Nothing like hitting hard all the time, huh?
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Republican John McCain on Monday sharply criticized Democratic rival Barack Obama for not having been to Iraq since 2006, and said they should visit the war zone together.
“Look at what happened in the last two years since Senator Obama visited and declared the war lost,” the GOP presidential nominee-in-waiting told The Associated Press in an interview, noting that the Illinois senator’s last trip to Iraq came before the military buildup that is credited with curbing violence.
“He really has no experience or knowledge or judgment about the issue of Iraq and he has wanted to surrender for a long time,” the Arizona senator added. “If there was any other issue before the American people, and you hadn’t had anything to do with it in a couple of years, I think the American people would judge that very harshly.”
I doubt, of course, that Obama will accept such a challenge – he’d either have to abandon his defeatism, and thus lose support on the left, or argue that victory isn’t victory, and thus look like a fool. Meanwhile, not going will start to look like an act of political cowardice – this could be a very brilliant stroke on the part of McCain, as it boxes Obama into an impossible position…and, better yet, boxes Obama into a position of his own making. Think about it: If Obama hadn’t gone completely defeatist in 2006, none of this would matter…but as he became a Defeaticrat for a war we’re winning, he’s now caught trying to argue against success…and trying to spin this fool hardiness into a credible story about how he’s better than McCain for the job of Commander in Chief.
It might very soon start to suck to be a Democrat – and I mean more than usual.
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