SEDONA, Arizona (CNN) – In a Tuesday interview on CNN’s American Morning, John McCain dismissed news reports about Sarah Palin’s pronouncement that the United States should “absolutely” attack terrorists within Pakistan as nothing more than “sound bite politics.”
But McCain refused to acknowledge that Joe Biden’s recent criticisms of clean coal - comments used by the McCain campaign in a radio ad and Web video - occurred under similar off-the-cuff circumstances.
John Roberts asked McCain about his joint interview with Palin on Monday’s CBS Evening News, in which both candidates asserted that Palin’s caught-on-camera remarks constituted “gotcha journalism.”
“But at the same time you have gone after Senator Biden for a comment that he made under similar circumstances about clean coal technology,” Roberts asked. “Your campaign even released a video of part of his comments. Was that gotcha politics?”
“Well, I believe it was at a town hall meeting that he said it,” McCain said of Biden. “This was - hers was in an encounter in a pizza parlor where the question was framed so that of course we're going to go after terrorists.”
But Biden’s comments dismissing coal as environmentally hazardous actually occurred on a rope line after a town hall event in Maumee, Ohio last week and were recorded by a voter’s hand-held camera and posted to YouTube.
Palin’s mention of Pakistan occurred at Tony Luke’s cheesesteak shop (not a pizza parlor) in south Philadelphia on Saturday night - a stop organized by her campaign. A CNN camera crew, acting as a representative of the five television networks, was brought to Tony Luke’s along with the campaign motorcade and, during the course of the event, recorded Palin’s conversation with restaurant patron Michael Rovito.
McCain, in the interview, suggested that Palin was responding to a general question about whether or not a McCain administration would go after terrorists.
However, Rovito, who had asked Palin two previous questions about her thoughts on Pakistan and Waziristan, asked the governor specifically: “So we do cross border, like from Afghanistan to Pakistan, you think?”
Palin’s answer: "If that's what we have to do stop the terrorists from coming any further in, absolutely, we should.”
McCain’s final point was that his administration would never publicly declare a pending attack within Pakistan’s borders.
“What she said was that she was going to respond to terrorist attacks,” he told Roberts. “And I'm saying we're going to respond to terrorist attacks. I'm not going to announce that I'm going to attack Pakistan.”
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Still lying...
We are sooooo screwed if this idiot gets elected!
He has his chihuaha on a very short leash.
Nice picture Barbie.
Father McCain is now babysitting Sara how funny. He surely knows how to get out of a bag of rocks. He and Sara really looked funny there. LOL
which is it mclame?
McCain is so hypocritical.
Hey John...lipstick on a pig maybe?
All I can say is that you are making me dizzy Senator McCain. Spinning faster than a top.
McCain just can't resist a good opportunity to lie. It seem pathological for him. He lies all the time anymore; often when he doesn't even need to. So odd and so scary.
McCain and Palin are pathetic, morally bankrupt specimens. They are the kind of examples that make many of us ashamed to be part of the human species.
We need true leaders, leaders that go after issues rather then making up excuses, failing, and then blaming. McCain/Palin: The problem to all of our solutions.
Obama/Biden '08 For an America with integrity, virtue and success.
Unbelievable. How anyone can trust McBlame on anything is just incomprehensible.
BS
I'll bet that it's going to be such a relief to McCain and his supporters when he loses...they'll finally be able to speak the truth! All of their lying nonsense must be exhausting!
What an idiot.
It's gotcha journalism to ask a question? It doesn't matter where the question occurs, be ready to answer questions. It's what happens when you run for office. You get asked questions, wherever you are. You should be ready to give an answer, wherever you are. (Not to mention that since McCain's campaign keeps Palin under wraps the questions have to be asked wherever they can get a hold of her.)
McCain, McCain, McCain. What can i say? He sat beside Ms. Palin like a Grade 8 student who has been called to the principal's office accompanied by a parent. This is beyond belief. If she can attack all the other candidates on her own without the help of McCain, why can't she answer constructive questions/criticisms on her own? At the end of the day, once in office the vice-president will have to answer some question. Should we expect to see McCain with Palin once they win the white house answer questions together all the time? OH PLEASE.
Someone please put this disgraceful man to bed...
Sarah Palin should have only been the Key Note Speaker at the Convention. She would have done excellent. McCain has abused this woman and her life.
Another Republican voting for Barack Obama/Joe Biden.
Grandpa totally took control of that second interview with Palin. Sarah may as well have stayed home and dressed a moose. Really not a testament to how much faith McCain has to let this woman off her leash...or her muzzle. Now if he could only do something about her whiny tone.
What's the matter with John McCain? Does he not know that these events were recorded on tape?
To quote a rwally bad band....Hall and Oates...circa 1982..."Hes out of touch...shes outta time"
Only 36 days left until John McShame can retire!
Spin, spin, shuffle, turn, spin. McCain's little dance isn't fooling anybody.
and so John McCain had to be the white knight and ride to the rescue of the supposed "pitbull" of Alaska.
OOoooooo.... that Katie Couric is a mean one to be sure. Big bad pitbull can't handle an interview..... What happens when McCain kicks the bucket and she's expected to sit face to face with a world leader for more than a 20 minute photo op?
This is scary folks.
and a little sad.
REPUBLICANS, please, think objectively about this.
Are you ready for 4 years of this? 4 years of them?
John McCain picks and chooses what he wants to use. He is a liar and not a very good one.
It is exactly the same!
NOBODY TALKED ABOUT ATTACKING PAKISTAN–NOT AT THE DEBATE OR ELSEWHERE.
THE ONLY PERSON TALKING ABOUT BOMBING ANYTHING IS
YOU, MISTER MCCAIN.
DO YOU EVEN KNOW HOW TO TELL THE TRUTH ANYMORE?
HOW DO YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT?
I have been voting Republican but no more. McCain is out to touch he is old and he is dangerous. Sarah is more scary and dangerous because she is so painfully dumb. This time I'm voting Democrat.
mccain has obvious double standards. typical politican!!
NO KIDDING!
PALIN IMPLODES EVERYTIME SHE OPENS HER MOUTH. SHE SETS WOMEN BACK AT LEAST 100 YEARS EVERYTIME SHE SPEAKS.
WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE AMONG WOMEN ACROSS THIS COUNTRY OVER BEING TAKEN FOR GRANTED BY MCCAIN? PALIN HAS SET WOMEN BACK DECADES AS FAR AS BEING CONSIDERED FOR POWERFUL POSITIONS IN POLITICS OR THE CORPORATE WORLD.
BIDEN ONLY NEED STAND BACK AND WATCH ON THURSDAY EVENING AS PALIN SELF-DESTRUCTS! I CAN'T WAIT.
I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYONE IN POLITICS MORE LOOK MORE RIDICULOUSOR SOUND SO INCOHERENT IN MY LIFE.
PALIN MAKES BUSH LOOK LIKE AN INTELLECTUAL!
SPOOKY!
so what is good for the goose isnt for the gander... Obviously!!!
Give it up grandpa.
Erm.
1) Now it depends on the location if a question/answer is to be taken seriously?
2) A general statement of intent (and a warning) constitues a disclosure of sensitive military strategic/tactic operations? How naive is that? And McCain claims he knows so much about foreign policy/military operations?
there you go daddy, take care of your daughter and make sure no one messes with her, you are the best DAD ever!!!!!LOL!
Gotcha politics? Please, sir, have a little dignity. Palin was asked a question and she answered it... plain and simple. It is obvious to anyone with an IQ over 50 that this woman doesn't have a clue about national or international politics. Had you shown honor during this campaign, chosen a VP candidate with at least a modicum of intellectual prowess and maintained a consistent message, you'd surely be closer to winning this election. Too late now... the fat lady is warming up for the grand finale and you'll be left waiting in the wings.
Oh please. That's just lame.
She said it, now she needs to own it.
how dare a voter ask a policy question of the vice presidential candidate. the voter should've simply asked about her children – well, the ones that aren't off limits – and cast their vote without any real understanding of where palin stands on pakistan.
McCain's credibility gap is becoming a chasm.
I am so SICK and TIRED of McCain/Palin and their mess...their lies–they SUCK and so will our country if they are elected.
Cowgirl diplomacy will not work neither.
Obama/Biden 08/12.
It's official. John McCain is the republican presidential candidate and vice presidential candidtae at the same time. Fisrt in history and deserve to go into the guiness book of records. I am very disappointed, senator. It is sad, it really is.
mccain has obvious double standards. typical politician!!...The world is looking forward to thursday!
There can not be a double standard for SP. Until she has an actual press conference like all the other candidates have had, she is not credible. She should be disqualified from running. I can't wait until Thursday night.
McCain is so contradictary. He obviously does not know if he is coming or going.
She said what she said it is obvious that they are not on the same page contrary to what he might want people to think.
Why did he have to be with her on the interview, I did not realize she needed a babysitter but it just shows that even though he selected her he is not comfortable with her speaking without first checkin with him to see if it ok to speak.
boy, it sure sounded like we will go into Pakistan when I heard the conversation!
It couldn't get any better than this
It wasn't a pizza parlor, old man. It was a cheese steak place in Philly.
Summary: Hang 'em high if the center or left does anything questionable, but it's OK if you're a Republican.
Rot in hell, Gerald Ford – your pardon of Nixon set us on this road.
Nonsense, I watched the comment on TV and she knew precisely what she was saying she just didn't know her partner made such a fool of himself the night before in the debate.
This is in no way gotcha reporting, this is the real Sarah Palen as seen in the interview with Katie Curic a young lady completely out of touch with worldly events.
since when did asking a candidate a legitimate foreign policy question constitute "gotcha journalism"?
Th McCain camp needs to quit their excessive whining!
Double Standards....
Wake up America .....no more Mc-lies....
Vote for a candidate who has been presidential all the way....
Vote for the county..vote Obama/Biden
Look at that idiot , how he's holding her hands. Keeping aside politics, Americans should take this seriously
Bomb his country.... LOL
No, we're screwed up if Bam-bam, the socialist community organizer is elected.
Obamabots are such fools. Did you people go to school? I think not.
I am sick of SP, she doesn't have any sense and I have more foreign policy experience than she has. CNN I have stopped watching you and so have members of my family. This whole SP thing is ridiculous and you will not step up and ask the hard questions of McCain or Palin, but you are very quick to pounce on any mistakes that are made by the Obama campaign; and this is just some fyi, I am originally from Phila. and the if she was in the Reading Terminal Market; it is not a pizza shop, it has a variety of vendors.
Look at that a_hole , how he's holding her hands. Keeping aside politics, Americans should take this seriously
Bomb his country.... LOL
WITH A STRAIGHT FACE......
republicans will tell you that water ISN'T wet.
The original Dumb and Dumber.
"We've got no money...! We've got no food...! Our pets' heads are falling off!"
McCain is turning into a daily joke!!!
Sarah, you can run but you can't hide. McCain cannot protect you all the time.
McCain's shoes - $500
Cindy's worth –$100 mil
Palin's interview - Priceless
For everything else, there's the tax payers money
Flip Flop.....Flip Flop...Spin Spin Meister...what an Idiot...McLoser. And his Ditsy sidekick the pageant queen is a joke to all women........
OBAMA'S getting closer to his office in the White House every day.
I am not sure if he is getting it. He should replace Sarah and accept his mistake in his judgement on selecting his VP candidate.
I believe he would have been better off with my dog, who at least wouldn't speek or bark cluelessly.
Who is this man posing as John McCain? This can't be the same guy who ran in 2000. That man was admirable, even if I didn't like his politics. This John McCain is a dismal excuse for a candidate for President of the United States.
What is with McCain's fixation on town hall meetings? He sounds like one of those sad old people who repeats things. Hanoi prison camp..... maverick..... town hall meeting..... Hanoi prison camp..... maverick.....
I agree... spinning like a top!
FACT: No Republican president has ever delivered on the promise to shrink the federal government, and no Republican president ever will but they are good a reeking economic havoc.
FACT: All American great economic expansions have taken place under DEM presidents.
I sure hope Palin understands what “The Great Depression” is. It’s not a ditch where you can round up moose with a helicopter before you shot one and call that hunting.
Veep censorship. Damage control. McCain tried to flip it, but we all know the deal...-1 point McCain
She was at a fast food joint and says two words to some liberal pothead and CNN shoves it down their viewers throats because she didn't give this guy a full explination of her Pakistani political opinion, You could tell she wasn't even listening to the twirps question and just trying to spend some downtime with her children.
Get a life and leave the candidate alone when she's off the clock spending time with her family.
So the PA voter Michael Rivito is an undercover journalist and play the gocha interview with Palin??? Confused??
Go back to sleep Grandpa Munster!
its time to put this campaign down.
If McCain is going to defend Palin he should at least get the details right! I guess he feels she should be held to a lower standard than Biden should otherwise he would acknowledge the similar circumstances. I'm so sick of Republican spin this election year!
Oh, Sen. McBush, there is just so much you can do to cover for your evangelical prom queen. You were only thinking about getting that evangelical vote when you asked her to be your Veep, and you didn't consider that one day she'd need to SPEAK without a teleprompter. You have no one to blame for your laughable situation but yourself.
After Palin last few interviews, it's obvious why McCain was sitting in on the latest interview with Katie. To try to correct any mis speaks Gov Palin makes. I won't feel sorry for her, but I do feel badly. McCain and his troops are using her. Nothing worse than feeling used right Sarah??
McCain is a liar and a hypocrite!
His slogan should be "McCain First, Truth Second"
McCain is pathetic. He offers nothing to the American people, except lie after lie.
I saw that interview and after a busy hectic day at work, it made me laugh. It was like McCain was being a father to Palin. He seemed angry and on edge. He's a scary person...and she's a flake.
Palin is a time consuming burden. McBush spends so much time in lies to cover for Palin. That McBush hardly has enough time to make up lies and false attacks on Obama.
this guy is they funniest guy in the world....
Wat a joke,,,
N E one that will vote for McCain is completly stupid, and i am a republican
I thought the American people deserved a president who always told them the truth Johnny?
Seems like you (once again) disqualified yourself from the job.
Holy crap....can you imagine these two fruitcakes in the White House? Not me, that's why I'm voting democrat.
Has Palin ever touched a minority person other than during her recent meeting with world leaders. I have never seen a picture of her with anyone that isn't white. I am curious about her relationship with minorities as well as John McCain's. It is so important for Obama to reach out to whites, what is it with the double standard? Why is McCain not held to the same standard of reaching out to minorities, specifically the black vote. The vote of Blacks and minorities aren't considered of value....I get itl!
Hillary had some slip ups in interviews too, but that never meant she wasnt ready to run for presidency. She would have been 10 times better then the arrogant Obama.
Sarah Palin will do fine. she is very likeable and comes across really well on camera. I still love the fact that she could be VP of this country.
These LIES out of the McCain Campaign are becoming troublesome. Obviously their new mantra is:
LIE ... BABY ... LIE!
pathetic liars. America won't be stupid enough to fall for that, will you?
More clean up for Palin aisle two!
ONE NATION
Nothing wrong with Palin's response.
It was not a call to attack.
Leave Palin alone.
Parsing each of her words.
When I say that I am absolutely voting for McCan/Palin, I mean to say "What! Are you freakin nuts!?"
Yeah, that's what I really mean.
The world is astonished by the fact that the American people might actually fall for this crab again after the last eight years of failed policies. Think people!
McCain a student asked Pailin a question, and she sound confused and uninformed.
I've made up my mind – McCain/Palin 2008. Senator Obama could not answer one question directly and concisely during the debate. What in the world is he thinking?
GET LOST MCCAIN!!! AND TAKE THE PIT BULL WITH YOU....WILL YOU????
YES WE CAN!!
McLAME. 'Nuff said.
Just say NO to Bush 44 and Caribou Barbie.
I will personally buy an airline ticket for McCain to go back to Arizona and another ticket for Palin to go back to Alaska. I cannot stand listening to either one of them anymore!
Nice to know the past few weeks haven't led McCain to lie any less.
The harder they spin the harder they fall.
I no longer question anything that comes out of McCain's mouth. I discount it all. But, what scares me, and badly, is that there are still people that support McPalin. And, get this, they are technically intelligent.
Say what you want, call it what you want. But, anyone with half a brain knows McCain is unfit, Palin is worse, and their supporters are generally afraid of seeing a black man in the white house.
Why? Don't answer that, it was the first question on the test and you already failed.
COMPULSIVE LIARS. McCain has no more honor than the terrorists we fight today.
mccain himself said at the repub. convention that he would go to the gates of hell to find bin laden.... well he's over that afghan hill, probably smokin hash in pakastain, laughing his butt off because he sucedded in bringing our economy to its knees.
So the comment doesn't count as legitemate if it is made face-to-face to a voter, but it does when it's made to a town hall audience? How, AS A VOTER, am I supposed to trust your word if, at a very basic, interpersonal level, I can't consider your word legitemate?!!! What a joke!!!
McCain play Gotcha politics and then critizes the media. He runs partial quotes form interviews and claims them to be substantitve.
He even tries to compare Palin to a 12 year govenor that was a Rhoads scholar and a2 term ogvernor of the largest state in the union.
Yes, everycampaign doe sthi sosrt of stuff, but for someone who wanted a new style of campaign and nothing but facts, his campaign makes Carl Rove look like someone on sodium penithal.
What happened to John McCain 2000?
And for the record John, you have insulted Americans with the Palin comparrison. She's a uneducated bumpkin by comarrison to either of the men you tried to tie her to. Let her stand on her own credentials if you truly believe in her.
Yet another example of McCain's idea that If They Do It, It's Bad, but If We Do It, It's Right.
What a bunch of crap.
Tell me the American people see this!!
Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy [ventriloqiust and dummy, respectively] have nothing on these guys!
The wages of stupidity and lies is unelectability!
This isn't a beauty pageant! Her answers and McCains attitude toward her make her look like she's running for prom queen, not VP of the U.S. Ridiculous! Why does McCain keep injecting this idea of attacking inside Pakistan, to get terrorists, as an issue? Pay attention John and Sarah, Obama said he would do it and here's the news flash, BUSH IS ALREADY DOING IT! Pay attention McLamebrain and McMooseburger.
John...C'mon now....What are you talking about? This old man is losing it.
Ugh. What a mess he is. I voted McCain in the primary- thought he was the same person he was in 2000. Wrong. Praying every day Obama/Biden wins. I'm scared to death to think of how it's going to be otherwise.
So, John...
If not announcing an attack to a foreign nation is taboo, could you explain why we spent months telling the Iraqis that we we coming. Hell, the current administration dubbed it "shock and awe" to the press for days before the initial strike was executed.
I have the whole thing on video tape including many of the administrations press statement mad within 2 hours of the strike. Be careful...some of us REALLY paying attention to what you are saying and not falling for your 24 hour news cycle tactics.
I used to like McCain. I used to respect McCain. But after the last couple of months, I now think he is is a total slimeball....or he is sadly a puppet of the Behind-the-Scenes Bushies running his campaign. So sad.
So every time Gov. Palin opens her mouth, it seems to be only to switch feet...
And Sen. McCain's comments are WAY WAY out of touch with reality. He refuses to see that his running-mate doesnt have a fundamental grasp of the issues.
She looks nice on camera, and has all the grace and poise expected of a national-level candidate; but she has no idea what she's talking about.
When even Katie Couric looks smart in comparison, this should raise a few red flags...
Sarah Palin: WAY out of her league
John McCain: Either in denial or completely dishonest.
Why don't you let SARAH answer the questions and let the voters decide if they agree?
actually, Palin said the same thing to Charlie Gibson about Pakistan. McCain would do better to say "we may not agree on everything but she understands that in my administration, she will need to defer to me. However, I do respect her right to hold her own opinions." That would be honest and would not treat the woman as a puppet spouting the lines he approves.
McCain may have once had integrity but I increasingly think the entire image of the person was a fraud. He now is running a wholly dishonest and despicable campaign.
McFudge!!!
So he thinks we should go in covertly?
Suprise McCain is lying again.
How can McCain argue that a question from a VOTER is "gotcha JOURNALISM"?
Here is how. If you loosen up your grip on reality, then you can make any arguement you wish.
Gov. Palin spent six years earning a degree in journalism. Considering her background, why is she so inept at dealing with journalists and even regular voters asking simple, direct questions - in a pizza place or anywhere else?
Bomb, Bomb, Bomb
Drill, Drill, Drill
Lie, Lie, Lie
Latest Palin Gaffe: Can't Name Supreme Court Case Other Than Roe V. Wade.
In a not yet aired Couric interview, when asked about other notable supreme court cases, Palin couldn't cite any, she just remained silent. Pitiful!
Is it me or does it look like 'Bring Your Daughter To Work' Day with these two?
What has really got to piss off the McCain campaign is this was clearly a "freebie" – Palin out in NYC being a "regular gal" ordering pizza for her family.
And VOTERS had the gall to ask her the questions she won't answer except in "just the perfect setting."
Gotcha is right. VOTERS get to have gotcha moments with lying politicians who hide from their scrutiny.
Live with it, McCain. Live with it, Palin.
Give her a break. People need to understand that someone is using witchcraft to make her speak in tongues. That's why her pastor was trying to remove the evil spell but it clearly hasn't worked. Next they're going to try handling snakes!
i think of have it figured out, mccain and palin want to go out has the laughing stock of the republican party, i hope they take bill cilinton with them, it's ovious he's no democrat!
Perhaps she should be inoculated for hoof and mouth disease since her hoof ends out in her mouth lots lately.
This is totally ridiculous. Why are we letting McCain get away with all these lies? America, rebuke McCain.
i guess geno wouldn,t be happy to have his place called a pizza parlor.
john is out of step with plain people.
Palin is nothing more than a Disgrace to Women everywhere.
Hillary didn't put 18 million cracks in the ceiling to have this idiot in the White House.
McCain is senile and Palin is an idiot.
So if Sarah Palin's comments to individual voters should not be taken as legitemate, how am I supposed to trust her word if she is elected into office? If I can't take a simple interpersonal exchange at its word, why would I be expected to trust anything she or her running mate say? Interesting...
So this is what the phrase "I can tell when he is lying because his lips are moving" meant!
this is an election not take your daughter to work day McCain. McCain is erratic and his desperation is escalating. he is having a hard enough time flailing around trying to back step his own gaffes, now he has to save Sarah? i like a lot of good Americans feel that Sarah should step down, its for the best of the country. McCain should follow suit, he can say for health reasons, no one would blame him.
What a pair of liars! McCain/Palin
cmon, this charade has gone far enough with these two. McCain doesn't have the temperament nor the skill to deal with an economic disaster like this to be President and Sarah Palin is not qualified. The longer this goes on the more clearer and obvious this becomes. Both of these candidates are dangerous and would put the U.S. in even more flux that it already is domesitically and internationally. This is just unacceptable that McCain thinks he can belittle, use sound bites, hide behind war service, and hoodwink hockey moms on his way to the White House. I have to believe the majority of American citizens are not that gullible.
hahaha! somewhere in the middle a poster used this as her name:
I invented the McMuffin... and fire.
just hilarious!
McCain sure feels like a fool.
McCain has repeatedly said he would follow Bin Laden to the gates of hell. That's announcing your plans big time! Sorry, John, spin all you want. You look foolish defending this comment from a running mate who has no foreign policy experience.
So is McCain going to sit with Palin on all her interviews between now and November 4th? Hey I would too if I were him. He probably has code words or signals to get her to stop talking when she rambles incoherently with run-on sentences. Sarah Palin should go back to second grade.
please post
On Thursday it going to be a two versus one debate -
McCain/Palin vs Biden.
Because, McCain is not going to let Palin face off Biden all by herself.
We are now learning that obama will be beside Biden in his next TV interview to bolster his confidence.
They will also be complaining about "gotcha" questions from voters.
Oh god...what an amature she is ....an't believe McCains judgement on selecting her.
I think twice before hiring somebody as team leader for any small org, but this fellow has done a blunder by selecting her for VP...oh god. McCain is not serious about his presidency and he's too silly ..doesn't get it
Does the American people get it yet? McCain has resorted to "old" politics, and figures he can lie his way out. Once you start lying, its hard to distinguish between a lie and a truth, and you start to believe that your lies are REALLY the truth!
Poor McCain..........he lost his mind, his dignity, and respect.
While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year old rancher, who's hand was caught in the gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Palin and her bid.
The old rancher said, "Well, ya know, Palin is a 'Post Turtle'."
Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a 'Post Turtle' was.
The old rancher said, "When you're driving down a country road you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a 'Post Turtle'."
The old rancher saw the puzzled look on the doctor's face so he continued to explain. "You know she didn't get up there by herself, she don't belong up there, and she don't know what to do while she's up there, and you just wonder what kind of dummy put her up there to begin with."
Pantwetter Palin.
Someone change her pampers.
McCain invented lying.
Hey McCain-she is running on YOUR ticket.
What she says is important especially given your health.
It is absolutely fair that she be asked questions. She should be put on the spot. She needs to prove herself.
Sarah Palin was on the short-list to be the vice-presidential candidate for several months – she has had a month of heavy tutoring since being chosen. She has had a long time to prepare for this – and being in governement , she should already be interested in foreign policy and economics. She should be able to function as a statesperson at this point – she should make sense and have logical opinions. The fact that she can't, just leads me to believe she is really not very birght.
I think they should let McCain moderate the Biden/Palin debate so he can protect her!
It appears the only reason Palin would go to Pakistan, is for Asif Zardari. He is rich, handsome, and "SINGLE".
The Repugs only like "sound bite politics" when it benefits them. Remember the lipstick/pit bull sound bite we've all heard about 1,000 times? Yeah. That one.
McWar is running around frantically "dismissing" and "retracting" everything Palin spews from her ignorant pie-hole-and he can't do it fast enough. So now she's being hidden-er, I mean sequestered from the media and the country under the guise of debate preparation.
Barf.
This is just partisan trash. Biden said " Obama is not ready to lead'. Why are we not talking about that? So Palin slipped up and made a statement that she did not think would be broadcast to the world. That is different than saying it to the national media as part of a stance on foreign policy. Biden agreed with McCain that Obama is not ready to lead and he did it knowing that it was being broadcast to the world.
Btw CNN I live 30 minutes from Philly and most Pizza shops sell cheese steaks and most cheese steak shops sell pizza. I love that you point out the fact that it was a steak stand and not a pizza shop, that was a really important point to make.
Wasn't the question asked by a voter and not the media? Gee, gotcha voterism!
I just don't like the way he is treating Ms. Palin. During the CBS interview with Katie Couriche acted as though she was his daughter and when he taught she was ready to follow him, she followed him repeating the story. Very, very sad. As a woman, I think she just step down as VP.
He has lost all credibility. all of it.
OMG! more lies that never stop.
SO it's okay if Palin answers a "voter" with the first thought that comes to mind, but if the opposition says something the same thing,...... "they just don't understand"? Whats with McCain appearing with Palin in the interview, does he not trust her judgement, he picked her. He made the bed he has to lie in it.
This is one sad old man.
They will be covering up for this woman as long as she talks. She has no sense of what she is saying, or the ability to think and talk at the same time. There are not enough coaches in the world to help this woman. The fact that they have had to explain her answers at every turn should prove to America that this woman is not ready to be elected into any other office than one in Alaska. Remember, getting elected governor of Alaska is about as hard as getting elected Mayor of a medium size city. With the population of neary 3 men to every one woman, any woman who jumps around in a American Flag bikini, is loud, tough sounding, and attractive could be elected governor. Her win had very little to do with her political astuteness.
While Sarah's comment was unguarded – it was by NO means in accurate. Most civilized Americans citizens would bombard anyone attacking the USA. ( either on our soil or where ever we were being attacked) THAT'S A FACT YOU CAN TAKE TO THE BANK. Also, sometimes being "frank and plain speaking" is better than trying to hedge or be "politically correct." In other words, call a spade a spade.
So two things that are basically the same are different? Ah OK, thanks for clearing that up.
What is the deal with McCain having to babysit Palin now? Is he going to change her diaper too now?
In her town hall meetings he jumps in when she gets into trouble. It was the same thing during the interview. Is he her father now? What is this? I think it is scary that even he thinks she can't be trusted on her own.
WASP!!! WomenAgainstSarahPalin
He was sitting by her side during the interview Monday night and spoke up before she could even answer a question. Does he not trust her to answer the question in her own words. Please, this is starting to get ridiculous. I just hope that she can get through Thursday night without John McCain coming out onto the floor and having to explain what she means when answering her questions. Let the woman speak in her own words and if it's not what he or his campaign want to hear then he should consider other options.
John McCain, even though you're too old to lead our country, I believe that what you just said sounds just as a whining teenager.
"She did not say that! She said this!"
How stupid do you think we are? Do you believe we are all deaf and are going to believe that Palin did not act like a cowgirl with attitude against other countries? WHILE OUR OWN COUNTRY FALLS DOWN IN RUINS!
NO, JOHN MCCAIN!
Obama 08 – The sane choice
Watch for the earpiece behind the ear...... She may need to have
help on this one !!!!
Vote for HOPE !!!
All I can say now is that this is getting beyong the typical political drama. Now it's getting really frightening that anyone – Republican, Democrat or Independent – can support the McCain-Palin ticket. I am all for people believing in whom and what they choose; however, the thought of John McCain and Sarah Palin holding the two highest offices in our country does not put Country First. We see how the world is reacting to our economic crisis. I can only imagine how they will react if we elect John McCain. Does anyone recall the reaction when we re-elected George Bush. Multiply that by 100. Simply put, John McCain does not have the judgement to govern or to lead.
If this is happening during McCain’s campaign trail imagine if this duo gets into office? 4 more years of this will be too much to stomach!!!
At least we are seeing a lot of this due to the coverage. Imagine in the White House behind closed doors?
From the bottom up,
didn't McCain go on David Letterman a week or two after 9/11 and say we were going to attack Iraq? So, isn't that an example of where we said publicly that we were going to attack a country?
And as an aside, Obama didn't say we were going to attack Pakistan. He said we'd attack militants and HVT's inside Pakistan if Pakistan didn't go after them. That's a BIG difference.
As for the broader issue of Gotcha journalism, it seems that Palin is a quick study. It was just a couple of weeks ago in a town hall that she said "IF you want to go with gotcha journalism, go ahead and stump the candidate." That seems to me like if there is no cogent answer, use that as the fall back line.
And perhaps in Wasilla, or Alaska, or even in other parts of our country, that works. But when Chavez's negotiators, or Putin's KGB, or Iran's Revolutionary Guard or whomever the opposition is comes to the table, we can't be in a position of our VP saying "go ahead and stump me. I'll get some information and bring it back to ya."
That isn't going to work.
so let me get this straight .. what you say at a town hall meeting counts but what you say to a 'voter' at a pizza parlour does not count? scary stuff .. McCain is totally incoherent lately ..
i guarantee you mcshame has lost and stepford palin will be back in Alaska asap
Liar is a four-letter word. If that's too "conservative", try the more "liberal" nine-letter choice: Hypocrite. Or just go with the compromise eight-letter "Clueless". In any case, I wouldn't believe a word he says, just like his clueless pal, "W".
What he did when he 'took' over the interview with KC was confirm the notion that Sarah is dumb as dirt.....
He doesn't trust her answers does he?
Oh no! The media keeps pointing out how stupid my running mate is! How shameful of the press to dare point out that I chose an idiot!
Hey, is it "gotcha politics" when people report that you say "we shouldn't blame anyone over the bailout failing" and then you go and blame Obama and Democrats?
Shut up, already. When you can't even make it through a single speech with completely contradicting yourself, it's not gotcha politics. People are just tired of you and Moose Skinning Barbie being idiots, and having to pretend like you actually have the brains to lead a country.
Maybe instead of your spending freeze, you should issue a lying freeze, where you stop telling lies and have a real campaign.
Does this man think he is JR Ewing?? Remember he used to tell Sue Ellen when she caught him cheating..."Who you gonna believe? Me or yo' lyin' eyes?"
Palin is dumber than Botox Barbie McCain and John McCain combined!
Funny, I didnt notice any McCain supporters commenting on this one... Is he senile or just a liar????