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New McCain Ad Badly Distorts Obama's Words About Iran
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| News Date | Wednesday, August 27, 2008 03:40:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By Greg Sargent - August 27, 2008, 10:11AM
The new McCain ad released this morning attacking Obama on Iran rips Obama's words out of context so egregiously that it amounts to a distortion at best and an outright smear at worst.
The ad's narrator says: "Obama says Iran is a 'tiny' country. 'Doesn't post a serious threat.' Terrorism? Destroying Israel? Those aren't serious threats?"
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The quote where Obama supposedly said that Iran "doesn't pose a serious threat" was delivered by him on May 18, 2008, according to the date flashed by the ad itself.
But in juxtaposing that truncated quote with "terrorism" and "destroying Israel," the ad badly distorts what Obama actually said that day, and more broadly, also distorts Obama's position on Iran.
Here is the full May 18th Obama quote, as supplied by the McCain press release itself:
"Strong countries and strong Presidents talk to their adversaries. That's what Kennedy did with Khrushchev. That's what Reagan did with Gorbachev. That's what Nixon did with Mao. I mean think about it. Iran, Cuba, Venezuela -- these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don't pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us. And yet we were willing to talk to the Soviet Union at the time when they were saying we're going to wipe you off the planet."
Very clearly, Obama didn't say that Iran doesn't post any serious threat. Rather, he clearly said that Iran doesn't pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us.
What's more, Obama didn't simply say Iran was "tiny," as the ad suggests, in a clear effort to hoodwink viewers into thinking that Obama sees Iran as no threat at all. Rather, he said it was tiny compared to the Soviet Union. |
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