John McCain’s Polish Moment, Iranian Style

[babylonsister]

Pls, no insult to Polish or Iranian people! :crazy:

John McCain’s Polish Moment, Iranian Style
By Jeff Stein, CQ National Security Editor



John McCain has executed an Islamic-style divorce from reality. Three times he’s said that Iran is training al Qaeda.

Wrong. Once he even admitted he was wrong, but his campaign HQ went back to the original goofiness two days later.

To some, the Republican candidate’s strange behavior was a replay of that historic 1976 campaign gaffe, when President Gerald R. Ford declared that Poland was “independent and autonomous” from the Soviet Union.

Millions of Poles found that surprising.

Ford had a chance to regroup, but he passed it up. He insisted that “There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, and there never will be under a Ford administration.”

You could still hear the guffaws at the polling booth.

Likewise, McCain’s headquarters put out a reaffirmation of the candidate’s confusion about who was on what side in Iraq during a press conference in Jordan.

Mind you, this was two days after McCain, nudged by traveling companion Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman , I-Conn, corrected and amended his accusation that Iranian operatives in Iraq have been “taking al Qaeda into Iran, training them and sending them back.”

Lieberman whispered in his ear.

“I’m sorry,” McCain said, “the Iranians are training extremists, not al Qaeda”.

Well, yes, and some of those “extremists” are followers of Iraqi Shiite political parties in the government we are propping up in Baghdad.

McCain had it backward, in other words.

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http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=5&docID=hsnews-000002691574

[spanone]

1. they learned well from the bu$h* administration....the truth doesn't really matter at all

[vixengrl]

2. The problem with the "gaffe" is he has *been* corrected,

but will say it again. It's just too convenient to continue to link Iraq with the War on Terror. Sadly, it would've gone without comment without Lieberman backstopping him.

[0007]

3. McCain talks out of his ass all the time. Listen carefully!

[L. Coyote]

4. Expect a Cheney-Romney ticket. This candidate will fail miserably before the convention.

And, his "gaffe" incidents will become known as McCain's Alzheimers moments.
His neurological condition will become more obvious as scrutiny continues.

Even the Rs do not want a candidate who lacks memory. They can still dump McCain.

[babylonsister]

5. Series?1! Cheney is the most loathed man in this country. I don't see it. nt

[Imagevision]

6. Nothing beats McCain's; "bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran moment...