Anything sounds good to McCain

By Libby

If McCain wasn't running for president and still polling at 40% his pathetic cluelessness would be amusing. Today he denied ever using the word timetable in an interview with George Stephanopoulos, conducted at his Sedona ranch where he's entertaining the media and some powerbrokers this weekend. Needless to say, he did use the word while 'refining' his views on withdrawing troops. He also insisted that we had too been greeted as liberators in Iraq. But this boast was the lowlight of the day.

“I’m not going to telegraph a lot of the things that I’m going to do because then it might compromise our ability to do so. But, look, I know the area, I have been there, I know wars, I know how to win wars, and I know how to improve our capabilities so that we will capture Osama bin Laden — or put it this way, bring him to justice…We will do it, I know how to do it.”

One has to ask, if that's true, why he hasn't shared his superior strategy with the Pentagon? Surely, they would be interested in a foolproof method to catch America's most wanted terrorist. Isn't holding back that information, the ultimate in caring more about winning an election than winning the war on terror?

He also reversed his position on affirmative action, bringing Steve Benen's flip-flop list to 70 and it's only July. Steve didn't think it would go that high. I'm betting it will pass 200 by November.

Comments

[smintheus]

Only 70? Maybe somebody needs to go over Steve's list thinking about what he's omitted.

[Libby]

He's invited people to do just that Smin. Maybe you could help pass it around and suggest folks add to it?

[smintheus]

Yes, good idea. We really need to centralize all our databases on McCain like this.