McCain Blasts People 'Engaging In Finger-Pointing' After blaming Clinton

[cal04]

Yesterday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) explicitly blamed the Clinton administration for North Korea’s nuclear weapons test on Sunday: (I)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:

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/11/mccain-nk/


For the record, here is a timeline of North Korea’s nuclear weapons development. A cheat sheet:

Bush I: 1-2 bombs worth of plutonium
Clinton: Zero plutonium
Bush II: 10-11 bombs worth of plutonium and counting, first nuclear test

[Waya]

1. That guy just oozes........

Hypocrisy anymore.............

[ComerPerro]

2. he always did

[WI_DEM]

3. McCain has always spoken out of both sides of his mouth

and unfortunately the media usually lets him get away with it by saying how "independent" he is.

[displacedtexan]

13. Just for these occasions...

[trapandroll]

4. Good Argument Back

Those numbers need to be publicized better to push back against the inevitable campaign from McCain and conservatives on this issue.

[MadMaddie]

5. I think McCain has serious mental problems....he needs to step

down...

[texastoast]

12. Hi Maddie

You are right. He does. They all do. I'm agreeing with Willie Nelson's mantra:

VOTE THE BASTARDS OUT!

[zulchzulu]

6. Maybe Bush was right in 2000 when he said McCain was nuts

Yuck...

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. !

:crazy:

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

8. I hate to say this

FLIP FLOP !

[gratuitous]

9. Stop the blame game, I had my turn

You know, I'd find this kind of behavior immature in a six-year-old. For a United States Senator to do it, well, words just fail me sometimes.

[volstork]

10. I thought

the same thing while listening to him spout off this AM on the Today show. Whatever tiny modicum of respect I had for him is now irrevocably gone.

[LaPera]

11. Stupid fucking McCain, he really believes the Bush's are going to

support him for prez, if he just kisses Bush ass and does the dirty work for BushCo that they constantly need done, (like Colin Powell & his reputation use to do for BushCo)...What a stupid, stupid man is McCain...How does someone become so ignorant & stupid?

A lust for power of course!

[Supersedeas]

16. maybe McCain has too many keepers

[Hubert Flottz]

14. I'm pointing a finger at the entire GOPer Gang of liars and crooks!

The middle one! Call me a moderate I guess!

[Bandit]

15. Credibility? What Credibility..We don't need no stinkin' Credibility

LIARS and Bullshit artists every single one of them.

[madmusic]

17. Projection.

"Do as I say, not as I do." -- Foley

[BuyingThyme]

18. It's called democracy, you rotting corpse.

Except when you do it. When you do it, it's called the lies of a rotting corpse.

[cynatnite]

19. I regret that I ever liked him...

In 2004 he sold out and continues to be a sell-out. He will say anything in order to pander to a base of willfully ignorant RWer's.

[catmandu57]

20. He voted on a tobacco bill back in the nineties

Before I had a computer or new about email. I liked what he did so much I sat down and wrote a long hand written letter praising his actions.
I've got to say now, I think he's long gone over the edge, and there isn't any redemption, he's sold his soul to the bfee.