McCain Responds To Obama: ‘We’re Not Picking On Anybody’

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM



IGOR BOBIC 3:56 PM EST, WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) took to the Senate floor on Wednesday to rebut comments made by President Obama in which he admonished McCain and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) for launching "outrageous" attacks upon U.N. ambassador Susan Rice for her response to the attacks in Benghazi, Libya.

"We're not picking on anybody," McCain said. "We intend to pursue this until the American people have the answers they deserve. This president and this administration has either been guilty of colossal incompetence, or engaged in a cover-up," McCain added. McCain further clarified that he and Obama "have some disagreement when it's called 'picking on' someone."

Holding his first press conference since his re-election earlier in the day at the White House, Obama emphatically defended Rice against accusations that she lied about the true nature of the attacks in Benghazi that lead to four American deaths.

"If Sen. McCain and Sen. Graham want to go after somebody, they should go after me," Obama said. "I'm happy to have that discussion with them. But for them to go after the U.N. ambassador? Who had nothing to do with Benghazi? To besmirch her reputation? It's outrageous."

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[russspeakeasy]

1. JOHN. SHUT UP !!!

Take Henry hamilton's advice.

[yankeepants]

4. Take Henry Hamiton's prescription n/t

[Iliyah]

2. His best friend Lieberman

is leaving the Senate and now he's pissed! Now he got to work with more WOMEN, 16 which are Dems - LOL

[still_one]

3. Blah blah blah. Didn't you vote against honoring Martin Luther king? It is time for you to retire

[perdita9]

10. I forgot about that one!

[Dubster]

5. Spam deleted by gkhouston (MIR Team)

[Botany]

6. "Referring to Rice, he said she was at a minimum, guilty of "not being very bright ..... "

You said the words John now you own them. The POTUS called you and Lindsey out
in public and named your names because he was tired of your crap.

[LibGranny]

22. If you compare Susan Rice to Failin Palin - well, there's your

answer right there! He doesn't know STUPID when it's staring him in the face!

[Politicalboi]

29. Yeah but,

That stupid is so purrrdy.

[exboyfil]

27. Rhodes Scholar, Truman Scholar

Degrees from Oxford (M.S. and PhD). B.S. from Stanford

This woman by any measure is off the charts bright. She has degrees from two of the finest universities in the world.

My old debate partner was a Truman Scholar and let me tell you he is very bright (alot smarter than me).

[amandabeech]

35. No doubt that she's very bright,

but the canned talking points were not believable at the time they were given, and they weren't true.

Rice looked ridiculous stating them, IMHO.

Whoever convinced her to go out there and say that stuff wasn't using good judgment.

[Submariner]

7. McCain....you LOST 2 elections ago....STFU n/t

[perdita9]

8. John McCain is no Gentleman

He's a cranky old man in desperate search for something to exploit for political purposes.

[SutaUvaca]

9. Jesus Christ in a plastic basket!

"..pursue this until the American people have the answers they deserve"??? Where the hell were these righteous ass clowns when WMD were claimed, when Valerie Plame was outed? I hope this Benghazi stuff turns into quicksand for every rethug and fucksnews idiot who has ever tried to game it.

[Actionman]

11. Old and bitter

John shows up again with the gentle Lindsey close behind. And who do they go after because they are pissed about losing to Obama again, a woman. What is the problem with republican men and their ease of attacks on women.

[amandabeech]

36. If Petreus or Panetta had come out and said this

I imagine that the pukes would have attacked them, too.

Rice is our ambassador to the UN and in the running for SOS.

You insult her by thinking that she can't withstand these attacks because she's a woman.

[Skittles]

12. why didn't they investigate 9/11 like this?

f***ing hypocrites

[mercuryblues]

15. why didn't

they investigate the Iraq WMD claim like this?

[Liberalagogo]

13. These asswipes are just trying to set a narrative

So their precious media will lick their behinds.

THEY HAVE NO CREDIBILITY.

Stop listening to this senile old fool and their DEFEATED party.

[truthisfreedom]

14. Time to reopen Keating Five.

Full investigation. Unseal the files. Put it back in the news cycle, daily. Never let it rest.

[NICO9000]

16. Old man yells at EVERYTHING!

His time was up long ago. Too bad nobody bothered to tell him.

[AlbertCat]

17. guilty of colossal incompetence, or engaged in a cover-up

Doesn't seem like either to me.

Maybe if they had had more funds to spend on security.....

colossal incompetence, indeed.

[PSPS]

18. "until the American people have the answers they deserve"

"We're not picking on anybody," McCain said. "We intend to pursue this until the American people have the answers they deserve.

Translation: We'll keep harping on this subject, which only "Fox News" viewers know of or care about, until Rush and our choreographers at Fox decide to fabricate outrage about something else.

[AzDar]

19. I'm sure Senator McCain was JUST as insistent that the many U.S. Diplomatic targets attacked

under Bush The Lesser be so thoroughly "investigated" , right?

edited for: spelling like a TeaBagger

[TM99]

20. I used to respect John McCain

I now no longer do so.

What an irrelevant man whose time has passed. He simply allows himself to be the spokesperson for the idiots on the fringe right now.

Very sad!

[struggle4progress]

21. Johnny, Johnny. Ya'll tried that in election mode, and most of the country didn't buy it.

Maybe now you and some of your favorite brain-dead friends could try a few weeks of civility

I expect the President will tell you and your favorite brain-dead friends everything he knows about the Benghazi attacks when the inquiry results come back

Until then, why don't you lose the effin over-the-top accusations of incompetence and cover-up?

[Nika]

23. Poor old John McCain; irrelavant, old, lacking influence and political punch,

I'm not surprised to see him at these antics.

[lsewpershad]

24. Hit thr road John

Your time is up whether u accept it or not.... just leave while u still have a semblance of standing.

[BlueStater]

25. You lost, McJerk. Four years ago. Shut up. N/T

[lumpy]

26. "They" should have investigated why deadbeat McCain managed to crash so many airplanes.

n

[Politicalboi]

28. But a blurry video of the attack on the Pentagon

Is just fine with Magoo. I want to see more. I want answers as to why and how our defense building gets hit by ANYTHING. What kind of defense are they giving us? What improvements have been made so that doesn't happen again? Oh and where is that 2.3 TRILLION dollars that went missing a day before 9/11. Hey John, how about you take Sarah shopping, and don't blame anyone for Benghazi. Such bullshit.

[Rocky888]

30. They will never let a democrat president

Do his job without constant obstructionism. Impeachment is the next wrd out of these assholes mouths. I say, bring war crime charges against the whole bush administration and any that new they were lying. And that would include John McCain and Lindsey graham.

[Larry66]

31. What a jerk!!!!

This is the same butt-hole that supported Bush and Condalisa Rice after we invaded Iraq on faulty intelligence about weapons of mass destruction. A war that resulted in thousands of deaths and tens of thousands wounded and billions and billions of our tax money. What a total freaking A-Hole!!!!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

32. The GOP probabyly organized the attacks

[calimary]

33. You're not picking on anybody? Geez, knock me over with a feather.

I'm SO FREAKIN' TIRED of these people!!!!!!!!!!!

[Angry Dragon]

34. I need to know all about the Keating Five