McCain Confuses A Rope Line With A Town Hall

CNN 9/30/08...

ROBERTS: Senator, over the, over the weekend, your your your running mate appeared to contradict you on the subject of Pakistan when she told a voter that the US should go into Pakistan after terrorists. You called the reporting of that . . .

MCCAIN: Heh...

ROBERTS: You called the reporting of that in an interview with CBS just yesterday "gotcha journalism." But at the same time you have gone after Sen. Biden for a comment that he made under similar circumstances about clean coal technology. Your campaign even released a video of part of his comments. Was that gotcha politics?

MCCAIN: Well, I think the circumstances were uh were very different but the point is that this...

ROBERTS: How so?

MCCAIN: ...sound bite politics .... Well, I believe it was a town hall meeting that uh that he said it. Uh ... This was ... Hers was an encounter in a, in a pizza parlor where the question was framed so that of course we're going to go after terrorists. We're going to go after terrorists wherever they are in the world. I don't disagree with that. The question is is whether you broadcast it or not. It's whether you warn ... whether you announce that you're going to strike a, a sovereign nation. There's a big difference there, John.

Uh... But, look. Let's have more town hall meetings. We, This, this one we're going to have with Sen. Obama, this could have been our eleventh, or our fifteenth. And, and then that way we can respond to the American people and we don't have have all that. But a response in a pizza parlor to the kind of question that it was ... Sarah Palin has made her position very clear. We don't announce that we're going to attack other nations. Sen. Obama said that in debates.

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McCain is wrong. Biden's comments about clean coal were made in response to an impromptu question along a rope line following an outdoor campaign rally in Maumee, OH.

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• McCain
• Biden
• politics
• clean coal
• gotcha journalism
• Palin
• terrorism
• Pakistan
• CNN
• John Roberts

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McInsane is an old, mean Depends soiling dickhead.

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Palin contradicted McCain?

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