McCain says it this is not the time for finger pointing

[underpants]

Yesterday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) explicitly blamed the Clinton administration for North Korea’s nuclear weapons test on Sunday: “t is a failure of the Clinton administration policies…that have caused us to be in the situation we’re in today.”

This morning on NBC, “Straight Talk” McCain had a different tune: “I think this is the wrong time for us to be engaging in finger pointing when in this crucial time, we need the world and Americans united.”

Watch the clips back to back:

McCain, 10/11/06, NBC Today

I think this is the wrong time for us to be engaging in finger pointing when in this crucial time, we need the world and Americans united in going to the United Nations to bring about sanctions against North Korea.

McCain, 10/10/06, press conference:

We had a carrots and no sticks policy that only encouraged bad behavior. When one carrot didn’t work, we offered another. Now we’re facing the consequences of the failed Clinton administration policies.

McCain, 10/10/06, Hannity & Colmes:

The fact is that it is a failure of the Clinton administration policies that I was heavily involved in at the time that have caused us to be in the situation we’re in today.
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/11/mccain-nk/

[HughBeaumont]

1. YOU are a Bush asskisser, Maverick.

[Delphinus]

2. BS!

Why has every thread I've read over the past week or so that has McCain in the title shown him finger-pointing at someone - last time Clinton.

[AtomicKitten]

3. He means pointing the finger of blame at the Republicans.

It's always the perfect time to blame the Democrats.

[rodeodance]

7. I think your translation is right ON.

[acmejack]

9. exactamundo!

[WCGreen]

4. Maverick my ASS......

Boot Licker....

[Vinca]

5. Somebody must've told him about the loot Shrub gave North Korea.

Oops.

[Ganja Ninja]

6. I'm shocked!

Another Republican hypocrite exposed.

That pretty much makes all of them.

[Epiphany4z]

8. It is never the time for finger pointing

when the finger is pointing at the GOP. Any other time....OK!

[Mad_Dem_X]

10. Ugh - I have lost ALL respect for that man

He's turned into nothing more than another Bushbot. What a shame.

[sendero]

11. The "party of personal responsibility"..

.... doesn't like being responsible. Could that senile douchebag be any more pathetic?

[rpannier]

12. In other words...

He's already pointed the finger and it failed because Sen Clinton and others immediately presented the facts of how scrubbie screwed this whole thing up.
"So...please stop pointing the finger of blame at the real failure...the scrubbie." McCain is crying.

[BobF]

13. Pull these two statements out in '08!

...back to back.

Watch McCain squirm as he tries to explain them away.

[babylonsister]

14. What a hypocrite. Here's a finger pointed at him, meant wholeheartedly:

[wisteria]

15. LOL, no finger pointing unless he is the one doing it. n/t

[The Backlash Cometh]

16. Who was that brilliant lady on t.v. the other day that just made fodder

of the people who criticized Albright and the Clinton policy? She was very good in pointing out that Clinton delayed Korea's nuclear development and that Bush's ABC policy wasn't replaced with anything better. I bet that's why McCain backtracked.

[auburngrad82]

17. Wasn't his finger pointing at Clinton over North Korea just days ago?

Liberal bumper stickers

[DeSwiss]

18. Way to go John....

[JerseygirlCT]

19. While he points fingers... nt