Letterman presses McCain on his plan to ‘get’ Osama Bin Laden.
Letterman presses McCain on his plan to ‘get’ Osama Bin Laden.
During the second presidential debate last week in Nashville, TN, McCain declared, “I know how to get” Osama bin Laden and promised that as President he would “get” him “no matter what.” Last night, David Letterman tried to follow up to get the specifics of McCain’s plan:
LETTERMAN: You feel confidently that you have maybe the advantage of greater information than the current president?
MCCAIN: No.
LETTERMAN: But you have an idea–
MCCAIN: I think I know, because of my many years being involved in these issues, how to develop a plan. One of the areas, of course, is human intelligence, which we’re very badly lacking. And so I am confident that we can get him.
Watch the two clips together:
Debate moderator Tom Brokaw didn’t follow up with McCain for details. Letterman — a comedian — is the first to press McCain on his claims.
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but mccain, you said obl wasnt such a bad guy…
how quickly we forget. must be another “senior” moment.
October 17th, 2008 at 1:44 pmAnd the comedians keep on asking tougher questions than the “real” reporters. Kafka would be proud.
October 17th, 2008 at 1:44 pmDave – you better quit pointing out how Grampy doesn’t make any sense.
You’re going to piss the old coot off.
October 17th, 2008 at 1:45 pmSo the guy who thinks Iraq and Afghanistan share a border says he is best suited to find bin Laden. I agree with McCain however that he is “badly lacking” in “human intelligence”.
October 17th, 2008 at 1:46 pmBrokaw has been rather unflattering. By any chance is Williams a better moderator?
October 17th, 2008 at 1:51 pmMCCAIN: One of the areas, of course, is human intelligence, which we’re very badly lacking.
You and your running mate certainly are proof positive of that …………….
October 17th, 2008 at 1:52 pmMcCain has an advantage over Bush as far as getting bin Laden. Not only can Sarah Palin see Russia from her house, she is also neighbors with Afghanistan.
Palin Calls Afghanistan “Our Neighboring Country”
October 17th, 2008 at 1:52 pmSpeaking of comedians. Here’s John Cleese’s take on Bible Spice.
http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/57587-john-cleese-michael-palin-no-longer-the-funniest-palin-on-earth
October 17th, 2008 at 1:56 pmMcDepends is lying right now on MSNBC ; with his pill popping wife nodding like a drunken monkey (as usual) , and Joe LIEberman standing on the other side of him.
What a pathetic sight ; it looks like a preview for a new cartoon ………….
October 17th, 2008 at 1:58 pmIt’s easy Dave:
1 – empanel a “blue ribbon commission” – wait a year for their report.
2 – remove the blue ribbon from the panel, and from it fashion a lasso, just like roy rogers
3 – sneak into the mountains of pakistan aboard a remote-controlled spy plane, swoop in close, and apprehend obl using the lasso
4 – fly into the green zone with obl dangling from the plane, thus punctuating “the surge” with “victory”
October 17th, 2008 at 1:58 pmMcNumbNuts has jumped the shark so many time that we’re are going to have to come up with another phrase to describe the antics we are going to see in the coming two and a half weeks.
Any suggestions?
I think he might just be planning to “Palinize” the truth. Or maybe he’s going to “McCain” it.
All I know for sure is that he’s going to try to “Cheney” us.
October 17th, 2008 at 1:59 pmThen put together a plan to go get him, McDingleberry — you’ll be a hero!
October 17th, 2008 at 1:59 pmIt’s sad and very scary that we here feel the need to explain to ourselves and each other why
“I think I know, because of my many years being involved in these issues, how to develop a plan. One of the areas, of course, is human intelligence, which we’re very badly lacking. And so I am confident that we can get him”
not only doesn’t make any sense in itself but makes no sense relative to McCain’s previous assertions.
Every time he or any other Republican speaks these days we all have to re-iterate and re-justify what we assume to be reality based on long-accepted proofs due to a challenge based entirely upon unthinking attention to idea apparently validated only by the attention that idea is given.
Umm,,, wowm it occurs to me that the above totally sucks–and rather illustrated how polluted the intellectual moonscape has become.
October 17th, 2008 at 2:03 pmOkay, McCain creeps me out. That thing he does with his tongue and the sound that he makes doing it creeps me it. It wasn’t as bad here as it was in the debate since his rapid blinking added to the creepiness but, it still creeps me out nontheless.
October 17th, 2008 at 2:03 pmcreeps me out sorry.
October 17th, 2008 at 2:03 pmMaybe McCain plans to crash an A-4 Skyhawk into bin Laden’s cave.
October 17th, 2008 at 2:04 pmIf Flippy McSpin “knows how” to do all this stuff, why hasn’t he done any of it? If he really puts “country first” shouldn’t he act now instead of waiting for the election? One would think that actually accomplishing something would help his chances.
October 17th, 2008 at 2:04 pmMcDepends believes the cell phone towers Verizon installed for him personally are going to give him the ‘inside track’ on locating Bin Laden ; never mind the fact that Bin Laden uses a pre-paid cell phone that’s impossible to trace.
Maybe he believes his bloodhound looking friend LIEberman can just sniff him out …………
October 17th, 2008 at 2:06 pmHuman intelligence. Brilliant! And of course, by picking the most beligerent of the two presidential candidates, we’re sure to get the Muslim world talking and helping us out with that.
Of course, if these guys really were our friends and allies in the War on Terror, we’d have all the human intelligence we need:
http://www.asecondlookatthesaudis.com
Unfortunately, they’re not. And McDumbnut’s “many years of experience in this area” have not helped him figure out his @ss from a hole in the ground on this point.
October 17th, 2008 at 2:14 pmMCCAIN: I think I know, because of my many years being involved in these issues, how to develop a plan
to cheat on his wife, thereby pissing him off and drawing him out into the open!
October 17th, 2008 at 2:20 pmJebus. When the freaking comedians ask tougher questions than the GD press!!
What a country. :o/
October 17th, 2008 at 2:20 pmUsama Bin Laden, who is not wanted by the FBI for the attacks (events) of September 11, was known as Tim Osman while he in the United States working with the CIA. Zibby Brezenski founded Al Kida to menace the Russians after they invaded Afghanistan and wrecked their own economy (glad we didn’t do that!).
I think Chris Rock said it best, “Al Kida, I ain’t afraid of no Al Kida, I’m afraid of Al Cracker!”
October 17th, 2008 at 2:21 pmJason Bermas’ Fabled Enemies on the intelligence apparatus and its involvement in 9/11.
October 17th, 2008 at 2:25 pmpete:
Thanks for the link to the Cleese interview. Very funny.
October 17th, 2008 at 2:49 pmYou’re welcome Frosty. You know, comedians and satirists have often been ahead of the press. Their craft takes a great deal of insight and intelligence and, since the time of court jesters, they have a certain license to speak truth to power. They often do more to shape a society than the so-called leaders.
As an example, how many people remember who the Presidents were during Mark Twain’s life?
October 17th, 2008 at 3:01 pm“I know how to develop a plan”
He has never commanded a unit in combat. He has nearly no–what’s the term?–’executive experience.’ He never commanded so much as a squad in action–never met a payroll.
The creepy feeling that I get here is that he’s playing a game inside his head, telling himself that he’s pappy and grandpappy, four-star admirals who commanded fleets at war. He knows all that stuff! He has experience! He knows how to win wars, because he’s Admiral John McCain! (not the screwup who would have flunked out of Annapolis if not for daddy, not the screwup hotdog pilot who got himself shot down and captured–and broke and got special treatment because of daddy! No! He knows how to win wars! He’s a war hero!
It’s probably been eating him up his whole life, and probably defines most of it. But it’s really coming out here.
October 17th, 2008 at 3:08 pm“… is human intelligence, which we’re very badly lacking.”
Sometimes it is so easy I’m ashamed of myself.
October 17th, 2008 at 3:28 pmThere has never been any evidence connecting OBL to 9-11, while there are very many indications that our own government knew of the impending well planned expert demolition of the WTC buildings and murder of Sept 11, 2001. McCain’s claim of pursuit of his intention to get OBL assures me of only the fact that he intends to continue in the policy of terrorizing the Middle East, war crimes as well as the treason against our Constitution here at home.
October 17th, 2008 at 3:32 pmPerhaps the waterboarding his parent did to him when he threw his toddler tantrums permanently mucked McIIIrd up.
There must be some reason he’s so damn unhinged.
October 17th, 2008 at 3:33 pmOne of the areas, of course, is human intelligence, which we’re very badly lacking.
I guess as opposed to chimpanzee intelligence, which we have had for 8 years, human intelligence would be good thing to use in trying to find Osama. Insulting Bush is ok if your republican, I can only imagine the outrage if Obama said that – but then Obama actually does have human intelligence!
October 17th, 2008 at 3:36 pmGotta wonder if McIIIrd has tried to look up “Gates of Hell” in Dex, YellowPages, GoogleEarth???
October 17th, 2008 at 3:38 pm“I know how to get [Osama bin Laden].”
McCain has made this boast repeatedly — it makes my blood boil every time I hear it. The liar won’t let anyone in on the secret unless he’s elected POTUS. Good show, old man.
October 17th, 2008 at 3:41 pmDid you see Blinky almost loose it when Letterman asked him about Liddy? They cut to commercial and you could tell from his turkeyneck redness that he was p.oed. Then Dave said that you could say the same thing about Obama and Ayers relationship and I thought the old fart’s head was going to spin off. God, I love Letterman. But you know now that he ruined his chances of getting Palin on the show, no way Cranky Pants would allow her to be there when he could barely handle it himself.
October 17th, 2008 at 4:11 pmThats his secret plan? More human intelligence? And what makes McCain such an expert on human intelligence in that region? What exactly does he mean by “many years involved in these issues, how to develop a plan”? Have I missed something or is the armed services committee involved in counterterrorism operations?
And since when is it the presidents job to know these things anyway? A president doesnt need to know how to catch terrorists and he shouldnt delude himself thinking he knows.
October 17th, 2008 at 6:34 pmAccording to Bob Baher (George Clooney played him in Syrianna), Usama Bin Laden is dead.
He had terminal dialysis.
We are a nation of mental midgets.
Frat boy tricks that cause millions to die.
October 19th, 2008 at 2:16 am