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McCain Camp Touts Break with Bush on Nukes
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ABC News' Teddy Davis and James Gerber Report: The McCain campaign played up its differences with President Bush on nuclear security on a Tuesday conference call with reporters.
"I think it's fair to characterize this as a significant departure from the nuclear security policies of the Bush administration," said McCain advisor Randy Scheunemann.
Scheunemann said that the differences between McCain and Bush covered not only a discrepancy on the "ultimate goal" of a "nuclear-free world" but also McCain's openness to further testing limits, his openness to treaty-based discussions with Russia, his openness to talking with China, and his support for international enrichment centers and spent fuel depositories.
"These are all differences from the Bush administration," said Scheunemann who serves as McCain's senior foreign policy and national security advisor.
McCain's claim that he was departing from Bush's policy was supported, albeit with qualifications, by an unlikely source: Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del.
The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has been an outspoken critic of McCain. But Biden acknowledged Tuesday that McCain’s nuclear security speech contained "many ideas that suggest a welcome departure from the Bush Administration’s hostility to arms control."
While praising McCain's pledge to work with Russia on nuclear arsenal reduction, Biden maintained that McCain's policy has some "critical gaps," particularly on the issues of Iran and North Korea.
Without ever mentioning Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., by name, McCain mocked his likely Democratic rival by saying that "many believe all we need to do to end the nuclear programs of hostile governments is have our president talk with leaders in Pyongyang and Tehran, as if we haven't tried talking to these governments repeatedly over the past two decades."
Biden thinks that McCain's aversion to diplomatic talks with hostile nations would put the United States on a path for war.
"If Senator McCain thinks it is useless to negotiate with Pyongyang," said Biden, "then that would be a serious setback to American security."
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Why is McCain willing to talk to China, a communist police state, and not Cuba, a communist police state. Could it be all the garbage that we buy from them.
Posted by: Huh | May 27, 2008 4:59:16 PM
Ok ...
McCain is picking up where Hillary left off.
THIS IS BIZARRO WORLD.
Ok HE is going to distance from Bush ... but have a closed fundraiser with him.
He has thrown Bush down the stairs numerous times and still wants his money.
Bush is the Rev Wright equivalent to McCain.
Wacky
Posted by: Omentum | May 27, 2008 5:46:35 PM
This guy who could not get his uncle right, and probably never heard of Buchenwald, is claiming liberating a concentration camp that was liberated by the Russian Red Army.
Now they have to explain what he really meant to say is that he messed up what uncle he had and want concentration camp. The phony will say anything, just say anything, to get elected.
Posted by: a new name | May 27, 2008 5:49:49 PM
McCain is willing to talk with our enemies... just like Obama; Boy Johnny boy just can't get off his addiction to hypocrisy! My dead grandmother could beat this guy... I don't think the Democrats could lose this if they even tried. This is gonna be a blowout of McGovern proportions, the GOP is finally DOA, but at least BUSH got his two terms and in the process got all members of his party fired. We're gonna have a Democrat congress and Senate with a Democrat President. So our defict will only get worse while they fund that war in IRAN, and add on social programs at home. Bush strangled the economy, now the DNC will implode it. It's too bad we can have a split government anymore. You need opposition
parties so spending can stay under control. After the next four years, we just might be closer to the model of Mexico economically, than like more modern economies like China and Japan. In other words, kiss your retirement and savings goodbye... permanetly!
Posted by: ugh | May 27, 2008 6:07:26 PM
As a state senator, "Obama wrote letters to city and state officials supporting his political patron Tony Rezko's successful bid to get more than $14 million from taxpayers to build apartments for senior citizens," the June 13, 2007 Sun-Times reported Question: Is Obama's support of slum lord Tony Rezco what Obama is really talking about when Obama talks about "change" and "hope" for America?
Posted by: Ray | May 27, 2008 8:24:54 PM
Russia hates theU.S. because the U.S. plans to deploy Intermediate-range missiles in Europe capable of reaching the Moscow within minutes. McCain needs to address this BIG issue first before addressing other political B.S.
Posted by: Jimmy Jenius | May 27, 2008 10:01:51 PM
Oh wow, McCain has finally updated his nuclear policy position to the equivalent of Reagan's ! Now I tell ya, that's real progress. The standard-bearer for the GOP returns to 1984 ! Yeah for McCain, the ultimate political maverick !
Good thing we have ABC to explain how momentous this is to us, otherwise we might realize what a load of bull hockey we're being handed yet again. Yeah for the mainstream media, the ultimate self-censoring propaganda machine !
Posted by: Jimmy | May 28, 2008 8:38:36 AM
OBAMA is the biggest HYPOCRITE!
Obama says that he should not be judged for who he hangs around (Rev. Wright the racist, Tony Rezko the slumlord, William Ayers, a know terrorist). Yet he continues to attack McCain for his talking with President Bush.
So if McCain is running for Bushes 3rd term does that mean that Obama is running for Rev. Wright's first term? Sounds about right.
Hillary save us!
Posted by: Edwin | May 28, 2008 2:35:37 PM
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