My Favorite Part of the Debate

0:40: Obama quotes Kissinger as saying that we should meet with Iran without preconditions. He did not quote Kissinger as saying "meet at a presidential level."

0:53: McCain begins to steam.

0:58: McCain: "Kissinger didn't say that he would approve a meeting face to face between the president of the United States and Ahmadinejad." Obama: "Of course not." McCain: "He said that they should be at the lower level. I always incouraged them."

Actually, Kissinger wanted a higher level meeting. So, McCain lies again.

1:40: McCain totally looses it.

This is a transcript of what Kissinger said:

KISSINGER: Well, I am in favor of negotiating with Iran. And one utility of negotiation is to put before Iran our vision of a Middle East, of a stable Middle East, and our notion on nuclear proliferation at a high enough level so that they have to study it. And, therefore, I actually have preferred doing it at the secretary of state level so that we -- we know we're dealing with authentic...

(CROSSTALK)

SESNO: Put at a very high level right out of the box?

KISSINGER: Initially, yes. And I always believed that the best way to begin a negotiation is to tell the other side exactly what you have in mind and what you are -- what the outcome is that you're trying to achieve so that they have something that they can react to.

(Read the whole transcript here)