On Jul 21, 9:44=A0pm, "MioMyo" <USA_Patr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Now watch all the liberal sycophants here on Usenet come to their
defense=
..
>
> This should be fun....
Usenet is only place it can happen. Since "sycophant" is one of
those words
the Repub Stooges suddenly discovered after the morons Jackhammers
broke.
Which is the only reason there is now GPS coverage, in addition to
fiber optic
of the morons also.
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/21/mccain.nyt/index.html
>
> (CNN) -- The New York Times has rejected an essay that Sen. John McCain
> wrote defending his Iraq war policy.
>
> The piece was in response to an op-ed from Sen. Barack Obama that was
> published in the paper last week.
>
> In an e-mail to the McCain campaign, Opinion Page Editor David ****pley
sa=
id
> he could not accept the piece as written, but would be "pleased, though,
=
to
> look at another draft."
>
> "Let me suggest an approach," he wrote Friday. "The Obama piece worked
fo=
r
> me because it offered new information (it appeared before his speech);
wh=
ile
> Senator Obama discussed Senator McCain, he also went into detail about
hi=
s
> own plans. It would be terrific to have an article from Senator McCain
th=
at
> mirrors Senator Obama's piece."
>
> In a statement released Monday, The New York Times said it is "standard
> procedure on our Op-Ed page, and that of other newspapers, to go back
and
> forth with an author on his or her submission."
>
> "We look forward to publi****ng Senator McCain's views in our paper just
a=
s
> we have in the past. We have published at least seven Op-Ed pieces by
> Senator McCain since 1996. The New York Times endorsed Senator McCain as
=
the
> Republican candidate in the presidential primaries. We take his views
ver=
y
> seriously," the statement said.
>
> McCain's rejected op-ed was a lengthy critique of Obama's positions on
Ir=
aq
> policy, particularly his view of the surge.
>
> "Senator Obama seems to have learned nothing from recent history," wrote
> McCain, criticizing Obama's call for an early withdrawal timeline. "I
fin=
d
> it ironic that he is emulating the worst mistake of the Bush
administrati=
on
> by waving the 'Mission Accomplished' banner prematurely."
>
> Obama's July 14 essay had taken shots at McCain for not further
encouragi=
ng
> the Iraqi government to take control of the country.
>
> "Instead of seizing the moment and encouraging Iraqis to step up, the
Bus=
h
> administration and Senator McCain are refusing to embrace this
transition=
-- =A0
> despite their previous commitments to respect the will of Iraq's
sovereig=
n
> government," Obama wrote in his op-ed.
>
> "They call any timetable for the removal of American troops 'surrender,'
> even though we would be turning Iraq over to a sovereign Iraqi
government=
.."
> Read Obama's essay
>
> ****pley, who was President Bill Clinton's senior speechwriter from 1995
t=
o
> 1997, had advised the McCain campaign that "the article would have to
> articulate, in concrete terms, how Senator McCain defines victory in
Iraq=
..
>
> "It would also have to lay out a clear plan for achieving victory --
with
> troops levels, timetables and measures for compelling the Iraqis to
> cooperate. And it would need to describe the senator's Afghanistan
strate=
gy,
> spelling out how it meshes with his Iraq plan."
>
> He added that he hoped the parties could "find a way to bring this to a
> happy resolution."
>
> McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said Monday the Arizona senator's
position
> will not change based on the "demands of the New York Times."
>
> "John McCain believes that victory in Iraq must be based on conditions
on
> the ground, not arbitrary timetables," he said. "Unlike Barack Obama,
tha=
t
> position will not change based on politics or the demands of the New
York
> Times."
>
> The newspaper endorsed McCain for the Republican presidential nomination
=
in
> January, shortly before the New York primary.
>
> In February, after it became clear McCain would be his party's
presumptiv=
e
> nominee, the paper published a thinly sourced re****t that McCain once
had=
a
> close relation****p with a female lobbyist.
>
> McCain said he was disappointed in the New York Times piece. The paper
sa=
id
> that it stood by its re****ting and that "the story speaks for itself."
>
> McCain's campaign sent out fundraising appeals based on the article.
>
> The article "is particularly disgusting -- an un-sourced hit-and-run
smea=
r
> campaign designed to distract from the issues at stake in this
election,"
> McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, wrote in a e-mail to sup****ters.
>
> "We need your help to counteract the liberal establishment and fight
back
> against the New York Times by making an immediate contribution today,"
th=
e
> e-mail said in text that linked to an online contribution form on the
McC=
ain
> campaign's Web site.
The Conservative stooges have always been so afraid of opinions,
that's why they even invented more than one Chapter in the Bible
for the morons also. So it doesn't change anything.
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