McCain: Rudy Has No National Security Experience

[Hope And Change]

Flashback: McCain Said That Rudy, His Chief National Security Surrogate, Had No National Security Experience


By Greg Sargent - June 18, 2008, 2:50PM

Okay, this Rudy-as-counter-terror genius story just keeps on giving.

The latest: It turns out that John McCain himself even said that Rudy has no national security experience.

As we've noted here repeatedly, the McCain campaign -- for reasons known only to itself -- has made Rudy the front man for the campaign's national security message that Barack Obama isn't equipped to defend America from terrorism.

But here's what McCain had to say about Rudy's expertise, or lack thereof, on national security last September:

"I think the nation respects the mayor's leadership after 9/11, and I do, too, and I think he displayed leadership at a time that Americans needed some steady hand, and I think that his conduct was very laudatory following 9/11," Mr. McCain said, when asked why so many voters identify Mr. Giuliani with the issue of terrorism.

But he went on to say: "I don't think it translates, necessarily, into foreign policy or national security expertise. I know of nothing in his background that indicates that he has any experience in it, with him or Romney."

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[Doctor_J]

1. What do you call talking into a bullhorn whilst standing on the WTC rubble?

Boy, you just can't please some people.

[DefenseLawyer]

2. Rudy's response: "Well I 9/11, 9/11, 9/11 and I certainly 9/11!" n/t