Cheney: McCain "ran over to me" to apologize for his remarks about Rumsfeld

[DeepModem Mom]

NYT: Cheney Argues Rumsfeld Served Well
McCain Called Him 'One of the Worst' Defense Secretaries
By Michael A. Fletcher
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 22, 2007; Page A04

....Cheney also countered McCain's assertion that the vice president misled Bush when it came to Iraq. "John said some nasty things about me the other day, and then next time he saw me, ran over to me and apologized," Cheney said. "Maybe he'll apologize to Rumsfeld."

McCain is expected to formally announce next month his second run for the White House. Long a vocal advocate of putting more troops into Iraq, he has strongly endorsed Bush's decision to send 21,500 additional combat troops to Iraq even as he has harshly criticized Rumsfeld and Cheney for the way the war has been waged.

"The president listened too much to the vice president," McCain told the Politico last month. ". . . Of course, the president bears the ultimate responsibility, but he was very badly served by both the vice president and, most of all, the secretary of defense."

In his interview, conducted aboard the USS Kitty Hawk at Yokosuka, Japan, Cheney said he encountered McCain in the Senate chambers. "Well, he came up to me on the floor a couple of days later, the next time I was on the floor of the Senate, said he'd been quoted out of context, and then basically offered an apology, which I was happy to accept," the vice president said.

McCain declined to comment on Cheney's remarks. "The senator's position on the war is well known," said Danny Diaz, McCain's spokesman.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/21/AR2007022101606.html

[apnu]

1. what a whore...

... both of them.

[goclark]

2. McCain is a lap dog and Imus

says that he is his first choice and then Rudy "The Lover" G.

Imus :puke:

[sarge43]

3. The Dickster shoot him in the face? n/t

[Fire Walk With Me]

5. Naw, he waited until Dick didn't have a gun.

Timing is very important.

[sarge43]

9. "Timing is very important."

In a comedy routine, it's everything.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. you bet he did, out of self-preservation

and fear of Darth.

[skypilot]

6. ran over to me to apologize.

Interesting. I wonder if it's true. On the one hand, if McCain did in fact "run over to" Cheney to apologize, it shows, once again, what a flip-flopping weasel he is. On the other hand, if this apology never happened it shows what an unrepentant liar Cheney is and it could also be that Cheney is so ballsy that he is actually daring McCain to come forward and contradict him.

[gratuitous]

11. "McCain declined to comment"

I think it's instructive that Maverick John, Senator Straight Talk himself, declined to confirm or deny that he had apologized to Cheney. What it says to me, boiled down to its essence, is that Cheney is saying McCain is his craven little meat puppet, and McCain's refusal to stick up for himself essentially confirms the characterization.

But the popular media just love the image of Senator Straight Talk, so it's very unlikely that they will make any kind of a kerfuffle out of this. Certainly nothing to compare to the current fascination they have with the puffed-up "wars" going on between Democratic candidates.

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. I wonder if he had his blanket and binky?

.......before they snuggled up.

[Contrary1]

8. As Tim Dickinson of Rolling Stone called him...

"Weathervane McCain".

[Colobo]

10. That shows you one thing

The Bushes want Romney or Rudy, not McVain.

[Disturbed]

12. Did Weather Vane McLame give Darth a hug too?