tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15453937.post6214529236426643382..comments2024-01-10T17:36:15.040-07:00Comments on The Lippard Blog: John McCain the inconsistent flip-flopperLippardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16826768452963498005noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15453937.post-39004583872514525802007-02-10T04:40:00.000-07:002007-02-10T04:40:00.000-07:00Not sure if anyone will be looking at these commen...Not sure if anyone will be looking at these comments again, but in case they do, I thought I'd note my careless wording: by "both" of the "mutually consistent" positions, I of course meant:<BR/><BR/>a. Victory over the Iraq regime would be easy.<BR/>b. Creating stable democracy in Iraq would not.<BR/><BR/>My wording regarding 'b.' indicated its own opposite.tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811170515550139445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15453937.post-87055760174872540462007-02-05T01:06:00.000-07:002007-02-05T01:06:00.000-07:00"Some of these are a bit misleadingly edited, such..."Some of these are a bit misleadingly edited, such as the gay marriage item, where it doesn't look like he actually contradicted himself to me."<br /><br />Without the context that is left out of the video, I am equally suspicious of his alleged self-contradiction on Iraq. If he was predicting that the victory over Hussein would be "easy", and that the Iraqi regime would topple "quickly", etc., he was absolutely right. <br /><br />This is of course very different from saying that it would be easy to maintain order and security, and bring some sort of stable democracy to Iraq. <br /><br />I am fairly certain that McCain publicly held both of these two (mutually consistent) positions, but the video does nothing to help establish whether he is guitly of holding others.tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811170515550139445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15453937.post-3824928575143544932007-01-31T11:49:00.000-07:002007-01-31T11:49:00.000-07:00I wouldn't call his gay marriage comments contradi...I wouldn't call his gay marriage comments contradictory, but I would call his first version a classic waffling.Einzigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06406227217230727209noreply@blogger.com