Senators McCain and Obama are getting snippy with each other.
Obviously, I utterly support McCain’s point of view. I can never vote for Obama because he’s too wrong on Iraq for me to even consider him.
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This ain’t so bad — it’s almost the semblance of a genuine debate on what to do in Iraq.
However, this snarky quote by some Obama flunky ain’t so hot:
Barack Obama,” his spokesman Bill Burton said, “doesn’t need any lectures from John McCain, who has consistently misunderstood American national security and the history of the Middle East in arguing for an invasion and 100-year occupation of a country that had nothing to do with 9/11.”
We’ve been “in” Korea for 58 years — it was and is the right thing to do (see North Korea)
We’ve been “in” Japan for even longer — bases at Yokosuka, Atsugi, Okinawa — again, a good thing. Breeding economic, political stablility in the region
I reckon that’s the end-game in Iraq. Help those buggers form a functioning, non-wacko, non-theocratic, non-dictatorship in the ME, slowly disengage from the internal politics, but provide some stability with a military base or 2 near-by.
This “100-year” meme by the Dems is so weak, it defies description.
HB
Obama giveth:
“He’s on a biography tour right now,” Obama said of McCain. “Most of us know his biography, and it’s worthy of our admiration. My argument with John McCain is not with his biography, it’s with his policies.”
Beautiful, crystal clear.
But, then Obama taketh away:
“Meanwhile Senator McCain has been saying I don’t understand national security, but he’s the one who wants to keep tens of thousands of United States troops in Iraq for as long as 100 years,” Obama said.
Ugh. Back to square one.
HB
“I can never vote for Obama because he’s too wrong on Iraq for me to even consider him.”
Exactly, Dean.
The additional problem with the exchange is that Sen. Obama is making his point by misrepresenting McCain’s position while sen. McCain is making his by characterizing Sen. Obama accurately.
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