McCain Backs Away From ‘Timetable’ Remark

Mcain is flipping out again!!!!!!!!!!

Surely everyone saw this coming. McCain just experienced a brief moment of his old maverick candor that he has now been trained to deny/suppress.
Now he’s been yelled at by Schmidt, so it won’t happen again, and he must deny, deny, deny about the timetable quip.
http://www.political-buzz.com/

This whole campaign by Obama is winning the White House at any cost and that include abondoning Iraq before complete security has been reached. He refuses to say the surge helped in Iraq but wants to promote a surge in Pakistan/Afgfhanistan. DOES THIS MAN KNOW WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT? Did he learn anything on this expensive trip paid partly by taxpayers?

MARY FACE IT MCAIN IS A MESS HIS CAMPAIGN IS A MESS AND QUITE FRANKLY MCAIN IS TOO OLD AND OUT OF TOUCH TO BE POTUS!!!!!

I think its risky McCain saying things like ‘Obama doesn’t understand.’ Still seems that McCain is taking Obama a little too lightly. Needs to take him more seriously if he really wants to win!

Either McShame is dealing with hefty bout of Alzheimers or I am watching a rerun of an unethical Lying Mr Magoo!
By the way which wars has he one anyway?
Delusional!

McCain admitted today he’s not really interested in nor well versed in cultural issues. He’s said previously he doesn’t understand the economy. His energy policy is based around drilling and gas tax holidays because it polls well and is pure political pandering as it won’t help us in the short or long term. He’s quickly adopting Obama’s foreign policy on Iraq timetables, more troops in Afghanistan and negotiating with Iran. There is NO reason to elect this guy President.

Obama was against the war in Iraq when it wasn’t politically popular to be against the war. What about that McCain.

Angie,
Take a chill pill. Please don’t use all caps to scream at Mary…everyone on this blog is entitled to their opinion. You can disagree, but please try to refrain from your temper tantrums. Some of us find them as annoying as you do Mary’s comments. Now take a deep breath and repeat ten times: Yes, we can. Obama is the King of the World! Feel better yet?

“we were greeted as liberators.”?????
Maybe he was thinking about the downed Saddam Hussein statue and Iraqi citizens jumping up and down on it.
Now, I say never overstay your welcome. Time to skee-daddle. Of course, off to Afghanistan continues to put our troops in harms way.

the FLIP-FLOPPER’s flip-flopping is AMAZING, unlike other politicians he flip-flopping is LEGEND.
how can you flip flop on a particular issue so soon.
timetable
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on thursday: how can obama be calling for a timetable
on friday: obama’s timetable is a good timetable
on sunday: i never said anything about a timetable
gay adoption
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last week: NO gay adoption
last week 2 minutes later: Yes on gay adoption
today: NO gay adoption
mcFlip MAKE UP YOU FLIP-FLOPPING mind.

McCain banked on the freedom fighter strategy to quell the violence (don’t kid yourselves the strategy of giving insurgents money and guns and power just like we did with the “freedom fighters in Afghanistan is the only way this surge worked…
problem is now we created a new situation with the “sons of Iraq” that is the same as we had with Reaga’s freedom fighters…
those freedomn fighters soon toook over the country under thenname the Taliban…and gave their fellow freedom fighters (Osama Bin Laden and al qaeda) residency in the country.
so for this strategy to work Mccain banked on us occupying for a very long time.
unfortunately he is not an economist and didn’t realize what that would mean not only to our resources but the world economic situation.
this man should never be President…he’s not smart enough.

As an 82 year old independent great grandmother who began the primaries on the fence, I observe that once again the Republicanas are outdoing themselves in snide comments. I remember the first time my mother voted for a Democrat for president saying: “The Republicans used to be the party which stood for the good things.” Dimly, I remember that, and there have been a few individuals… Noweadays, judging from tactics in recent campaigns and this one they have become “NaRROW AND NASTY” They do seem to outdo the Democrats in lowdown smear tactics, and some p[eople must buy into that lousy stuff! MCcAIN will pounce on Barack if he does or if he doesn’t. McCain does not seem to comprehend what Obam is attempting to do, and I am not sure a lot of the public gets it either. Or maybe he just doesn’t want to acknowledge it?
As the p[ublic “sort of–almost” elected G. W. Bush twice ( and say, G. W. it was never a mandate!), will the American Public flub it again with another worse mistake at this point in History? Horrors!
Could McCain’s criticism of Barack’s trip to Europe be somewhat based on jealousy? Is he really a sorehead? Some elements of this seem show through from time to time. Temper., temper, John. I am older than you.
Could John McCain conceiveably attract and hold a crowd of 200,00 with wonderful speechifying? Not on your life! Barack took him up on the tauntings about going to Iraq and quite successfully went all over! It would seem there is a bit of the green-eyed monster in McCain’s reaction. Hard to blam the old geezer!

I am getting the impression that Senator McCain’s responses are being taken out of context. Isn’t each statement context dependent? It would be helpful to the voters if the entire context of a response by a candidate to a question was included in an article, especially when citing a previous comment.
Instead it seems that some of the comments become content-loaded — and extrapolations are made by the writer. This appears to be undermining the credibility of the report – not the candidate. I don’t perceive Senator McCain as distancing himself from his comment — I perceive him as providing clarification for the benefit of the voters. The word “distancing” chosen by Ms. Bruce — does not reflect what really happened. Candidate McCain offered CLARIFICATION: and that is the ethical thing to do. Reporters, please be careful in your selection of your adjectives — we, the readers appreciate fair and balanced reporting. Ah — for the good ole days of Walter Cronkite. This candidate is taking a stand on ethics. It’s best the reporters take greater care in their word-smithing efforts as a sound bite reduce onto paper appears to me to be the intentional biased of a report. There are enough substantive issues out there that we shouldn’t have to winnow through subjective characterizations — endowing our Presidential Candidates with motivations and intentions that do not exist in reality except under the guise of editorial quality. In other words, let long form content reflect the words of the candidate in context and please don’t add content-loaded meanings through your word smithing process. We, the readers, have enough to think about without having to analyze how the intentions and editorial pressures/deadlines of each reporter have influenced the presentation of information as it is posted on line. This election is a big deal…a VERY BIG DEAL. Lead the other reporters by example. Candidate McCain offered “CLARIFICATION” ON A PREVIOUS COMMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF VOTERS — HE DID NOT “DISTANCE” HIMSELF FROM A PREVIOUS COMMENT (i.e., treat our candidates with respect). McCain treated the reporters with respect by providing clarification on an answer to a previous question.

I am getting the impression that Senator McCain’s responses are being taken out of context. Isn’t each statement context dependent? It would be helpful to the voters if the entire context of a response by a candidate to a question was included in an article, especially when citing a previous comment.
Instead it seems that some of the comments become content-loaded — and extrapolations are made by the writer. This appears to be undermining the credibility of the report – not the candidate. I don’t perceive Senator McCain as “backing away” from his comment — I perceive him as providing clarification for the benefit of the voters. The words “BACKS AWAY” chosen by Ms. Bruce — do not reflect what really happened. Candidate McCain offered CLARIFICATION: and that is the ethical thing to do. Reporters, please be careful in your selection of your adjectives — we, the readers appreciate fair and balanced reporting. Ah — for the good ole days of Walter Cronkite. This candidate is taking a stand on ethics. It’s best the reporters take greater care in their word-smithing efforts as a sound bite reduced onto paper appears to me to be the intentional biasing of a report by the person who wrote the headline. There are enough substantive issues out there that we shouldn’t have to winnow through subjective characterizations — endowing our Presidential Candidates with motivations and intentions that do not exist in reality except under the guise of editorial quality. In other words, let long form content reflect the words of the candidate in context and please don’t add content-loaded meanings through your word-smithing process. We, the readers, have enough to think about without having to analyze how the intentions and editorial pressures/deadlines of each reporter have influenced the presentation of information as it is posted on line. This election is a big deal…a VERY BIG DEAL. Lead the other reporters by example. Candidate McCain offered “CLARIFICATION” ON A PREVIOUS COMMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF VOTERS — HE DID NOT “BACK AWAy” FROM A PREVIOUS COMMENT (i.e., treat our candidates with respect). McCain treated the reporters with respect by providing clarification on an answer to a previous question.

TO: ANGRY AFRICAN
I couldn’t resist and did check out your bog…oops,….blog. So you are an African and living here now. That’s interesting….do you happen to be a citizen?…that’s what most of us call ourselves here….and furthermore, if you don’t like it here, you can always go back to Africa….probably be happier there helping to straighten out that continent. If you are doing your homework for your bog….oops…blog, you probably have found that the U.S. election is tightening….some folks for “flip-flop” McCain, and some folks gor “flop-flop” Obama.

Can we really rely on this old crank who can’t make up his mind?
Looks like Cindy McCain forgot to give her husband his cough syrup.

LOL – you are so worked up defending him that you wrote a comment that rivals the article in length and had to post it 3x.
If this is what it takes to explain what McCain said – I don’t have time….

DEVIOUSNESS AT WORK
CONTEXT-DEPENDENT said:
“I am getting the impression that Senator McCain’s responses are being taken out of context.”
McCain followed his statement saying timetables have to be based on conditions on the ground, and even stressed the point in the same reply to Blitzer. Here is his reply:
“He said it’s a pretty good timetable based on conditions on the ground. I think it’s a pretty good timetable, as we should — or horizons for withdrawal. But they have to be based on conditions on the ground.  This success is very fragile. It’s incredibly impressive, but very fragile. So we know, those of us who have been involved in it for many years, know that if we reverse this, by setting a date for withdrawal, all of the hard-won victory can be reversed.”
http://rss.usatoday.mlogic3g.com/detail.jsp?key=875679&rc=ne
Using comments out of text is fairly typical behavior for Obama supporters.

No matter if McCain flips, flubs, or lies, the Media will not cover it.
Only Obama gets any scrutiny, which is why the polls are so close.
You have the 30% sheep factor, with the GOP – - they’ll just repeat, & believe everything they are told.
So, all McCain needs is a collection of 15-20% racists, uninformed, extremely wealthy, or dislike Obama’s policies… for McCain to win.
The Media’s working on it for McCain, unless they start scrutinizing him.
You want to disagree with Obama, cool, but all this he’s dumb, an empty suit, the messiah, etc… it’s rather amazing, the ignorance from the right. It’s like these people’s brains, have vaporized from lack of use.

McCain is not fit to be President. He does not even understand history and I am so sick of him whining about ‘victory’ in Iraq! The general who figured out that if you PAY sunni sheiks enough, they will fight with us instead of against us is what has caused the violence to lessen, not the so called surge! Although of course, more troops in Bagdad will make it safer. The point is we should NEVER have attacked Iraq in the first place. McCain is still trying to win the Vietnam war! What makes a man who dumped horrific chemicals on innocent people in Vietnam a war hero, I will never understand. I do not believe the so- called polls for one minute! They are controlled by the corporate media just like everything else and have no validity to me. Just more proganda! Mc Cain has no personal morals or ethics, want to kill Iranians by sending them cigarettes. Seems like all he has on his mind is bombing and killing, Let’s give peace a chance!
Vote Obama to save America!

Real simple: McCain has flipped! Get it together, John, if you are going to run a national campaign!!!
Obama in ’08

“We were greeted as liberators.”
Why does that sound so familiar?
John McCain wonders where his “old friends” are. I was one. I contributed financially to his 2000 campaign.
But now it’s John McCain who has adopted the fear mongering and Big Lie politics.
What happened to John McCain’s old friends?
A better question is what happened to John McCain.

This whole campaign by Obama is winning the White House at any cost and that include abondoning Iraq before complete security has been reached. He refuses to say the surge helped in Iraq but wants to promote a surge in Pakistan/Afgfhanistan. DOES THIS MAN KNOW WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT? Did he learn anything on this expensive trip paid partly by taxpayers?
Posted by: Mary
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Mary, and you do you think paid FULLY for McCain’s EIGHT trips to the middle east?? What a hypocrite you are! It is interesting to see you parroting McCain’s exact words about the surge and Afghanistan!! Senator Obama has been saying throughout his campaign that we needed MORE troops in Afghanistan! He has NEVER called his call for additional troops in Afghanistan a “surge”. It is McCain that is calling it that in an effort to make us believe that Obama ONLY NOW sees the need for more troops in that country!! McCain is lying big time!! Nothing new, really, I think we are all getting used to his despicable campaign tactics; by the same token we are all getting sick and tired of this old fool making even a bigger fool of himself! He is bringing much embarrassment to our country!!

Of course McCain reversed himself, today is a new day and I’m sure it was a different audience. John should change his name to, NEVER THE SAME McCAIN, have the same stance two days running that is.

William,
What makes you think McCain would do any better than Obama. McCain graduated 5th from the bottom of his graduation class. He did not command during war time. He command during peace time.
http://www.usvetdsp.com/mcianhro.htm
John McCain seriously violated the Military Code of Conduct by trading “military information” and making numerous public statements that appeared favorable to the communist war effort in exchange for “special treatment.”
The Code: Consisting of six articles in simple language, the United States Military Code of Conduct orders American military personnel to resist capture at all cost and if captured; to attempt to escape, to give the enemy no information other than name, rank, serial number and date of birth, to take charge if senior, to obey orders of the seniors, to accept no favors from the enemy and to make no written or oral statements disloyal to the United States.
In the original writing, the Code was declared the definitive code specifying the responsibilities of American military personnel while in combat or captivity.
The Code holds U.S. prisoners of war responsible to protect–at whatever cost–the cause for which the United States stands by continuing to carry on some form of resistance with the enemy. The establishment of the Code of Conduct was the result of what was considered in 1955 an embarrassing high number of U.S. servicemen held prisoner during the Korean War who apparently did little to resist collaborating with the enemy.
According to a Congressional Research Service Report (CRS), one out of every three American prisoners of the North Koreans and Chinese collaborated. The degree of collaboration ranged from such serious offenses as actually siding with the enemy to the relatively insignificant offense of broadcasting Christmas greetings home and therefore putting the communists in favorable light.

QUESTION FOR DEVIOUS OBAMA SUPPORTERS
Why do you take McCain’s words out of context? (search here for Billw to see what he actually said). Any answers?

“Now, look. Sen. Obama doesn’t understand. He doesn’t understand what’s at stake here.
Yes he does but just don’t care. He wants to get elected and will say what we must put more people inAfganistan.

“Oil and gas industry executives and employees donated $1.1 million to McCain last month — three-quarters of which came after his June 16 speech calling for an end to the ban (on offshore drilling) — compared with $116,000 in March”
Here’s McCain Straight Talk for ya.

Mary I see your comments everywhere but you don’t have many help you out any more. McSame loser, loser, and loser.

McCain is too old to remember what he said

WHERE DOES john MCBUSH REALLY STAND , ONE MINUTE HE IS DISSIN OBAMA PLAN, NEXT HE IS SUPPORTING IT .
HE IS ALL OVER THE PLACE , THE POOR GUY TRULY DONT KNOW WHAT TIME IS IT.

I just finsih watching the movie
~ DAZED AND CONFUSED~
And what do you know at the end of the credits John McCain NAME POPS up.

We should not have attacked Iraq to begin with that country had nothing to do with 9/11 and the tailaban wasn’t there either until we invaded Iraq. It was Saudi Arabia that born and bred Osama bin Laden why wasn’t it that country we attacked. I thought Mc bush wanted to stay until we won won what?

I KNOW IT’S A MATTER OF MONTHS, OBAMA WILL GO INTO HISTORY BOOK IN GOLD. WHILE MACIN JOHN WILL BE FORGOTING FOR EVER, AMERICA IS GREAT BUT ALLOW MACINE IN TO CONTINUE WHERE BUSH STOP MEAN THE END OF AMERICAN GREATNESS, WITH MR OBAMA AMERICAN WILL STAY AND BOUNCE BACK TO IT PAST GROLY AMEN.

angieinpa. see some ding dong stole your post name–

YOu know what it took to lure the people to hear Obama’s speech?
Obama? Nah. Free food and 2 free rock concerts. Yes, TWO bands.
LOL. Never underestimate what the liberal media decides what you don’t need to know if it doesn’t further their agenda.
Dang, I Love the truth.

i guess doing so is supposed to be original for a repub—-.
i stated before my greatest fear is going to sleep and waking up a repub–almost like a nightmare.

yes they are desperate!!

angie
i would like to see mccain make the same tour—he would need to rent the popemobile—they might throw tomatoes at him—-what is sad is that the repubs would have such a low grade candidate.

McCain is sounding more and more like Obama every day… Pitiful. Remember when we had an opposition party, ah the good ol’ days.

Obama has been saying with draw the troops from this dumb Bush/McBush war in 16 months (depending on the conditions on the ground) for over a year now…
This last week McSenile jumps up and starts screaming ME TOO, ME TOOO!!!
Not he if flip flopping back again???
Man this guy has no polices, conviction or direction, does he even know what his name is anymore, or has he forgotten that too??
Obama in a landslide in ’08!!!!

He should go to Iraq and Afghanistan.
What’s he doing over there anyway??
I was right on the surge–he was wrong!
Nanny nanny.
We WERE greeted as liberators!!
We were SO!!
He’d rather lose a war in order to win the campaign. No, I’m not impugning his patriotism.
WHINE, WHINE, WHINE.
At least John McSame had his old teeth whitened. Still has a fake smile.

“At least John McSame had his old teeth whitened. Still has a fake smile.”
You people disgust me. I’m sure that you and your American Idol wannabe candidate are perfect in every way. Loser.

As is the NORM in this election so far, MCCAIN FLIP-FLOPS ON HIS POSITION ONCE AGAIN.
As Ben Stein said, “McCain’s campaign is PATHETIC.”
It’s getting harder & harder to keep track of what McCain is for and against.
Oh that’s right, he’s for the SURGE.

every time mccain says the surge the surge–he reminds me of that little guy on fastacy island—–plain and simple the battle in iran was shifting and slowing down and bush needed something to make him look a little better before getting out of office—as he is a total failure— and mcbush was for it –the two of them thing alike.you will never bs me mccain.

McCain is all too predictable. He is the epitomy of old-school politics. How pathetic it is that he has all along been running on a platform of extending the war – trying to talk the nation into the lie that War is best, and that he knows how to win “wars”. Now he is flip-flopping in a giant way on his #1 main platform to try to win. I wouldn’t believe anything coming from this weak candidate.
Ben Stein was 100% right – John McCain ran a ‘Pathetic’ campaign. Could you imaging him running this country that is already in critical condition????

Oh. So now, according to McCain, US forces were greeted as liberators when they invaded Iraq. Even if that were true, all it would prove is Napoleon’s famous remark that no occupation army, no matter how welcome it is when it first enters a country, is still welcome there two weeks later.
But I have to agree with McCain: the original invasion could have been better handled. If 20th Century Fox could hire 5,000 Italian extras in 1961 to cheer the entry of Cleopatra (in the person of Elizabeth Taylor) on her entry into Rome, then surely the Pentagon could have come up with enough money to hire a few thousand Iraqis to fill a square to cheer Ahmed Chalabi and pull down Saddam’s statue. Alas, the square was virtually empty. Admittedly, 20th Century Fox spent a lot of money on those extras, the cost overruns on that film are legendary. And of course, Elizabeth Taylor is a lot better looking than Chalabi. But crikey, the Iraqis were desperate for money, a lot worse off than Italians in 1961.