Via MSNBC.com - McCain criticizes Bill Clinton on North Korea

“I would remind Senator (Hillary) Clinton and other Democrats critical of the Bush administration’s policies that the framework agreement her husband’s administration negotiated was a failure,” McCain said at a news conference after a campaign appearance for Republican Senate candidate Mike Bouchard.

“The Koreans received millions and millions in energy assistance. They’ve diverted millions of dollars of food assistance to their military,” he said.

While this may be true, it’s ridiculous to somehow say that the problem with the current state of North Korea is because of Bill Clinton. The Bush administration has had several years, almost as many as Clinton, to formulate his own policy and take leadership on this situation. What a complete cop-out. Besides that, McCain needs to watch where he’s pointing his finger. He’s been in the Senate longer then either Clinton or Bush were president. You can’t just sit on your ass in the Senate and wait for the President to create policy and then blame everyone else for nothing going right. Are you going to tell me that a powerful Senator can’t take a leadership role in forumulating our government’s policies and do the right thing? This is the epitomy of the GOP blame game.

Why doesn’t he just include the first Bush administration’s failure to deal with North Korea in his criticisms? They had just as little of a policy framework. At least the Clinton administration actually visited Pyongyang.

I would hope that people would see right through this garbage. The GOP is just getting nervous that while we were out attacking Iraq, who had no nuclear weapons, 2 other countries have become a greater threat to our security.

Let’s go GOP… it’s your command, you’re on watch. Take the helm.