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McCain Shifts Focus to Global Issues
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ABC News' Bret Hovell Reports: Senator John McCain opened a press conference in Phoenix, Arizona Monday with a whirlwind tour of his opinions on foreign affairs.
“It’s an interesting time internationally, obviously,” McCain said, “and I’d like to mention several of the things that happened.”
He moved quickly to the Russian election, “and I use the term [election] loosely,” he said.
"It is obviously an election that would not pass the smell test in any functioning democracy,” McCain said of the election of Dmitry Medvedev, the handpicked successor to current Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Later in the news conference, McCain went on to say that Russia should no longer be invited to the G8 conferences - the group of eight industrialized nations that meet every year - something he has said in the past.
The GOP contender then went on to talk about the violence along the Gaza strip in Israel, calling Hamas a terrorist organization and saying that Israel has a right to respond to the attacks.
“The situation becomes more and more dangerous as we speak,” he said. “All countries in the world should do whatever is necessary to prevent an escalation of this violence and the needless loss of innocent civilians.”
To round out the tour, McCain then moved on to the unrest in South America between Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela, calling on the House of Representatives to pass a free trade agreement with Colombia to help ease the tensions.
“If we turn down that free trade agreement it sends a signal throughout the region that it's not very beneficial to be a friend of the United States,” he said.
To be sure, McCain starts many of his press conferences with some point of international news he believes should be addressed. And it has been several days since he last talked to the press, and a busy weekend around the world.
But it is not hard to imagine McCain attempting to draw a distinction between himself and his Democratic rivals for the White House, who will spend the last few hours leading up to Tuesday’s primaries engaging with each other, while the presumptive nominee on the Republican side is free to focus instead on matters of state.
McCain was asked about an advertisement Hillary Clinton ran, touting her stature and readiness to handle a crisis in the middle of the night.
“I think many Americans when they consider the three of us, I would believe that my knowledge and experience and background clearly indicates that if the phone rang at 3 am in the white house, I would be the one most qualified to exercise the kind of judgment,” he said.
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A vote for Hilliary is a vote for McCain. A vote for McCain is a vote for Bush, a vote for Huck is a vote for Jimmy Carter. And a vote for Obama is a vote for Cheney's cousin. Ahh, it just breathes "democracy", doesn't it?
Posted by: cba | Mar 3, 2008 5:34:25 PM
Mr. McCain......kindly inform your fellow RHINO George Bush that the Republican party and your campaign fund will not get one red red cent from me until a physical border fence is built and every single employer who has hired (knowingly or not) an illegal immigrant is harshly fined or jailed. Oh and no vote from me either. Did you know the Empire State building was fully constructed in only 12 months? You've got eight months to build a fence.
Posted by: justamom | Mar 3, 2008 5:47:50 PM
Actually, the vote for Senator Obama, is the vote for Repulicans.... Republicians won't be as nice as Dems... Senator Obama will be defeated easily on national security, experience, economy, NAFTA (just surfaced out)...... not mentioning the trial for Mr. Rezko..
Posted by: Truth | Mar 3, 2008 6:39:24 PM
Truth - depending on the investigations/trial and voting results for the Dem races, Obama's electability might sway the SD's to nominate Clinton... just a guess
Posted by: DCVoter | Mar 3, 2008 7:12:46 PM
Then again, mathematically, the voters might nominate Clinton for the same reason. Anything can happen at this point LOL
Posted by: DCVoter | Mar 3, 2008 7:13:45 PM
Understand this:
John McCain will beat either of those
Lightweights on the Democrat side in the
General Election!
Neither of them has the experience or
judgement to be president!
John McCain does! The election will be
close but McCain will prevail!
Posted by: reaganfan | Mar 4, 2008 12:44:16 AM
McCain is doing everything we want, his policies will help advance our goals, and the Republican Party is flawlessly running a great plan for McCain to follow the Great Goerge W. Bush, who was best US president ever to be our ally.
Posted by: Mulsims for McCain | Mar 4, 2008 11:39:35 AM
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