yesterday, Obama = Bush. Today, Obama = Rumsfeld (!). McCain camp showing their desperation.

[ErinBerin84]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/17/mccain-adviser-obama-woul_n_113273.html

McCain Adviser: Obama Would Rather Lose War Than Election


In an early morning memo, John McCain's senior foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann claims Barack Obama's position on Iraq is designed only to keep his "left-wing base":

--"When it wasn't popular, John McCain said he would rather win a war that we were losing than win an election. Politics came second; country came first.
Barack Obama has determined that he would rather lose a war that we are winning than lose an election by alienating his base. This is the reason Obama did not have to wait until his trip to declare his strategy. Iraq is fundamentally a political decision for Barack Obama, not a national security decision.

He has calculated that to maintain his left-wing base, he cannot adopt a strategy that is based upon conditions on the ground. For the best political position, Barack Obama has decided that his only politically acceptable position is a timetable out of touch with what is really happening in Iraq."

Yesterday, Scheunemann compared Obama to Bush in his inflexibility. Today, it's Donald Rumsfeld:

"The American people deserve a commander-in-chief who puts their country first ahead of party, politics and self-interest. Time after time, that is what John McCain has done and what Barack Obama has failed to do. We cannot afford to replace a Rumsfeld strategy that refused for too long to acknowledge failure in Iraq with an Obama strategy that refuses to acknowledge success in Iraq."


Scheunemann should know: as part of his work helping the U.S. get into the war in Iraq, he was briefly Rumsfeld's 'consultant' on Iraq at the Pentagon.

[barack the house]

1. McCain c'mon then denounce and renounce Bush this I gotta see. =)

[barack the house]

3. Then denounce Rumsfeld. I know your reading this you just learned to use a PC. Just kidding.

[Ganja Ninja]

2. "Politics came second; country came first."

What a load of horseshit! When it comes to Iraq it's been profit first and the Republican Party second. Everything else has been a very distant third including the troops and the hunt for bin Laden.

[seasat]

4. My GAWD, they're throwing every pile of poo they can find against the wall

The facts are that Obama's policy has been the same for years. The facts are that the American people want us out of Iraq. The facts are that the rest of the industrialized world wants us out of Iraq. The facts are that Iraq's neighboring countries want us out of Iraq. The most important fact is that the Iraqis want us out of Iraq. The fact is that Repubs go against the wisdom of the American people, the rest of the world, and the Iraqis because politically a withdrawal from Iraq would show that they were wrong and they'd rather sacrifice our soldiers and the Iraqi people because they refuse to admit to a mistake.

[AllentownJake]

5. It really isn't good for him to be this desperate

this early. This is going to be flat out race baiting in October. Its the only place he'll be able to go.