Democratic Insanity, Day 2
- 05.16.2008 - 11:32 AMFormer State Department Spokesman Jamie Rubin (no relation) penned an op-ed in the Washington Post in which he quotes John McCain saying of Hamas: “They’re the government; sooner or later we are going to have to deal with them, one way or another. . . ” Many in the mainstream media and the left blogosphere have jumped on this as “evidence” of some great inconsistency in McCain’s views on Hamas.
This is supposed to be a gotcha quote? It doesn’t appear that McCain was saying we should talk to Hamas immediately and without preconditions, or that we should talk directly to their state sponsor Iran (the latter has been the real point of contention of late). It should also be noted that Jamie Rubin was a spokesman for Madeline Albright and a supporter of Hillary Clinton, both whom have excoriated Obama for his position on holding direct, unconditional talks with the leader of Iran and other countries. But what’s a little inconsistency between friends?
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May 16th, 2008 at 11:37 AM
When he says “one way or another” that must mean: either diplomatically or militarily. His statement reads more like a threat than an olive branch.
May 16th, 2008 at 11:45 AM
mcain should not speak. he is bad at it
May 16th, 2008 at 12:16 PM
Lester, you wouldn’t mind that if he agreed with you.
May 16th, 2008 at 12:44 PM
Don’t mess with Jester, Bob. There’s no upside.
The dishonesty of the Obamamaniacal response to Bush and McCain, continued all rhetorical flags flying in Obama’s comments today, is truly breathtaking. We need a new word for the hypocritical accusation of hypocrisy - typically, as here, joined to dishonest accusations of dishonesty, demagogical charges of demagogy, and paranoid diagnoses of paranoia. “Disingenuous” doesn’t begin to express it.
May 16th, 2008 at 12:51 PM
How about “self-referential accusations”
May 16th, 2008 at 3:19 PM
CK, you’ve hit on it. In Obama World, everything is off-limit, and he will spend the entire campaign pointing out that one message, or the other, is out-of-bounds.
May 16th, 2008 at 8:06 PM
Jamie Rubin is doing what he does best: sucking up for a job in the next Dem administration. He knows Hillary is toast so he’s losing no time servicing Obama.