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Democrats accused Sen. John McCain Friday of hypocrisy on the question of whether the United States should negotiate with terrorists and dictators, saying the certain Republican nominee had previously been willing to negotiate with the militant Palestinian group Hamas. [read full story]
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Obama seems to be proud of the fact that Hamas favour him as the next US President. "It's conceivable that there are those in the Arab world who say to themselves, 'This is a guy who spent some time in the Muslim world, has a middle name of Hussein and appears more worldly and has called for...
If the recent exchanges between President Bush, Barack Obama and John McCain on Hamas and terrorism are a preview of the general election, we are in for an ugly six months. Despite his reputation in the media as a charming maverick, McCain has shown that he is also happy to use Nixon-style dirty...
Two years ago James P. Rubin, an adjunct professor at Columbia University's School of International Affairs, interviewed Sen. John McCain in Switzerland about talking to Hamas. John McCain's view was far more liberal than Barack Obama's:[G]iven his own position on Hamas, McCain is the last...
TALKING TO TERRORISTS....On Thursday President Bush said that talking to "terrorists and radicals" is appeasement, and later that day John McCain said he agreed. But in the Washington Post today, James Rubin says that McCain hasn't always felt this way:Two...
Talking to Hamas By Paul Woodward, War in Context, May 16, 2008 Exchange from a Sky News interview, Davos, Switzerland, January 2006: James Rubin: Do you think that American diplomats should be operating the way they have in the past, working with the Palestinian government if Hamas is now in...
Barack Hussein Obama wants it both ways. But Obama says he understands why Islamic terror group Hamas looks at his middle name and trusts him. When Bush slammed that plan Thursday as "appeasement," Obama accused him of a "false political attack." It's a legitimate attack, because Obama's kumbaya...
News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Fri May 16, 2008 6:21 AM EDT If the recent exchanges between President Bush, Barack Obama and John McCain on Hamas and terrorism are a preview of the general election, we are in for an ugly six months. Despite his reputation in the media as a charming maverick,...
James Rubin talks about an interview he did with John McCain two years ago: Two years ago, just after Hamas won the Palestinian parliamentary elections, I interviewed McCain for the British network Sky News’s “World News Tonight” program. Here is the crucial part of our exchange: I asked: “Do you...
Two years ago, in an interview with James Rubin for Sky News, Sen. John McCain expressed a willingness to negotiate with the terrorist group Hamas -- the very group that McCain has been relentlessly using to smear Sen. Barack Obama over the last several weeks.
McCain, meanwhile, is guilty of hypocrisy. I am a supporter of Hillary Clinton and believe that she was right to say, about McCain's statement on Hamas, "I don't think that anybody should take that seriously." Unfortunately, the Republicans know that some people will. That's why they say such...

