McCain flip flops on dealing with Hamas.

CNN)—John McCain’s campaign said Friday that claims by a former State Department official that McCain had advocated unconditional dialogue with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas were misleading.

When he was in Davos (Switzerland) amongst the European crowd and I interviewed him there two years ago, he was talking as if it was appropriate and natural and reasonable to negotiate with Hamas, the new government of the Palestinian territories,” Rubin said.

“And then two years later, he’s taking a very, very different position ... smearing people for suggesting that one ought to talk to Hamas when it was he himself who was prepared to talk to Hamas two years ago.”

Rubin wrote an op-ed piece in Friday’s Washington Post relating an interview he conducted with McCain on the British network Sky News shortly after Hamas won the Palestinian elections in January 2006.

McCain, the presumptive 2008 Republican presidential nominee, said the United States would not be able to avoid a dialogue with the Islamic militant group.

“They’re the government; sooner or later we are going to have to deal with them, one way or another,” he said at the time. “And I understand why this administration and previous administrations had such antipathy towards Hamas because of their dedication to violence and the things that they not only espouse but practice ...

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/16/mccain.hamas/index.html

The best way to defeat groups like this is to cut them off from the world.. Talking to them is counter productive.

Obama says the Bush policies have only helped Hamas ... and Iran:

“If George Bush and John McCain want to have a debate about protecting the United States of America, that is a debate that I’m happy to have any time, any place, and that is a debate that I will win because George Bush and John McCain have a lot to answer for,” Obama said in a campaign speech in South Dakota.

“They’ve got to answer for the fact that Iran is the greatest strategic beneficiary of our invasion of Iraq. It made Iran stronger, George Bush’s policies,” he said.

“They’re going to have to explain why Hamas now controls Gaza, Hamas that was strengthened because the United States insisted that we should have democratic elections in the Palestinian Authority.”

“That’s the Bush-McCain record on protecting this country,” he added. “Those are the failed policies that John McCain wants to double down on.”

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1648989520080516?feedType=RSS&feedName;=topNews

International affairs advice from obama??? hahahaha

Next we’ll be getting race relations advice from David Duke!!

Bobby Jindal - 16 May 2008 03:39 PM

Obama says the Bush policies have only helped Hamas ... and Iran:

“If George Bush and John McCain want to have a debate about protecting the United States of America, that is a debate that I’m happy to have any time, any place, and that is a debate that I will win because George Bush and John McCain have a lot to answer for,” Obama said in a campaign speech in South Dakota.

“They’ve got to answer for the fact that Iran is the greatest strategic beneficiary of our invasion of Iraq. It made Iran stronger, George Bush’s policies,” he said.

“They’re going to have to explain why Hamas now controls Gaza, Hamas that was strengthened because the United States insisted that we should have democratic elections in the Palestinian Authority.”

“That’s the Bush-McCain record on protecting this country,” he added. “Those are the failed policies that John McCain wants to double down on.”

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1648989520080516?feedType=RSS&feedName;=topNews

Good post, thanks!