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> "MioMyo" <USA_Patriot@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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.
Notably, you Failed... that is FAILED to refute the Times obvious and
blatant Liberal Bias, you sycophant liberal moron.....
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