McCain says Rove should be allowed to keep security clearance

[NNN0LHI]

On CNN now. Neat huh?

Don

[rosesaylavee]

1. They've got something awful on John.

Otherwise he is suffering several mini strokes.

What's he thinking?????!!!!!

[FreedomAngel82]

2. Either that or he still wants to be president

And he knows that he won't get the nomination unless he has the support from this group.

[NNN0LHI]

6. He also said he doesn't think Bush should rule out a pardon for Libby n/t

[fooj]

7. I think they have something on him, too.

It's too bad. Funny how John is out peddling his book on CHARACTER, isn't it?

Peace.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

10. They don't have shit on him, he's a fucking Repuke.

[sandnsea]

25. I agree, this is too much

Somebody needs to dig and figure out what it is so he can be set free. I cannot believe McCain is saying this shit of his own free will.

[journalist3072]

28. Here's my theory....

I think John McCain is running for President.

And he knows that in order to do that, he needs to raise a lot of money. Specifically, money from the very same people who have given to the Bush Crime Team.

And he doesn't want to piss those potential donors off by speaking out against a Republican President. He wants to tow the party line, so the party will help him win the nomination.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

3. He's totally lost it!

He also said, when asked if it bothered him about the leaking of a CIA operative, that it bothered him that it's partisan politics. WTF!?

[politicaholic]

4. *pfft*

McCain...

[A-Schwarzenegger]

5. Yeah so are McCain's new ads for Schwarzenegger's proposition

77 in California. McCain is a thoroughgoing Repuke.

[oioioi]

8. has Rove cut a deal to hang Cheney?

this is what it smells like.

[porphyrian]

9. McCain is an asshat sellout.

He's prepping for 2008.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

11. No doubt.

McCain...have you no shame?

[deadparrot]

12. Why does this surprise anyone?

He's continued to cuddle up with these people who attacked his young daughter based on her skin color. He attacked a teenaged Chelsea Clinton for her looks. He's a fucking sellout politician.

[Lex]

13. McCain has

[rosesaylavee]

18. Wonderful quote in your byline

Hadn't heard that one before. Thanks for that!

[cynatnite]

14. I was about willing to give McCain a second chance...

He's appeasing the extreme right while trying to swing from the middle at the same time. McCain's coming across as weak as tissue paper.

on edit: I'm really disappointed in his reaction to the overseas CIA prisons. Weak! Weak! Weak!

[alcuno]

15. McCain is still a prisoner of war.

Only this time it's Iraq.

[GreenArrow]

30. he's a prisoner of his own ambition

.

[AX10]

16. McCain is one of them. He's a Neo-Con.

Of course he kisses the back end of any right winger. Why are so many here still suprised by this?

[rosesaylavee]

21. I think I am surprised because there were times in the past

that his thinking and communication sounded clear and sound to me (sorry no links)but I have memories of hearing him speak and thinking, wow, Republicans can make sense sometimes.

With me, its disappointment that there are NONE of them now that I think are worth maintaining as congressmen/women. There are none that are salvageable as politicians. Sad times for our two-party system and for our country that the balance or even illusion of balance has become lost.

Glad * didn't tout himself as a 'divider'. Where would we be then?

[BrklynLiberal]

17. Are they holding his daughter hostage in the basement of the White House?

[billbuckhead]

20. McCain is calling attention to Rove's treason problem in a subtle way

He's keeping the question in play.

[deminks]

19. He is just too close

for my trust.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

26. If that isn't the poster for McCain's opponent...

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[Blue-Jay]

23. Are you SERIES? This is HUGH!!!!11one..

:D

[Solo_in_MD]

24. Its not like McCain gets any input to the matter anyway...

High level members of the EB get cleared automatically

[emulatorloo]

27. Bush boy promised McCain he could have Rove for '08 IMHO

what do you think the hugging and frosting licking was all about?

if Karl is discredited, no good for John. Who will smear George Allen's wife for him?

ON EDIT Grammar stuff

[BuyingThyme]

29. I'm sure he says the same about Judith Miller and Jimmy-Jeff Gannon

[NNN0LHI]

31. Link. With McCain talking about how he admires Bush

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0511/03/lkl.01.html

KING: As a Republican are you in, for want of a better word, embarrassed by the Scooter Libby indictment?

MCCAIN: First of all, I think he has a presumption of innocence until proven guilty, as everyone does.

KING: I said by the indictment.

MCCAIN: Yes, and I say I think he has the presumption of innocence.

KING: Of course.

MCCAIN: We ought to keep that in mind and I think he deserves his day in court. This whole thing is very distracting for the White House, for us in the Congress, for the American people when we really should be getting on issues such as the price of gas, climate change, deficit spending, immigration reform. It's very distracting. I hope that -- I am confident that Mr. Libby will get a fair trial.

KING: When you ran against President Bush, we all remember that historic South Carolina debate, which I moderated. Karl Rove had a lot to do behind the scenes in that what was regarded as a dirty campaign. He is still under investigation. There are some say that he should at least lose his security clearance. Do you think so?

MCCAIN: Just because someone is under investigation I don't think is a reason for that so no I wouldn't agree with that. Let me just make a quick point, Larry. You know and I'm sure that our viewers know that politics is a beanbag. It's a tough business. It was a tough race. It was a tough campaign and I enjoyed enormously feeling sorry for myself for about two weeks. You know feeling sorry for yourself is a lot of fun.

KING: Yes.

MCCAIN: But then I put it behind me and I moved on. You've got to put it -- the people of Arizona don't expect me to hold a grudge for something that happened four or five years ago and I don't hold a grudge and I move forward and I admire this president and I want to help him and we have a very big agenda for this country and I want to assist him in carrying out that agenda.

KING: Should he announce that there will be no pardons, if any are indicted in regard to this investigation?

MCCAIN: Well, I hate to tell the president what to do but I would but I don't think...

KING: Ah, you've done it before, John.

MCCAIN: Yes, well I'm sorry. I think -- I think it probably wouldn't be a bad idea PR wise. But suppose that -- suppose that someone is convicted and then evidence comes to light that they were wrongly convicted and that has happened from time to time and the president has committed not to -- not to pardon. I know this president well enough to tell you that he's not going to pardon somebody who has been declared guilty by a judgment of their peers.