Liberty Maven

Do you believe the present day McCain or the 2004 version? This proves yet again he is no maverick. He’s just like all the other lying politicians we’ve come to know over the years. The video below is McCain getting a bit testy when asked a seemingly innocent question about whether John Kerry asked him to be his VP in 2004. McCain emphatically says that “Everyone in America knows that is true.”

Then we go back to July of 2004. Kerry had already selected Edwards as his running mate. This is a portion of a transcript of a FOX News interview of McCain with Tony Snow (source link):

SNOW: Well, you’re absolutely right though, it’s going to be fun to see. Now John Kerry, is it true that John Kerry asked you to be his vice president?

McCAIN: Uh, no. No, it was never offered.

SNOW: It was never offered. So, it may have been discussed elliptically, but never flat out request.

McCAIN: Never was an offer, no.

SNOW: When you had conversations, did you think it was a little weird that he’d be calling you, even in general terms about this sort of thing?

McCAIN: Well, he and I have been friends for a number of years because of our efforts on POWs and MIAs which was a very hot issue back in the early 90’s, a lot of people have forgotten about it, but it was a- and we worked together to try to resolve that issue and I appreciate the work that he did on it. And, so it’s not unusual for us to have conversations.

SNOW: Right. But, so- I want to just lay to rest once and for all: never approached you, never hinted that he wanted to talk to you about being vice president. All that kind of stuff was made up.

McCAIN: Well, I cannot attest to that. All I can tell you is my conversations with him were private conversations, but he never offered it.

So the next question for McCain should be the following:

So John, how can the American people trust anything you say? If he answers truthfully, he will answer “They can’t.”

Of course, no one would believe him anyway.