A 'Bitch' on one end of the leash and an 'SOB' on the other?
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Good for the goose... Now the Rep's get all fuzzy with the barbs:
As the article McCain is stating in this 12th hour, Mitt Romney advocated private timetables. Unfortunately, he did not offer the transcript in full. The interview that McCain refers to is an interview with Robin Roberts on Good Morning America: Robin Roberts: " Iraq. John McCain is there in Baghdad right now. You have also been very vocal in supporting the president and the troop surge. Yet, the American public has lost faith in this war. Do you believe that there should be a timetable in withdrawing the troops?" MR. ROMNEY: "Well, there's no question but that -- the president and Prime Minister al-Maliki have to have a series of timetables and milestones that they speak about. But those shouldn't be for public pronouncement. You don't want the enemy to understand how long they have to wait in the weeds until you're going to be gone. You want to have a series of things you want to see accomplished in terms of the strength of the Iraqi military and the Iraqi police, and the leadership of the Iraqi government." Robin Roberts: " So, private. You wouldn't do it publicly? Because the president has said flat out that he will veto anything the Congress passes about a timetable for troop withdrawals. As president, would you do the same?" MR. ROMNEY:" Well, of course. Can you imagine a setting where during the Second World War we said to the Germans, gee, if we haven't reached the Rhine by this date, why, we'll go home, or if we haven't gotten this accomplished we'll pull up and leave? You don't publish that to your enemy, or they just simply lie in wait until that time. So, of course, you have to work together to create timetables and milestones, but you don't do that with the opposition."
Mr. McCain, are we to understand the Iraqi's are to have no goals or objectives for building their own nation? Does not the "lead" in leadership come from setting goals toward self-management? Without a motivation for self-government does the goal not become the simple replacement of one lordship with another?
A little stronger material should have been used to change the subject, this will hurt both candidates. I predict we'll see another shot of Ron Paul after the Florida Primary staring into the camera with that "deer in the headlights" look, trying to figure out where all that support came from..
For sure changes the conversation today but any short term poll gain is not worth the long term credibility loss. McCain will look back at yesterday as the day the momentum died. Can't even blame this misstep on someone else's misquote - firing a campaign advisor won't work when the "yehaw" came from your own lips.
2 comments:
Good for the goose...
Now the Rep's get all fuzzy with the barbs:
As the article McCain is stating in this 12th hour, Mitt Romney advocated private timetables. Unfortunately, he did not offer the transcript in full. The interview that McCain refers to is an interview with Robin Roberts on Good Morning America:
Robin Roberts: " Iraq. John McCain is there in Baghdad right now. You have also been very vocal in supporting the president and the troop surge. Yet, the American public has lost faith in this war. Do you believe that there should be a timetable in withdrawing the troops?"
MR. ROMNEY: "Well, there's no question but that -- the president and Prime Minister al-Maliki have to have a series of timetables and milestones that they speak about. But those shouldn't be for public pronouncement. You don't want the enemy to understand how long they have to wait in the weeds until you're going to be gone. You want to have a series of things you want to see accomplished in terms of the strength of the Iraqi military and the Iraqi police, and the leadership of the Iraqi government."
Robin Roberts: " So, private. You wouldn't do it publicly? Because the president has said flat out that he will veto anything the Congress passes about a timetable for troop withdrawals. As president, would you do the same?"
MR. ROMNEY:" Well, of course. Can you imagine a setting where during the Second World War we said to the Germans, gee, if we haven't reached the Rhine by this date, why, we'll go home, or if we haven't gotten this accomplished we'll pull up and leave? You don't publish that to your enemy, or they just simply lie in wait until that time. So, of course, you have to work together to create timetables and milestones, but you don't do that with the opposition."
Mr. McCain, are we to understand the Iraqi's are to have no goals or objectives for building their own nation? Does not the "lead" in leadership come from setting goals toward self-management?
Without a motivation for self-government does the goal not become the simple replacement of one lordship with another?
A little stronger material should have been used to change the subject, this will hurt both candidates. I predict we'll see another shot of Ron Paul after the Florida Primary staring into the camera with that "deer in the headlights" look, trying to figure out where all that support came from..
For sure changes the conversation today but any short term poll gain is not worth the long term credibility loss.
McCain will look back at yesterday as the day the momentum died. Can't even blame this misstep on someone else's misquote - firing a campaign advisor won't work when the "yehaw" came from your own lips.
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