The RNC hits Obama hard on his shifting Iraq position

Craig Strachan

Hmmm...the McCain people really do seem to think they can make Iraq
a plus for their candidate.

I think they're nuts

Nick Kaplan

That’s a really great clip and I hope the McCain camp broadcasts it
both widely and often. It highlights just how contemptible Obama is,
how he will say anything to get his hands on power and destroy the
last country in the west that still understands and values the concept
of liberty and small government.
Obama claims to stand for change, a break from the past, and new kind
of politics. But anyone with even a remote knowledge of the history of
left-wing naivety and arrogance knows that the exact same nonsense
that Obama harps on about was tried tested and (predictably) found to
be a disastrous failure throughout the 1960’s and 70’s.
Obama also attempts to hide the fact that he is offering 40 year old,
left-wing, and incredibly stupid proposals by claiming that he is a
centrist candidate who will heal divisions. But his actions speak
louder than his words. His close association with Bill Ayers and
Jeremiah Wright along with his voting record in the Senate show he is
neither a centrist nor interested in healing division and his spin to
the contrary proves he doesn’t actually believe in change he just
recognises it’s a popular concept.
Obama is a dangerous socialist who wants to implement the kind of
policies that have destroyed Europe since the war into the one nation
that still understands the importance of individual independence
(rather than the European/leftist desire for public dependence on an
overgrown state). Hopefully campaigns like this will wake Americans up
before it’s too late...

THX1138

The DNC strike back.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-eejYoz3Nl0&eurl=

THX1138

Whatever the GOP throw at him it makes no difference & he just gets stronger

This from the highly recommended non partisan Polling blog

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/

"Whether or not you agree with the characterization of Barack Obama as a rootin' tootin', no good flip-flopper, bear the following in mind: all else being equal, a politician can expect to be punished if he changes his positions. Therefore, a politician will only change positions if the benefits outweigh the consequences.

The salient fact here is not necessarily that Obama is perceived as more moderate than he once was; that's pretty much what you'd expect. Rather, it's that he's somehow managed to make McCain seem more conservative. Presently, 28 percent of voters describe McCain as Very Conservative, whereas only 19 percent did a month ago. It may be the case that the McCain campaign's inability to define their candidate has left him relatively unable to carve out his own ground; voters are defining him solely in relation to Barack Obama"

I agree with Craig, McCain is nuts to keep banging on about Iraq, Americans want out not the 100 years over there that McCain is promising them

McCain looses twice on Iraq any failure of the surge he gets the blame as he was it's biggest supporter & forever linked to it & any success just reminds the US electorate that they will have to be over there forever to hold the ring.

Also McCain has plenty of form on shifting his position towards US intervention abroad.

My guess is that RNC will quietly drop Iraq but domestic issues will give them no comfort, McCain is perceived to be weak on the home front & with the economy ragged & the public blaming the GOP for this, it's going to be a long hard slog for McCain to make any in roads into Obamas increasingly inevitable march to the Whitehouse.

Ann

Craig thinks they are nuts. I take it you are an American voter, right? ALL the Americans I know support McCain, especially on Iraq, and detest the charlatan Obama. If you think they are all nuts, you must know America better than the Americans. Hmm ...