Subject: Re: McCain blocks Obama's pick as No.2 diplomat over Iraq policy - Yahoo News
From: <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>, "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>, "Beau Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 21:36:35 +0000 (UTC)

Johnny, I hardly know ye.

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From: Alex Snyder-Mackler
To: Eric Schwe=in
Cc: Hunter Biden, Beau Biden, Ted Kaufman
Sent: Dec=mber 4, 2014 at 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: McCain blocks Obama's pick =s No.2 diplomat over Iraq policy - Yahoo News

I know we've had many chances to=say this since 2008, but what an asshole.

On Dec 4, 2014, at 12:53 PM, Eric Schwerin <[email-masked]<=a>> wrote:

Thi= causes me to despise John McCain even more than I already do…&hell=p;.Did he really say Tony was “totally unqualified”?!?

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http://news.yahoo.com/mccain-blocks-obamas-pick-no-2-diplomat-over=173317776.html

McCain blocks Obama's pick as No.2 diplomat over Iraq policy

By Patricia Zengerle

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - =.S. Senator John McCain said on Thursday he is blocking President Barack O=ama's nomination of Anthony Blinken as the country's number two di=lomat, citing sharp disagreement with the nominee's past statements on=Iraq.

"He's totally unqualified," the Re=ublican senator told Reuters, when asked why he was holding up Blinken'=s nomination to be deputy Secretary of State.

"He=#39;s the guy who said we're leaving behind the richest, safest Iraq i= history. Look it up," McCain said, referring to Blinken's reassu=ing comments two years ago about the decision to withdraw all U.S. troops =rom Iraq.

McCain, a frequent critic of Obama's for=ign policy, has repeatedly voiced strong opposition to the decision to end=the campaign in Iraq, where U.S. forces are currently battling the militan= fighters of the Islamic State.

The Senate Foreign Re=ations Committee was to have voted on Blinken's nomination on Thursday= amid heated debate in Congress over the campaign against the Sunni Muslim=group in Iraq and Syria.

McCain's action puts off =hat vote until next week, at the soonest. If the committee approves Blinke=, as expected if the vote is able to go ahead, the full Senate must still =ote to confirm him before he can take office as Secretary of State John Ke=ry's understudy.

(Reporting by Patricia Zengerle;=Editing by James Dalgleish)

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