McCain adviser re-writes history of McCain’s ‘impossible’ and ‘dumb’ plan to kick Russia out of the G8.
McCain adviser re-writes history of McCain’s ‘impossible’ and ‘dumb’ plan to kick Russia out of the G8.
In October 2007, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) wrote about the G8 in Foreign Affairs, saying “it should include Brazil and India but exclude Russia.” Now, an anonymous “McCain adviser” tells Reuters that McCain’s October 2007 comment “doesn’t reflect where he is right now” and is just “a holdover from an earlier period.” But that “earlier period” apparently includes March 2008, since McCain made the same argument then in a major speech on foreign policy:
We should start by ensuring that the G-8, the group of eight highly industrialized states, becomes again a club of leading market democracies: it should include Brazil and India but exclude Russia.
After McCain argued for kicking Russia out of the G8 in March, foreign policy experts panned the idea, with one “senior U.S. official” calling it “impossible” and “just a dumb thing.”
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McCain is not a flip-flopper. He’s just got verrrrrrry slow synapses.
June 25th, 2008 at 2:45 pmNow, an anonymous “McCain adviser” tells Reuters that McCain’s October 2007 comment “doesn’t reflect where he is right now” and is just “a holdover from an earlier period.”
That’s the Maverick™ we’ve come to expect!
June 25th, 2008 at 2:45 pmOhh, I see, democrats flip-flop, republicans have holdovers from earlier peroids. That makes sense.
June 25th, 2008 at 2:50 pmAnd this is the stupid old fool the trolls and the GOP claim is a “foreign diplomacy expert” ?
I wouldn’t trust him on a diplomatic mission to Euro-Disney , let alone something substantial……….
June 25th, 2008 at 2:50 pmAha — so McCain can’t be expected to maintain any position for any length of time. And on those occasions when he does, it’s just “a holdover from an earlier period”???
Johnnie — for heaven’s sake, for the sake of your own dignity, for the sake of your party, PLEASE say or do something that will convince us that you aren’t just a flag in the wind, waving at the biggest and loudest special interest du jour.
June 25th, 2008 at 2:50 pmMcDepends, read the directions on that K-iagra bottle carefully, OK?
“For any position or idea that lasts longer than 4 hours, please see your nearest K Street Lobbyist for immediate treatment.
June 25th, 2008 at 2:54 pmMcIIIrd, desperately trying to come up with something, anything that sounds presidential. And failing miserably.
He’s grasping at policy straws of absurdity, hoping to throw a dart and have it miraculously hit the bull’s eye.
June 25th, 2008 at 3:01 pmBut depending on which synapse fires tomorrow morning he may be there again later this week. This guy is rapidly devolving into the Tourette’s candidate, involuntarily blurting out the first thing that comes into his head. It would be sort of funny but for the fact that he is one of the two humans with any realistic chance of being the next POTUS. That removes the humor element an replaces it with a sudden chill.
June 25th, 2008 at 3:04 pmHow is it that Grampy McCain was a prisoner for five years, but is about 45 years behind the times…?
June 25th, 2008 at 3:11 pmWhy would an advisor need to be anonymous? That doesn’t make any sen… Never mind.
June 25th, 2008 at 3:16 pmWe need to line up all the dumb things that one candidate says
(exclude Russia) and all the dumb things the other candidate
says (57 States) in a big list. The only trouble is that
there isn’t anybody who’s trusted by both sides, by all the people, to be fair about it.
Then comes the hard part, lining up two lists of the smart
June 25th, 2008 at 3:18 pmthings that each candidate says. Although it might be a
shorter pair of lists…
Grampy McSame says – My friends back in the day we wouldn’t let any of those Russian fellas in our club house, no-sir-ree, they were commies and all they had were shoes and vodka, and those shoes were all size 8’s, who wears a size 8, not me, I wear a 9, so I don’t think they should be allowed to be in our club, no way, so because I am an American, I say we kick them out, yes, because us Americans are always right, see how well Iraq is turning out, it will be one big disneyland anytime now, I like disneyland, all fantasy and fun, I really like mini-mouse, real sexy that one, if mini-mouse was rich I’d marry her, yes sir I would….I think I sat in some smelly cheese.
Yeah, you da expert alright grampy, now go tell some kids to get off your lawn.
June 25th, 2008 at 3:22 pmMcCheeks talks out of both sets of cheeks, eh?
He calls it talking, I call it blowing out of your ass.
June 25th, 2008 at 3:40 pmMcCain’s October 2007 comment “doesn’t reflect where he is right now” and is just “a holdover from an earlier period.”
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What???? ANOTHER flip-flop????
*thud*
June 25th, 2008 at 4:00 pmRick Y Says:
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Then comes the hard part, lining up two lists of the smart
things that each candidate says. Although it might be a
shorter pair of lists…
June 25th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Sure would ; especially on the GOP side.
Empty/blank is about as short a list as one can have……….
June 25th, 2008 at 5:33 pmI think I get it. The holdover from an earlier period refers to the period when McCain was running hard for the Republican nomination. Now that he has the nomination secured it is a new period. McCain has had a lot of that double-speak since securing the nomination. He has also had a lot of the mis-speak since securing the nomination. It is hard to know which is which.
June 26th, 2008 at 12:13 am