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McCain Comments On The Bridge Collapse, Ethics, & Obama
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ABC News' Bret Hovell Reports: Calling this week's bridge collapse in Minnesota a "terrible tragedy," Senator John McCain, R-Ariz., used a campaign stop in Ankeny, Iowa to chastise his colleagues in Washington for allowing earmarks and pork barrel spending of transportation dollars to get out of control.
McCain said he did not know whether the collapse of a highway bridge over the Mississippi River could have been prevented, but said that "you could make the argument that part of the responsibility lies with the Congress of the United States."
"Maybe if we'd had done it right maybe some of that money would have gone to inspect those bridges and other bridges around the country," McCain said.
McCain, who is seeking his party’s nomination for president, speaks regularly on the stump about the need to reform the earmark process. He added Saturday that he was "angry" about the ethics reform bill Congress passed on Thursday, saying that Congress "punted" the chance to put an end to earmarks.
"We just completed a joke, and a sham on the American people with that pretended reform that we just passed through Congress," McCain told the audience.
Talking to reporters after the meeting, McCain took a jab at one of his rivals for the White House on the Democratic side, calling comments by Senator Barack Obama, D-Ill., about the use of nuclear weapons against al Qaeda, the "height of foolishness."
"I think it's naïve to think that if somehow we declared to the world that we would never use nuclear weapons under any circumstances, it wouldn’t have any effect but to place American security in greater jeopardy," McCain said.
The jab comes after a week of back and forth between the Obama and Clinton camps on foreign policy.
August 4, 2007 in Thompson, Fred | Permalink | User Comments (1)
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McCain is the naive one.
Remarks like his only reinforce the view of the US -- as under Bush-- as
arrogant and out of touch.
Bombing anyone with nukes is (a) not going to stop Osama, and (b) would cause millions of civilian casualties, a
classic definition of a crime
against humanity.
Posted by: Fallows | Aug 5, 2007 12:11:21 PM
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