Top McCain adviser: fresh terrorist attack (in US) "certainly would be a big advantage"

[dajoki]

Terror Strike Would Help McCain, Top Adviser Says
By Michael D. Shear
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 24, 2008; Page A04
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/23/AR2008062301979.html

A top adviser to Sen. John McCain said that a terrorist attack in the United States would be a political benefit to the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, a comment that was immediately disputed by the candidate and denounced by his Democratic rival.

Charles R. Black Jr., one of McCain's most senior political advisers, said in an interview with Fortune magazine that a fresh terrorist attack "certainly would be a big advantage to him." He also said that the December assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, while "unfortunate," helped McCain win the Republican primary by focusing attention on national security.

"His knowledge and ability to talk about it reemphasized that this is the guy who's ready to be Commander-in-Chief. And it helped us," Black told the magazine in its upcoming issue.

The comment reinjected the fear of terrorism into the campaign as both candidates had been shifting their conversation to the economy and $4-per-gallon gasoline. It also vividly recalled the 2004 contest between President Bush and Democratic Sen. John F. Kerry, in which Republicans repeatedly questioned Kerry's ability to protect the country from terrorists.

The comments also returned the political spotlight to McCain's advisers and, in particular, to Black, who has drawn criticism for his long lobbying career and his representation of controversial foreign governments. McCain has been criticized for surrounding himself with top advisers who were lobbyists

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1. Another "modern-day Pearl Harbour" in the works, eh? n/t

[Whoa_Nelly]

2. That is such a stupid and sick statement to make!

:grr:


Sure! Let's "hope" that there's another attack on US soil that kills a lot of people, and causes severe tragedy and national emotional pain.

Charles R. Black Jr., you are one vindictive, small-minded piece of trash lower than pond scum. :mad:

[stillcool]

3. "Death Benefits"..

[AndyTiedye]

4. Another Reichstag Fire

[wryter2000]

5. "certainly would be a big advantage"

You know, it might be reasonable for him to have said, "It probably would help the campaign, but no one wants that kind of help." "certainly a big advantage" is ghoulish.

[leftofthedial]

6. well, duh.

pretty much everything that is bad for America is good for repukes.

[dajoki]

10. Bingo!! n/t

[Bluebear]

7. What a sick statement to even think, let alone utter!

[baby_mouse]

8. Shows what they value.

Wankers.

[question everything]

9. Just because he should not have said this in public

does not mean that it is not true.

One does not need to get that far for a terrorist attack on our shores.

Some instability in, say, North Korea, or Liberia, Venezuela or Kosova would benefit McCain, too.

This is why it is so important for Obama to have a VP who knows all these areas and can speak confidently and knowledgeably about them, and for Obama himself to be tutored, too.

[dajoki]

11. Or a war with Iran?

[dajoki]

12. kick