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Rudy: Not time to have a president (like lifelong member of Congress John McCain) without executive experience ...
Rudy: McCain Didn't Have Executive Experience Before He Had It
TPM Election Central —
At a press conference today, Rudy pulled a bit of a whoopsie, saying: "This is not the time to have somebody who has no executive experience as President of the United States."
That's a bit off message, because McCain himself arguably has no serious executive experience -- certainly not recently. The only thing the campaign claims as exec experience was his role running a Navy unit of 1,000 people, a role which some have seen as constituting that sort of background, though others have disputed this.
But McCain's political career from 1982 onwards has been entirely in ...
Giuliani: McCain isn't qualified to be president
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
In an interview with Brian Williams on MSNBC earlier today, former GOP presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani disqualified his primary opponent John McCain’s candidacy saying, “this is not the time to have somebody with no executive experience as President of the United States.” Uh, McCain has no executive experience. Though, why do I have a feeling that somehow we're going to hear about McCain's POW experience? ...
Other News: Clinton Releases Her Delegates
The Atlantic Politics Channel —
** Sen. Hillary Clinton formally released her delegates this afternoon, but she said that she would not tell her supporters how to vote. ** The Obama campaign believes that Rudy Giuliani disqualified Sen. John McCain from serving as president because Giuliani said that "this is not the time to have somebody
with no executive experience as President of the United States."
Giuliani Not Helping McCain
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
In an interview on MSNBC, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani essentially disqualified Sen. John McCain's presidential candidacy saying, "this is not the time to have somebody with no executive experience as President of the United States."
