{"id":2665,"date":"2008-10-12T15:16:09","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T21:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/mcsame-smirk\/"},"modified":"2008-10-12T15:16:09","modified_gmt":"2008-10-12T21:16:09","slug":"mcsame-smirk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/mcsame-smirk\/","title":{"rendered":"McSame Smirk"},"content":{"rendered":"

My thanks to Democracy for New Mexico: Prez Debate: “That One” Won<\/a> for noting the following from the second debate.<\/p>\n

Bomb, Bomb, Bomb<\/strong>
One of my favorite exchanges, as reported by the AP<\/a>: <\/p>\n

…Obama seemed to get the better of him in a discussion of whether the United States should violate Pakistan’s sovereignty if that’s what it takes to kill al-Qaida terrorists such as Osama bin Laden. McCain quoted Theodore Roosevelt, who said, “Talk softly, but carry a big stick.” <\/p>\n

But Obama “likes to talk loudly,” McCain said. “In fact, he said he wants to announce that he’s going to attack Pakistan. Remarkable.” <\/p>\n

Obama shot back: “Nobody called for the invasion of Pakistan. … If Pakistan is unable or unwilling to hunt down bin Laden and take him out, then we should.” <\/p>\n

He continued: “Now, Sen. McCain suggests that somehow, you know, I’m green behind the ears and, you know, I’m just spouting off, and he’s somber and responsible.” <\/strong> <\/p>\n

McCain smiled and said, “Thank you very much.” But the smile faded when Obama said: “This is the guy who sang, ‘Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran,’ who called for the annihilation of North Korea,” Obama said. “That I don’t think is an example of ‘speaking softly.’ This is the person who, after we had — we hadn’t even finished Afghanistan, where he said, ‘Next up, Baghdad.’<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Democracy for New Mexico: Prez Debate: “That One” Won<\/a><\/p>\n

McCain actually interrupted Obama with his smirking \u2018thank you.\u2019 It was a moment of Duhbya-like pettiness. peace, mjh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My thanks to Democracy for New Mexico: Prez Debate: “That One” Won for noting the following from the second debate. Bomb, Bomb, BombOne of my favorite exchanges, as reported by the AP: …Obama seemed to get the better of him in a discussion of whether the United States should violate Pakistan’s sovereignty if that’s what … Continue reading McSame Smirk<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}