McCain Is Just Making Stuff Up Now

In a rally yesterday, Obama defended his stance on opening talks with America’s enemies, saying:

“Strong countries and strong Presidents talk to their adversaries. That’s what Kennedy did with Kruschev, that’s what Reagan did with Gorbachev, that’s what Nixon did with Mao. I mean think about it, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union.”

And here’s how Teflon John heard it:

“Senator Obama claimed that the threat Iran poses to our security is ‘tiny’ compared to the threat once posed by the former Soviet Union. Should Iran acquire nuclear weapons that danger would become very dire indeed. They might not become a super power, but the threat the government of Iran poses is anything but tiny.”

There’s a really good hearing aid joke here, but I’m gonna let it slide. It’s sad to me that when people know they can’t win in a fair debate that they resort to flat out lying to get their point across. Obama was very clearly speaking on the geographical and military size of the former Soviet Union, not its threat level. And if he was talking about that, he still would have been telling the truth. Maybe I haven’t been keeping my YouTube game up, but all of the videos of kids running to take shelter under their desks that I’ve seen are in black and white. So honestly, the threat is not as great. By McCain’s own admission, none of these TINY countries will ever become a super power. So…why are we dropping $2 billion a week on that whole endeavor again?

I’m hoping McCain didn’t really hear Obama’s speech and one of his lobbyists campaign managers just told him that lie.