Educating Obama
John McCain took a dig at Sen. Obama, inviting him on a trip to see “the real Iraq.” This is sure to draw reaction from the Obama campaign since Sen. McCain essentially said that Sen. Obama didn’t know anything about today’s Iraq. Here’s what Sen. McCain said that’ll get people’s attention:
“Look at what happened in the last two years since Senator Obama visited and declared the war lost,” Senator McCain has told the Associated Press. “He really has no experience or knowledge or judgment about the issue of Iraq and he has wanted to surrender for a long time.”
“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.”
That’s gotta sting Sen. Obama. the American people are going to wonder how he can put together a policy without having seen things firsthand. President Bush has visited Iraq several times and has met with the Iraqi government outside the country. Yet here’s Sen. Obama trying to sound authoritative without firsthand information? How can Sen. Obama have any credibility without visiting Iraq?
Sen. Obama trying to set Iraq policy isn’t that dissimilar to Sen. Amy Klobuchar voting against funding Iraq and Afghanistan, then issuing this statement:
“America needs a change of course in Iraq,” Klobuchar said. The measure “continued an open-ended commitment with no clear transition to Iraqi authority,” she said. “My priority is to transition to Iraq authority by beginning to bring our troops home in a responsible way.”
As I noted in that post, Sen. Klobuchar’s statement was almost identical to what she said during her campaign.
It’s like time stood still for Democrats as far as Iraq is concerned.
This comment is sure to draw a sharp rebuttal:
“I would also seize that opportunity to educate Senator Obama along the way,” he said.
You can’t be more plain than that. Sen. McCain’s essentially said that Sen. Obama doesn’t know anything about conditions in Iraq. I don’t disagree that Sen. Obama needs to be educated on Iraq.
Technorati Tags: Iraq War, John McCain, Obama, Amy Klobuchar, Election 2008
Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
May 27th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Indeed. If Obama were to visit Iraq, he would quickly find out that people can “walk freely” in the streets of Baghdad as long as you’re strapped with a bulletproof vest and have 100 American soldiers, with three Blackhawk helicopters, and two Apache gunships overhead. It used to be that you needed 200 soldiers and 5 and a half Blackhawk helicopters, but thank god for the surge.
May 29th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Obama if he visits`will find that the U.S. casualty rate this month is lowest yet…that can’t be right can it! McCain is a a win win position over this issue.
May 29th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Yay, less Americans are dying! I can’t wait for the day when they all stop dying because that will be the day America has defeated Iraq. According to McCain, this will be in 2013.