{"id":1772,"date":"2008-05-30T15:44:52","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T19:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2008-06-04T15:43:06","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T19:43:06","slug":"obama-sends-in-the-clowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1772","title":{"rendered":"Obama sends in the clowns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since Barack Obama has no foreign policy experience, or any other kind of experience worth note, his campaign has decided that they’ll rely on their supporters as surrogates to attack McCain. Today, John Kerry took on McCain’s Iraq policy, according to the WSJ’s Washington Wire<\/a>;<\/p>\n

\u201cJohn McCain is out of step with history and facts,\u201d Kerry said today, calling the Iraq War a mistake. \u201cJohn McCain defends that mistake, Barack Obama understood from the beginning that it was a mistake,\u201d he said, \u201cBy any measure this is a failed foreign policy that not only is John McCain defending, but promising to continue for four more years.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kerry is admitting that Obama knows more than Kerry, who voted for the war himself (before he voted against it)? It’s not a failed foreign policy, unless you want to talk about the failure of Democrats to turn it into a failed policy. Kerry is the last person we want telling us who is out of step with history and facts. The same guy who claims he was in Cambodia for Christmas, 1968 while Richard Nixon was President.<\/p>\n

Kerry continued;<\/p>\n

The Massachusetts senator also knocked McCain\u2019s quasi-serious offer to go to Iraq with Obama, who has not been there since 2006. Kerry said he would recommend Obama make the trip, but on his own terms. Kerry said McCain\u2019s offer rang hollow and would result only in a \u201cmedia circus\u201d and considered it a \u201cpolitical stunt.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s a political stunt to highlight the fact that Obama hasn’t been in Iraq to assess the situation for himself since the war has turned around? I’d say it’s a political stunt to avoid making a personal assessment, lest those pesky facts get in the way of pounding away at outdated campaign rhetoric.<\/p>\n

Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle joined the McCain-bashing;<\/p>\n

Doyle also criticized McCain for featuring Gen. David Petraeus and Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen in an email fund-raising solicitation. As ABC reported, Mullen recently cautioned military employees to remain \u201capolitical\u201d this campaign season.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is the kind of politicization of the military that we have worked so hard not to happen here,\u201d Doyle said. \u201cThey are not to be used in political fodder in one way or another.\u201d Obama\u2019s campaign Web site also features images of troops, a factor the McCain campaign references.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Funny, Obama can put images of the troops on his website, but John McCain can’t? Why? Is it racist?<\/p>\n

When is John Kerry going to tell us that the troops are too stupid to know anything about politics to take part in a Republican campaign?<\/p>\n

I just think it’s damn awful funny that Democrats don’t understand that Kerry is damaged goods. He’s blithering idiot yet they still trot him out as some sort of expert. But, then again, he’s the best they’ve got isn’t he?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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