What? No VP debate thread?

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by TheGame

Just some other news today. Yup, Mccain's never a flip flopper.

I actually had a LONG post agreeing with you on this... but then I realized the clips were from Keith Olberman so I decided to fact chack it, and my hunch was correct, and McCain was taken SEVERELY out of context.

McCain's stance is that this bill was too important and timely to be held up because of arguments over pork, but OVERALL pork spending needs to be curtailed and vetoes used. He never asked Bush to veto THIS bill, in particular. I will agree that I believe McCain's answer was inartful, but it was NOT what Olberman attempted to portray it as. If you listen to the context, when McCain said "This bill puts us on the brink of disaster", is was an obvious misstatement. He meant to say that the reason he voted for this bill was because we are on the brink of disaster.

Here is an unedited version of the appeareance on Morning Joe, if anyone would like an unbiased view of the interview, where I think McCain actually came off quite well, but you might disagree and thats fine. But PLEASE don't take Keith Olberman's word for it...



By the way, someone needs to tell McCain to stop smiling. He's not a smiler.