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McCain Responds to Obama's Reported Undermining of the Commander-In-Chief During Wartime
National Review Online ^ | September 15, 2008 | Andy McCarthy

Posted on 09/15/2008 5:01:12 PM PDT by Roscoe Karns

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To: DoughtyOne

The one thing that has impressed me about McCain is that he immediately addresses his critics and the opposition in situations that need to be addressed. Something where the current administration has been lapsed. There is a way to address them effectively, and McCain seems to have that ability.

The wording of this statement was well done also. It is not an agreement to the accusation, but a request for O to respond to the accuser. McCain’s spokesman states that “if” true, action must be taken. Good CYB on McCain’s end.


161 posted on 09/15/2008 6:27:21 PM PDT by del4hope
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To: Heartland Mom

“How could the DNC put forth another candidate when it is too late to get on most state ballots?”

State committees will scramble to get the correct name on the ballot, law or no law, filing deadline or not. Don’t worry, everyone knows there must be a (D) on the ballot, it’s in the Constitution right after the part about primaries and conventions.

Actually, by federal law, nobody but the EC need vote. The rest is made up by the states.


162 posted on 09/15/2008 6:28:48 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: mojito
If the White House or the State Department is forced to comment on this, the fur will really start flying.

We need to FREEP everyone in Washington and all the media and demand an investigation - The ambassador needs to be depositioned NOW...before he's gotten to by the machine and "convinced" to be quiet

ANYThing on the news tonight?

163 posted on 09/15/2008 6:28:51 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (No trees were killed in sending this message but a lot of electrons were terribly agitated)
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To: Roscoe Karns

This has probably already been mentioned, but isn’t this actually above his pay-grade?


164 posted on 09/15/2008 6:30:17 PM PDT by Reagan79 (Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys)
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To: McGruff

I now have beer foaming out of my keyboard.

THAT was funny, I don’t care who you are.


165 posted on 09/15/2008 6:31:00 PM PDT by dfwddr
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To: Miss Didi

“And what is wrong with FR??? “

It’s slower than a condemned man eating his last meal.


166 posted on 09/15/2008 6:31:00 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Roscoe Karns

Let’s hope this starts getting more attention in the MSM. The word needs to go out.


167 posted on 09/15/2008 6:31:17 PM PDT by pctech
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To: Miss Didi
Huge thread in Breaking News...first reported in the NY Post and then on Fox, Drudge, Rush, Mark Levin, etc.

Wahoo!

168 posted on 09/15/2008 6:32:32 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (No trees were killed in sending this message but a lot of electrons were terribly agitated)
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To: del4hope

Thanks for the comments. They sound reasoned to me.


169 posted on 09/15/2008 6:33:24 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (McCain, the Ipecac President. Obama the strychnine president.)
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To: Roscoe Karns

Wow!, Just Wow! I’ve read so much about obammy - and nothing seemed to stick. But this? This is as bad as it gets. That this arrogant power-mad fiend would try to both undermine our Government and unnecessarily endanger troops for his own self aggrandizement is so beyond the pale that it defies description. Moreover, it would seem that his only retorts are that either the Iraqi Foreign Minister is lying, or the New York Post is lying. I’m betting that he and his minions simply blame everyone else... It will backfire... I predict that we will see a landslide election of McCain-Palin that will be unprecedented.


170 posted on 09/15/2008 6:33:39 PM PDT by GunnyB (Once a Marine, Always a Marine)
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To: Heartland Mom

“How could the DNC put forth another candidate when it is too late to get on most state ballots? Very intriguing.”

It would be a huge mess. Not to mention probably so damaging to the entire DNP that regardless of who replaced him only left wing-nuts would vote for them this year.

Of course that is only if anything comes of this.


171 posted on 09/15/2008 6:36:56 PM PDT by redk
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To: maine-iac7

//If obambi did this - and it’s totally within character//

Wholeheartedly agreed.

And I thought Obama was going to get another pass. Good going McCain.


172 posted on 09/15/2008 6:38:02 PM PDT by valkyry1 (McCain/Palin 2008)
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To: XEHRpa
Whoa! In reading his explanation, it sounds like "GUILTY" - but with his ego, he doesn't feel it was out of place!

hang him high

173 posted on 09/15/2008 6:41:18 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (No trees were killed in sending this message but a lot of electrons were terribly agitated)
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To: John 3_19-21
"a no-win for the Obots in the media and it will be ignored."

History in this election cycle has been that the media totally ignores ANY negatives about the Messiah, and trumpets the smallest possible details about Sarah Palin (such as the latest "tanning bed in the Executive Mansion")

:)

174 posted on 09/15/2008 6:41:24 PM PDT by traditional1 ("The American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery")
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To: ConservativeMan55

I love Steve Schmidt! And he is so cute!

Put me on the list!


175 posted on 09/15/2008 6:41:43 PM PDT by JRochelle
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To: Mr. Brightside

re: McCain’s Rapid Response Team

fwiw, I posted the breaking news thread here at 5:03 am EST but I for one did not expect or want the McCain camp to respond too quickly — I may be wrong, but it hardly occurred to me to try to send it to them (though I also assumed that someone there would notice it rather early in the work day, so I didn’t worry about that angle)...... but I did not think the story could be advanced initially by the McCain camp jumping on it, or at least that would not have been useful until it had already gotten some circulation on the web and pickup in at least some major media...... it’s a delicate issue with limited information (so far) and it was better to let it get some more info and competing perspectives before anyone from the McCain campaign tried to jump into the fray.

Best to let it develop with input from bloggers and whatever MSM journalists are actually honest enough to address it. The McCain statement seems like just the right line for them to take right now, but I don’t see any added benefit for them to have made the statement early in the day.

On another issue, where all the facts are already clear and it’s possible to really hammer hard, I agree that rapid response within a couple of hours is key. But I’m not sure it would have helped in this case, and it might simply have looked (or been portrayed) as though the McCain camp was flogging the story, when they had nothing to do with it.


176 posted on 09/15/2008 6:42:23 PM PDT by Enchante (OBAMAGATE: Iraqi Foreign Minister Says Obama Tried to Derail Agreement on Troop Withdrawals!!!)
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To: GunnyB

//That this arrogant power-mad fiend would try to both undermine our Government and unnecessarily endanger troops for his own self aggrandizement is so beyond the pale that it defies description//

It should be equal to 20 years in the Pen, but Obama will get a pass from the MSM. They will spike the story if they can.


177 posted on 09/15/2008 6:42:47 PM PDT by valkyry1 (McCain/Palin 2008)
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To: Roscoe Karns

HERE COME’S THE BOOM! HERE COME’S THE BOOM!

READY OR NOT! (POD)


178 posted on 09/15/2008 6:43:27 PM PDT by Texas4ever (SIT DOWN JUNIOR :))
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To: Frank L
Not quite. He’s trying to play checkers while the real game is chess. And he’s up against grand masters.

Not quite, Obama is playing ping pong while the real game is life.

179 posted on 09/15/2008 6:43:47 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Roscoe Karns

This violates the Logan Act if there was negotiations.


180 posted on 09/15/2008 6:44:31 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (Palin in 08)
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