At a press conference, McCain said Obama was “directly responsible” for the Orlando massacre. Later, he released a statement, attempting to clarify his remarks.
“I misspoke. I did not mean to imply that the President was personally responsible. I was referring to President Obama’s national security decisions, not the President himself. As I have said, President Obama’s decision to completely withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq in 2011 led to the rise of ISIL. I and others have long warned that the failure of the President’s policy to deny ISIL safe haven would allow the terrorist organization to inspire, plan, direct or conduct attacks on the United States and Europe as they have done in Paris, Brussels, San Bernardino and now Orlando.”
I have no respect for McCain any longer, after this and many other recent comments.
Its reelection year and now he is smooching Trumps a$$ in spite of being castrated by the Donald for his time as a POW. I always admired McCain…………no more.
Notice how OLD bernie the commie changed his tune? Bad mouthed CROOKED CLINTON and after a blue green purple house meeting with slippery he has gone after Trump and Hitlery will work just fine in with the rest of the non Americans she represents.
What? Obummer is not to blame – it was just HIS decisions that turned fatal ?????
McCain is a coward not a war hero. He is not to be believed.
But but but the LGTB activists have already explained that the full responsibility for this atrocity falls on us Christian Americans because many of us oppose same sex marriage?
Good for McCain. The man had the guts to say what so many of us were thinking. Too bad he didn’t include Hillary, but they are drinking buddies.
McCain is right, this does lay at Obama’s feet.
This was not a backtrack, McCain just clarified his meaning because of the bottom feeder national press we have today. He had to clarify a meaning that was already obvious to every thinking person, but the press twists words to make their national enquirer style headlines.
Every thinking person? That is funny. Most of you are Trump backers and Trump labeled McCain a coward for being captured. Now that McCain is making this claim, he is no longer a coward and someone who we all should believe? Do some thinking yourself.
Trump had nothing to do with McCain’s comments. You are just trying to misdirect the truth. Try thinking of that next time. Typical Democrat.
Hey Bodie,
Why can’t dogs swim in our pool, but we’ll pay the rent for the Section 8 imports? You dumbocrats are amazing.
Bodacious, you are asking the impossible when you pose the challenge “Do some thinking for yourself”.
You seem to have forgotten the demographic that you are talking to.
NIT garners some of the most idiotic & ignorant posters in North Iowa.
With the exception a very few like yourself, you are attempting to have a meaningful dialogue with some of the most moronic and incredibly stupid in the region.
Makes one ponder why this website draws in so many of the local morons into its fold.
It is like NIT is a beacon to the dumb-asses and is a gathering place for the terminally stupid.