TP:Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on Tuesday mocked President Obama’s push to expel Russia from the G-8. But the Arizona Republican said just weeks ago, and during his campaign for president in 2008, that Russia should no longer belong to the group of the world’s wealthiest nations, a point that further highlights McCain’s pattern of hypocrisy on the issue of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But just a few weeks ago, McCain himself was calling on Russia to be expelled from the G-8, telling PBS’s Charlie Rose that he would first sanction Russian officials’ bank accounts and ability to travel — which Obama has done. “Then, obviously, I would look at other areas. You know, throw them out of the G-8, of course. It should be the G-7,” he said. During the 2008 presidential campaign — before Russia’s invasion of Georgia that same year — McCain said in March that the G-8 should “exclude Russia.” And after Russia’s invasion that August, he said, “The G-8 should become for a while the G-7 until Russia proves that it is capable of being a law-abiding member of the international community.” Also during the 2008 presidential campaign, he criticized those who were making Russia’s Georgia invasion a partisan issue. “This is no time for that,” the GOP presidential nominee said at the time, adding that Americans should be united against Russia. “The time now is for America to — the United States of America to act united on behalf of the people of the country of Georgia, and not do a lot of partisan sniping.”
Posted on: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 20:53:49 +0000
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