Birch’s Boy Crashes on Face the Nation
Monday, August 18th, 2008
Evan Bayh appeared Sunday morning on Face the Nation on CBS.
Let’s just charitably say it wasn’t his best performance.
The transcript isn’t up yet, so I’ll settle for the reporting on the Indy Star.
Interviewed on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” the Indiana Democrat said McCain is given to “bellicose rhetoric which has a tendency to inflame conflicts rather than to defuse them.”
This “bellicose rhetoric which has a tendency to inflame conflicts rather than defuse them” would stem from McCain supposedly, according to The One’s own advisers and surrogates, having “roughly the same position” as the Obamassiah?
From the Washington Post:
Richard Holbrooke, an ambassador to the U.N. in the Clinton administration and an Obama supporter, objected to the suggestion that Obama had been late in coming to a tough condemnation of Russia. Obama and McCain are now more or less on the same page in decrying the aggression, he said.
“It is based on an exaggerated and deliberately misleading perception of Senator Obama’s initial statement, which was issued early, while the crisis was unfolding,” he said. “This is an attempt by people supporting Senator McCain to politicize a great international tragedy and it’s not worthy of the dimensions of the problem, especially when both candidates have roughly the same position.”
Perhaps Evan Bayh should explain himself.
Which is it?
Does Barack Obama have “roughly the same position” as John McCain?
Are they “more or less on the same page in decrying the aggression”?
How do such statements square with Bayh’s assertion that McCain is engaging in “bellicose rhetoric”?
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