McCain Said We Should Talk To Hamas
May 16, 2008John McCain now criticizes Obama because Ahmed Yousuf, chief political adviser to the Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh, said “We like Mr. Obama and hope he wins the election.” Ignoring that it was a Hamas member who endorsed Obama, not the other way around, McCain went on to say he’d be Hamas’ “worst nightmare.” McCain’s supporters even put out this video to try to capitalize on this.
But two years ago McCain told former State Department spokesman Jamie Rubin that “a new reality” dictates that we’d have to deal with Hamas. Rubin recounts the interview in Friday’s Washington Post.
I interviewed McCain for the British network Sky News’s “World News Tonight” program. Here is the crucial part of our exchange:
I asked: “Do you think that American diplomats should be operating the way they have in the past, working with the Palestinian government if Hamas is now in charge?”
McCain answered: “They’re the government; sooner or later we are going to have to deal with them, one way or another, and I understand why this administration and previous administrations had such antipathy towards Hamas because of their dedication to violence and the things that they not only espouse but practice, so . . . but it’s a new reality in the Middle East. I think the lesson is people want security and a decent life and decent future, that they want democracy. Fatah was not giving them that.”
Given that Obama’s position is that he would talk to Hamas only if they “renounce terrorism, recognize Israel’s right to exist and abide by past agreements,” McCain is, to use the language of our president, much closer to the position of appeasers.
Bonnie is pissed.
incredible!!!!
john mccain busted by his own words!!!
and he wants to slam obama over this, when he even agreed that we should talk to hamas!
hilarious!
lets watch Oreilly and Hannity defend mccain tonight!
I suppose Bonnie would talk to Hamas.
Bonnie would rather talk to Hamas than his father right now.
John McCain is a liberal Republican. What is all the liberal fuss about? Either way, a liberal gets elected.
Just like hens in a hen house I guess some just need something to squawk over.
Sad.
Well I’ll say this much for libs: at least they’re not such cringing cowards that they can’t face life without an arsenal of guns.
send president carter ! Mc lame might break into a beach boys song and get us all killed.
I wonder if McCain says to his wife in the mornings, “thanks for the coffee you jerk.”
uh ewww- old granpa man breath.
I bet whatever remains of his white hair falls onto his coffee too.
I wonder if he’s racist to his black coffee…
What has MCain ever said of done to insinuate that he has racist views for you to make the comment about his coffee?
This is a prime example of the left putting out racial inuindoes as a premptive strategy to get the idea in peoples minds that those on the right are racists.
OBAMA vs Bush/McCain
1. HIGH IQ vs. Low IQ/Memory Loss
2. TRUE and Practicing Christian (Peace not War) vs. Dr. Evil and Agnostic (non-practicing)
3. ENERGY vs. drug overdosed (from medications)
4. HONEST vs. lies and distortion
5. YOUTH vs. Grandpas
6. DIPLOMACY vs. Bloodsuckers