reason.com - 10/22/2008
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I just got off a McCain campaign conference call in which senior foreign policy advisor Randy Scheunemann and former CIA Director Jim Woolsey addressed this Washington Post story. "Al-Qaeda will have to support McCain in the coming election," said a commentary posted Monday on the ...
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Conference Calling
Matthew Yglesias —
Dave Weigel and Sargent & Kleefeld both report on a McCain campaign conference call featuring Randy Scheunemann and Jim Woolsey to discuss al-Qaeda’s preference for a McCain victory. They seem to have taken a two pronged approach:
Other “bad guy” types have said nice things about McCain.
Al-Qaeda saying they’re hoping for a McCain win is obviously a bankshot effort to help McCain
Of course these arguments contradict each other.
On a more substantive note, in a world that wasn’t ...
McCain and Al Qaeda: You Telling Me Y’all Believed That?
Firedoglake —
Collapsing argument
I just got off a conference call held by the McCain campaign held to deny that al-Qaeda, contrary to reports in the AP and the Washington Post, is rooting for their man.
To describe the call as panicked would be an understatement. Jim Woolsey, the ...
Al-Qaeda, McCain And The Election
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... barely-approving quotes of Barack Obama given by Hamas, Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad and Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi,
which he manfully said he wasn't going "to characterize." Woolsey, for
his part, peered into the mind of what he called "one individual
Islamist blogger from one terrorist Islamist blog" and determined that
he was "clearly trying to damage John McCain" and "not speaking from
his heart." Weigel's description of the call is also worth your time. ...
Friday McBush/McSame Bashing (Home Stretch Edition)
Discourse.net —
Despair sets in,
At his Northern Virginia headquarters, some McCain aides are already speaking of the campaign in the past tense. Morale, even among some of the heartiest and most loyal staffers, has plummeted. And many past and current McCain advisors are warring with each other over who led the candidate astray. One well-connected Republican in the private sector was shocked to get calls and resumes in the past few days from what he said were senior McCain aides – a breach of custom for even the worst-off campaigns.
But let’s bash a little bit just in case, ...
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