Obama’s Pakistan position endorsed by Bush in ‘06.
By on Feb 20th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Obama’s Pakistan position endorsed by Bush in ‘06.
In a segment today about Sen. John McCain’s misleading attacks on Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) willigness to act against al Qaeda in Pakistan, CNN notes that President Bush took the same position as Obama in a 2006 interview with Wolf Blitzer. “Absolutely,” said Bush when asked if he “would give the order” to “kill or capture” al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan, even if the Pakistani government objected. Watch it:
[flv http://video.thinkprogress.org/2008/02/BushPakistan.320.240.flv]
CNN doesn’t note, however, that in a Feb. 10 interview with Fox News Sunday, Bush contradicted his ‘06 comments by making the same misleading attack on Obama. “[H]e’s going to attack Pakistan,” Bush said of Obama.
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*…willingness…
=)
February 20th, 2008 at 6:29 pmThat’s different!!
/sarc off
February 20th, 2008 at 6:30 pmYa gotta love that banner line at the bottom, McCain Attacking Obama? Confused? Inexperienced? McCain can’t keep his story from meandering whilst pandering to the audience of the hour!
February 20th, 2008 at 6:34 pmAnd if by experience, he means having one’s head squarely up AIPAC’s ass, well, John’s got Obama there.
Chyron! that’s the ‘banner thingy’ I was referring to in previous post. I just love that word, sounds like a mythical greek figure!
February 20th, 2008 at 6:35 pmTypical Bush.
February 20th, 2008 at 6:38 pmContradicting himself, and not being challenged by the friendly interviewer.
I am being kind in asserting that he contradicts himself — we all know he is a liar, a pathological liar, a compulsive liar, an incorrigible liar.
oh, and did I say he is a liar?
McCain lacks the otherside of the coin when it comes to experience, knowledge. If he can’t get some simple fact straight about statements made by one of his opponents what does that say about an international opponent?
February 20th, 2008 at 6:39 pmTypical Bush.
Contradicting himself, and not being challenged by the friendly interviewer.
I am being kind in asserting that he contradicts himself — we all know he is a liar, a pathological liar, a compulsive liar, an incorrigible liar.
oh, and did I say he is a liar?
Comment by Marie
…but – how can we tell when he’s lying?
February 20th, 2008 at 6:44 pmI hope McChange doesn’t win the nomination. He is a canker sore to the GOP.
Comment by Daryll — February 20, 2008 @ 6:43 pm
Daryll, he’s almost there and no one else has enough delegates to challenge him. You promised us that Huckabee was going to win! You said God guaranteed it!
February 20th, 2008 at 6:45 pm6 – Just for fun….just for you:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chiron may mean:
Mythology
Chiron the centaur, a Greek mythological character. ;o)
February 20th, 2008 at 6:46 pmI hope McChange doesn’t win the nomination. He is a canker sore to the GOP.
Comment by Daryll — February 20, 2008 @ 6:43 pm
So will God strike him down at the convention, so Huckster wins the nomination? Excuse me, President Elect Huckster?
February 20th, 2008 at 6:46 pmOh, pooooooooor widdle Darryll!!!
McPain IS going to be the GOP nom. Poor you.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
February 20th, 2008 at 6:46 pmSure does RUC.
February 20th, 2008 at 6:47 pm[Greek God Chiron]
#6: Chyron! that’s the ‘banner thingy’ I was referring to in previous post.
– - And as someone who works in the video post bidness, I can tell you that’s a HyperX2 Chyron.
February 20th, 2008 at 6:48 pmI hope McChange doesn’t win the nomination. He is a canker sore to the GOP. Comment by Daryll
So he should be smited?
February 20th, 2008 at 6:49 pmThanks Annie! I knew it was something close like that!
February 20th, 2008 at 6:49 pmYour da best!
I hope McChange doesn’t win the nomination. He is a canker sore to the GOP.
Comment by Daryll
February 20th, 2008 at 6:51 pmDaryll, “my friend”, McCain can’t even spell change. He is nothing more than the monkey on the leash of the GOP organ grinder. He is cannon fodder for this election cycle. The GOP spelled that out when they asked Romney to step away so he can run and perhaps win in 2012.
Gayrll thought the back of his cornflakes box was God talking to him. The addle minded will believe anything that they want to believe, never questioning anything, that is how man made up Gods to begin with.
Phuckabee is out of it.
Buck Fush
February 20th, 2008 at 6:51 pmIs Daryll ready to come out of the closet and reveal his passionate admiration for the Huckster?
February 20th, 2008 at 6:51 pmI hope McChange doesn’t win the nomination. He is a canker sore to the GOP.
Comment by Daryll — February 20, 2008 @ 6:43 pm
####
Honest question, would really like an honest answer. If McCain wins the nomination, regardless of who wins the dem side, what will you do on election day? I hear a LOT of republicans trashing McCain all the time, but in the end, I honestly believe they will still vote for him.
February 20th, 2008 at 6:51 pmwait a sec – that means McMaverick is even worse at being Bush than Bush is!!!
February 20th, 2008 at 6:54 pmSo he should be smited?
Comment by Xisithrus — February 20, 2008 @ 6:49 pm
Yes because Daryll is smitten by Huckleberry.
February 20th, 2008 at 6:55 pmThe republican machine is beginning to gear up the lie factory. They have nothing left, since that’s all they have done for eight years.
February 20th, 2008 at 7:01 pmThe next thing they’ll come out with is that Obama fathered a black love child. Oh, wait…
Now, just hold on a minute Daryll, you thinks politics and politicians are moral and can create morals?
February 20th, 2008 at 7:01 pmThe First Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Inc.
from the link to daryll’s name……..doesn’t look like a non profit does it….
I’ve never seen a church, inc. before that I can remember.
it’s in the scrolling banner on the right.
February 20th, 2008 at 7:05 pmBrother Daryll. I remind you of our mutual promise, if Huckster wins the Presidency, I promised to donate $10,000 to your church of I Got Mine, You Get Yours, Inc., but if he doesn’t you have to donate $1,000 to my church, The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in San Francisco.
Better start the bake sales buddy, God has kicked Huck in the teeth. Silly shit works in mysterious ways doesn’t He?
February 20th, 2008 at 7:18 pmFred, his ‘church’ is the holy rollers from hell. Pastor Jennings has a patent on God, and will sell you some, if you join.
February 20th, 2008 at 7:19 pmComment by RUCerious
I have no doubt they are wierdo’s……we used to sneak into the back of the holly rollers from hell in our area when we were kids………it was a freak show.
it’s the .inc part that threw me…….I’ve never seen that before and it must be because it’s not a religion at all……it must be for profit and a business, eh?
February 20th, 2008 at 7:27 pmhope McChange doesn’t win the nomination. He is a canker sore to the GOP.
Comment by Daryll
I didn’t know festering boils could have canker sores.
February 20th, 2008 at 7:33 pmthey have their own bible verses that are not in any of the king james versions.
As Jer 3:15 ..”And I will give you pastors according to mine heart which shall teach you knowledge and understanding.” In this we give God all credit and praise to God for sending us a true minister of God-Pastor Gino Jennings. Hear Ye Him!
never read a scripture that called a pastor by name before……must be the speaking in tongues thing…
February 20th, 2008 at 7:35 pmChyron will not be pleased.
February 20th, 2008 at 7:36 pmI hope McChange doesn’t win the nomination. He is a canker sore to the GOP.
Comment by Daryll — February 20, 2008 @ 6:43 pm
the GOP is a canker sore. MsStain is just the visible part. he represents the weakness and immorality of the conservative fascist GOP perfectly. Nobody is a better representative of a morally and ethically bankrupt right wing than McCain.
February 20th, 2008 at 7:44 pmI want to seek Huckabee the top military chaplain in Iraq.
Chaplain Huckster!!!!!!!
February 20th, 2008 at 7:46 pmFred, when I was at UCSB, I took several ethnomusicology classes, and for one assignment, I recorded my Boss’s wife’s holy roller service. It was great music, but the rolling on the floor and speaking in tongues was pretty unnerving. Great Boogie beat, though!
February 20th, 2008 at 7:49 pmnever read a scripture that called a pastor by name before……must be the speaking in tongues thing…
Comment by Fred — February 20, 2008 @ 7:35 pm
Exactly! Forked tongues.
February 20th, 2008 at 7:50 pmmmm – obama wants to go after a terrorist group that have a safe haven in a country ruled by the police and happens to have nuclear weapons – sounds logical to me – whereas mccain wants to continue to put his “my friends” in harms way to drill for oil in a failed state – obama will steamroll the backtrack express in the general election – i can’t wait!!!
February 20th, 2008 at 7:51 pmI hope McChange doesn’t win the nomination. He is a canker sore to the GOP.
Comment by Daryll — February 20, 2008 @ 6:43 pm
Hope?!? You HOPE he doesn’t win the nomination???
Why so worried, Daryll? Didn’t God already elect Huckabee?
You’re not losing your faith, are you?
February 20th, 2008 at 7:55 pm“HA, HA!”
February 20th, 2008 at 8:18 pmI saw a snippet of McCain’s criticism. It seemed to me that he was criticizing Obama’s ANNOUNCING his intentions…not the intentions themselves( ie. bombing a soverieign country ..Pakistan.. to get a terrorist without securing that country’s OK)
The US did take out a terrorist with a drone spyplane in Pakistan without permission.
Bush did ANNOUNCE such a scenario on CNN.
So either way, Obama has his position endorsed by reality.
February 20th, 2008 at 8:20 pmI hope McChange doesn’t win the nomination. He is a canker sore to the GOP.
Comment by Daryll
Poor Daryll and it’s ilk. They think that there is a possibility that McCain won’t be the nominee. The only way that is going to happen is if he dies. What are they going to do? I hope that all their heads explode at the same time. That would be a sight to see.
February 20th, 2008 at 8:38 pmI really want to see these people put into handcuffs by the Sargent at Arms and frog marched down into the jail in the cellar.
Comment by bilbobaggins — February 20, 2008 @ 6:30 pm
I would die a happy Republic… **sniff…**
February 20th, 2008 at 9:44 pmConsidering all the contradictory statements by McCain that are in the public domain (not to mention YouTube and other video services), it seems like they’re following the neocon creed of attacking your enemy at YOUR weak point.
February 21st, 2008 at 11:35 am