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Obama Suggests McCain Was Confused Over Spain Comment
September 19, 2008 10:55 PM
ABC News' Sunlen Miller reports: At a pair of fundraisers in the Miami area, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., mocked Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., about his comments earlier in the week, over Spain, to a local area radio station.
“Some of you heard John McCain was interviewed. He was asked about the leader of Spain. I think he thought he was talking about somebody in Latin America. He said he wouldn’t meet with them, Spain. I don’t know if he knows this is a NATO ally,” Obama joked to the roaring crowd at a fundraiser at the Biltmore Hotel.
Obama was referencing McCain’s comments to a Florida radio station this week that sparked some controversy when it seemed like the Arizona senator might have believed Spain was in Latin America.
When asked by a reporter from Union Radio, if elected, would he receive Spanish PM Zapatero in the White House, McCain answered, "Honestly, I have to analyze our relationships, situations and priorities, but I can assure you that I will establish closer relationships with our friends, and I will stand up to those who want to harm the United States."
At a later fundraiser at a private home hosting a crowd of about 100, Obama repeated his criticisms, “John McCain saying just yesterday that he would not meet with the prime minister of Spain!”
Someone in the audience shouted back, “He didn’t know who he was?”
Obama continued, “I thought it was because he was confused or because he bought into this notion that we don’t meet with people that we don’t agree with.”
RNC communications director Danny Diaz took issue with Obama's remarks. "This comes from the guy that has never traveled to Latin America and is arguably the most inexperienced presidential candidate in modern times, if not history," Diaz said. "He can distort John McCain's comments in front of a bunch of fundraisers, but it won't deliver Florida and it won't deliver the Hispanic vote."
Obama this week has shied away from bringing up the McCain’s comments on Spain -– as the week has been dominated by the somber economic news -– but, no doubt debuted them strategically before a key audience.
Obama told the audience he’s confident that he is going to win the election and that his road to victory will be easier with the Sunshine State.
“There are easier ways to win it and harder ways to win it. It would be really nice for us to win Florida. I’ll tell you, we can win this thing without Florida, but boy, it’s a lot easier if we win Florida. If we win Florida, it is almost impossible for John McCain to win.”
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John Mccain = Bunch of lies
Posted by: Lie_Detector | Sep 20, 2008 12:22:43 AM
Comment was not directed at you, Jayhawk, as you seem to try and contribute something. It was directed to the bots that don't even bother spelling "loosing" or "independant" correctly.
Posted by: MIguy | Sep 20, 2008 12:29:10 AM
jayhawk if you are going to quote obama and say hes a gaffe machine at least quote him correctly
obamas gaffes have been small and inconsequential compared to mccains.
mccain has not put his country first in fact he sold out his country for his campaign with his political gamble of a vp pick palin.
hes been a deregulator up until tuesday, and then was for regulation, and now today... im not sure is he back to deregulation?
he wants to put social security where?
he has been launching complete FALSE accusations at obama, and mccains campaign has gone from straight talk to double talk.
accuses obama of fundraising with stars, yet just got back from a fundraiser with stars...
i mean, mcdole, err mccain is losing his mind
thanks but no thanks this pigs got Alzheimers!
Posted by: bhrandon | Sep 20, 2008 12:32:01 AM
September 19, 2008, 7:24 pm
McCain on banking and health
OK, a correspondent directs me to John McCain’s article, Better Health Care at Lower Cost for Every American, in the Sept./Oct. issue of Contingencies, the magazine of the American Academy of Actuaries. You might want to be seated before reading this.
Here’s what McCain has to say about the wonders of market-based health reform:
Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation.
So McCain, who now poses as the scourge of Wall Street, was praising financial deregulation like 10 seconds ago — and promising that if we marketize health care, it will perform as well as the financial industry!
Posted by: bhrandon | Sep 20, 2008 12:33:50 AM
bhrandon: for those of us paying attention, and hopefully for those who are starting to, it is clear that the type of deregulation of healthcare they have been pushing is a frightening bad idea.
Posted by: doc | Sep 20, 2008 12:47:33 AM
He said it during an interview on ABC with George Stephanopolous I believe. A mistake is a mistake. If he is going to attack McCain for Mis-speaks he had better never make one himself.
Posted by: Mack | Sep 20, 2008 1:51:13 AM
Somebody should do a parody of the campaign with Obama as Blade and McCain Palin as bloodsucking vampires. That means Joe Biden would be Whistler.
This weeks moment from the film would be Biden saying: "Catch you F*rs at a bad time?"
Posted by: Atomic Dogg | Sep 20, 2008 1:51:21 AM
Why yes, I have checked the electoral maps, and they show that you are losing. Funny thing. Now I guess if you do funny math, and eliminate the swing states all together, you could come up (on some maps) with a number that puts McCain ahead. BUT since in the real world, the swing states get a vote, and since Obama is winning in most of them, all the maps currently show him ahead. And they will follow the national polls (they lag behind a day or so). I note you all did not quote them when you were doing your victory dance that McCain was ahead in the daily tracking polls, because they showed him even further behind than he is now. Selective use of facts and statistics, a Republican specialty!
Posted by: Dee Dee Lynn | Sep 20, 2008 1:51:21 AM
So was McCain misspeaking when he said he doesn't know how many houses he has, or is that the truth ir was he merely lying? I have never been clear on that. And the "Spain" and "Yugoslavia" gaffes can not be classified as "misspeaking." One was a direct question that was put to him and he was at pains to answer (kind of like Palin on the Bush doctrine), and the other is something he has said repeatedly (just like the Iran is funding Al Qaeda gaffe). When one misspeaks, it is in the moment. Its not something that is repeated four or five times.
Posted by: Dee Dee Lynn | Sep 20, 2008 1:54:21 AM
It has been reported that after Sarah Palin speaks, the crowd starts to thin noticeably. Some Republicans don't want to hear McCain. His old and tired ideas aren't selling anymore, even among the faithful.
When is JawHawk going to give up, too?
Posted by: doug | Sep 20, 2008 1:59:30 AM
Here ya go. Enjoy.
"Last week, in front of a roaring Sioux Falls, S.D., audience, Obama exulted: “Thank you, Sioux City. ... I said it wrong. I’ve been in Iowa for too long. I’m sorry.”
Explaining last week why he was trailing Hillary Clinton in Kentucky, Obama again botched basic geography: “Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So it’s not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle.” On what map is Arkansas closer to Kentucky than Illinois?
Obama has as much trouble with numbers as he has with maps. Last March, on the anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Ala., he claimed his parents united as a direct result of the civil rights movement: “There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Ala., because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born.”
Obama was born in 1961. The Selma march took place in 1965. His spokesman, Bill Burton, later explained that Obama was “speaking metaphorically about the civil-rights movement as a whole.”
Earlier this month in Cape Girardeau, Mo., Obama showed off his knowledge of the war in Afghanistan by homing in on a lack of translators: “We only have a certain number of them, and if they are all in Iraq, then it’s harder for us to use them in Afghanistan.” The real reason it’s “harder for us to use them” in Afghanistan: Iraqis speak Arabic or Kurdish. The Afghanis speak Pashto, Farsi, or other non-Arabic languages.
Over the weekend in Oregon, Obama pleaded ignorance of the decades-old, multibillion-dollar massive Hanford nuclear-waste cleanup: “Here’s something that you will rarely hear from a politician, and that is that I’m not familiar with the Hanford, uuuuhh, site, so I don’t know exactly what’s going on there. (Applause.) Now, having said that, I promise you I’ll learn about it by the time I leave here on the ride back to the airport.”
I assume on that ride, a staffer reminded him that he’s voted on at least one defense-authorization bill that addressed the “costs, schedules, and technical issues” dealing with the nation’s most contaminated nuclear-waste site.
Last March, the Chicago Tribune reported this little-noticed nugget about a fake autobiographical detail in Obama’s Dreams from My Father: “Then, there’s the copy of Life magazine that Obama presents as his racial awakening at age 9. In it, he wrote, was an article and two accompanying photographs of an African-American man physically and mentally scarred by his efforts to lighten his skin. In fact, the Life article and the photographs don’t exist, say the magazine’s own historians.”
And in perhaps the most seriously troubling set of gaffes of them all, Obama told a Portland crowd over the weekend that Iran doesn’t “pose a serious threat to us” — cluelessly arguing that “tiny countries” with small defense budgets can’t do us harm — and then promptly flip-flopped the next day, claiming, “I’ve made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.”
Posted by: Mack | Sep 20, 2008 1:59:38 AM
It just isn't going McCains way.
Posted by: Thinking | Sep 20, 2008 2:09:12 AM
"Some Republicans don't want to hear McCain. His old and tired ideas aren't selling anymore, even among the faithful."
I'd vote for a sock puppet before I'd vote for Barry. I'm not adverse to voting for Nader to keep Barry and crew out of the White House.
Posted by: Mack | Sep 20, 2008 2:14:05 AM
MCCAIN/PALIN;
BRIDGE TO NOWHERE !!
COUNTRY FIRST ? MY A$$ !!!
palin/mccain = LIERS & TRAITORS !!!
GO AND BURN IN HELL !!!!
Posted by: skyglider2008 | Sep 20, 2008 2:21:05 AM
Uh oh....
Ralph Nader is on the ballot in 45 states plus Washington DC and is a write-in in 4 states, for a total of 49 ballots. He is polling 6-8%.
Posted by: Mack | Sep 20, 2008 2:23:00 AM
Blind and ignorant comments! Shouting into cyberspace! Arguments about trivial and completely unrelated issues!
Posted by: Andy | Sep 20, 2008 2:33:00 AM
Meanwhile, McLies is out with another ad trying to connect Obama with Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president. The truth is harder to swallow however...
Marcano, C. & Tyszka, A. B. (2007). Hugo Chavez: The definitive biography of Venezuela''s controversial president. New York, Random House.
"Janet Morton lives about a half hour away from the White House....The unemployed single mother of two girls shares a small house with her sister in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Wasington, D.C. Morton does not know much about Hugo Chavez. But for her, the Venezuelan president is a hero...Morton is one of the 1.2 million poor Americans who get discounted heating fuel for their homes from CITGO, an Oklahoma-based oil company owned by the Venezuelan government" (p. xi)
McBush wants to act like he doesn't know this? Seriously? He''s going to try to scare Latinos with this rubbish when his own party turns a blind eye to the very dictator he rails against? Really? And people are going to fall for it? What an insult! More lies from a dishonorable, lying candidate...
Posted by: Jane | Sep 20, 2008 2:39:18 AM
Unfortunately, Mack, anyone who will vote for Nader is someone who McCain needs to vote for him. mcCain is the one who needs to win votes. Obama has the majority of votes devoted to him now.
Also, I love that the people who comment on Obama's use of a teleprompter probably had no comment on George Bush's use of an earpiece dictating his speech to him. His operatives didn't even want to resk his reading it because they feared his phonics.
Posted by: Hank | Sep 20, 2008 2:40:25 AM
Screw Obama! There is so much McCain can chide him on....his "muslim faith" he said to George Stephenopolis, or the "57 states" he's campaigned in (thinking of course of ISLAMIC STATES). That s--t. That's OK because we're all just finding out about the guy who's going to jail for hacking into Gov. Palin's email.....the son of Dem. Tenn. Senator, who is on the OBAMA CAMPAIGN!!!! What a surprise. Dirty Chicago politics is what BO is all about and he wants to DIRTY OUR WHITE HOUSE....NO WAY
McCAIN/PALIN!!!!!!!
Posted by: Emma | Sep 20, 2008 2:50:35 AM
Don't vote Nader, don't sit it out, don't do a write in......there are two candidates and only one worth voting for JOHN SYDNEY McCAIN...NEVER BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA!!!
Posted by: Emma | Sep 20, 2008 2:52:52 AM
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