Comments on: Obama Begins To Fight Back http://www.chrisweigant.com/2008/08/19/obama-begins-to-fight-back/ Reality-based political commentary Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:35:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: BLaws http://www.chrisweigant.com/2008/08/19/obama-begins-to-fight-back/#comment-3429 BLaws Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:02:00 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/index.php/2008/08/19/obama-begins-to-fight-back/#comment-3429 More: <i>That ambition led McCain into a moral lapse that appalled him. It involved an ongoing dispute in South Carolina over the tradition of flying the Confederate battle flag atop the state capitol, in Columbia. In a television interview, McCain said the flag was "offensive," and he appeared sympathetic to its critics. His aides were alarmed, fearing the consequences in the upcoming South Carolina primary, and they wrote a damage-control statement that McCain read repeatedly before television cameras. "I understand both sides," McCain said. "Some view the flag as a symbol of slavery. Others view it as a symbol of heritage. Personally, I see the battle flag as a symbol of heritage." But that, McCain wrote a year later, was "a lie." The flag symbolized both slavery and the South's secession from "the country I love," and "should be lowered forever from the staff atop South Carolina's capitol." "I had promised to tell the truth no matter what," McCain wrote in the book. "When I broke it, I had not just been dishonest, I had been a coward, and I had severed my own interests from my country's. That was what made the lie unforgivable."</i> Source: By Robert G. Kaiser Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, August 1, 2008; A01 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/01/AR2008080103032_pf.html More:

That ambition led McCain into a moral lapse that appalled him. It involved an ongoing dispute in South Carolina over the tradition of flying the Confederate battle flag atop the state capitol, in Columbia. In a television interview, McCain said the flag was "offensive," and he appeared sympathetic to its critics. His aides were alarmed, fearing the consequences in the upcoming South Carolina primary, and they wrote a damage-control statement that McCain read repeatedly before television cameras. "I understand both sides," McCain said. "Some view the flag as a symbol of slavery. Others view it as a symbol of heritage. Personally, I see the battle flag as a symbol of heritage."

But that, McCain wrote a year later, was "a lie." The flag symbolized both slavery and the South's secession from "the country I love," and "should be lowered forever from the staff atop South Carolina's capitol."

"I had promised to tell the truth no matter what," McCain wrote in the book. "When I broke it, I had not just been dishonest, I had been a coward, and I had severed my own interests from my country's. That was what made the lie unforgivable."

Source:
By Robert G. Kaiser
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, August 1, 2008; A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/01/AR2008080103032_pf.html

]]> By: BLaws http://www.chrisweigant.com/2008/08/19/obama-begins-to-fight-back/#comment-3428 BLaws Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:55:31 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/index.php/2008/08/19/obama-begins-to-fight-back/#comment-3428 The only problem I had with the speech was Obama now made it harder to slam McCain on this quote: Here's what McCain said during his remarks before the VFW: <i>“Behind all of these claims and positions by Senator Obama lies the ambition to be president."</i> And from John McCain's own book in 2002: <i>"I didn't decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to be president. . . . In truth, I'd had the ambition for a long time."</i> It's even on audio form! Keith Olbermann played it last night. It's a radio ad just waiting to be made. Let's see if the MSM picks it up and runs with it like you know they would if it was Obama that said it. The only problem I had with the speech was Obama now made it harder to slam McCain on this quote:

Here's what McCain said during his remarks before the VFW:

“Behind all of these claims and positions by Senator Obama lies the ambition to be president."

And from John McCain's own book in 2002:

"I didn't decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to be president. . . . In truth, I'd had the ambition for a long time."

It's even on audio form! Keith Olbermann played it last night. It's a radio ad just waiting to be made. Let's see if the MSM picks it up and runs with it like you know they would if it was Obama that said it.

]]> By: loslobo http://www.chrisweigant.com/2008/08/19/obama-begins-to-fight-back/#comment-3425 loslobo Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:16:36 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/index.php/2008/08/19/obama-begins-to-fight-back/#comment-3425 Chris Dido.... No comment on that other Joe?..you know that prick.. Sometimes there is justice in the world, too bad this country couldn't be like Pakistan... NIST is going to have a "news" conference on WTC7 Thursday. Let's see how that "Act of God" plays out...The only story with more BS than Bruce Ivins(check out Gleen Greenwald's work on Salon). Thanks Always Chris

Dido....

No comment on that other Joe?..you know that prick..
Sometimes there is justice in the world, too bad this country couldn't be like Pakistan...

NIST is going to have a "news" conference on WTC7 Thursday. Let's see how that "Act of God" plays out...The only story with more BS than Bruce Ivins(check out Gleen Greenwald's work on Salon).

Thanks Always

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