1. Your quote was incomplete. You truncated it in the middle of his full remark. You tried to make a point out of context of his full remark and actual point. 2. "My" quote was Obama's full comment, therefore, it is entirely in context of what he said -- by definition. There is a video clip of his entire speech in the link I provided in my prior post. (Do you even know what "context" means?) 3. You are unreal. Literally.
It was Laura's quote and it is complete - read it again, look at those ... at the end Your quote is no more complete, only bigger Just pinched myself... yup - I'm real!
Hypocrisy on Hamas I asked: "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 answered: "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." ----------- McCain is Mr. Magoo incarnate.
What I think you fail to acknowledge, TDog, is that Obama's words were designed and chosen to misdirect the audience, to make them forget that Bush is right, terrorists should be dealt with as terrorists, and that he (Obama) is still too naive and will be dangerous in foreign affairs. It is he who was being dishonest and Laura caught the essence of this misstatement. But, that's alright, no harm done, we look at this from different points of view. No need to offend each other, just post your thoughts on the subject, that's what I try to do, and have a little fun doing it.
Obama on the record in 2008. "They donât pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us." Obama on the record in 2004: "With the Soviet Union, you did get the sense that they were operating on a model that we could comprehend in terms of, they donât want to be blown up, we donât want to be blown up, so you do game theory and calculate ways to contain,â Obama said. âI think there are certain elements within the Islamic world right now that donât make those same calculations." Pabst will go record. Anyone who votes for Barrack Obama is a stupid, anti-American, socialist leaning pos. Obama is a duplicitous, lying scumbag. Nothing personal. Of course.
Dog, I try to remember that the Republican voting strength has, in more recent years, been vested in the barely educated class, comprised as it is, mainly of Fried Chicken Franchise folks, and religious nuts, or others of that ilk. The few who can read and write beyond the junior high level, and therefore delight in posting their I.Q scores here on ET, are Republicans only because they recognize what easy marks their less educated comrades are, and like the teenage bully who knocks a geriatric grandmother to the street and steals her purse, relish in stealing from the politically naive, using all manner of lies and half-truths to do so.
I would like to know if it is true that John McCain supports (or favors) privatizing Social Security? Privatizing Social Security is an absolutely horrible idea. If McCain would even consider such, that alone is enough reason not to vote for him.