As an interview from 2006 shows, John McCain was for talking to Hamas before he was against it.
Rubin: McCain's Rhetoric On Hamas Is 'The Ultimate Flip-Flop'
thinkprogress.orgFound 84 days, 6 hours, 37 minutes, and 6 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 84 days, 16 hours, 40 minutes, and 59 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. ...
Talking to Terrorists
washingtonmonthly.comFound 84 days, 15 hours, 30 minutes, and 9 seconds agoTALKING TO TERRORISTS....On Thursday President Bush said that talking to "terrorists and radicals" is appeasement, and later that day John McCain said he agreed. But in the Washington Post today, James Rubin says that McCain hasn't always felt this way: ...
Can WaPo editors read?
redstate.comFound 84 days, 6 hours, 18 minutes, and 43 seconds agoThe Washington Post should either fire their editors or send them to remedial education. They should be ashamed that they let this garbage get printed. Despite his reputation in the media as a charming maverick, McCain has shown that he is also happy to use Nixon-style dirty campaign tactics. ...
All My Fans Around the World, They Love Real Talk
reason.comFound 84 days, 4 hours, 53 minutes, and 23 seconds agoOne of Barack Obama's offhand YouTube debate answers from last year-that he would meet "without precondition" with the leaders of Iran, Venezuela and North Korea-has stuck to him ever since. Obama, who isn't much for admitting mistakes (assuming this was one), claims he's talking about a foreign policy ...
Morning Questions
time-blog.comFound 84 days, 5 hours, 59 minutes, and 38 seconds agoDid McCain read this regarding Pakistan this morning? Just asking. Extra Credit Question : Why is it okay for McCain to say one thing in Davos and the exact opposite in the 2008 presidential campaign?
crooksandliars.com
HuffPo has obtained exclusive video from an interview McCain gave two years ago in which he implied that he would be willing to work with Hamas.
James Rubin, the reporter who interviewed McCain writes :
Given that exchange, the new John McCain might say that Hamas should be rooting for the old John McCain to win the presidential election. The old John McCain, it appears, was ready to do business with a Hamas-led government, while both Clinton and Obama have said that Hamas must change its policies toward Israel and terrorism before it can have diplomatic relations with the United States.
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dailykos.com
But two years ago, during an interview with James Rubin, was this exchange:
Q: 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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corner.nationalreview.com
The media continues to have no compunction about distorting the words of John McCain to make it look like he's making spurious charges against Barack Obama. Earlier in the week, I noted Washington Post op-ed by Richard Cohen that wrongly left the impression that McCain had mischaracterized what Hamas said about Obama: "[McCain's] message went on to claim that Obama's foreign policy positions have earned him 'kind words' from Hamas" - Excuse me? That's not a claim, that's exactly what happened.
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cadenhead.org
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digbysblog.blogspot.com
(McCain, by the way, was for talking to Hamas before he was against it, another example of torching the past.)
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edcone.typepad.com
What kind of weak-kneed appeaser would even suggest talking to Hamas?
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themoderatevoice.com
In what could prove to be a damaging moment for the McCain campaign, Former Clinton Administration State Department spokesman James Rubin has written an op-ed highlighting an interview he conducted with McCain a few years ago for Sky News in the UK. In the interview, conducted shortly after Hamas' victory in Palestinian elections, the following exchange occurred:
[Rubin] asked: "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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thecarpetbaggerreport.com
When evidence surfaced yesterday that John McCain advocated at least some kind of diplomatic relationship between the United States and Hamas, I assumed the McCain campaign would just say the senator has since changed his mind. After all, the Presidential Candidate McCain frequently bears no resemblance to Senator McCain, and the two routinely take the opposite position on key policy disputes.
But that's not what the McCain campaign decided to do. Instead, in true Bush-like fashion, the McCain gang denied reality altogether.
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firedoglake.com
So, George Bush, voted most second most popular President ever by both the James Buchanan and Warren G. Harding Fan Clubs , goes off to another country and makes a speech slandering his potential successor.
And John McCain, riding those 27% approval coattails jumps in with both feet, because he's so darn classy :
Found 84 days, 11 hours, 24 minutes, and 9 seconds ago
media.nationalreview.com
[ Greg Pollowitz ] I wonder if the suits at the WaPo are at all embarrassed that it took bloggers like Jim Geraghty and Hot Air literally minutes of searching to debunk the claims of the James Rubin op-ed in today's Post on a supposed McCain flip-flop on Hamas? If not, they should be. 05/16 01:27 PM
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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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crosstabs.org
The Washington Post should either fire their editors or send them to remedial education. They should be ashamed that they let this garbage get printed.
Despite his reputation in the media as a charming maverick, McCain has shown that he is also happy to use Nixon-style dirty campaign tactics. By charging recently that Hamas is rooting for an Obama victory ,
McCain isn't "charging". A senior Hamas leader said that "actually we like Mr. Obama. We hope he will (win) the election [...] and he has a vision to change America.
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americablog.com
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democrats.org
It's being called "the ultimate flip-flop in American politics" by a former State Department official under President Clinton. As Think Progress points out , McCain now says "It is a grave and dangerous mistake for an American leader to meet with a terrorist organization like Hamas."
Here's what McCain had to say before, in an interview:
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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ndnblog.org
The new McCain ad.
Josh Marshall has a smart look at some of the themes behind the ad, and how it evokes the now infamous Call Me ad from 2006.
To me, the ad also is full of bitter emotions. Spite. Jealousy. Anger. Emotions people often associate with losing ventures, ones frustrated with their inability to keep up with their competition. No matter what else, this new McCain ad is - given that it replaced an ad that the campaign has now admitted was untrue - this new McCain ad is not a good sign of the mental state of the McCain campaign itself.
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magnoopere.blogspot.com
Shorter version - he was for talking to Hamas before he was against it :
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belowthebeltway.com
James Rubin talks about an interview he did with John McCain two years ago:
Two years ago, just after Hamas won the Palestinian parliamentary elections, I interviewed McCain for the British network Sky News's "World News Tonight" program. Here is the crucial part of our exchange:
I asked: "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 answered: "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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burnedoverdistrict.blogspot.com
EXTRA: See how the Old Fart wanted to talk with Hamas before he had to kiss conservative ass to win the nomination.
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itsmypulp.wordpress.com
Obama responds. McCain characterized Obama's statement as a hysterical diatribe . Judge for yourself.
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rising-hegemon.blogspot.com
Yeah, right . See McCain hold up a sheet of paper...PEACE IN OUR TIME...2013 (maybe)
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bornatthecrestoftheempire.blogspot.com
In the WaPo today, James Rubin points out that McCain was willing to engage in talks with Hamas just two years ago. (
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donklephant.com
( UPDATE : Go here to read how McCain's statement was taken out of context. In other words, this post was based on a false report and should be read as such, even though I still think McCain raising money off of Hamas' "endorsement" of Obama is hacky at best.)
As most of you know by now, Hamas said they wanted Obama as president. Not much he could do about that, and he's stated before that he wouldn't be open to talking to them, but there it is nonetheless.
Unfortunately, McCain took that opportunity to try and land a cheap shot against the Illinois senator and even went so far as to raise money off of it .
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democracyarsenal.org
Today in the Washington Post, Jamie Rubin has a bit of a blockbuster - apparently John McCain wasn't always Hamas's greatest nightmare. In an interview two years ago conducted with the UK's Sky News he had this to say about Hamas after their victory in parliamentary elections:
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theobfuscationreport.blogspot.com
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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gamblingblues.com
What, exactly, is wrong with this position :
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icestationtango.blogspot.com
( more )
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salon.glenrose.net
From the Washington Post given his own position on Hamas, McCain is the last politician who should be attacking Obama. Two years ago, just after Hamas won the Palestinian parliamentary elections, I interviewed McCain for the British network Sky News's "World News Tonight" program. Here is the crucial part of our exchange: I asked: "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 answered:
Found 84 days, 5 hours, 25 minutes, and 39 seconds ago
firstread.msnbc.msn.com
The McCain campaign is pushing back against today's Washington Post op-ed by James P. Rubin, who points out that McCain said in an interview that he was open to dealing with Hamas. "They're the government; sooner or later we are going to have to deal with them, one way or another," McCain said.
McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds responds: "There should be no confusion, John McCain has always believed that serious engagement would require mandatory conditions and Hamas must change itself fundamentally -- renounce violence, abandon its goal of eradicating Israel and accept a two state solution.
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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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berkeleybubble.org
Here's more from Jamie Rubin's article today in the Washington Post, detailing his interview with McCain:
But given his own position on Hamas, McCain is the last politician who should be attacking Obama. Two years ago, just after Hamas won the Palestinian parliamentary elections, I interviewed McCain for the British network Sky News's "World News Tonight" program. Here is the crucial part of our exchange:
I asked: "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?
Found 84 days, 4 hours, 51 minutes, and 36 seconds ago
minnesotamonitor.com
For more than a month now, John McCain has been blasting Barack Obama for his alleged "endorsement" by Hamas and for his willingness to, as future ex-President GWB phrased it the other day in his speech to the Israeli Knesset, "negotiate with terrorists."
Today James P. Rubin, a journalist who interviewed McCain in 2006 shortly after Hamas's triumph in Palestinian parliamentary elections, writes in the Washington Post that McCain then advocated a position very like the one he's now skewering Obama for touting.
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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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desertbeacon.blogspot.com
" isn't anti-Semitic? Some commenters have also found it interesting that Hagee's apology was not addressed to any official Church leaders, but to members of activist Catholic organizations like the Catholic League for Civil and Religious Rights. ** If the McCain campaign keeps shedding lobbyists will there be anyone available to answer the phone? Craig Shirley, of Shirley & Bannister Associates, is the latest to get kicked off the Weasel Wagon. [ Politico ] McCain seems to have done a major flip-flop on holding discussions with Hamas , although a carefully phrased denial says not; and appears to have rotated another 180 on whether the NRA should have a major role in the Republican Party.
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brendancalling.com
of Pennsylvania and South Jersey
The letter cited above was published in today's Philadelphia Inquirer , owned by noted Republican activist Brian Tierney
It's always sad and amusing when people who think they are very smart write stupid things. As the Washington Post reported today ,
McCain, meanwhile, is guilty of hypocrisy. I am a supporter of Hillary Clinton and believe that she was right to say, about McCain's statement on Hamas, "I don't think that anybody should take that seriously.
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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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politics4geekz.blogspot.com
[ UPDATE: Time's Joe Klein asks all the right questions in regards to this latest salvo by the Bush Republicans.]
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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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blog.alexwhalen.com
At this point I really am actually starting to feel sorry for the guy.
Sen. John McCain, the presumptive nominee for the Republican nomination, was born in 1936. That was the year the Hoover Dam was finished, Gone with the Wind was first published, the Triborough Bridge was opened, and the Abraham Lincoln Brigade sailed (no airplanes!) from New York City on its way to Spanish Civil War. He's older than Scrabble , the Area Code , the TV Dinner , and chocolate chip cookies .
So its really not his fault that he doesn't understand the Internet.
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infographics.typepad.com
Morning Questions - Swampland - TIME
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lugosi.blogspot.com
Wrong. A couple of years ago, right after Hamas won the Palestinian parliamentary elections, McCain was asked what that meant for American diplomacy in the Middle East. His response: "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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blogrevolution.com
The Washington Monthly (#) :
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the-osterley-times.blogspot.com
James Rubin, the reporter who interviewed McCain writes : Given that exchange, the new John McCain might say that Hamas should be rooting for the old John McCain to win the presidential election. The old John McCain, it appears, was ready to do business with a Hamas-led government, while both Clinton and Obama have said that Hamas must change its policies toward Israel and terrorism before it can have diplomatic relations with the United States. Even if McCain had not favored doing business with Hamas two years ago, he had no business smearing Barack Obama.
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cayankee.blogs.com
In the Washington Post , James Rubin writes an advocacy "article" for Obama, smearing John McCain and misrepresenting what McCain actually says about talking to the terrorist group Hamas.
Last night, SkyNews posted the entire video of Rubin's interview with McCain. The SkyNews video clearly shows that the craftily edited version of the interview Rubin published in yesterday's Post is misleading at best:
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scatablog.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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reddiggulo.us
Five GOP Groups that Can't Stand John McCain
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redstatenetwork.com
The Washington Post should either fire their editors or send them to remedial education. They should be ashamed that they let this garbage get printed.
Despite his reputation in the media as a charming maverick, McCain has shown that he is also happy to use Nixon-style dirty campaign tactics. By charging recently that Hamas is rooting for an Obama victory ,
McCain isn't "charging". A senior Hamas leader said that "actually we like Mr. Obama. We hope he will (win) the election [...] and he has a vision to change America.
Found 84 days, 6 hours, 18 minutes, and 41 seconds ago
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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dailykos.com.
But two years ago, during an interview with James Rubin, was this exchange:
Q: 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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annezook.com
I've always said he was dangerously crazy (not really the point at this moment, but I'm having trouble getting past it) and a liar. Like with that Texas Two-Step he's dancing around what he's calling " appeasement "* when he's really just in a snit because someone said he was wrong, wrong, wrong, and public opinion is agreeing with them.
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weeklystandard.com
Here's the transcript:
CNN'S DANA BASH: "You remember these interviews were done shortly after Hamas won the Palestinian elections. Lou, the McCain campaign just in the past couple of hours, found a link to more of Jamie Rubin's interview from back then. In it, I'll read you a quote from the rest of or at least more of the interview, In that quote Sen. McCain says, 'I think part of the relationship will be dictated by how Hamas acts, not how the United States acts.' Now the McCain campaign, as you can image, says that this is proof that Senator McCain has been consistent all along, and I should tell you that CNN asked Jamie Rubin earlier today for the rest of the interview or at least for a transcript and he said he didn't have it.
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rathergate.com
They think so at the Washington Post : John McCain is Dick Nixon.
Despite his reputation in the media as a charming maverick, McCain has shown that he is also happy to use Nixon-style dirty campaign tactics. By charging recently that Hamas is rooting for an Obama victory ,
No, Hamas themselves said that they were pulling for Obama.
The writer, James Rubin, then goes on to say that McCain himself has said he wanted to talk to Hamas. McCain actually said that he "we are going to have to deal with them, one way or another," but Rubin said that means McCain wants to talk to them.
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bubbanear.blogspot.com
Mark Steyn put this latest bit of Dem/Lefty/"Progressive"/Libthink babble into proper perspective:
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abumuqawama.blogspot.com
Hell, despite what he says now, even John McCain would talk to Hamas...
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votenoonjoe.blogspot.com
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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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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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com
It turns out there could be a big problem with John McCain's charge that Barack Obama is unfit to be president on the basis of his desire to negotiate with hostile foreign leaders. In fact, McCain was saying very much the same thing two years ago -- and it was about Hamas, a group Obama hasn't proposed dealing with, but one that McCain has nevertheless gone out of his way to associate with Obama.
Jamie Rubin writes this morning that he interviewed McCain after Hamas won the Palestinian elections, and asked whether American diplomats should work with the new government.
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augustafreepress.com
- McCain flip-flop on Hamas?
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marcambinder.theatlantic.com
Jamie Rubin, writing in the Washington Post , detects a contradiction in the way Sen. John McCain prefers to relate to Hamas today. Here is McCain in 2006:
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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christophercolaninno.wordpress.com
Speaking of people that want to negotiate, which apparently means "appease" Hamas it's good to see John McCain used to be one.
But given his own position on Hamas, McCain is the last politician who should be attacking Obama. Two years ago, just after Hamas won the Palestinian parliamentary elections, I interviewed McCain for the British network Sky News's "World News Tonight" program. Here is the crucial part of our exchange:
I asked: "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?
Found 84 days, 5 hours, 59 minutes, and 41 seconds ago
mnmonitor.com
For more than a month now, John McCain has been blasting Barack Obama for his alleged "endorsement" by Hamas and for his willingness to, as future ex-President GWB phrased it the other day in his speech to the Israeli Knesset, "negotiate with terrorists."
Today James P. Rubin, a journalist who interviewed McCain in 2006 shortly after Hamas's triumph in Palestinian parliamentary elections, writes in the Washington Post that McCain then advocated a position very like the one he's now skewering Obama for touting.
Found 84 days, 4 hours, 50 minutes, and 52 seconds ago
idrunk.com
HuffPo has obtained exclusive video from an interview McCain gave two years ago in which he implied that he would be willing to work with Hamas.
James Rubin, a reporter who interviewed McCain writes :
Given that exchange, a new John McCain might say that Hamas should be rooting for a old John McCain to win a presidential election. a old John McCain, it Drunk Newspears, was ready to do business with a Hamas-led government, while both Clinton & Obama have said that Hamas must change its policies toward Israel & terrorism before it can have diplomatic relations with a United States.
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firedoglake.com
The prayers of the American people are with Ariel Sharon". Look at California yesterday, three Republicans upheld the California Constitution. Of course, he also got his picture taken while on a bicycle, too. Rubin has an editorial in today's Washington Post where he accused McCain of hypocrisy. He has ...
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harrykunt.wordpress.com
Given his own position on Hamas, McCain is the last politician who should be attacking Obama. Two years ago, just after Hamas won the Palestinian parliamentary elections, I interviewed McCain for the British network Sky News's "World News Tonight" program. Here is the crucial part of our exchange:
read more | digg story
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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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matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com
16 May 2008 12:41 pm
James Rubin notes that just a couple of years ago John McCain was talking like Neville Chamberlain:
I asked: "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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bhfrick.dailykos.com
But two years ago, during an interview with James Rubin, was this exchange:
Q: 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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