Posts with the tag 'Howard Dean'
…and now the RNC is demanding networks pull it.
The Republican National Committee demanded Monday that television networks stop running a television ad by the Democratic Party that falsely suggests John McCain wants a 100-year war in Iraq.
The ad says President Bush has talked about staying in Iraq for 50 years, then plays a clip of McCain saying, “Maybe 100. That’d be fine with me.”
The announcer then says: “If all he offers is more of the same, is John McCain the right choice for America’s future?”
Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan said the ad deliberately distorts what McCain, the likely GOP presidential nominee, said.
The committee’s chief counsel, Sean Cairncross, said he sent letters Monday to NBC, CNN and MSNBC insisting that they stop airing the commercial.
At issue is McCain’s answer, in January, to a question about Bush’s theory that troops could be in Iraq for 50 years.
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Democratic Party chief Howard Dean said “there’s nothing false” about the ad.
“We deliberately used John McCain’s words. This isn’t some ominous consultant’s voice from Washington. This is John McCain’s own words. And we’ve been very upfront about everything that he’s said.”
The ad put out by the DNC does use McCain’s words, but cuts out a portion of his remarks to alter the meaning. Below is McCain’s full quote, with the portions used in the ad highlighted in blue.
Maybe 100. As long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed, that’d be fine with me, and I hope it would be fine with you, if we maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world where al-Qaida is training, recruiting, equipping and motivating people every single day.
What’s really ironic about this is how Howard Dean argues that since the ad uses McCain’s words that there’s no deception… yet, ever since the Jeremiah Wright sermons were exposed in the media, we’ve been hearing his supporters claim that Wright’s racist, anti-American, anti-Semitic comments aren’t so horrible when you consider the context of his sermon. So portions of Wriht’s sermons saying “God damn America” are apparently taken out of context, but editing John McCain’s comments by taking out 14 words form the middle of it is apparently on the level?
Considering the blatant deception going on here, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama should immediately call upon his party to kill the ad. But don’t count on it… they both have been using the “100-year-war” canard on stump — and FactCheck.org has specifically called Obama out on his deliberate distortion back in early February. So he’s as bad a liar Howard Dean.
Tags: Howard Dean, liberal lies
April 29th, 2008
The Democratic battle weakens the Democrats day by day, and Dean is worried:
An increasingly firm Howard Dean told CNN again Thursday that he needs superdelegates to say who they’re for – and “I need them to say who they’re for starting now.”
“We cannot give up two or three months of active campaigning and healing time,” the Democratic National Committee Chairman told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “We’ve got to know who our nominee is.”
After facing criticism for a mostly hands-off leadership style during much of the primary season, Dean has been steadily raising the rhetorical pressure on superdelegates. He said Thursday that roughly 65 percent of them have made their preference plain, but that more than 300 have yet to make up their minds.
Translation: “We’re burning through money like its water, our candidates are getting more and more damaged and our party more and more split…if this thing doesn’t end quickly, we’re looking at potential catastrophe.”
The advantage in 2008 still lies with the Democrats - but not nearly as much as it did even a month ago…and if this goes to a convention fight, then the whole playing field is completely levelled any literally anything can happen by November.
Tags: 2008 Campaign, Howard Dean
April 18th, 2008
Howard Dean can’t seem to open his mouth without saying something nonsensical… Earlier this week he said that John McCain isn’t a strong candidate … yet both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are “extraordinary.”
Howard Dean is as partisan as they come, but for him to make both those claims is just plain stupidity. John McCain has more experience than Hillary and Obama combined. Four years ago, Democrats claimed that John Kerry’s four months in Vietnam made him more qualified to be commander-in-chief, but today they say that John McCain, who served far longer and endured far more than John Kerry did, is a weaker candidate than both Hillary and Obama, neither of whom served in the military. Hillary and Obama support disastrous policies…. They both want to cut and run from Iraq. They both want to raise taxes. They both want socialized health care. Yet, Howard Dean calls them extraordinary…
Tags: Howard Dean, John Kerry, liberal lies
April 9th, 2008
From the RNC:
RNC Deputy Chairman Frank Donatelli released the following statement today:
“It is beyond comprehension that Howard Dean would smear John McCain’s character by stating he is a ‘blatant opportunist.’ John McCain served our nation heroically and valiantly and it is absolutely unacceptable that the chairman of the Democratic National Committee would attack Senator McCain for discussing his record with the American people. Dean’s comments are the latest in what has become a troubling pattern where the chairman of the national party has questioned Senator McCain’s character and integrity. Howard Dean owes John McCain an immediate apology and both Senators Clinton and Obama should unequivocally denounce this disgraceful attack.”
DNC Press Release:
After casting aside his image as a so-called “maverick” and morphing into the ultimate Bush Republican in the primaries, John McCain today released a new ad aimed at reintroducing himself to the country. After giving two “major policy speeches” that didn’t include any new policies or proposals, McCain’s new ad gives the American people no idea of what he would do to bring the war in Iraq to a responsible end, address the mortgage crisis confronting American homeowners, or get our economy back on track.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean today issued the following statement on McCain’s ad:
“The American people have been waiting for a president who understands the challenges they face, not another out of touch Bush Republican who promises four more years of the same failed leadership. John McCain can try to reintroduce himself to the country, but he can’t change the fact that he cast aside his principles to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with President Bush for the last seven years. While we honor McCain’s military service, the fact is Americans want a real leader who offers real solutions, not a blatant opportunist who doesn’t understand the economy and is promising to keep our troops in Iraq for 100 years.” (Democratic National Committee, “Dean: New Ad, But No New Ideas From John McCain,” Press Release, 3/28/08)
Non-Partisan Fact Check Groups And Members Of The Media Have Called Democrat Attacks False:
Non-Partisan Factcheck.Org Calls DNC Attacks On 100 Years Comment A “Serious Distortion” And “A Rank Falsehood.” “The DNC’s message portrays McCain as bent on fighting an ‘endless’ war in Iraq . DNC: We can’t afford four more years with a President who fights an endless war in Iraq . … On the war, McCain scoffed at Bush’s call to leave troops in Iraq for 50 years, saying ‘Make it a hundred!’ That of course is a serious distortion of what McCain actually said to a town-hall meeting in New Hampshire back on Jan. 3. …There’s little doubt that McCain is less eager than either Clinton or Obama to bring troops home without further suppression of insurgent attacks. But it’s a rank falsehood for the DNC to accuse McCain of wanting to wage ‘endless war’ based on his support for a presence in Iraq something like the U.S. role in South Korea .” (Factcheck.Org Website, www.factcheck.org, Accessed 3/25/08)
Non-Partisan Politifact.Com Calls Obama Attacks On 100 Years Comment “False.” “Obama twisted McCain’s words in the Cleveland debate. He said, ‘We are bogged down in a war that John McCain now suggests might go on for another 100 years.’ As we explain above, McCain was referring to a peacetime presence, not the war. So we find Obama’s statement False.” (Politifact.Com Website, www.politifact.com, Accessed 3/25/08)
The Washington Post’s Charles Krauthammer: “It’s seldom that you see such a dirty lie.” (Charles Krauthammer, Op-Ed, “‘A Rank Falsehood’,” The Washington Post, 3/28/08)
I have to dispute Krauthammer - dirty lies are really all the Democrats have to run on these days. Democrats, on the whole, lie about everything all the time - they lie about what they want to do; they lie about what Republicans do; heck, they even lie about who they are…they aren’t big government, tax and spend liberals….they’re “progressives.
Democrats have a problem with the truth - it works to their disadvantage; tell the truth about what they want in Iraq, and it will cost them votes; tell the truth about what they want to do on taxation, and it will cost them votes; tell the truth about what they want to do on health care, and it will cost them votes…so, they dance and sing and keep their own plans hidden under a fog of half truths and outright lies, and then turn on the GOP, using one damned lie after another, hoping that come election day, the American people will hate the GOP more than they hate the Democratic party.
Well, in John McCain they’re going to meet their match - a true American hero and a man of his word, he’s going to make the Democrats eat their nasty lies simply by being who he is.
Tags: Howard Dean, liberal lies
March 28th, 2008
DNC Chairman Howard Dean is pursing an FEC complaint against John McCain for his withdrawing from the primary election public finance system…
The only problem is, in 2003 Howard Dean, during his presidential campaign, did the exact same thing. Time Magazine’s The Page blog posts a McCain backgrounder on Howard Dean’s hypocrisy.
Tags: Howard Dean, Liberal hypocrisy
February 24th, 2008
Interesting:
Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean on Wednesday voiced concern over the prospect of a brokered convention at the end of the party’s White House nominating contests.
“The idea that we can afford to have a big fight at the convention and then win the race in the next eight weeks, I think, is not a good scenario,” Dean said according to excerpts of an interview with NY1 television.
In state nominating contests so far, no clear winner has emerged among Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for the party’s nomination ahead of November’s presidential vote to replace George W. Bush in the White House.
“I think we will have a nominee sometime in the middle of March or April. But if we don’t, then we’re going to have to get the candidates together and make some kind of an arrangement,” said Dean, who failed in his bid for the party’s nomination in 2004.
“Because I don’t think we can afford to have a brokered convention — that would not be good news for either party.”
What is it with Democrats and their fear of democracy? Right now, Democrats are battling it out for the heart and soul of the Democratic party - for Howard Dean to come along and say, “doesn’t matter, we’ll fix things up behind closed doors” is an insult to the energy and passion being shown all around American politics this year. It is also enormously funny - for we GOPers.
You see, we know the Democratic scam - we can see right through Dean, Hillary - and Obama. Its all about power, prestige and money…if you think there’s an actual idea back there, then you just haven’t been paying attention. Aside from a rote, knee-jerk slavery to various special interests (most notably the abortion industry and the public sector unions), these guys are just shadow-boxing and pretending there’s a dime’s worth of difference between Hillary and Obama (if Obama is for change and hope, Hillary is for hope, and she’ll leave us some change, if we’re lucky). Obama just sounds a lot better than Hillary - in the fundamentals, he’s a Hillary clone (and Hillary is a Bill clone is a Carter clone is a Mondale clone, etc, etc, etc).
We’ll see how this comes out - brawl resulting in an unhappy compromise, or backroom deal resulting in unhappy compromise.
Tags: 2008 Campaign, brokered convention, Howard Dean
February 7th, 2008
