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23
Jul
23
Check out this new ad from Vote Vets, set to air on national cable. It does what many anti-war voices have been hesitant to do: Declare that by refusing to formulate a plan for withdrawal from Iraq, John McCain's dedication to the basic idea of freedom has been called into question.
"But Senator McCain would occupy Iraq indefinitely, against their wishes," declares Brandon Woods, an Iraq War veteran. "That's not what freedom means. That's not what we fought for. Senator, I thought you would know better."
Ooooooooooo-kaaaaaaaay....
Now we have a McCain surrogate explaining away McCain's flubbing of the Anbar Awakening and surge timing by saying that asking for the truth about Iraq undermines the troops...
We listened to that several times, and we're pretty sure that this McCain surrogate, Nancy Pfotenhauer, actually said...
"Barack Obama and his supporters can try to litigate what came first or what was crucial, but that's really an attempt to undermine the significance and the impact of the American tr
The Republican National Committee has just unleashed a tough new radio attack ad that hits Obama for voting against the Iraq supplemental without withdrawal timelines last year, casting it as a vote against funding our troops in wartime:
In a somewhat puckish touch, the ad, which is timed to coincide with Obama's trip to Berlin, will run in Berlin, PA; Berlin, WI; and Berlin, NH.
"If Obama can't rise above politics to support our soldiers in a time of war, then how can he claim to have the strength to c
Jul
21
Jul
21
This is interesting. The McCain campaign, which has long thought it holds an advantage on foreign policy issues, is shifting the focus to domestic concerns with a new ad blaming the gas crisis on Barack Obama...
The ad, which will run on national cable and in "key states" (no further details given), reflects the fact that the McCain campaign believes it has staked out an advantage on the gas-crisis issue. The Dem polling firm Democracy Corps recently concluded:
"McCain's message adding domestic oil pro
Jul
17
Jul
17
Here it is!
As promised, the McCain camp has now held a press conference in D.C. where they rolled out their new "documentary" called "The Obama Iraq Documentary: Whatever the Politics Demand." Take a look...
Senator Jon Kyl doesn't appear; the MSNBC report I linked to below didn't actually say he would. Kyl actually introduced the vid. My mistake. Apologies.
More in a sec.
Late Update: My take on the "documentary" is right here.
Jul
16
Jul
16
Vets for Freedom, the pro-war third party group that's vowed to spend huge sums on ads pushing for "victory" in Iraq, goes up with a new ad insisting that the surge has worked and that Dems have their heads in the sand about it...
The ad will air in multiple markets in the battleground states of Ohio, Michigan, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Mexico.
The ad reflects the GOP's strategy of focusing the discussion of the Iraq War on nothing but the narrow question of whether the surge has produced military
Jul
9
Jul
9
I've just obtained a first look at a new Web ad hitting McCain on Iraq that the Democratic National Committee plans to release later today.
It's a good one. Take a look...
In an ironic touch, the ad, after showing at least half a dozen of McCain's positions on when the troops would come home, concludes that he represents "more of the same on Iraq."
Take a look at Obama on MSNBC this morning, pushing back on the Iraq flip-flop narrative...
Obama didn't quite answer when asked directly whether he would listen to the commanders on the ground if they urged him to keep combat troops in Iraq, but in some ways that's as it should be: No need to answer a hypothetical beyond saying that he, not the commanders, establishes military policy in consultation with them.
Separately, also note that Obama has begun to cite Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki's cal
Jul
8
Jul
8
John McCain himself is taking up the Republican charge that Barack Obama has flip-flopped on Iraq, an effort to change the dialogue on an issue that has done a lot to drag the GOP down in recent years.
Here's McCain appearing this morning on Fox News, where the hosts dutifully set up the talking points for him:
"Oh I think there's been definitely shifts in position," McCain said. "One of them is Iraq, and I will be -- wait and see what Senator Obama has to say after he returns after meeting for the firs
Jul
5
Jul
5
Barack Obama held a second presser today to respond to the suggestion that because he said he would "continue to refine" his Iraq policies that this somehow heralded a change in his position on withdrawal from Iraq...
The key line: Obama said that he would "not refine the 16-month timetable."
