Senator Barack Obama said he might “refine” his Iraq policies after meeting with military commanders there later this summer. But hours later he held a second news conference to emphasize his commitment to the withdrawing of all combat troops from Iraq within 16 months of taking office.
His two statements, made Thursday in Fargo, North Dakota, [...]
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Thursday backed off his firm promise to withdraw combat forces from Iraq immediately, and instead said he could “refine” his plan after his trip to Baghdad later this month.
Earlier, a top Obama adviser had said that the senator is not “wedded” to a specific timeline.
Link:Politico.com
Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., told a Mississippi newspaper that he saw McCain, during a trip to Nicaragua led by former Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., grab an Ortega associate by his shirt collar and lift him out of his chair.
“I had many, many meetings with the Sandinistas,” McCain said. “I must say, I did not admire [...]
“It has the potential to be a big plus for Obama,” says a senior Republican who has advised several presidents over the years. “The American people know we are not liked overseas anymore, and it bothers them. People feel that Obama could help change that.”
To reinforce such an image, Obama is billing himself as a [...]
Barack Obama plans to visit Europe and the Middle East this summer. Obama’s presidential campaign tells The Associated Press that likely Democratic nominee will visit Jordan, Israel, Germany, France and the United Kingdom.
The trip comes as the first-term senator from Illinois tries to convince voters that he has the foreign policy experience to be president.
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“We could point to many, many examples during the debates where the words ‘irresponsible’ and ‘naive’ were applied to Senator Obama, but not by a Republican, but by Hillary Clinton. She’ll probably be in a different position now, but these are issues that Hillary Clinton very dramatically pointed out during the Democratic primary,” former New [...]
“We’ll make an announcement about that but as I’ve said, I’m interested in visiting Iraq and Afghanistan before the election,” said Obama, who has been vilified by McCain for visiting Iraq only once, in January 2006.
Link:AFP
A black, liberal Democrat in the White House, with or without a Democratic-controlled Congress behind him, may not change the fundamentals of American society and politics - or American foreign policy, for that matter - but he will appear as different from George W. Bush as Mars is from Venus. And that will shake up [...]
RUSSERT: The fact is you are different than George Bush.
SEN. McCAIN: No. No. I-the fact is that Im different but the fact is that I have agreed with President Bush far more than I have disagreed. And on the transcendent issues, the most important issues of our day, Ive been totally in agreement and support [...]
Sen. John McCain appeared on the Today Show this morning and continued to promote his idea of a long occupation in Iraq. But whatever merits there may be for his message, his delivery is once again promising to get him into trouble.
Link:The Huffington Post
In comments to reporters on Thursday, McCain said, “I can tell you that [the troop increase] is succeeding. I can look you in the eye and tell you it’s succeeding. We have drawn down to pre-surge levels. Basra, Mosul and now Sadr City are quiet and it’s long and it’s hard and it’s tough and [...]
In a speech before an influential Cuban American group here, Mr. Obama said he would meet with Cuban leader Raul Castro “at a time and place of my choosing.” He derided Senator John McCain and other Republican critics for embracing hard-line approaches that have failed.
“John McCain’s been going around the country talking about how much [...]
Republican John McCain accused Democrat Barack Obama of inexperience and reckless judgment for saying Iran does not pose the same serious threat to the United States as the Soviet Union did in its day.
“Such a statement betrays the depth of Senator Obama’s inexperience and reckless judgment. These are very serious deficiencies for an American president [...]
Democrats accused Sen. John McCain Friday of hypocrisy on the question of whether the United States should negotiate with terrorists and dictators, saying the certain Republican nominee had previously been willing to negotiate with the militant Palestinian group Hamas.
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