No Flip, Today's Attack Flops
Target: Barack Obama. Strategy: What Day Is It?
The McCain campaign's shotgun attack strategy would be more effective if the campaign had any ammunition with which to load the gun. Today's attack:
On Thursday McCain aides and the Republican National Committee pounced on a comment by Mr. Obama that he would be willing to “refine” his long-held plan to withdraw all combat troops from Iraq within his first 16 months in office.
Because an inflexible unwillingness to respond to changing conditions, even at risk of further endangering lives, is principled? Obama's response:
"We're going to try this again. Apparently I wasn't clear enough this morning on my position with respect to the war in Iraq. I have said throughout this campaign that this war was ill-conceived, that it was a strategic blunder and that it needs to come to an end."
The Illinois senator added, "I have also said that I would be deliberate and careful in how we got out, that we would bring our troops home at a pace of one to two brigades per month and that at that pace we would have our combat troops out in 16 months. That position has not changed."
Do you have a superior withdrawal plan, Senator McCain? Oh, that's right ....
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- July 4, 2008
Iraq
My wife and I have been strong supporters of Barak since day one, including financial support and working here in PA for his election. We would never vote for John McBush, period,!
After this "change" to potentially keeping the war going, neither of us will be voting for Barak. He just turned into John Mcain and that is very sad,
I really thought he was different but this shows he is just another pol that believes getting elected is the only important thing. We are both very disappointed.
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By Rick_is_RicksterJuly 4, 2008 - 6:45amUmmm....
...Obama hasn't changed anything. He's ALWAYS said "16 months".
And to me, that beats "we'll be there for 100 years" hands down.
Happy Independence Day!
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. ~~~John Kenneth Galbraith
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By nonexistent manJuly 4, 2008 - 6:48amLook up the word
Look up the word "refine."
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." Dwight Eisenhower
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By MichtouJuly 4, 2008 - 11:30amBy Rick_is_Rickster July 4, 2008 - 6:45am
My wife and I have been strong supporters of Barak since day one....
SURE you have.
(By the way, his first name is spelled with a 'c' in front of the 'k'.)
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By roadgoddessJuly 4, 2008 - 12:06pm