasion of Iraq.

He had no right to refuse to deal truthfully with the debacle he is partially responsible for creating.

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Poiuyt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 01:11 PM
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34. How many times has McCain said something, only to have an aide walk up and whisper something
in his ear. McCain then quickly says, "I didn't mean what I just said." I know he did that on one of those Chris Matthews college tours regarding gay marriage, and I'm know he has done it other times as well.
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The Count Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 01:33 PM
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35. Sam Seder was right: he is lost...has been for some time, but MSM covered for him
For some reason, they stopped. Wasn't McCain the one who snubbed C-Pac? It must be why we suddenly get the truth on him.
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 02:32 PM
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36. It's like he's reading from a manual on how to tank a campaign.
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GOTV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 02:33 PM
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37. We can see how low the bar has been set after Bush n/t
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 02:36 PM
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38. CNN's Michael Ware said this a.m. that NO American could walk the streets of Baghdad.
He should know. McCain has gone from being a soldier to being another pathetic, desperate, aging politician. No Soul.
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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 02:50 PM
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39. They repeated his denial
again on CNN Int about half an hour ago. What a wanker.
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