John McCain: Town Hall Meeting 07/22/08

John McCain
Town Hall
Rochester, NH - 07/22/08

TRANSCRIPT:
QUESTIONER: Russia, question mark?

MCCAIN: First of all, Mitt has been a tremendous help to my campaign. He has been on television, he does a better job for me than he did for himself. [...] Our party is united and we have a lot of energizing work to do. But we are united.

I'm very concerned about Russia. Very concerned that just recently because the Czechs agreed with us on a missile defense system, that they cut the gas supplies, the oil supplies to the Republic of Czechoslovakia. Remember, excuse me, Czech Republic. I used to call it, [laughs]. The Czech Republic, as you know is been a very staunch and aligning friend. And as you know, the Czech Republic and Slovakia split years ago, from time to time, some of us mistake and say Czechoslovakia. Where the fact is it's the Czech Republic.

And so, they are staunch allies. And so the questions in response to their agreement on missile defense, the Czech's have had their oil supplies reduced. And that's not the way we expect Russia to behave. There are plenty of enormous pressures on Georgia. They have not agreed with us and helped us in trying to restrain the Iranian progress towards the acquisition of nuclear weapons.

So the Russian behavior is more and more autocratic. And the internal stifling of dissent is of great concern. And by the way, our friends the Czech's have been our friends for a long time. They were behind the Iron Curtain, as you know. And both the Czech Republic and Slovakia have been good friends of ours since they split. So we need to make sure that we can help them. In particularly, point out that the Russian behavior, basically blackmailing their neighbors is not something that's acceptable in the world today.

So I worry about Russia. I don't think there's going to be a return to Cold War, that's not what I'm talking about. But Russian behavior becomes less and less in the interest of us throughout the world, frankly, then we had hoped and anticipated when the Berlin Wall came down.

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[beatdisnutz]

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[ngarey]

It's not going to be easy... we've got alot of work to do... there are still so many ignorant people out :(

[rainbowpal3]

better in what? his combover? the way he can put people to sleep by talking?

[PlanetMother]

We're looking forward to january 09 when Barack Obama will be the next president of the US.

[peerukott15]

he is better than obaba

[wolfhybred]

I'm sure he can be more lame. Actually i have seen him be more lame.

[thecatsmeaow]

could he be any lamer???