RNC Calls on Networks to Halt Anti-McCain ‘100 Years’ Ad
MIAMI — The Republican National Committee demanded Monday that television networks stop running a television ad by the Democratic Party that falsely suggests John McCain wants a 100-year war in Iraq.
The ad says President Bush has talked about staying in Iraq for 50 years, then plays a clip of McCain saying, “Maybe 100. That’d be fine with me.”
The announcer then says: “If all he offers is more of the same, is John McCain the right choice for America’s future?”
Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan said the ad deliberately distorts what McCain, the likely GOP presidential nominee, said.
The committee’s chief counsel, Sean Cairncross, said he sent letters Monday to NBC, CNN and MSNBC insisting that they stop airing the commercial.
At issue is McCain’s answer, in January, to a question about Bush’s theory that troops could be in Iraq for 50 years.
McCain said: “Maybe 100. As long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed, that’d be fine with me, and I hope it would be fine with you, if we maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world where al-Qaida is training, recruiting, equipping and motivating people every single day.”
Democratic Party chief Howard Dean said “there’s nothing false” about the ad.
“We deliberately used John McCain’s words. This isn’t some ominous consultant’s voice from Washington. This is John McCain’s own words. And we’ve been very upfront about everything that he’s said.”
Like all politicians, McCain said something stupid and then tries to blame others for simply repeating his intemperate response. What he meant to say was “we’ll stay there until the oil runs out, because then there’ll be no more reason to stay. Then we can go bomb someone else and take their oil.” His whole life shows that he is accident-prone, unlucky and can’t control his mouth. That’s precisely why hell be a horrible president.
I find it interesting the the Dems are having a cow saying Rev. Wright’s comments were taken out of context (although, I don’t see where they justify that) but do the very same thing to Sen. McCain!
And Wright is mad about being taken out of context? Obama is mad about being taken out of context? McCain’s statement is at least easy to understand how it was taken out of context - he was referring to a Japan - Germany or South Korea type arrangement, not a hundred year war. Dang. The democrats can take the Republicans out of context and its great exposure of true beliefs, but the when its reversed its evil? What is wrong with the sanity of these people?
Oh yeah, they used Senator McCain’s words, all right. Just not the ones that explain his full position. This is a disgusting ploy by the DNC. Go back to fighting with each other, that’s what you do best.
Germany and Japan are not in the middle of civil wars. Iraq is in a civil war and American troops are caught in the middle of it.
Voters who think for themselves are appalled by Howard Dean and his sleaze. What about this old-school edit-out of McCain’s main point (that Japan, Germany, Korea type stabilization promotes peace in a destablized region) points to any “agent of change” in American partisan politics? What about it promises any “hope” for a reunited America? What does it tell us about liberals’ willingness to mischaractrize and outright obfuscate facts to manipulte the outcome on important issues like climate change, gas prices, tax increases, socialized medicine, etc. etc. etc?
This protest from the RNC sounds amazingly like Democrats’ past complaints about Republican tactics. Looks like the RNC doesn’t think it should be subjected to the very tactics they pioneered.
This is only a preview of the negative campaign the Democrats and the moveon.org’s will run against Senator Mccain.
This is just more of the same for this DNC. They only read, listen to, etc what suites them and their cause. The truth and logic is not something they even take into consideration. (Even when the truth and logic would serve them better.) The American people are simply not as stupid as this DNC would like to believe. With talk radio and FNN the public is getting the entire story.
Howard Dean knows exactly what Sen. McCain meant. He has no shame. McCain should pull the stops on Barack Obama. I don’t know why he thought he didn’t have to.