“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
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 [...]
All I can say is: If Senator Obama wants to sit down across the table from the leader of a country that calls Israel a stinking corpse, and comes to New York and says they’re gonna, quote, “wipe Israel off the map,” what is it that he wants to talk about? What is it that [...]
This year, John McCain is going to have to do what he failed to do in 2000: Beat George W. Bush.
“John McCain unfortunately is burdened by a not very good economy, by an ongoing war in Iraq and by Bush’s poll numbers in the high 20s,” Ken Duberstein, Ronald Reagan’s former chief of staff, who [...]
The independent label sticks to John McCain because he antagonizes fellow Republicans and likes to work with Democrats.
But a different label applies to his actual record: conservative.
The likely Republican presidential nominee is much more conservative than voters appear to realize. McCain leans to the right on issue after issue, not just on the Iraq war [...]
John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate who has based his White House campaign on his foreign policy expertise, has again been caught making a basic error.
For the second time in a matter of weeks, Mr McCain, 71, appeared confused about whether al-Qa’eda was a Sunni or Shia organisation.
Link:Telegraph
He has demonstrated a repeated willingness to buck fellow Republicans and stray from GOP orthodoxy since he first ran for Congress in 1982. He also has a record of heartily supporting Bush on some of his most controversial priorities, including the Iraq war and comprehensive immigration reform. In 2007, as he ramped up for his [...]
Call them the Obamacans: They are against continuing the Iraq war and reject what they see as Mr. Bush’s unconstitutional buildup of executive power. While the conservative Republican base rejected Senator McCain in the early primaries for his push for bipartisan campaign finance regulation and amnesty for illegal immigrants, the Arizona senator’s hawkish support for [...]
