I'm not interested in partisanship that serves no other purpose than to gain a temporary advantage over our opponents. This mindless, paralyzing rancor must come to an end. We belong to different parties, not different countries. We are rivals for the same power. But we are also compatriots. We are fellow Americans, and that shared distinction means more to me than any other association.
-- John McCain speaking at 10 a..m. today in Columbus, Ohio.
Senator John McCain, who has been critical of President Bush on the environment and other policies this week, on Thursday morning wholeheartedly endorsed Mr. Bush’s veiled rebuke in the Israeli Knesset of Senator Barack Obama that talking to “terrorists and radicals'’ was no different than appeasing Hitler and the Nazis.
“Yes, there have been appeasers in the past, and the president is exactly right, and one of them is Neville Chamberlain,'’ Mr. McCain told reporters on his campaign bus after a speech in Columbus, Ohio.
So apparently McCain was against mindless bipartisanship and bashing compatriots before he was for it -- or before his boss opened his mouth halfway around the world. It's easy to be against "paralyzing rancor" until you're confronted with an actual case of it.
McCain has this in common with the President: Whoever speaks to him last has his way.— SteveMG- I'm missing my flip-flops. Anyone seen them?— Talking point sleuth
Comment removed.- Plausible deniability. How Bill Clinton!— SteveMG
- b, are you really that dumb? "bush didn't mention Obama." Who the heck do you think he was talking about, Chris Matthews? I guess you 28%ers are so in love with w that you will believe anything he says. I pity you.— mike l
- McCain just can't figure out who to appease. If Lieberman weren't around he'd still be insisting that Shia Iran was funding Sunni AQ in Iraq.— RG
- Comment removed.
- Its creepy that you keep calling him the Messiah. Everyone else calls him Barack Obama. And with that many popular votes, its hardly a cult. Now if you were a 28%er.....— RG
- I'm missing my flip-flops. Anyone seen them? Posted by Talking point sleuth....Have you checked the bath houses on Sansom street, rageboy?— E Plebnista
"Why do YOU think he was talking about the Messiah?"........So apparently we're to think that Bush wasn't talking about the Messiah, yet you can't explain who he was talking about. We're left to think then that Bush is delusional and is making up straw men that don't exist except in his paranoid imagination. Thanks, b.a., but we already knew that.
I think the president was referring to Jimmy Carter.— ocjones- And don't you love how exercised the Dems are over the fact that Bush made this statement on "foreign soil".— ocjones
- I think the president was referring to Jimmy Carter. Actually, now that you mention it, dear mr. ocjones, you may be on to something there. It would be pretty logical, given Carter's recent trip to the area.
Of course, it's still a smarmy attempt at demonizing political opponents by comparing them to Nazi appeasers.
— Talking point sleuth - And don't you love how exercised the Dems are over the fact that Bush made this statement on "foreign soil".
More faux outrage. I remember when you went ballistic because Gore criticized Bush from foreign soil. But why let consistency stand in your way when you're a Republican sycophant, right?
— Talking point sleuth - And don't you love how exercised the Dems are over the fact that Bush made this statement on foreign soil.
More faux outrage. I remember when you went ballistic because Gore criticized Bush from foreign soil. But why let consistency stand in your way when you're a Republican sycophant, right?
— Talking point sleuth
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