McCain retracts Palin's Pakistan comments

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WASHINGTON (CNN)— Sen. John McCain retracted Sarah Palin's stance on Pakistan Sunday morning, after the Alaska governor appeared to back Sen. Barack Obama's support for unilateral strikes inside Pakistan against terrorists

"She would not…she understands and has stated repeatedly that we're not going to do anything except in America's national security interest," McCain told ABC's George Stephanopoulos of Palin. "In all due respect, people going around and… sticking a microphone while conversations are being held, and then all of a sudden that's—that's a person's position… This is a free country, but I don't think most Americans think that that's a definitve policy statement made by Governor Palin."

Saturday night, while on a stop for cheesesteaks in South Philadelphia, Palin was questioned by a Temple graduate student about whether the U.S. should cross the border from Afghanistan into Pakistan.

"If that's what we have to do stop the terrorists from coming any further in, absolutely, we should," Palin said.

During Friday night's presidential debate in Mississippi, Obama took a similar stance and condemned the Bush administration for failing to act on the possibility terrorists are in Pakistan.

"Nobody talked about attacking Pakistan," Obama said after McCain accused the Illinois senator of wanting to announce an invasion. "If the United States has al Qaeda, bin Laden, top-level lieutenants in our sights, and Pakistan is unable or unwilling to act, then we should take them out."

McCain emphasized Sunday, Palin "shares" his view on the matter.

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[IndianaGreen]

1. McCain really meant to say "She would not understand!"

Way to go Caribou Barbie!

[Hawkeye-X]

2. Uh huh. And you can't control her mouth? I certainly can't wait till Thursday

to see how much of an embarrassment she is.

Hawkeye-X

[saltpoint]

3. Ricky admonishes Lucy for speaking out of line.

[whistle]

4. Republican old white guys just can't allow even dumb republican beauty queens

...to express sound thoughts! Oh boy, smack Sarah down John. One more slip like that and John will call Sarah a bad name.

[RichGirl]

5. The debates will make or break McCain.

Palin will be asked the exact same questions as Biden...nobody can accuse Gwen Ifil of playing "stump the candidate" or of sticking a microphone in her face. No one can say that the debate was edited to make Palin look bad.

[vaberella]

6. That's rich. Because the Pakistani Prez just said that Obama said "if"

And he's on board in getting rid of Al Qaeda since apparently they killed his wife.

[npincus]

7. has he retracted her foreign policy "credentials"?

[RichGirl]

I hope people are taking note:

McCain says she understands...when she clearly doesn't.

He says Obama doesn't understand...when he clearly does.

[Barack_America]

8. Breaking: Palin will now campaign in one of these.

The Secret Service says the move is for Palin's (political) safety.

:rofl:

[saltpoint]

9. See-through tomatoes.