Help Needed! At what point in the debate....

[Jackeens]

....did McCain produce that, um, strange fact about South Koreans being taller than North Koreans? I can't remember exactly when it was, need to find a video with the clip - can anyone remember, roughly? Thanks.

[Uben]

1. It was where....

...they were talking about "talking to other leaders without pre-conditions" I believe.

[BklynChick]

2. that was absurd!

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. What was that supposed to mean anyway?

I didn't get it.

[TexasProgresive]

7. That the South Koreans have a better diet -

I guess since they are a democracy with a capitalistic system.

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. duplicate - sorry.

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[frogcycle]

5. is THAT what he said?

I couldn't understand it.

weird.

Was it supposed to prove they have a better standard of living?

[Jackeens]

6. Well...

.....it was bizarre! Yeah, I suppose it was proving that people who live in democratic states are healthier and, um, taller.

[TexasProgresive]

8. Here and a link to transcript

MCCAIN: He said that there could be secretary-level and lower level meetings. I’ve always encouraged them. The Iranians have met with Ambassador Crocker in Baghdad.

What Senator Obama doesn’t seem to understand that if without precondition you sit down across the table from someone who has called Israel a “stinking corpse,” and wants to destroy that country and wipe it off the map, you legitimize those comments.

This is dangerous. It isn’t just naive; it’s dangerous. And so we just have a fundamental difference of opinion.

As far as North Korea is concerned, our secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, went to North Korea. By the way, North Korea, most repressive and brutal regime probably on Earth. The average South Korean is three inches taller than the average North Korean, a huge gulag.

We don’t know what the status of the dear leader’s health is today, but we know this, that the North Koreans have broken every agreement that they’ve entered into.

And we ought to go back to a little bit of Ronald Reagan’s “trust, but verify,” and certainly not sit down across the table from -- without precondition, as Senator Obama said he did twice, I mean, it’s just dangerous.

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000002963298