Once again, John McCain has an unfortunate run-in with a straightforward effort to quote his words, and protests to George Stephanoupolous "I didn’t use the word 'timetable'" when, in fact, he called Nuri al-Maliki's plans for Iraq "a pretty good timetable" just days ago. Perhaps he meant to say "general time horizon."
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Stop Quoting Me Accurately!
27 Jul 2008 12:16 pm
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Clearly Stephanopoulos doesn't understand that Straight Talk doesn't necessarily mean honesty and, as a result, he's incapable of possibly understanding what's at stake in this election.
McCain's gifts to the Obama campaign just keep coming: he also said on "This Week" that when it comes to fixing Social Security, "everything is on the table," including a possible payroll tax increase, reversing his explicit "no new taxes" pledge. Obama can now pivot with a slam on McCain and a commencement of the discussion of domestic issues.
In all fairness a "horizon" certainly isn't a timetable. It's an imaginary line that by definition you never reach.
How long is the mainstream news media going to give this moron a free ride? It was their failure to correctly identify Bush as a moronic, frat-boy jackass in 2000 that got us into this mess in the first place. Instead they treated him as some sort of folksy and honest guy you'd love to have a beer with and ushered in the worst presidential administration in an era.
I'll say it right now - if McCain wins this election I'm giving up on this country.
McCain is a pathological liar. He could be caught red-handed killing his wife and he'd say it never happened as his wife's limp and bloody body expires on the floor - her throat slit - the bloody butcher knife in his hands. The fact is his whole life is a lie. He lies like a rug, like the scrofulous fraud he is.
I think we need to have McCain speak more often. He's not ready for prime time.
McCain is misquoting Obama on this issue. Yes Obama uses timetable, but he also stresses it depends on conditions on the ground. McCains deletion of this fact turns a nonissue into an issue.
McCain is ill-prepared for a media which is not actively covering for him at all times. And I have detected lately in these interviews an increasing tendency among the media to actually pin McCain down a bit more.
McMaverick also seemed to be telling The Beard that the the US Embassy in Israel would be in Jerusalem as of Jan 21, 2009 under President McMaverick. That may have to revised and extended by the foreign policy handlers.
Well, McCain might have said "timetable", but what he meant to say was "sundial-ziggurat".
I must say that this is getting slightly ridiculous.
You're suggesting that words mean something? Tsk.
They cover for him because they want a close race.
When I saw the video of OurJohn telling Wolf that the al-Malik/O'Bama Peace Plan had a 'pretty good timetable' I said to myself 'he'll be denying he said that in a week.' Of course, I don't have a witness to that because no one could have understood me with my mouth full of cheetoes.
Perhaps McCain was mistranslated.
I can't believe the main stories today aren't looking at the giant mass of McCain gaffes and flip-flops this week. Or about the dishonesty of his newest political ad. No, instead the media is sowing doubts about Obama's foreign trip... even though it looks like he will have gotten a bounce of at least 3-4 points out of it.
Who you gonna believe -- me or your lying ears ?
As a comment at Pandagon succinctly and accurately noted, the distinction between a "timetable" and a "time horizon" is that the "horizon" always recedes as it is approached: it is never less than 1 FU away.
- AManOfConstantZorro
"Honestly, just give him the presidency already."
They are. Haven't you noticed?
Like I said before, we are watching the coordinated deliberate destruction of Barack Obama and everybody still believes McCain can't win this.
Suckers.
Obama and the Trust Factor
Case in point - Obama and the Wailing Wall
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1005882.html
"In Israel, placing a prayer in the wailing wall is a private compact between man and God. When the wall gets too full of prayers, these are removed and buried. An Israeli newspaper published a copy of the prayer BO put into the wall, claiming it had received the document via a Jewish seminary student who had retrieved it from the wall. Not surprisingly, this created an uproar. A lawyer initiated an investigation into the newspaper’s actions. In response, the newspaper now admits BO provided a copy of the prayer to the press before he placed it in the paper in the wall, and authorized its publication."
Hey, EWard, it's sort of...customary for the graf you post to be included in the link you put out.
EWard's a moron. Nothing in the story suggests that Obama misled anyone.
This sentence is interesting though:
Moreover, since Obama is not Jewish, there is no violation of privacy as there would be for a Jewish person who places a note in the Western Wall."
No shit?
EWard is an idiotic Clinton fan who has said here, multiple times, that he will actively work to elect McCain. He has also called people here "cyber-bullies" or something like that.
Obama Cyberbullies
Your candidate is in trouble with the Jewish voters!
Ed Marshall
That quote is from the paper that printed Obama's prayer and they are running for cover.
Ed Marshall
The 11:46 quote is from a friend.
Moreover, since Obama is not Jewish, there is no violation of privacy as there would be for a Jewish person who places a note in the Western Wall.
So, what did McCain's note back in March say, then? Oh my G-d, McCain is Jewish! No wonder Obama's having difficulty getting more than two-thirds of the Jewish vote.
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Heads in the Sand
Why won't the media give John McCain more coverage and less scrutiny? Honestly, just give him the presidency already.
Posted by southpaw | July 27, 2008 12:25 PM