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What Did McCain Really Say in the Debates? Assassination = Intervention?
I've been gone a while, and not keeping up with the blogs on TPM, so forgive me if someone else raised this issue, but I have a question for those of you who watched the latest debate.
When McCain was talking about the town halls (and once again blaming the negativity of his campaign on Obama), he started to talk about the proposed town hall format agreed to by Goldwater and JFK. Then he said something that nobody else has mentioned. What I remember, and it may not be verbatim, but what I remember is that he said, "...before the intervention...uh tragedy." Did anyone else hear him say "intervention"? What does that mean? I found it highly odd, suspicious and disturbing, given that JFK's assassination was, in fact, a right wing intervention. Did McCain really say that? Inquiring minds want to know.
Anybody?
When McCain was talking about the town halls (and once again blaming the negativity of his campaign on Obama), he started to talk about the proposed town hall format agreed to by Goldwater and JFK. Then he said something that nobody else has mentioned. What I remember, and it may not be verbatim, but what I remember is that he said, "...before the intervention...uh tragedy." Did anyone else hear him say "intervention"? What does that mean? I found it highly odd, suspicious and disturbing, given that JFK's assassination was, in fact, a right wing intervention. Did McCain really say that? Inquiring minds want to know.
Anybody?
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I didn't catch what he said, but I did notice that he chose a word and then changed it to "tragedy," I don't doubt that it was an "intervention," but I truly doubt that McCain was informed about it. Need to know, and all that. Most people involved wound up dying in various ways.
October 17, 2008 12:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
I agree that he was probably not involved, but why the choice of words? I think it's something to consider. Probably too taboo to be raised publicly, but I still wanted to ask people if they also heard what I heard.
October 17, 2008 12:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Raider, I found a transcript of the debate and here is the passage you refer to:
"When Sen. Obama was first asked, he said, "Any place, any time," the way Barry Goldwater and Jack Kennedy agreed to do, before the intervention of the tragedy at Dallas."
October 17, 2008 7:20 PM | Reply | Permalink