Two years ago, in an interview with James Rubin for Sky News, Sen. John McCain expressed a willingness to negotiate with the terrorist group Hamas -- the very group that McCain has been relentlessly using to smear Sen. ...
Rubin: McCain's Rhetoric On Hamas Is 'The Ultimate Flip-Flop'
thinkprogress.orgFound 49 days, 20 hours, 23 minutes, and 10 seconds agoSen. John McCain (R-Z) has criticized Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) by disingenuously claiming that he " approved " of negotiations with Hamas. "It is a grave and dangerous mistake for an American leader to meet with a terrorist organization like Hamas," McCain claims. ...
Two years ago, McCain was all for talking to Hamas
americablog.comFound 50 days, 6 hours, 27 minutes, and 3 seconds agoOops . That would make McCain a McHypocrite for blasting Obama for proposing the EXACT same thing McCain proposed only two years ago. But in all fairness to McCain, nearing the age of 72, maybe he simply can't remember his positions anymore. ...
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From a 2006 interview with British journalist James Rubin :
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upyernoz.blogspot.com
no doubt others out there have said this before, but the fact that mccain has been a darling of the media for so long has its advantages. because they love him so, he's been invited to appear on various news shows over the years to discuss every issue under the sun. that means there's a whole lot of footage of him talking about almost anything you can think of. it's going to be very easy to document mccain's flip-flops.
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soccerdad.baltiblogs.com
After posting, I saw that Israel Matzav is all over this story --the bigger story being that Rubin's account is inaccurate and the video being offered of McCain's willingness to talk to Hamas has been spliced.
Check out his post .
By Daled Amos
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delawarewatch.blogspot.com
You can see the film of the interview here
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acepilots.com
Is unfit to defend America …
Exclusive Video: McCain Was For Talking To Hamas Before He Was Against It… - Politics on The Huffington Post
McCAIN: "They're the government; sooner or later we are going to have to deal with them , one way or another, and I understand why this administration and previous administrations had such antipathy towards Hamas because of their dedication to violence and the things that they not only espouse but practice, so . . . but it's a new reality in the Middle East.
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horsesass.org
Hamas is Stalin. No wait, that was Saddam. Iran is Stalin. No, they're Hitler, except when they're Idi Amin. Or maybe Henny Youngman, it kind of depends what day. Take my prime minister, please.
France used to be Neville Chamberlain, but now that they have a conservative in charge France is the Pope, and it turns out the Pope is NOT Hitler at all but is actually a good guy, unlike that one chick from Big Brother, who is Cuba. (The country, not the Gooding, Jr., who is like totally cool.)
Canada, watch your back, when I say "bacon" I don't mean from the back, I mean from the belly, which is where Fat Bastard keeps his babies, just like Hugo Chavez.
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horsesass.org
Yesterday, the Seattle Times printed an op-ed from Booth Gardner, the former Governor and supporter of the Death with Dignity Initiative. Curiously, though, this was the picture that ran alongside it online:
I don't think I really need to describe the image any more than what's obvious about it.
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politics.propeller.com
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progressivedailybeacon.com
More at Huffington Post
Death Squads In Afghanistan Acting On Foreign (U.S.?) Orders
Secret Afghan death squads are acting on the orders of foreign spies and killing civilians inside Afghanistan with impunity, a senior UN envoy has claimed. Professor Philip Alston, the UN special rapporteur on illegal killings, said "foreign intelligence agencies" had used illegal groups of heavily armed Afghans in raids against suspected insurgents.
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controlcongress.com
McCain Was For Talking To Hamas Before He Was Against It…
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RUBIN: "Do you think that American diplomats should be operating the way they have in the past, working with the Palestinian government if Hamas is now in charge?"
McCAIN: "They're the government; sooner or later we are going to have to deal with them, one way or another, and I understand why this administration and previous administrations had such antipathy towards Hamas because of their dedication to violence and the things that they not only espouse but practice, so .
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alterx.blogspot.com
By November, McCain will be completely indistinguishable from the Chimp. Mr. Aravosis :
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democraticcentral.com
Huffington Post has the video:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
And the gentelman, James Rubin, who teased this jem out of McCain has an oped in the Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Here's the money:
RUBIN: "Do you think that American diplomats should be operating the way they have in the past, working with the Palestinian government if Hamas is now in charge?"
McCAIN: "They're the government; sooner or later we are going to have to deal with them, one way or another, and I understand why this administration and previous administrations had such antipathy towards Hamas because of their dedication to violence and the things that they not only espouse but practice, so .
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weeklystandard.com
That didn't take long. The video of McCain on the same day, in the same clothes, and saying basically the same thing, although this time in a way that some dishonest lefty like Rubin can't possibly twist it to make it sound different. The other video can be seen here , still being touted by HuffPo as evidence that "McCain was for talking to Hamas before he was against it." McCain couldn't be more clear in this video, which couldn't have been shot more than a few minutes before or after the interview with Rubin, that he would only talk to Hamas when certain conditions were met.
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moderateleft.com
The best part, though, is that isn't even the best punchline. The best punchline is that Johnny Mac was for appeasement before he was against it :
RUBIN: "Do you think that American diplomats should be operating the way they have in the past, working with the Palestinian government if Hamas is now in charge ?
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mirroronamerica.blogspot.com
From an interview 2 years ago:
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townhall.com
As I noted earlier, the McCain campaign said that pre-conditions must be met before McCain would meet with Hamas. T he video the liberals put out only showed part of McCain's response. The video below shows that McCain has always contended he would negotiate with Hamas only after they ... well, here's the quote:
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mithras.blogs.com
upyernoz makes a very good, if capital-letter-impaired, point : the fact that mccain has been a darling of the media for so long has
its advantages. because they love him so, he's been invited to appear
on various news shows over the years to discuss every issue under the
sun. that means there's a whole lot of footage of him talking about
almost anything you can think of. it's going to be very easy to document mccain's flip-flops. Youtube exists. Sucks to be you, Mac.
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radamisto.blogspot.com
as Hayek pointed out , it should be easy to trip up any conservative politician and especially easy with McCain because he's been so busy pandering since he ran for the GOP nomination in 2000. Via Thers at Atrios , I learn that HuffPo already got the goods on McWAR and Hamas :
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dotcommonsense.blog-city.com
Though president Bush (whose administration has spent a long futile time talking to North Korea unsuccessfully attempting to keep it from extending it's nuclear weapon arsenal, and basically pardoned Libya for it's human rights violations) broke tradition and played politics while on a foreign policy trip calling Barack Obama an appeaser, it turns out that his boy, McCain, called for talks with Hamas two years ago. The games and dirty tricks from the right, just keep on coming. See Huffington Post:
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blogrevolution.com
Hillary turns fire on media
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reddiggulo.us
Five GOP Groups that Can't Stand John McCain
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nettertainment.blogspot.com
McCain, who seems like the most available guy on any campaign bus, bless him, heard about it from a reporter and agreed with Bush. Even though he's voiced having to deal with Hamas in the past. Even worse, he got it wrong on Ronald Reagan: Ronnie did negotiate with Iran.
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daledamos.blogspot.com
James P. Rubin writes in The Washington Post about an interview he had with McCain in 2006 :
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krupsjustsayin.blogspot.com
For example, did you know that John McCain was in favor of talking to Hamas before he was against it ? You wouldn't have if you simply read or listened to what was mostly doled out by the media yesterday. Fortunately, a reporter from the Washington Post recalled this interview with McCain from two years ago:
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blogd.com
Would someone please explain to me how McCain gets away with complete policy reversals,often within just a few weeks or months (drilling is/is not the answer, social security privatization, tax cuts, torture, etc. etc.-even flip-flopping ten times in two weeks ) and the press completely ignores the multiple and radical 180-degree turns-and yet whenever Obama changes something (he calls it "refining"; and while that sounds too much like "evolving," some say that Obama has a rational basis for his claim), like how he would handle the withdrawal from Iraq (when everyone suspected he would do this for a long time, so it's hardly "news"), not a reversal but a modification at worst-suddenly the entire media goes into a frenzy about it?
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lerterland.blogspot.com
John McCain was for negotiating with Hamas before he was against it. ( Via .)
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blogrevolution.com
Exclusive Video: McCain Was For Talking To Hamas Before He Was Against It...
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netscape.com
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blog.reidreport.com
John McCain is going to be Hamas' worst nightmare if elected ... if by nightmare you mean boring them to death while negotiating with them ...
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joshingpolitics.blogspot.com
Rubin has written an op-ed in Friday's Washington Post about his exchange with McCain, and The Huffington Post has obtained exclusive video. Here's the key excerpt:
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buzzflash.net
McCain (R-Idiot) Lies About Social Security Privatization
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iowaliberal.com
. Bush is trying the usual horseshit and getting clobbered immediately back by Obama, which is fucking terrific news for Democrats in November. The more Obama is seen as running against Bush, the more clearly the lines are drawn for Americans. And John McCain is helplessly pinned, forced to come out defending Bush and making Obama's case to America that he represents a continuation of Bush's policies .
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voxverax.blogspot.com
The Huffington Post has a video, here.
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tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/15/
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indistinctunion.wordpress.com
. Correction here . Correction to the correction , Rubin argues the original quotation was correct. I'm confused where Crowley got his quotation. I report you decide (I'm confused however on this one).
Though it is arguable that Hamas did recognize the ceasefire agreed to by Fatah prior to their election, so that they at that point had warranted some talks. But even in this correction it still doesn't change that his position is the same as Obama's and that he has to argue that because some dude from Hamas said some nice things about Obama clearly ever one should draw the inference that Obama is weak and terrorists know they can take him and American by extension somehow.
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unastronaut.wordpress.com
Here's a link to the video of John McCain discussing diplomatic dealings with Hamas two years ago. And today's video of a McCain campaign surrogate explaining the new, updated stance on what McCain meant two years ago:
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firstread.msnbc.msn.com
First Read is an analysis of the day's political news, from the NBC News political unit. There's also plenty of discussion of McCain's "2013" speech yesterday. McCain and his aides strenuously argued afterward that his remarks should not be interpreted as promoting a timetable for withdrawal, even implicitly, ...
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tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com
Must reads from WaPo and HuffPo (source story and video).
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dandelionsalad.wordpress.com
May 15, 2008 10:58 PM
Two years ago, in an interview with James Rubin for Sky News, Sen. John McCain expressed a willingness to negotiate with the terrorist group Hamas -- the very group that McCain has been relentlessly using to smear Sen. Barack Obama over the last several weeks.
Rubin has written an op-ed in Friday's Washington Post about his exchange with McCain, and The Huffington Post has obtained exclusive video. Here's the key excerpt:
RUBIN: "Do you think that American diplomats should be operating the way they have in the past, working with the Palestinian government if Hamas is now in charge?
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levellers.wordpress.com
Well, Bush, who gave up golf as a sacrifice for the troops in Iraq (you can't make this stuff up!), betrayed the American political tradition of refusing to criticize other politicians while abroad, intervened in the election process after promising not to do so, shamed the presidency (again) and has single-handedly angered and energized and united the entire Democratic Party by going to the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) and saying that Barack Obama would appease Israel's enemies like Iran and Hamas, comparing him to appeasers of Nazis!
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