So where’s the coverage of Armitage?
Mary Katharine Ham wonders when, amidst the thorough coverage of Scott McClellan’s chronic bouts of weaseldom, the media might deign to remind us that it was a fellow named Richard Armitage who originally leaked Valerie Plame’s name to the press.
Google News Search for the following, when sorted according to date:
“scott mcclellan” + “bush” = 110 news results in the last 24 hours
“scott mcclellan” + “cheney” = 86 news results in the last 24 hours
“scott mcclellan” + “libby” = 80 news results in the last 24 hours
“scott mcclellan” + “rove” = 41 news results in the last 24 hours
“scott mcclellan” + “armitage” = 4 news results in the last 24 hours
So the answer to her question is pretty much “don’t hold your breath, wingnuts”.
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Well, I’ve got another question. When will conservatives start to remember that Armitage is good buddies with John McCain and a top adviser to his campaign?
This isn’t even a matter of policy. It’s a matter of character.
Armitage, the squishy “realist” who leaked classified information to the press, the guy who stood by silently while Bush took hits and a special prosecutor was called and Joe Wilson mugged for the cameras, even though Armitage had started this whole mess—Armitage is still working, and advising the Republican nominee.
And not just advising the campaign: he’s likely to get a cabinet post in a McCain administration.
…speculation is shifting to which Cabinet members may stick around for the next administration.
Much of the chatter has focused on Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates. But a longtime McCain ally said even if the Arizona senator decides to keep Gates on for a few months, it would only be as a placeholder for another Bush administration veteran: fellow Navy and Vietnam veteran Richard L. Armitage.
Armitage, who served as deputy secretary of State under Colin Powell in the first Bush term, is close to McCain. But his appointment might stir controversy among neoconservatives, who distrust Armitage on the war.
It might also stir controversy among people who think you keep your big mouth shut when you’re a Deputy Secretary–and who think that if your little heart-to-heart with Robert Novak blows up into a national scandal that puts other people’s careers and lives on the line and compromises the administration’s effectiveness in defending the country, then maybe you ought to step up and be a man and take responsibility for it instead of letting Karl Rove take all the heat for you.
Or is this just me? Does anyone else find Armitage’s behavior dishonorable?
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{Post by See-Dubya. More about Armitage and the realists here.}
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No. John McCain has fifty years of service to, and genuinely loves, John McCain. America does not factor into it.
And yet, NYC will vote for Obama by a landslide. You want the rest of the country to bail out NYC from it’s own stupidity. I’m not inclined to do that.
Bill Grant,
All the points you bring up would be fine only if selective truth became the norm, we need to look at all sides-not just the ones that suit John McCain with respect to his relationship with conservatives….
Like I said, McCain needs to sell himself to us-not to the democrats as they don’t belong here. More to the point he had better pick a VP candidate to help keep him from his liberal foolishness-i.e. conservative.
I will requote myself:
As it stands John McCain isn’t even making a dent in liberal Seattle neighborhoods judging from all the yard signs/bumper-stickers I have had to put up with. So can you tell me why in the h#ll is he trying to pander to them at all???
He has already had 3 months to work all kinds of conservatives, and so far the only group he hasn’t pissed off completely is the memebership of the NRA, and even they are wary of him…because of his mixed record…notice they haven’t wildly endorsed him nor have they written him off.
Moreover some people he has already lost and won’t get back, whereas I am on the fence…and no I haven’t seen anything alleged about John McCAin that hasn’t been proven, with the exception of his supposed comment to his wife that she was a c%^t-that to me is unsubstantiated at this time.
Your side has more work to do, but John McCain is the guy who is going to make or break your cause, Bill.
Being the nice guy I am, I will state to you again that I am on the fence with respect to McCain.
It isn’t lying about McCain that gets all you little McCainiac lemmings in a tizzy. You could rebut lies. The problem you have is that people tell the truth and you have to try to Clinton your way out of it.
That’s what upsets you.
Gee, considering going to Annapolis, becoming an officer in the US Navy, surviving the fire on Forrestal and turning down an offer to go home to fly missions in the Saints, the most decorated attack squadron in the fleet, getting shot down over the most heavily defended target from air attack in human history, spending 5 and a half years in the captivity of savages who repeatedly almost killed him after being offered an opportunity to go home before his fellow POW’s, returning serving in the congress several terms and the senate several terms and allowing his 2 sons to serve the country as well….
Considering all that one might think that your statement was the product of an ungrateful ignoramus or someone who has REALLY shown their love and dedication to the United states and all of it’s principals. So tell me… What have you done that eclipses his service and dedication? What has Obama done to that end as well?
If I stop posting on MM after an attack on NYC, it means I’m dead. The odds of me dying should Obama become President go way up.
Yet you are, by default supporting Obama as well. Good of you to announce that you are willing to see Americans killed for doing the same thing that you are doing…Or for any other reason.
On June 22nd, 2008 at 10:12 pm, love2rumba said:
Specifically, what has he done to pander to them?
I hope you and the rest of the country can be won over. If seeing the opposition isn’t enough to do it I honestly don’t know what it is going to take.
LOL, when they do get rebutted SOME folks declare that “the conversation is over” and retreat only to pop up with the same rebutted argument later.
Nope, the problem is that some of you have bought in to a DNC PR campaign designed to cleave off the hard right wing of the republican party in the mistaken idea that it will make the GOP stronger to lose elections.
Losing elections doesn’t make a political party stronger. Indeed, electing this dangerous grifter, this appeasing islamist appeaser Barack Obama wont leave a whole lot for ether party to be fighting over once he runs things in to the ground.
On one hand, we have a socialist commy and on the other, a democrat. How further left will we slide without things being called what they should be?
08 sucks politically and I fear 2012 will be worse.
Is it me or is anyone else perpetually nauseous from seeing how many dishonorable people are successful at retaining employment in OUR government and turning it into a giant blob of hackdom? I wanted this guy’s head on a platter the minute he admitted being the leak, (and Fitzpatrick’s too cuz he also knew).
Catching up from the weekend.
I’m still seeing the “If you don’t vote for McCain, you’re voting for Obama” which is still the most disingenuous argument on the block.
As an undecided…all of the discussion, and all of the rhetoric, isn’t helping me decide to vote for this man.
And it’s not helping MO’s kids either.
McCain wants us to judge him by the company he keeps, correct? How do people who support this candidate explain this connection away?
Again, the Straight Talk Express looks like it took a detour.
Gee, thanks. So who is the other viable candidate?
Well, that is of course the paramount concern for all of us.
His Connection to Richard Armitage? I am not sure it is my role to “explain away” things. I will say that McCain probably hasn’t asked him to for advice on how to keep his mouth shut when talking to reporters. I suppose, at the end of it the question you have to ask yourself is whether or not Armitage leaked deliberately or by accident. If he did it deliberately, even if he was “just following orders” then it was an inherently dishonorable act and should be cut lose. If he misspoke, it was a stupid thing to do but does that negate his previous service and talents? Again, that is your decision.
Here: his biography.
I would go on to say that while we are “judging people by the company they keep” let’s not forget Tony Rezko, Nadhmi Auchi. William Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Rashid Khalidi, George Soros, Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, Michael Pfleger, yada yada yada… but that might not help MO’s kids either. Hope you had a nice weekend.
Obviously, Bill, you either have not been paying attention to Michelle’s blogs or other sources of news over the years or you just don’t care…this of course is your prerogative.
I wasn’t asking those entities. Regardless, If things go the way they are going you are probably going to have your alternative to McCain. I wonder if he will pander to the liberals…
At the rate McCain is going-by his own volition, he may well give us the alternative no one wants.
Do not put this as “my alternative”, Bill.
If he gets really stupid and puts on Bloomberg as VP (in order to keep up with Obama’s funding)-the game is over-he’ll be so radioactive no one will touch him. He will be viewed by the “reform” crowd as a phony-since he made his career there with McCain-Feingold and such, and more to that point he will at that point so alienate the NRA ad nauseum-he will become radioactive to probably the only conservative group that hasn’t written him off yet.
There won’t be a thing you or I could do to save him at that point.
Hopefully he will not step into that particular “Elephant Trap”….we don’t need anymore problems.
The election frankly is McCain’s to win or lose-we shall see what happens.
Today’s Republican Party doesn’t have it in them to nominate a man with outstanding conservative principles, who communicates extremely well.
Obama or McCain – either way, we’re doomed.
By the way, not that it matters to the MDS crowd, but Joe Wilson was wrong.
The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program — a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium — reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans.
The removal of 550 metric tons of “yellowcake” — the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment — was a significant step toward closing the books on Saddam’s nuclear legacy. It also brought relief to U.S. and Iraqi authorities who had worried the cache would reach insurgents or smugglers crossing to Iran to aid its nuclear ambitions.
What’s now left is the final and complicated push to clean up the remaining radioactive debris at the former Tuwaitha nuclear complex about 12 miles south of Baghdad — using teams that include Iraqi experts recently trained in the Chernobyl fallout zone in Ukraine.
“Everyone is very happy to have this safely out of Iraq,” said a senior U.S. official who outlined the nearly three-month operation to The Associated Press. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject.
While yellowcake alone is not considered potent enough for a so-called “dirty bomb” — a conventional explosive that disperses radioactive material — it could stir widespread panic if incorporated in a blast. Yellowcake also can be enriched for use in reactors and, at higher levels, nuclear weapons using sophisticated equipment.