Wednesday, March 19, 2008

McCain Gaffe

Sen. John McCain, who has moved from presumptive to the all-but-certain Republican presidential nominee, often touts his considerable expertise and experience in foreign affairs as his forte. The other day in Amman, Jordan, the straight talking McCain said:
We continue to be concerned about Iranian [operatives] taking al-Qaeda into Iran, training them and sending them back. [It is] common knowledge and has been reported in the media tha al-Qaeda is going back into Iran and receiving training and are coming back into Iraq from Iran; that's well known. And that's unfortunate.

After Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman whispered to him, McCain corrected himself, "I'm sorry, the Iranians are training extremists, not al-Qaeda."

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

McCain insisted to Kelly O’Donnell in Jerusalem, this was just a slip… So how do you slip three times, get corrected by your friend, Joe Lieberman, and then come back the next day and slip again? And how do you get the media to report this as "just a slip"?

Oh yeah - feed the media some BBQ. They come pretty cheap, don't they?
http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/hold_the_sauce.php

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