VIDEO: Former Bush I Aide Declines To Say He Will Vote for McCain
| Thu Oct. 30, 2008 7:05 AM PDT
Every few weeks, I do a Bloggingheads.tv diavlog with Jim Pinkerton, one of my favorite conservatives. Months ago, Pinkerton, who was a top aide for the first President Bush and who was a senior adviser to Mike Huckabee's presidential effort, predicted that Barack Obama would be (or could be) destroyed by a campaign that highlighted his ties to Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright. In a diavlog we conducted on Wednesday, Pinkerton said that John McCain didn't do all that was necessary for such a crusade to work, but he also noted his admiration for Obama (though not his policy ideas). It seemed to me that Pinkerton was close to endorsing Obama. So as our conversation was finishing, I asked whom he was voting for. You can see the exchange that ensued at the end of this clip:
Note that Pinkerton declined repeated opportunities to say that he will vote for McCain.
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Pinkerton said: "When will the anti-American violence in Iraq end? It will end when we unleash the Shia Arab Muslims and the Kurds to finish the job, all the way to the bloody extreme. We're not ready for such unleashing just yet, but we're getting close." Advocating genocide is not my kind of guy. "So instead of building missile-defense sites in Eastern Europe, dividing Europe from Russia, the United States should put those sites in Russia's southern reaches, to face the real enemy, which is Iran and the rest of nuclear Islam." This guy is clearly a bigot.
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