Wexler: McCain Attack On Obama's Holocaust Museum Visit "Shameful"

[ErinBerin84]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/23/wexler-mccain-...


Wexler: McCain Attack On Obama's Holocaust Museum Visit "Shameful"


Florida Democrat Robert Wexler isn't pleased with the McCain campaign's decision to attack remarks made by Barack Obama during his visit today to Israel's Holocaust Museum Yad Vashem.

In a statement to the Huffington Post, Wexler called it "shameful" and "unconscionable" that the McCain campaign is "using Senator Obama's somber visit to Israel's Holocaust Museum Yad Vashem as a backdrop to score cheap political points instead of focusing on the security needs of the nation."

Wexler, who was one of Obama's most high-profile Jewish surrogates during the primary season, added that Obama's trip "is a time to strengthen America's historic relationship with our ally Israel and to renew our nation's commitment to Israel's right to self defense and security."

Earlier Wednesday, McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds contrasted Obama's invocation of the familiar cry "never again" with a past statement in which the Illinois Democrat suggested that United States could not deploy troops whenever and wherever genocide is taking place.

Wexler said the McCain spokesman's attack "smacks of desperation and I urge Senator McCain to denounce this unconscionable statement and join Senator Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Al-Maliki in supporting a safe and secure redeployment of American troops from Iraq."

[eleny]

1. McCain's campaign doesn't know when to quit shooting itself in the foot

[SuperTrouper]

3. Desperate times calls for desperate measures

and McSchizo is completely out of control and it is only July so by October he will be in the Insane Asylum like "Girl, Interrupted" (Coot, Interrupted)

[hisownpetard]

4. At this point, McCain has shot himself in the foot so many times, he must be a centipede!

[Alter Ego]

2. Wexler's a firebrand.

I remember watching him at the RBC committee meeting and thinking he was amazing.

[Barack_America]

5. "Smacks of desperation"

This is becoming the unofficial motto of the McCain campaign.

Joe Klein said it yesterday regarding McCain's BS "Obama would rather lose a war than an election" stunt. Now Wexler says it again today.

I have to say, I concur.

ETA: link to Klein's piece.
http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/07/mccain_meltd...

[TexasObserver]

6. McCain's lifelong nastiness of personality is beginning to show through.

This kind of shady, uncouth, uncivil, unwarranted behavior is the hallmark of McCain's life.

I think it hurts him. The only people that respond positively to that kind of attack are his most hardcore supporters. No undecided voter is going to see this obvious heckling of Obama as a reason to support McCain or reject Obama.

[monmouth]

7. I was so impressed with Obama's appearance there and his words

were meaningful and beautiful. My Jewish neighbors were very impressed, and I think they're repubs....

[Cha]

8. mccain is fast becoming the

loose cannon that sinks ships like his own.

[baldguy]

9. Pathetic desperation can be ugly.

[WhiteTara]

10. not a centipede...just holey