There was a lot of buildup before Sunday’s "60 Minutes" about how Sen. John McCain (in CBS photo) apologized for his gaffe about how safe it is in Baghdad. But the actual interview wasn’t that clear.
CBS correspondent Scott Pelley noted that McCain had said earlier that Gen. David Petraeus sometimes goes into Baghdad in an unarmored Humvee, and that there were neighborhoods you could walk through without being concerned for your safety. McCain responded: "There is no unarmored Humvee, obviously that’s the case. I’m trying to make the point over and over and over again that we are making progress. There are signs of progress. But it’s long and it’s hard and it’s tough."
Pelley then observed: "You were a little annoyed with yourself, I think."
And McCain responded: "Of course I’m going to misspeak, and I’ve done it on numerous occasions and I probably will do in the future."
So did McCain "misspeak" about how safe Baghdad is, or just about the Humvee?
Pelley also asked McCain how it is that McCain thinks Donald Rumsfeld was one of the worst secretaries of defense in U.S. history, because of how badly the war was mismanaged, yet he seems to give a pass to President Bush, the commander in chief.
McCain responded: "I say that he is responsible, and I’ll continue to say he is responsible. Should I look back in anger, or should I look forward and say, ‘Let’s support this new strategy, support this new general, and let’s give it everything we can to have it succeed’?"
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Rumsfeld is responsible, but Bush isn’t? Give me a break.
Perhaps McCain is leery of speaking out against W, because he fears another smear campaign as a candidate. True, W isn’t running again, but it doesn’t hurt to have the incumbent’s nod. Then again, a nod from this incumbent could be the nod of death.
And so McCain continues to waffle (flip-flop for the Bushie lovers).
I hope McCain gets the Republican nomination. He would be an even weaker candidate than Brownback!
This is going to be in quasi-defense of Bush. I believe that Bush II delegated so much to Cheney and Rumsfeld that he might not have known what all they were up to. But, as president, he is still responsible for knowing.
The above is kind of in line with the “Bush is incompetent and not evil” meme expressed earlier. But I am willing to entertain the possiblity that he is BOTH incompetent and evil.
Why is it that Republicans “misspeak” when they say something really stupid that they obviously meant?
But when Democrats like Kerry have their words twisted to mean something that they didn’t say, they don’t get to claim they “misspoke?”
IOKIYAR
Darn you Mr. Huie, don’t wish that! :D
Who does Republican like for the nomination?
Actually, I’m liking Bill Richardson (D) from New Mexico. I doubt he will survive the storm through the primaries though.
I haven’t heard much from the later entries of Republican candidates enough to make an informed decision.
Thanks, that should give GS pause . . . although she hasn’t been posting as much since I proffered my bet.
Even the Pope has come out against the {His words } Iraq’s ‘continual slaughter’
“Pope mourns Iraq’s ‘continual slaughter’Updated 16h 1m ago | Comments 107 | Recommend 19 E-mail | Save | Print |Enlarge By Vincenzo Pinto, AFP/Getty ImagesPope Benedict XVI has two important dates coming up on his calendar: his 80th birthday on April 16, and the second anniversary of his election as pope three days later.VATICAN CITY (AP) — Even on Christianity’s most joyous day, Pope Benedict XVI lamented the “continual slaughter” in Iraq and unrest in Afghanistan as he denounced “the thousand faces of violence which some people attempt to justify in the name of religion.”In his message for Easter, Benedict said suffering worldwide puts faith to the test.
“How many wounds, how much suffering there is in the world,” the pontiff told tens of thousands of pilgrims, tourists and Romans gathered Sunday at St. Peter’s Square where he had just finished celebrating Mass.
Benedict, delivering his traditional “Urbi et Orbi” Easter address from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, denounced terrorism and kidnappings, and “the thousand faces of violence which some people attempt to justify in the name of religion,” as well as human rights violations.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2007-04-08-pope-easter_N.htm
They’ll still at it and I thought he got fired?
http://article.wn.com/view/2007/04/09/The_Great_Associator/
Who cares what McCain does? His days as a candidate are limited. And Bush was right about him in 2004- he IS loose in the head!
So it goes. “Straight Talk” has become “Doublespeak” for “If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em” John McCain.