McCain 2006': "They're (Hamas) the government; sooner or later we are going to have to deal with them..it's a new reality in the Middle East..."

Kevin Drum says McCain (who just agreed with Bush's talking to "terrorists and radicals is appeasement" ...says that "McCain will wriggle out of this somehow. Maybe by claiming that "sooner or later" means, um, later. Or that "deal with them" doesn't include actually talking to them. Or something. But it sure sounds as if he was in favor of talking to Hamas before he was opposed to it."