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AMERICAblog: McCain on Osama bin Laden: 'Is this guy, Laden, really the bad guy that's depicted?'

  • OlderButWiser · 1 year ago
    It must not have been an opportune time, 1998, for McBush, eh? He really doesn't know what he thinks, from day to day.
  • PeteWa · 1 year ago
    John McKooKooKookie / Palin '08
  • Queer_Mainer · 1 year ago
    OK, How does this work?
    If, as improbable as it seems, McCain is elected and then, sadly, dies before the inauguration, will Palin automatically be crowned our next president? OMG. My head's gonna explode.
  • chilly0101 · 1 year ago
    According to the 20th Amendment Sect. 3, if McCain were to be elected and then die before January 20, 2009, Palin takes the oath of office as #44.
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  • Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago
    McCain just doesn't get it.
  • truebluecoondog · 1 year ago
    THIS is a gift! Where's the audio? GOT to have the audio.
  • MNUSA · 1 year ago
    ...and who was the US President in 1998. Well, Bill Clinton, of course. So I take his comments to mean he disagreed with President Clinton about the terror concerns. Too bad the Bush administration downplayed the knowledge and expertise of the Clinton people. Perhaps something preventative could have been done. After the fact, of course, then they blamed Clinton for not being aggressive enough against terror. Once again the Repubs show their poor judgment.
  • SkippyFlipjack · 1 year ago
    Remember the Bush/Cheney ad: "After the terrorist attacks, John Kerry voted to reduce defense spending." Of course, they meant the original bomb attack on the World Trade Center, but everyone thought they meant 9/11.

    Obama should do the same thing. Release an ad saying "Terrorists attack the World Trade Center, and yet five years later, John McCain said that Osama bin Laden 'isn't a bad guy'.

    "Wrong on everything. John McCain."
  • IzzyStoner · 1 year ago
    I never thought I'd say this, but I have to defend McCain a bit (may the gods forgive me). The "war" on terror is a fraud, but a useful one for politicians -- that's how you know they're being tough. Being tough, however, is not the same as being effective. Indeed, it often backfires. The "war" paradigm produces too much collateral damage and soon turns the local populace against you -- it feeds and pumps the motivational feedback loop of terrorists. As Fritz Hollings said in 2002 or 2003 "We seem to be creating terrorists faster than we can destroy them." Bush admitted (briefly) the war paradigm wasn't terribly appropriate during the 2004 campaign. Kerry jumped all over him. Later, Kerry admitted we needed a precise police response rather than all out war. Bush then jumped on Kerry.

    Too bad McCain "forgot" everything he believed in a decade ago.
  • bluestockton · 1 year ago
    If he calls him "Laden," I guess he thinks "bin" is Osama's middle name. Wonder how he'd like being called "Cain"?