From a 2006 interview with British journalist James Rubin:
RUBIN: "Do you think that American diplomats should be operating the way they have in the past, working with the Palestinian government if Hamas is now in charge?"
McCAIN: "They're the government; sooner or later we are going to have to deal with them, one way or another, and I understand why this administration and previous administrations had such antipathy towards Hamas because of their dedication to violence and the things that they not only espouse but practice, so . . . but it's a new reality in the Middle East. I think the lesson is people want security and a decent life and decent future, that they want democracy. Fatah was not giving them that."
NYT:
[I]n a fund-raising letter sent out in April, a spokesman for Mr. McCain wrote: “We need change in America, but not the kind of change that wins kind words from Hamas, surrenders in Iraq and will hold unconditional talks with Iranian President Ahmadinejad.”
In particular, the McCain campaign has explicitly linked Mr. Yousef’s statements to Mr. Obama’s repeatedly stated willingness to talk to so-called “rogue states” like Iran, North Korea and Cuba.
“Well, Iran is obviously an important supporter of Hamas,” Mr. McCain said Friday.
Rubin has an editorial in today's Washington Post where he accused McCain of hypocrisy. I think that's a bit harsh. Senator Out O'Touch probably just doesn't remember what he said.
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Jane! Good Morning!
Wiping liquids off monitor.
Good morning!
good morning….John McGiggolo seems a bit befuddled
i can NOT possibly listen to 1,4,or 8 more years of a confused old man mauling his talking points over the air waves…i need the fresh air of an articulate public speaker!!! dayum
Just went and read Rubin’s piece. John is a hypocrit, but what else is new.
after listening to chimpy and his minions ,in Israel,its clear none of them has even the slightest concept of which they speak…amazing
I can’t live with the idea that Budwieser will be declared the National Beer.
he does not understand what they hell he is spouting,he would and WILL say ANYTHING put in front of him,a very reckless man…and that after crashing 5 jets should be hid meme…McReckless
but he’s their hypocrite and the R’s are stuck with him.
Jane, how your poodles doing? Have they gotten use to the East Coast?
For almost 24 hours, gays can marry in CA. Has that state ceased to exist yet?
my sainted father called it piss water….its cheap,and tasteless,like its purveyors
George was Texas’ hypocrit and we got stuck with him. Even though Molly warned us.
that speech he gave yesterday shall live in INFAMY
I think God will slide it into the Pacific Ocean any second.
Calif has always been different…..i like it muchly
“Senator Out O’Touch probably just doesn’t remember what he said.” Well, in “The Real McCain,” there was this distinction made between McCain1.0, 2.0 and the ‘new and improved’ 3.0. I think 3.0 doesn’t have any synaptic connections with the other two…
Like the mystics and critics say it will
I predict this hotel will be standing
until I pay my bill
Poodles frolicking on the lawn. Very happy here in NOVA.
Me too, I was born there.
well said,he needs to go home to one of the 9 palatial mansions
where? its so beauuuuuuuuuutiful naturally
sorry that’s
mystics and statistics
apologies to Warren
Even with the nasty recent weather? My sister is in Vienna and she said you guys have gotten like 7 inches of rain in the past couple of days and tornados, too!!
i would love to breed my dizzy ..shhhhhh (not too bright,but very sweet) Tibetan terrier to a scholarly lady poodle!!
The humidity hasn’t slowed them down yet? Better VA than let’s say Alabama.
The Redding area, northern California at the very end of the Sacramento Valley.
or gawd forbid Fl,where i was born,but the climate has gotten ostensibly worse in Fl
ok, if someone gets the ear of someone in the obama camp I have a PERFECT response for obana, one that is not condencending on it’s surface but bruttally demonostrative of mccain’s inept detachment from reality;
“so what is mccain suggesting he is going to do with mhams if he is not going to attempt a non military solution?
or is he in fact promising that he is going to listen to the geniouses who over ruled the generals and experts when they in their misguided attack against Iraq
is that what he’s suggesting, that if he is president he is promising NOT to talk to heads of state we have issues and simply “bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran?”
bing
mccain will HAVE to retract his statements
Out in California right now?
Good Morning Jane,
normally turn off the teevee on my way to the coffee pot, but there was Mr Ammanpour chatting away on said befuddlement - and for the few minutes I caught, none of the bobbleheads contradicted him - wow
im not really familiar,with that part,but one day,ill take a road trip,with an “electric car”..”g”
Ya, bomb Iran, that’ll fix Hamas alright.
Read his tight lips.
-G
BEWITCHED BEFUDDLED and BEWILDERED………hahahhhahahahaha
So, is the drumbeat to bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, Beijing about to begin?
-G
yea,bewitched by Cindy lou’s $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
You move to Nova Scotia! You must go see Pema Chodron at Gampo Abbey!
Hot in the summer, 100-115 degrees, and wet in the winter. But mountains on three sides. Mt. Shasta is to the north, Mt Lassen National Park is east, and the Coast Mountains are to the east with the Redwoods on the otherside.
Me, nah! My family lives in LA and Phoenix, I stay’s in Georgia.
oh must do it…hurry with the electric cars,dont think a golf cart would swing it
Everyone on the internet knows McSame is a royal hypocrite. Will the corporate media report on his flip flop? Not holding my breath.
My bro went to Sac State and Mc George. Hated it!
That would be everyone ON the leftwing internet.
Does your family in Phoenix tell you about the top Arizona Whacko Sheriff Joe?
im really wanting to retire in France or Italy , in the countryside,i dont recognize this country anymore
I was at UC Davis.
a snippet;
what has this president done to our country?
what has he done?
the world gathers in solidarity against america with each and every passing day this president remains in office
lost in the appeasement shuffle:
and apparently the God of Abraham was out bowling or he would’ve been struck down here -
I am going to retire in two weeks!
Oh yea, good friends of mine teach at ASU and they went to some of the rally’s in Guadalupe. When my pop was alive he loved the sheriff. Transplanted DuPage county republican he was.
There is still alot of good in this country. There have always been McCain’s, and Bush’s around and we somehow get oer them. Look at California yesterday, three Republicans upheld the California Constitution. There must be hope for the future.
AK’s. RPG’s, hell yes! Watch Charlie Wilson’s war and see how WE got that shit for . . .uh the mujahdeen!
… one word … “Tuscany” or “Sardinia … okay, that’s two words … *g* … shortlisted for when I retire …
Are they near Macon or Valdosta?
Oh, please no. “with Ariel Sharon”? Of course, he also got his picture taken while on a bicycle, too. I have to imagine that the Israelis were holding their heads in pain.
well, I’m not ready to cede this country to those who do not respect or even support the principles of our country, our Constitution.
Typical Rove strategy, blame your f*ck ups on your enemies …
ASU huh?! I work for the U in Tucson.
Congrats! And enjoy!!!
George W. Shithead thinks Sabra and Shatila are a singing duo.
John A at Americablog nailed it by saying that now it is clear the election is about Bush, secondly that EVERYTHING Bush says is political and conniving.
-G
P.S. I just watched Joe Watkins on MSNBC pushing the line that the GOP’s problem is not having been GOP enough. Please continue down this path GOP-ers.
spent lots of summers with family in Modoc County - now imagine all that summer heat with 90-98% humidity - yep, you’d be in Texas, or Georgia, right Raven ? :D
Alturas, Cedarville?
btw - also lost in the shuffle
3 Arab men were escorted out of the Knesset chamber after holding up a sign reading “We Shall Overcome”
no but ill take a wait see,also the rightwing media,and Xtian crazies,are getting to me
fanfukkintastique!!!!!!
petrocell, you have come up with a BRILLIANT response for just about every issue brought up by the republicans when it comes to political discourse;
obama;
“so they they are at it again, the have the nerve to blame their inept decisions on everyone else, how typical, I doubt the voters are going to fall for this”
NICE!
Lookout and Bieber, with some in the big city Alturas
btw - Modoc County papers endorsed Charlie Brown against Doolittle in 06 - imagine my surprise ;)
YUP
I have goodyear and I hate them, I am going to get a set of pirelli
tee hee
not really going to retire, am too young, I just couldn’t resist the set up
sorry
Ah, many great days there. Love the El Charro’s Chile Relleno’s and hiking in Pink Granite Canyon. Many people from Champaign moved out there in the early 70’s so I always make it there when I can. It was awesome when it was a sleepy little town.
Been thru those places. My dad used to go judge the fair in Cedarville.
And, just to show how cement-headed Bush is, he’s visiting his old friend King Abdullah to try to get them …again…to raise production to try to bring oil prices down. Like, the whole speculation thing doesn’t have anything to do with pricing of oil…or natural gas….
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....sh_mideast
oh Sardinia….any part of Italy is wunneful…Piedmot,or Liguria….but dollars are worth donuts now thanks to chimp,ill have to have some commerce..
While in Israel did Bush refer to the residents of Masada as “suiciders”?
-G
I’m with Rubin on this one, Jane. Just saw him interviewed on CNN and the video clip there [fortunately, since tall timber dinosaur dialup not conducive to viewing online. Hypocrisy is the Mark of McCain.
A bit o/t, an invitation for all to join me in a weekend protest campaign [oh you can call it gas economizing or protecting the environment or slowing your speed to match the metaphor of weekend or whatever], but I think of it as my personal up-yours to Bushie after his speech at the Knesset.
Drive “weekends at 60.”
Wouldn’t it be kewl to build the momentum on this weekend by weekend all summer long…put the fear of God in the Rethugs as we march toward the election.
Prairie Today: Slow to 60
is he off life support yet?
707
think progress has somegood research up right now
pink granite! was the whole canyon pink granite?
No.
From wiki:
McCAIN: They’re the government; sooner or later we are going to have to deal with them, one way or another, and I understand why this administration and previous administrations had such antipathy towards Hamas because of their dedication to violence and the things that they not only espouse but practice, so…but it’s a new reality in the Middle East.
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why USE reason,invective works sooooooooo much better
Not sure … Tuscany includes Pisa, Siena and my fav, Florence. Sardinia is an Island where, 100 feet out to sea, you can still see the Ocean floor …
ahhhh Terry Shaivo comes to mind…wonder if chimpy went to visit his good buddies bedside
we don’t have to use reason against mccain, all we have to do is point out that his “solution” will be the same solution as bush in Iraq
yay perris!!!!!!
now you can go work for a rep or sen as their pr ’ideas’ guy!!!!
- I regularly cruise real estate ads in Umbria/Sienna as a means of online escape
im notcrazy about Firenze anymore,its overrun,but Pisa ,and Sienna,and all the little hillside towns are great
oh shit me too hahahahahahahaha,specially after 2004,when they stole it again…”g”
i just looked,man o man have the prices changed in 4 years……un fukkin believable
((( perris )))
I enjoy reading your comments a great deal.
Can’t wait for Kevin James’ response to this “energizing, legitimizing appeasement” of terrists by McCain.
Wonder what guiding mantra the Republicans are writing on the dry-erase board this morning.
uh oh
see my #71
I was trying to make a joke, it didn’t work too well
Carne Seca! Yumm!
must go take Baz for a bath,well guess ill just have to keep my Italian opera on and PRETEND to be there,well it looks like that here…sigh
Johnny Flip-flops has a new bus!
well we can retire in our minds..”g”…dream a little dream
So McSame was FOR Hamas, before Hezbollah was for him…and now he’s AGAINST Hamas, and AGAINST publicly accepting money from Hezbollah.
Damn, if this is what my aging folks are going to be like in the years ahead, I’d better start putting baby bumpers back on the sharp corners and locks on the cupboards with poisonous household products again.
President Shitheel is over appeasing the nation that funded Bin Laden and was the home of 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers.
-G
dream a little dream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9k0eyViceE
thats fab!!!!
fyi - looks like BO is to formally bitch slap Chimperalissimimo sometime late morning - sorry - didn’t catch time but he is scheduled to give South Dakota speech at 11 am cst
for a lark -on this gloomiest of gloomy mornings, I went to get Mama Cass’ Dream a Little Dream for you
and found this gem! my father just loved her.
blerrgghh - “Chimperalissimo”
Is he gonna drag Iran/Contra out of the archives?
Appeasing is giving weapons to the Mullahs who abducted US citizens.
Not talking to enemies.
Maybe even a Poppy Bush quid pro quo comment.
-G
Yep, it certainly looks like the Democrats learned the lesson from John Kerry. Sitting there, hoping that ‘if we behave above it, it will go away’ is a non-starter. They need to respond, strongly, every…single…time.
I’m visualizing the orangutan from Planet of the Apes
Bush sure did get the entire party to jump up in Obama’s defense. I was particularly proud of Sen. Clinton’s defense.
-G
OT
Sheila Bair FDIC chairman speeching on CSPAN 1 now
State of Financial Markets at Brookings
Have you seen that even John Kerry is responding vociferously ?
The Dems have to respond 100 times to every statement from the Repugs …
Yep and that they let Biden off the leash …
Here’s a little more good news:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/....._Rove.html
Conyers: We’re closing in on Rove.
Read his snarling biting comments here
who unlike that pro simian bastard occupying 1600 has opposable thumbs
and btw has a kewl blog
Crikey! that’s a creepy vision of the Statue of Liberty.
Do you have visions of shackled plums dancing in your head?
I’ve pretty much always liked Joe.
He would be an interesting addition to an Obama ticket. Good cop, bad cop wise.