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Showing posts with label 9/11 Commission. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 9/11 Commission. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Quote of the Day II: Oooh! A 'Commission!'
A nice riposte by Megan McArdle to McCain's brilliant idea, released yesterday, of -- gasp! -- creating a "Commission!" (Blue Ribbon, no doubt) to address our looming economic crisis:
"Here's my modest suggestion: John McCain could convene a commission right now. He could get a bunch of economists and bankers together, and they could hash out the problem and present him with a plan. Then he could tell us what it is. Then we could decide if we liked it. It would be almost like this election was about selecting someone who will make good policy."
Posted by Metavirus at 9/17/2008 06:26:00 PM 0 comments
Tags: 9/11 Commission , Dumb Ideas , Economy , Election 2008 , General Election , Humor , John McCain , Rebuttals
Friday, September 12, 2008
McCain Camp Breaks 9/11 Truce
I guess you can't be entirely surprised by a move like this from a campaign that has gotten up to its eyeballs in sleaze:
The two presidential campaigns had declared a truce for the anniversary of 9/11. Traditional campaigning, especially of the negative sort, was supposed to be put on hold. But John McCain's campaign, it's now clear, broke that truce -- and did so with an ad that nonpartisan watchdog FactCheck.org calls "particularly egregious" for its distortions.
FactCheck is also responsible for noticing the violation of the truce; it caught the McCain camp airing the ad in Denver on Thursday, the seventh anniversary of 9/11. And there's another glaring sign I just noticed -- if you look at the YouTube page for the ad, it says the video was added on Sept. 11, 2008.
Posted by Metavirus at 9/12/2008 02:26:00 PM 0 comments
Tags: 9/11 Commission , Ads , Distortions , Election 2008 , General Election , John McCain , Lies
Posted by Metavirus at 9/12/2008 11:15:00 AM 0 comments
Tags: 9/11 Commission , Distortions , Election 2008 , Foreign Policy , General Election , John McCain , Lies , Rebuttals , Republicans
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
9/11 Comm. Co-Chairman Lee Hamilton Endorses Obama
9/11 Commission Co-Chairman, and former member of the House of Representatives from Indiana (a key battleground state), today endorsed Barack Obama for President. There is a great write-up this morning in Bloomberg:
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has won the endorsement of one of his party's top foreign policy figures, Lee Hamilton, who hails from Indiana, home to one of the next crucial primary votes.
Hamilton, a former U.S. House member who co-chaired the commission that investigated the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and headed the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, said he was impressed by Obama's approach to national security and foreign policy.
"I read his national security and foreign policy speeches, and he comes across to me as pragmatic, visionary and tough,'' Hamilton said in an interview. "He impresses me as a person who wants to use all the tools of presidential power.''
Hamilton also sided with Obama on two foreign policy stances that have been criticized by Senator Hillary Clinton of New York, Obama's rival for the Democratic nomination, and Senator John McCain of Arizona, the presumptive Republican nominee. Both have dismissed the Illinois senator, saying he doesn't have enough experience to deal with critical foreign policy matters.
"He wavers from seeming to believe that mediation and meetings without preconditions can solve some of the world's most intractable problems, to advocating rash, unilateral military action without cooperation from our allies in the most sensitive region of the world,'' Clinton said Feb. 25 in Washington.
Hamilton said he agreed with Obama's position on meeting with U.S. adversaries such as the leaders of Iran without conditions. Also, Obama's consideration of unilateral military action against terrorist hideouts in Pakistan, is already U.S. policy, Hamilton said.
Read More: Obama Wins Backing of 9/11 Commission Co-Chairman Lee Hamilton
Posted by Metavirus at 4/02/2008 10:15:00 AM 0 comments
Tags: 9/11 Commission , Barack Obama , Case for Obama , Election 2008 , Endorsements , Foreign Policy , Lee Hamilton , Primaries
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