Bob And Weave?
Conservative columnist Robert Novak is backing off his Monday report that John McCain would announce his veep pick this week. Analysts posited today that McCain's camp was looking to distract from Barack Obama's well-covered and well-received trip to the Middle East and Europe. Now Novak is telling FOX News that the episode might've been "a dodge" by the McCain campaign to make headlines.
So was Novak used? Did Team McCain reassess? Or did a general GOP consensus emerge that McCain's announcement would get lost in the Obama coverage?
Bob Novak. Hahahahaha.
Haiku---
Just as was done with Novak and Plame,
Now see how Bush becomes John McCain.
Hotline, where are you on the biggest screw-up by McCain ever?
In an interview with CBS McCain told Couric that Surge started before the Sunni Aweakening.
If McCain does NOT know these simple facts he is UNFIT to be president.
McCain is cluelesss and confused. Republican party should withdraw McCain and put a real conservative at his place.
Here are the details:
Couric: Senator McCain, Sen. Obama says, while the increased number of U.S. troops contributed to increased security in Iraq, he also credits the Sunni awakening and the Shiite government going after militias. And says that there might have been improved security even without the surge. What's your response to that?
McCain: I don't know how you respond to something that is such a false depiction of what actually happened. Colonel McFarlane (phonetic) was contacted by one of the major Sunni sheiks. Because of the surge we were able to go out and protect that sheik and others. And it began the Anbar awakening. I mean, that's just a matter of history. Thanks to General Petraeus, our leadership, and the sacrifice of brave young Americans. I mean, to deny that their sacrifice didn't make possible the success of the surge in Iraq, I think, does a great disservice to young men and women who are serving and have sacrificed.
They were out there. They were protecting these sheiks. We had the Anbar awakening. We now have a government that's effective. We have a legal system that's working, although poorly. And we have progress on all fronts, including an incredible measure of security for the people of Iraq. There will still be attacks. Al Qaeda's not defeated. But the progress has been immense. And to not recognize that, and why it happened, and how it happened, I think is really quite a commentary.
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Anbar/Sunni awakening began in 2006 and surge began in Spring-2007.
Mr. McCain you are too old to understand anything about international affairs, so please quit and save us republicans.