"There's a lot at stake here, my friends, and thank God for the young men and women who are sending the message I repeat to you again, after having been there over Thanksgiving weekend, 'let me win, let us win.'" troops, however unwilling, into his campaign rhetoric. Not content to wander this desert alone, McCain dragged the U.S. He called for continuing the surge in the war, "which is succeeding," he said, "and we are winning the war in Iraq." "I'm the only one on this stage," McCain emphasized in making several points. The septuagenarian candidate fancies himself as flying his campaign above the clouds of his colleagues, with the power to rain down truth from a high place. Navy fighter pilot was not exactly flying his A-4 Skyhawk over Hanoi to drop toys for Vietnamese tots. His penchant for unreality may well accrue in part from those five years spent in a POW camp. John McCain, to pick one at random, is a certifiable nut job.
His denial was quick, but has not yet been proven plausible.īesides the woefully tarnished Giuliani, the seven other white, male GOP candidates arrayed before the CNN cameras were enough to make a patriot fear for the future of the republic. CNN host Anderson Cooper did, however, question the former mayor about the scandal involving his administration billing obscure city agencies for expenses police ran up while protecting him during extramarital trysts in the Hamptons. The candidate withheld his view on the Exodus verse forbidding adultery, of which he is on public record as a notorious violator. Filibustering about allegory and one's interpretation, and targeting his own claim that he reads the Bible "very frequently," Giuliani allowed that: "I believe it, but I don't believe it's necessarily literally true in every single respect."
The lone minister among the GOP candidates onstage perhaps reasoned that the former mayor might encounter problems with Exodus 20:14, of the King James Bible displayed on YouTube by the Dallas man who asked the question. Mike Huckabee, to laughter from the studio audience. "Do I need to help you out, Mayor, on this one?" said former Arkansas Gov. It was a hot-seat moment for Rudy Giuliani when the CNN debate question about believing "every word" of the Bible was directed at him.
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