Barack Obama for President

Two of the Senate’s most prominent war critics took to the defense of Barack Obama among withering criticism that his opposition to the surge was driven by political ambition.

In statements sent to the Huffington Post, Sens. John Kerry and Russ Feingold derided the current debate over the surge’s successes as campaign theater. A far more important barometer of foreign policy judgment, they argued, was the authorization of the war in the first place — an area where John McCain failed.

Link: Huffington Post.