Comments on: Brooks: ‘No One’s Going To Care’ About McCain’s Troop Levels Gaffe

By: hellinabucket

hellinabucket — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:23:13 +0000

Wrong Sir, wrong. When a person is trying to make a case and the math he is using isn’t correct then his entire case can/will fall to the ground. To say anything other is to ignore the initial question.

Don’t belittle yourself any further Mr. Brookes. It’s fine to be a partisan hack but you will be exposed as a partisan hack for trying to piss on America’s head and tell us it’s raining. Did you get math lessons from Mr. Rove?

By: The Shadow

The Shadow — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:34:33 +0000

Maybe David Brookes doesn’t care, but these repeated mistakes prove two things. One John McCain is too old and his memory just “Aint what it use to be”. Sorry David, but you logic just doesn’t add up. Does this moron actually think the Democrat don’t have this on tape ready for play over, and over again once McCain starts with his Rev. Wright crap? As for Hillary: “You are a sore loser, shut up and get on the band wagon while there is still time”, and “No you shouldn’t be a VP choice”

By: upside99

upside99 — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:21:30 +0000

And no one will remember this NeoCon Zionist AssKlown after the November elections. He is so irrelevant.

By: skeletonman

skeletonman — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:09:39 +0000

As usual, a neoconista has it wrong.

No one is going to give a rat’s ass about Obama’s 57 States slip of the tongue or his misstatement regarding which Nazi camp his great uncle helped to liberate.

A pretender to the throne of commander in chief that can’t even get something as simple as troop levels right the first time and has to have his sychophants make up some sh1t about what he meant to say?

Yeah, people will remember that.

By: alexlerman

alexlerman — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:54:06 +0000

Remember, Brooks declared a few months ago that we are now politically “Postwar“, i.e. the war is itself irrelevant.

I guess he figures if he says this kind of stuff enough, other people will say it too.

By: kassandrasduplex

kassandrasduplex — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:38:23 +0000

But will the corporate MSM harp about this through election day or follow Brooks advice and drop it? The media seem all too eager to whip up gay marriage as an election year issue AGAIN…
The American republic is gone.

By: Rowan Berkeley

Rowan Berkeley — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:36:50 +0000

Brooks adroitly brings the issue back to the personal trust of the voters in Obama, which is obviously a reference to the Pfleger videos, each of which is more incendiary than the one before. I think it will be necessary to establish the possibility at least that Pfleger is a provocateur, planted at some earlier point in order to be exploited at this one.

By: DallasNE

DallasNE — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:25:58 +0000

What is Brooks claiming that McCain has been right about regarding Iraq. Was he right about authorizing Bush to go to war with Iraq? I don’t think so. In fact, McCain has been consistently wrong about Iraq. Obviously, Brooks is only talking about the “surge”. But how right has he really been on that account? What about the 18 benchmarks. Has the surge bought the time for political reconciliation or has that time been squandared. Even al Sistani is now saying it is o.k. to shoot the occupiers. Iraq is looking to buy sophicated weapons from none other than France. Why doesn’t Iraq use the oil money instead to repair the massive damage caused by war. What Maliki wants is to do is to buy weapons from France to crush internal political opposition. Some success that is. What are McCain’s views on that latest development.

By: dan_allnews

dan_allnews — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:58:38 +0000

Wayne A. Schneider – The “pretty strong case” doesn’t seem to be cutting it, even by McCain’s reasoning — as McCain cited the return to pre-”surge” troop levels as one of the top pieces of evidence in support of his claim. When called on it, he doesn’t deny he got his numbers wrong, but I haven’t seen where he’s reassessed the United States’ “success” in Iraq in light of his new understanding of the correct figure.

Is a return to pre-”surge” troop levels a prime metric of U.S. success in Iraq, or isn’t it, Mr. McCain?

Keith – I agree: no gaffe. I vote for trying to fool us; it was the same with his “gaffe” of bundling all the bad guys in Iraq in with al Qaida

By: dottoreholliday

dottoreholliday — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:49:04 +0000

“I must admit it’s getting better . . .”

Suicide Bomber Kills At Least Ten West of Baghdad
Saturday 31 May 2008
by: Kim Gamel, The Associated Press
A suicide bomber killed at least 10 people Saturday, hitting a police checkpoint outside Baghdad.(Photo: AFP)

Baghdad – A suicide bomber blew himself up at a police checkpoint west of Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least 10 people including the local police chief, an official said. . . .

This used to happend daily if nopt twice daily before the surge!!!!!?

By: republicanSScareme

republicanSScareme — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:48:17 +0000

Is David Brooks aware of the fact that most people consider him a Zionist stooge?

Just crious.

By: RUCerious

RUCerious — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:17:06 +0000

Maple, Sadr city is in the process of being invaded by Iraqi troops and Muqtada has told his folks to cool it. That’s a far cry from being at peace…
McIIIrd hasn’t got clue one how powerful the young cleric is.
Probably thinks he’s a Sunni.

By: RUCerious

RUCerious — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:15:40 +0000

pete, I’ve noticed we’re often on the same wavelength…{:>}

By: MapleStreet

MapleStreet — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:55:08 +0000

I would be a lot more forgiving if McCain had made a simple mis-statement of the troop levels, potentially associated with just being plain bad phrasing.

But in the next sentence, he said that Sadr city and Basra were at peace. This is a rather big mis-statement.

Of course, a few years back he talked about how peaceful the market was.

By: j swift

j swift — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:51:59 +0000

Blackberry politics? How bout boot-licker politics, Brooks has that down pat and there is no need for facts.

By: Ditch Mitch KY

Ditch Mitch KY — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:51:04 +0000

Oh yeah, Brooks. We don’t care if Bush lied to start the War and we don’t care that it is now a never-ending fiasco.

Heckuva Job, Davie. Thanks for your insights on This Week.

By: pete

pete — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:26:10 +0000

Wow RU. Great minds… I was just about to post that same link. Funny how everyone was watching the Scotty show while that was going down. No?

By: RUCerious

RUCerious — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:59:52 +0000

Yeah, it’s going so much better…

Saturday, May 31, 2008
Thousands of Sadrists Protest Security Pact With US;
Sistani Aide Demands Parliament Vote
like THIS
Thousands of followers of Shiite leader Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr peacefully protested across southern Iraq on Friday, according to McClatchy. They prayed and then stood silently in solidarity against the security agreement being negotiated by PM Nuri al-Maliki with George W. Bush.

By: Evergreen2U

Evergreen2U — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:31:38 +0000

I doubt if people want another ignorant president so I do think that gaffes (particularly in the area of one’s supposed expertise) may be deal breakers.

By: rmwarnick

rmwarnick — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:02:39 +0000

It’s Stephen Colbert’s world, we just live in it. Truthy statements beat facty every time. Those fact-checkers in the fact-o-sphere will just have to deal.