McCain criticizes "dishonest" Obama on national security

[BlueStater]

McCain hammers "dishonest" Obama on national security

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Republican John McCain Thursday portrayed his possible Democratic presidential election rival Barack Obama as a national security neophyte who was dishonestly misrepresenting him on Iraq.

Intensifying his assault, McCain questioned Obama's plan to leave a "strike force" of US troops in the Middle East after an eventual withdrawal from Iraq, and accused him of being "disingenuous" about his own Iraq stance.

Obama, who has pledged to end the war in Iraq in 2009, if he is elected, said this week that he would leave enough troops in the country to defend the US embassy, along with a strike force in the region to hobble Al-Qaeda.

"I think somebody ought to ask what in the world he's talking about, especially since he has no experience or background at all in national security affairs," McCain said in an MSNBC interview.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080403/ts_alt_afp/usvotemccainobama

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He also refers to Howard Dean as "a pig". Cute.

[BlueStater]

1. Damn! Could someone please move this to Late Breaking News? n/t

[DJ13]

2. Its going to be great fun watching Obama and his surrogettes...

......provoking McCains well known temper this Fall.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

3. How dare Obama repeat what McCain said?

Doesn't he know McCain was drunk and/or senile at the time?

[C_U_L8R]

4. I want to see them on a debate stage side by side

McCain is going to look like a lumpy pile of stinky stagnant goo

[Larkspur]

5. "He also refers to Howard Dean as 'a pig'. "

Howard Dean knows that he struck McCain's nerve if McCain singled him out like this and Howard would wear it as a badge of courage.

In Celtic society the wild boar was a respected and revered animal. The boar was thought to be courageous and persistant. It would relentlessly attack creatures much larger than itself, includng men on horseback, if it felt attacked or its territory breached, and it would chase its quarry a long distance before letting it go. Howard is like that boar and McCain is a hapless fool who crossed the boar's path.

[Ddan]

6. Yeah, ok

He's an evil old man trying to distort the facts. Any mentally stable person can see that Barack is right.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

7. McCain doesn't come over as intelligent