Slog - Comments on Obama Hits Back at Bush and McCain on "Appeasement" http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/obama_hits_back_at_bush_and_mccain_on_ap Responding the attacks of yesterday (which some were calling an attempted long-distance swift-boating by the president), Obama told a town hall meeting in South Dakota: That’s exactly the kind of appalling attack that’s divided our country and that alienates us from the world, and that’s why we need change in Washington. More, including charges that McCain is being a hypocrite on Hamas, here and here. And here's the tape of McCain calling for, uh... talks with Hamas:... Copyright 2008 Fri, 16 May 2008 09:51:27 -0800 Fri, 16 May 2008 12:18:43 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by wrong again I am re-posting the same comment i made on this issue yesterday because I'm amazed the media has missed yet another world class gaffe by McCain. We can only hope the 24-hr chatterers pick up on this:

McCain is mis-remembering middle eastern history and politics again. On the NYT blog he says:

“I believe that it’s not an accident that our hostages came home from Iran when President Reagan was president of the United States. He didn’t sit down in a negotiation with the religious extremists in Iran, he made it very clear that those hostages were coming home.'’

A quick google turned this up: "After the election, with the assistance of Algerian intermediaries, successful negotiations began. On Jan. 20, 1981, the day of President Reagan's inauguration, the United States released almost $8 billion in Iranian assets and the hostages were freed after 444 days in Iranian detention; the agreement gave Iran immunity from lawsuits arising from the incident."

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0825448.html

So a) Reagan was not president when the hostages were release, and b) there very clearly was a negotiation (which presumably he and his transition team were involved in) that included $8 billion unfrozen assets and legal immunity.

]]> wrong again http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/obama_hits_back_at_bush_and_mccain_on_ap#c1026497 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/obama_hits_back_at_bush_and_mccain_on_ap#c1026497 2008 Fri, 16 May 2008 11:31:35 -0800 Comment by i'll give him points for this that guy conducting the interview is clinton's motherfucker foreign policy advisor!

]]> i'll give him points for this http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/obama_hits_back_at_bush_and_mccain_on_ap#c1026562 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/obama_hits_back_at_bush_and_mccain_on_ap#c1026562 2008 Fri, 16 May 2008 12:02:55 -0800 Comment by McBush/McSame Campaign Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran!

Hey, is this mike on?

What day is it?

No more torture, I'll talk!

Mommy?

]]> McBush/McSame Campaign http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/obama_hits_back_at_bush_and_mccain_on_ap#c1026588 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/obama_hits_back_at_bush_and_mccain_on_ap#c1026588 2008 Fri, 16 May 2008 12:18:43 -0800