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Misspeaks misspoken.

Posted By: It takes a dem to know a dem on 2008-08-13
In Reply to: Well...no, I didn't see any of the gaffes Obama made on... - sam

CNN is only a little less conservative than Fox, but not by a whole lot. Neither one of them is “fair” or “balanced.” It not so much a question of what they do report, rather one of what they don’t. It takes a dem to know a dem and those guys on Fox are what Fox calls "the other side" in a lame attempt to justify their "fair and balanced" slogan. On the rare occasion that they have a dem on their programs who is not on the Fox payroll, Fox commentators proceed to interrupt, talk over, pan to other panelist and cut off all together. For an independent, you certainly seem to spend much your spare time digging up dirt on Obama. Dems and independents are recognized by their ideology, not their labels.

About those gaffes. The dates cited are helpful to place all these statements in the middle of a frenzied primary schedule. McCain gets this same consideration when examining his gaffes. Eight out of ten of Obama’s gaffes have been addressed and answered and will be left up to the reader(s) to accept, reject or ignore. That leaves 2 out of 10 misspeaks that Obama appears to be unaware of (the NAs). The issue is not misspeaks in the first place. It is the legitimate concern over senility and Alzheimer’s, which was addressed in the post below, “Don’t be Scared…Get Smart.” At age 46, for Obama, this will never be a concern, even if he serves 8 years, but for McCain, it has the potential to be a problem within 8 minutes of his inauguration speech and that is a really scary proposition for many.

We are stretched so thin in Iraq and Afghanistan that he is perfectly correct to say “we do not have the capacity.” Capacity for what? Obama still has this crazy notion that Bin Laden and Al-Quaeda/Taliban/ are responsible for 9/11, not the late Saddam and the entire population of Iraq. Efforts to capture the mastermind have been unsuccessful to date and he would like to wrap up that unfinished piece of business. Demoralizing his followers would be a nice perk. Chances are we could find a whole lot more Al-Quaeda/Taliban leaders and operatives hanging around in an Islamic Shiite country like Afghanistan rather than a secular Sunni country such as Iraq. “Not just troops.” Arms, tanks, surveillance, air support and so forth could come in handy. So would funding.

The passage about translators and agricultural specialists appears in this link:
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/05/14/obama-stumbles-on-iraq-afghanistan/

Hot air. How appropro. A corrected mistake does not a mistake make. Obama mixed up a language and corrected himself. McCain mixed up country, religion, terrorist groups and their geography in one fell swoop, and had to be corrected by an aide.

The oil field resource assistance statement is misleading. Obama said nothing about poppies in Iraq. Hot air did. With regard to the agricultural specialists and US assistance, might want to skim over these links for starters, instead. Google “food security Iraq” for more.
http://antiwar.com/jamail/?articleid=10554
http://www.fas.usda.gov/icd/iraq/iraq.asp
http://www.usaid.gov/iraq/accomplishments/foodsec.html

Go here to see a map of how the wall separates the UT at Brownsville main campus from its International Technology, Education and Commerce Campus. Seeing is believing.
http://notexasborderwall.blogspot.com/2007/09/brownsville-no-border-wall-pachanga-in.html

Sunshine/Sunrise: NA

Sioux City/Sioux Falls. Corrected himself. Didn’t need an aide to do this for him. Not only did he know where he was, but he offered to explain and apologized. The rest of the statement is omitted in this post: “I said it wrong. I’ve been in Iowa for too long. I’m sorry.”
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/05/16/obama-to-sioux-falls-thank-you-sioux-city/
DOMA: Nothing inconsistent in Obama’s statement. Go here to read the nature of the act: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_of_Marriage_Act. You will find this passage, with which Obama agrees. “DOMA Section 2 is occasionally argued to be unnecessary, regardless of whether it is constitutional. If the legal pronouncements of one state conflict with the public policy of another state, federal courts in the past have been reluctant to apply the law of another state in contravention of its own public policy. The public policy exception has been applied in cases of marriage such as polygamy, miscegenation or consanguinity.”
Grand Rapids/Rapid City: AGAIN, he is aware of himself, without the help of an aide, and jokes about his “mistake.”

57 states: This dead horse has been effectively addressed in the post below, “Don’t be scared….Get smart.” No need to repeat it here.

Matt/Tim: NA.


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JERUSALEM - Senator John McCain’s trip overseas was supposed to highlight his foreign policy acumen, and his supporters hoped that it would showcase him in a series of statesmanlike meetings with world leaders throughout the Middle East and Europe while the Democratic candidates continued to squabble back home.

But all did not go according to plan on Tuesday in Amman, Jordan, when Mr. McCain, fresh from a visit to Iraq, misidentified some of the main players in the Iraq war.

Mr. McCain said several times in his visit to Jordan — in a news conference and in a radio interview — that he was concerned that Iran was training Al Qaeda in Iraq. The United States believes that Iran, a Shiite country, has been training and financing Shiite extremists in Iraq, but not Al Qaeda, which is a Sunni insurgent group.

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Mr. McCain said at a news conference in Amman that he continued to be concerned about Iranians “taking Al Qaeda into Iran, training them and sending them back.” Asked about that statement, Mr. McCain said: “Well, it’s common knowledge and has been reported in the media that Al Qaeda is going back into Iran and receiving training and are coming back into Iraq from Iran. That’s well known. And it’s unfortunate.”

It was not until he got a quiet word of correction in his ear from Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, who was traveling with Mr. McCain as part of a Congressional delegation on a nearly weeklong trip, that Mr. McCain corrected himself.

“I’m sorry,” Mr. McCain said, “the Iranians are training extremists, not Al Qaeda.”

Democrats pounce
Mr. McCain has based his campaign in large part on his assertion that he is the candidate best prepared to deal with Iraq, and the Democrats wasted little time in jumping on his misstatement to question his knowledge and judgment.

“After eight years of the Bush administration’s incompetence in Iraq, McCain’s comments don’t give the American people a reason to believe that he can be trusted to offer a clear way forward,” Karen Finney, a spokeswoman for the Democratic National Committee, said in a statement. “Not only is Senator McCain wrong on Iraq once again, but he showed he either doesn’t understand the challenges facing Iraq and the region or is willing to ignore the facts on the ground.”

Brian Rogers, a spokesman for the McCain campaign, responded: “In a press conference today, John McCain misspoke and immediately corrected himself by stating that Iran is in fact supporting radical Islamic extremists in Iraq, not Al Qaeda — as is reflected in the transcript. The reality is that the American people have deep concerns about the Democratic candidates’ judgment and readiness on matters of national security, and that’s why the D.N.C. launched their attack today.”

The Democrats noted that Mr. McCain, Republican of Arizona, had made similar comments about Iran training Al Qaeda in an interview with “The Hugh Hewitt Show,” a radio program he called from Amman. “As you know, there are Al Qaeda operatives that are taken back into Iran, given training as leaders, and they’re moving back into Iraq,” Mr. McCain said, according to a transcript posted on the show’s Web site.

Previous missteps
It was not the first time that Mr. McCain’s remarks during a Congressional trip overseas have caused headaches for his campaign. It was nearly a year ago that his talk about the improving security situation in Iraq made headlines, after a trip he made to a marketplace there was guarded by more than 100 soldiers in armored Humvees and attack helicopters, becoming fodder for Democrats and critics of the war.

Mr. McCain later said he misspoke. And in a speech he gave last April about the need to succeed in Iraq, he made light of it. “I just returned from my fifth visit to Iraq,” he said. “Unlike the veterans here today, I risked nothing more threatening than a hostile press corps.”

The latest trip was a Congressional fact-finding mission, but Mr. McCain, a presidential candidate, planned to hold a fund-raiser on Thursday at a stop in London. He traveled with two senators who strongly support his presidential bid: Mr. Lieberman, an independent of Connecticut, and Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina. Their trip to Iraq on Sunday coincided with one by Vice President Dic*k Cheney; both trips, in which the visitors spoke about the improvements in Iraq, were somewhat overshadowed by a bombing on Monday that killed more than 40 people in Karbala.

From Iraq, Mr. McCain traveled to Jordan, and then here to Israel, where he and his colleagues paid their respects at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum, and then met with President Shimon Peres of Israel at his residence.

Mr. Peres called Mr. McCain a good friend of Israel. And noting that Mr. McCain had been hopping all over the Middle East, Mr. Peres told him, “I really admire your courage and stamina.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23697639/

There are plenty of misspeaks to be found
from ALL the candidates from both parties. That doesn't make it right but arguing over whose misspeak is the worse doesn't get us anywhere.

So don't bother to duck. I'm not gonna throw anything.
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