Media Matters reports that Mr. McCain lied about Mr. Obama's response to Jimmy Carter's infamous Hamas meeting.Some of the Media (e.g. an MSNBC blog) reported that when Jimmy Carter announced he was going to meet with Hamas, Obama criticized Carter for meeting with a terrorist organization. Then McCain attacked Obama for "not condemning Carter's visit more sternly."
The problem with this is that McCain did not just attack Obama for being too mild in his criticism of Carter, McCain "misrepresented Obama's position on Carter's meeting with Hamas, falsely suggesting that Obama 'approve[d]' of the meeting." That was an outright lie!
Here's what McCain said on the April 16 edition of Fox News' Your World: "Senator Obama does not have the experience to make the right judgment as to how to deal with terrorist organizations, obviously. Otherwise, he would never approve of such a meeting."
That is just plain dirty politics from a dirty old man who doesn't even know the basic differences between the ethnic groups in Iraq! Right judgment, my tush!
In fact, before Carter headed off to meet with Hamas, Obama's campaign office released a statement that said Senator Obama "does not support negotiations with Hamas until they renounce terrorism, recognize Israel's right to exist, and abide by past agreements."
In Pennsylvania, Obama told a group of Jewish leaders that he did not agree with Carter's decision to meet with Hamas. "Hamas," he said, "is not a state. Hamas is a terrorist organization."
It looks like if McCain, God forbid, should get elected, we are going to be subject to at least another four years of evasions, distortions, and outright lies by the leader of the land.
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I wonder if the media will give McCain a pass on some of the things he says because they like him.
Bob Poris
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