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Mad as hell: McCain flip flops from Bush to Obama
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| Contributor | McCord 2014 |
| Last Edited | McCord 2014 Nov 19, 2012 05:11pm |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Zachary Roth |
| News Date | Monday, November 19, 2012 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The president had nominated a foreign policy adviser named Rice to serve as Secretary of State. But the opposition party was raising concerns about her role in what it saw as the administration’s deceptions over terrorism in the Middle East. And that made Sen. John McCain mad.
“I can only conclude we are doing this for no other reason than because of lingering bitterness at the outcome of the election,” he declared on the Senate floor. “We need to move on. The people of the United States made their choice last November and they expect their elected officials to govern accordingly.”
McCain added: “We all have varying policy views, but the president, in my view, has a clear right to put into place the team he believes will serve him best.”
This was January 2005. The Rice in question was Condoleezza, and it was Democrats who were making a fuss, noting that she’d been a key player in the Bush administration’s use of flawed intelligence to push for war in Iraq. |
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