"MioMyo" <USA_Patriot@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> Now watch all the liberal sycophants here on Usenet come to their
> defense.
>
> This should be fun....
>
> 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
> said 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
> for me because it offered new information (it appeared before his
> speech); while Senator Obama discussed Senator McCain, he also went
> into detail about his own plans. It would be terrific to have an
> article from Senator McCain that 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 as 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 very seriously," the statement said.
>
> McCain's rejected op-ed was a lengthy critique of Obama's positions on
> Iraq 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 find it ironic that he is emulating the worst mistake of
> the Bush administration by waving the 'Mission Accomplished' banner
> prematurely."
>
> Obama's July 14 essay had taken shots at McCain for not further
> encouraging the Iraqi government to take control of the country.
>
> "Instead of seizing the moment and encouraging Iraqis to step up, the
> Bush administration and Senator McCain are refusing to embrace this
> transition -- despite their previous commitments to respect the will
> of Iraq's sovereign 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 to 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
> strategy, 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, that 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
> presumptive 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
> said 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
> smear 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," the e-mail said in text that linked to an online contribution
> form on the McCain campaign's Web site.
>
>
The NYT has published SEVEN (7), thats "S E V E N" editorials previously
that were written by Senator McCain. Nitwit.
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