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Friday, September 26, 2008

McCain doesn't like Ike facts

SEN. MCCAIN: But there's also the issue of responsibility. You've mentioned President Dwight David Eisenhower. President Eisenhower, on the night before the Normandy invasion, went into his room, and he wrote out two letters. One of them was a letter congratulating the great members of the military and Allies that had conducted and succeeded in the greatest invasion in history -- still, to this day, and forever. And he wrote out another letter, and that was a letter of resignation from the United States Army for the failure of the landings at Normandy. Somehow we've lost that accountability.

I've been heavily criticized because I called for the resignation of the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

We've got to start also holding people accountable, and we've got to reward people who succeed.

-- John McCain, presidential debate, Oxford, Miss., Sept. 26, 2008.

This is how John McCain kicked off the first debate, with two big misstatements of fact.

First of all, here is the second and thankfully unnecessary letter that General Eisenhower wrote on the eve of D-Day. As you can probably see, it concludes with the words, "If any blame is found attached to the attempt, it is mine alone." In other words, he never offered to resign. Where McCain got that idea from, I have no idea. Wasn't that remark prepared in advance?

Of course, the funny thing is that he didn't really call for the SEC chairman to resign either. He said that if he were the president, he would fire him -- even though it came out that the president doesn't really have the authority to fire to SEC chairman. He never called for the chairman (Christopher Cox) to resign.

I would agree with one thing, that we've got to start holding people accountable. John McCain, I hold you accountable...for not telling the truth.

Posted by Will Bunch @ 11:32 PM Permalink | 47 comments

Comments

Posted 11:50 PM, 09/26/2008

Mr. Brightside

Hey Will, I just want to say you're doing a fantastic job of vomiting your far left wing, anti-Republican, I heart Obama nonsense that we've come to expect from you. I'm glad to see in your other post that you acknowledge watching the debate on MSNBC. I always knew you got your talking points from Keith Ogre-mann. Of course, he gets his from the Daily Kos, but that's okay. By the way, did Obama make any factual errors tonight? I'm sure you'll say he didn't. Even if he did, you wouldn't report them. By the way...before you think I'm some sort of rabid partisan, I'm not. I'm acutally undecided. But I'm tired of only getting one side of the story from someone who's lost all journalistic integrity like Will.

Posted 11:51 PM, 09/26/2008

Yankee Air Pirate 12

Hey Bunch-Listening to you comment on military matters is kinda like listening to you comment on....I dunno,maybe baseball.You're pathetic on either.

Posted 12:06 AM, 09/27/2008

Talking point sleuth

Seriously, Will. There are more important issues.

Posted 12:13 AM, 09/27/2008

jerseyfresh22

Hey Will, are you going to hold Obama accountable?? Well, now Henry Kissinger himself is attempting to set the record straight. Kissinger says that Obama was wrong, McCain was right. Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard has a short post to this effect on his TheBlog entry. Kissinger Unhappy About Obama Henry Kissinger believes Barack Obama misstated his views on diplomacy with US adversaries and is not happy about being mischaracterized. He says: "Senator McCain is right. I would not recommend the next President of the United States engage in talks with Iran at the Presidential level. My views on this issue are entirely compatible with the views of my friend Senator John McCain. We do not agree on everything, but we do agree that any negotiations with Iran must be geared to reality."

Posted 12:27 AM, 09/27/2008

Echo

Will, come on, your talking point has been fact-checked. The Chairman of the SEC serves at the pleasure of the President. A president can fire the chairman of the SEC, in that he can appoint another commissioner to the chair. Calling for Cox to resign would mean that Cox resigns both the chair and as a commissioner. Totally different things.

Posted 12:30 AM, 09/27/2008

mike l

Like Kissinger would agree with a Democrat. Face it, mccain is a loser, Obama a winner. You guys can whine all you want, won't change the fact that mr. foreign policy experience didn't lay a glove on Obama tonight. He chickened out of his non-debate stance, as everyone knew he would. BTW, brightside, this column/blog is an opinion peice, not straight news. Seems like the righties who cry on here all the time still don't know that. limbaugh and hannity are not newsies, they are opinion givers. So bunch offers up his opinions. If he thinks mccain is a two-headed snake, that's his opinion. Live with it.

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Posted 12:36 AM, 09/27/2008

Zues

Will, You talk about how MSNBC interpets the debate at hte end of your last post. Isn't this the root of what is wrong in America? Too many people do not formualte their own conclusion and let the spin miesters at fox and msnbc have the final say on how hte debate went and who won. The after thought should really be about what points we liked and therefore they should be a mandate of how the next president rules.When we focus on winning and losing then we miss the points made! Both had solid points about certain things. For that matter I watched Bill maher afterwords because he had Ralph Nader on his show. Yes Bill is a flaming liberal but the reason I watched is because of all Nader's faults he is a realist and oes not answer to the finaces puppet masters that control washington along with the DOD. Same goes for Ron Paul. If people really want to get a truely diiferent message than check out what they have to say about this financial mess we are in. They share common ground on point: The only capitalist left in the country are the small biz owners. Because the gov won't bail them out! Think about it.

Posted 12:45 AM, 09/27/2008

ObamaHATER

Will-you suck. That concludes my comment.

Posted 01:07 AM, 09/27/2008

Radhead

Thyis wasonly one of the many things McCain either did'nt know or lied about in the debate. The Washington Post has a Fact checker report on the debate and McCain was off base on many things. It seems that people are more concerned with image then in capable people. This is why we have George Bush and other incompetents making decisions for us. I likede eah question McCain would answer would begin with Obama just does'nt understand-at least he did'nt say he was too young and remind people Obama had never been a POW.

Posted 01:21 AM, 09/27/2008

Echo

Man, my joke didn't get approved. Obama could have responded to every question by "flatulating" an off-key Happy Birthday and Will would still score it a resounding Obama victory.

Posted 01:24 AM, 09/27/2008

Radhead

Instant CNN poll post debate Overall Obama 51% McCain 38% Economy Obama 58% McCain 37% Iraq Obama 52% McCain 47%. Independent poll Obama 69% and McCain 39%. Shows people are starting to pay attention to eho would be the best for them.

Posted 06:15 AM, 09/27/2008

littleonions

We could go back and forth about who was more accurate, but the thing that impressed me was the body language. McCain never once looked Obama in the face, no matter how many times he was encouraged to do so by Jim Leher (sp?)....He stood there and made grimaces and looked pasty and exhausted. He spoke of Obama always as if he were not there. I got the impression that he was avoiding direct contact lest he lose his self-control, which he was barely doing. His attitude towards Obama was demeaning, while Obama tried in vain to engage him. Obama gave credit to McCain on several occasions, proving that he can be bi-partisan, while criticizing him legitimately on his stubborn clinging to the war in Iraq. At this time in our national affairs, the last thing we need is the money pit of perpetual warfare.

Posted 07:51 AM, 09/27/2008

shoeshineboy

Will - Are you held accountable by Tierney? How did the city desk editing work wind up? Get out of there at a decent hour to see your kids before they fell asleep? I didnt think so.

Posted 08:25 AM, 09/27/2008

Mr. Baseball

Facts? We don't need no steenking facts? Did we need facts to invade Iraq? To enact tax cuts for the rich? To pick Miss South Carolina for a running mate? We need facts like Rush needs a fix .... oops, err ..... never mind, bad analogy. Guess I had a Dubya moment.

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