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Obama Spokesman Jabs McCain on Al Qaeda-Iran Gaffe
By now you're sick of hearing about John McCain's gaffe in Jordan—although definitely worth the attention, I'd argue—but this quote from the Obama campaign is worth passing along. From campaign spokesman, Bill Burton: "We wish the McCain campaign well as they try to figure out the difference between Iran and Al Qaeda." That's pretty funny right? Only it's not so much funny as it is scary that a man, who may very well not have more of a clue than our current commander in chief, might one day replace him. So, definitely not funny ha-ha.
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Don't waste your time on a man/woman,who isn't willing to waste their time on you.
Posted by: wow power leveling on 03/19/08 at 6:56 PM Respond
Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to,doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
Posted by: 数据恢复 on 03/19/08 at 6:58 PM Respond
Personally, I can't hear enough about this. It is not getting the coverage it warrants. McCain is running on experience and he repeatedly makes that huge of a mistake (twice at that meeting but also once on the radio the night before)? It's ironic and telling that he would make this kind of gaffe on a trip where he is trying to demonstrate his foreign policy experience.
Posted by: JP on 03/19/08 at 7:41 PM Respond
McCain will take his many years of prisoner as a POW, tortured by Cuban operatives to boot, as approved justification to seek personal revenge on his former captives. That is no rational basis for a comprehensive foreign policy.
Unless we challenge his claim of experience -- specifically as to how his experience informs his broad perspective on the non-violent (for now) and terribly destitute bottom third of the world's population -- the great masses of Independent voters will assume that experience is ironclad in November.
Posted by: Egalitare on 03/20/08 at 4:40 AM Respond
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice-weasels come.
Oh wait, the McCain thing. Yeah, wonder if he's trying to ratchet up the rhetoric on Iran to look like the tough guy for the neocon crowd.
Posted by: homer on 03/20/08 at 4:48 AM Respond
A president of the United States is commander-in-chief ONLY of the armed forces, not, as so many imply, of all of us. He is nothing more than, on the authority of Alexander Hamilton, first general of the army and first admiral of the navy. This affirms the principle of civilian supremacy over the military, but in no way does it confer ANY power upon the commander-in-chief to command any civilian to do anything. One of the multitude of things that the C-in-C may not do, according to the Constitution, is to initiate wars despite the fact that he would command the forces that would fight in such wars. The war-making power resides in the Congress, if the Constitution is obeyed. The significance of this distinction, which is almost universally misunderstood by the pampered and powdered press, is that the lazy conflation of the powers of President and C-in-C are taken by the uninformed and the uninquisitve to mean that a President has dictatorial powers because he is the COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.
Posted by: Alan Bickley on 03/20/08 at 9:48 AM Respond
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