October 12, 2008 9:25:36 PM CDT
(Newser) – John McCain’s inner circle tried a new line of attack against Barack Obama today, charging that the presumptive Democratic nominee and his entire party want to lose the Iraq war to serve their own political purposes. Said McCain’s top foreign policy hand, “Senator Obama seems to think losing a war will help him to win an election.”
Lindsey Graham charged that the Democrats started building a “political strategy” around defeat when Harry Reid declared the war “lost” last year. The campaign rep also said Obama hopes to “defund our forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, in an effort to placate the left wing.”
Source Talking Points Memo
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Aug 31, 08 1:00 PM CDT Sarah Palin ruled the political morning shows today at the expense of Barack Obama's historic speech last week, Politico reports:
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Aug 10, 08 1:25 PM CDT Today's Bush administration isn't pursuing all the disastrous policies it was 5 years ago, writes Fareed Zakaria in Newsweek, and unlike Dubya himself, his successor would do well to pay attention to what he's gotten right. Though both John McCain and Barack Obama keep their distance from the deeply unpopular incumbent, they won't find success in simply reversing all his policies. More »
Barack Obama • John McCain • Iraq • Afghanistan • Harry Reid • patriotism • Lindsey Graham
