Final-Fan said:
Kasz216 said:
Also Kissinger said...
"Senator McCain is right. I would not recommend the next President of the United States engage in talks with Iran at the Presidential level. My views on this issue are entirely compatible with the views of my friend Senator John McCain."
So... apparently Obama is the one that doesn't know jack... since that was the contention of the arguement. The President sitting down with anyone over the world. |
You expect his own advisor not to stretch the truth in his favor? Obama specifically said that the talks would start at lower levels and not necessarily be with President Ahmadinejad, therefore not being "at the Presidential level", and McCain still said there was no way Kissinger agreed.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/09/fact-check-kiss.html
According to this, I would say that perhaps McCain "did not understand" when Obama said that talks would start at lower levels and not necessarily be with President Ahmadinejad. But his attack on "without preconditions" is totally contradictory to Kissinger's explicit statements.
And no, that was not "the contention of the argument" solely. McCain continued to hammer the "without preconditions" line, as I recall, but feel free to prove me wrong -- I haven't reviewed the transcript yet.
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However Obama said "I would meet with anyone without preconditions."
"I'm not going to meet with you until we have lower level meetings" is a precondition.
Obama said HE would meet with anybody without preconditions.
Kissinger said the government should. It's a big difference.
Obama either misused the word precondition or he's backtracking on what he said pretending he misused the word.
