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New lefty charge: McCain wants to bring back the draft, except of course he doesn’t
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... I’d call it stupid except that the people circulating it understand perfectly well what happened here. After all, if they’re willing to accuse him of lying about the POW cross story based on no evidence, why would they cut him a break on this? I first saw it this afternoon and didn’t think it was worth responding to, but since Marc Ambinder’s gone to the trouble of debunking it, here’s a link . Nutshell: A woman asked him a long question about veterans’ benefits, then punctuated it by saying we should bring back the draft. McCain responded by saying “I don’t disagree with ...
Anatomy of a Nutroot Smear
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August 20, 2008 Anatomy of a Nutroot Smear Let's look at what happens when an unedited video gets into the hands to the nutroot hatchet men, shall we? It's instructive to watch the cockroaches operate. It's been debunked , but don't let that get in way of a good smear. Here's the original video (4:43 in length), for reference (curiously omitted from an idiotic ThinkRegress post, which I won't link - ...
Left Twists McCain Answer To Create False Appearance
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... that the candidate supports the draft (which is actually the position of a number of members of your own party -- including your own candidate, who supports "mandatory voluntary national service"). You post this snippet on your website to support your case. QUESTIONER: If we dont reenact the draft, I dont think well have anyone to chase Bin Laden to the gates of hell. [Appaluse] MCCAIN: Maam, let me say that I dont disagree with anything you said. What you don't do is post the full answer which goes on to say this. McCain: I'm grateful for all of our veterans. I ...
Media Rallies To McCain’s Defense, Gives Him ‘The Benefit Of The Doubt’ On Draft Comments
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... Brushing off his instant response, some journalists are refusing to take McCain’s statement at face value. “Does McCain favor a draft? Nope,” the Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder wrote on his blog yesterday, deriding liberals for “having a conniption.” When asked about the quote last night on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, NBC Political Director Chuck Todd declared he was going to “give McCain the benefit of the doubt,” unbelievably claiming McCain was simply advocating some form of national service: ...
Did McCain "Agree" On Draft Reinstatement? Not Exactly.
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... Marc Ambinder, whose overall assessment of this aligns with mine, suggests that this is a case of "Liberals...having a conniption." I think Ambinder is overstating it just a bit. This is really a case of McCain's opponents grabbing at the lowest hanging fruit -- putting a "McCain agrees with the draft" meme out there because it's the most shocking thing that can be mined from this exchange, if we agree to ignore the bulk of it. Ambinder notes that McCain has presented himself as opposed to the draft. ThinkProgress defend themselves here, noting that McCain has, in fact, ...
Let's not forget McCain's support for the draft. The McCain plan "equals the draft" according to VoteVets.
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
... But why believe what McCain says? According to Marc Ambinder that comment gave us liberals a "conniption." See, Marc Ambinder, who knows John McCain, claims John McCain doesn't support the draft. Unlike the rest of us, Marc Ambinder gets to see McCain in person and he's heard it for himself. So, even when McCain says things about supporting the draft, like he did yesterday, Marc Ambinder knows McCain doesn't mean it. ...
