Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain spoke yesterday on a litany of topics including Iraq and Afghanistan. He tried to point out where he and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama differed on on Iraq, mainly on the so-called “surge”. From Real Clear Politics:
Where Senator Obama and I disagreed, fundamentally, was what course we should take. I called for a comprehensive new strategy — a surge of troops and counterinsurgency to win the war. Senator Obama disagreed. He opposed the surge, predicted it would increase sectarian violence, and called for our troops to retreat as quickly as possible.
The problem with McCain’s comment is that although what he said was “technically” correct, the Obama campaign had already retroactively removed all proof that he opposed the surge from his website.
That means it never happened.
It’s clear that McCain is grossly out of touch when it comes to politics of the 21st century. McCain should know that before critisizing Obama on an issue, he should first refer to the official Obama website or his MySpace page to see if the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee still holds that perticular stance on the issue. He very well may have flip-flopped refined his position, like he did on FISA and or Federal campaign finance.
John McCain is now left with egg on his face. I don’t really know what that saying means. I only know that it’s not very good.
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I don’t know that Obama tries to deny it, anyway. It is hilarious all the times that McCain tries to act like there isn’t evidence on the web of all of his actions. Claims credit for the new G.I. bill, even though he was adamantly opposed to it and refused to be a co-sponsor of it with Jim Webb. Doesn’t know where Tim Russert got that McCain thinks he needs to learn a lot more about the economy, but it’s there in print and on the web. He wouldn’t know that anything was taken off the Obama website…because he’s still learning how to get online (no bullshit).
I can’t see this election going well for McCain. In fact, he’ll be lucky if he doesn’t look as bad as that admiral that Perot had as his running mate.
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