Fact-Check

John McCain better find himself a new fact-checker!  And, in the bigger picture, shouldn't somebody running for President have a better grasp of this issue than he seems to have?

McCain says gay troops represent an ‘intolerable risk’

I suspect it’s difficult for supporters of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” to come up with a rationale for their position. They probably realize they can’t come right out and say, “I don’t like gay people,” or “Dobson told me I have to take this position,” so they’re left with varying degrees of incoherence. Take John McCain, [...]

And, over at the White House briefing, Tony Snow was subjected to some "fact-checking", too:

Tony Snow challenged on Bush hypocrisy

over an acceptable level of violence. This was the exchange at today’s White House press briefing: QUESTION: In October of 2004 John Kerry said, We have to get to the place where we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they’re a nuisance. The president said he couldn’t disagree more. Cheney [...]

Unless I'm mistaken, this is the second time this week that Snow has been forced to tap dance around an answer.

UPDATE: Oops.  Number three..

Suddenly, Bush cares about al Qaeda again

In his speech yesterday to the Associated General Contractors of America, the president seemed almost desperate to generate support for the war in Iraq. But with no coherent talking points left to defend the U.S. presence in Iraq, Bush played the only card he had left. Over the course of the hour-long event, the president referred [...]

Tags: John McCain, Gays in military, Don't Ask, Don't Tell

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