Political bits
An Alaska TV station has a report about how the McCain campaign has taken over Palin's defense in Troopergate. The unquestionable highlight is the bit at the end where Palin's top aide tries to hide from the camera behind a computer monitor in the office of what was once the State of Alaska's attorney in the matter, and is now Sarah Palin's private attorney.
(CNN) Sarah Palin has been "disinvited" from the anti-Iran rally after the McCain campaign started playing politics with her appearance.
(FirstRead) Believe it or not, the SEC chairman, who McCain threatened to fire earlier today, has a few choice words for McCain about the stupidity of such a plan.
(Politico) Chuck Hagel pretty much tears apart Palin's claims of readiness.
And, (CNN video) McCain's Spain gaffe is getting alot of play.
(CNN) Sarah Palin has been "disinvited" from the anti-Iran rally after the McCain campaign started playing politics with her appearance.
(FirstRead) Believe it or not, the SEC chairman, who McCain threatened to fire earlier today, has a few choice words for McCain about the stupidity of such a plan.
(Politico) Chuck Hagel pretty much tears apart Palin's claims of readiness.
And, (CNN video) McCain's Spain gaffe is getting alot of play.
posted by mikevotes at
5:42 PM
2 Comments:
It's unbelievable that the McCain campaign is actually standing by the Spain gaffe.
"I am willing to meet with any leader who is dedicated to the same principles and philosophy that we are for human rights, democracy and freedom and I will stand up to those who are not."
Is there any serious criticism of Spain's human rights record out there? Is Spain not a democracy (OK, a constitutional monarchy, like the UK, Netherlands, Belgium, etc)? Spain has 13,000 troops in Afghanistan, not to mention Lebanon, but they don't support "freedom" somehow?
Saudi Arabia, however, fits none of those criteria and McCain presumably has no problem with them.
The major difference between Obama's gaffes, (such as "57 states" and the "President of Canada) and McCain's gaffes is that Obama admitted that these were mistakes and McCain won't. Obama never went through any kind of semantic dance to explain that there really are 57 states if you look at it right. But McCain can't admit that he didn't understand the question, and instead his campaign is bent on portraying Spain as a potential enemy along the lines of Cuba or Venezuela.
By playing the "you are either with us or against us" card, McCain just proves how close he is to Bush yet again.
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Todd Dugdale , at 9:47 PM
I'm finding that pretty unbelievable, too. Maybe that's why it has legs.
I sincerely believe it was just a mistake, but maybe they're afraid admitting it will make him look senile, or too "tired" to be president?
It's really pretty crazy.
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mikevotes, at 10:18 PM
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