McCain: Obama 'wants to forfeit' Iraq

Newsday ^ | August 7, 2008 | Mark Silva

[fightinJAG]

"Sen. Obama says he wants peace,'' Sen. John McCain said today at a town hall-styled rally in Lima, Ohio, but the Democratic candidate for president will not acknowledge the success of the surge in Iraq.

"His policy of unconditional withdrawal, regardless of conditions on the ground, could result in renewed violance,'' said McCain, who, at the end of a long speech. distillied his campaign's argument for the White House - or more precisely, its argument against Sen. Barack Obama's election as president.

"Behind all the words, Sen Obama's agenda can be.. summarized as this,'' said McCain. "Government is too big, he wants to grow it. Taxes are too high, he wants to raise them. Congress spends too much, and he proposes more. We need more energy, and he's against producing it.

"We're finally winning in Iraq, and he wants to forfeit,'' said McCain, who has vowed that he'd rather lose a campaign than lose a war. "The bottom line, Sen Obama's words, for all their eloquence and passion, don't mean that much,'' McCain said, warning: "We don't need another politician in Washington who puts self interest and expediency ahead of problem solving.''

[avacado]

""Behind all the words, Sen Obama's agenda can be.. summarized as this,'' said McCain. "Government is too big, he wants to grow it. Taxes are too high, he wants to raise them. Congress spends too much, and he proposes more. We need more energy, and he's against producing it."

That is EXACTLY the kind of parsing the issues in simple terms that will get McCain's message across. We, unfortunately, live in a bumper sticker society and simple easy messages work. The democrats have been hugely successful with that -- Bush lied, War for Oil, Tax Cuts Only the Rich, etc. -- and we need to adopt it and torch them with their own devices.

[fightinJAG]

You are so, so, so very right.

And it’s not a bad thing, necessarily.

No matter how brilliant your thinking, if it can’t be distilled into a simple (but true and accurate) message, something is wrong. Politics cannot work without mass communication.

In fact, that’s what was wrong with Hildy’s campaign. She tried to campaign on tomes.

[lookout88]

NoObama with a hammer and sickle should work

[karnage]

I don’t think anyone knows what a hammer and sickle are any more.

[Norman Bates]

The McCain List.

John McCain in Ohio:

"Government is too big, he wants to grow it. Taxes are too high, he wants to raise them. Congress spends too much, and he proposes more. We need more energy, and he's against producing it. We're finally winning in Iraq, and he wants to forfeit."

"The bottom line, Senator Obama's words, for all their eloquence and passion, don't mean that much. We don't need another politician in Washington who puts self interest and expediency ahead of problem solving."

[lookout88]

LOL, you are probably right.

[cups]

OH SNAP!

Keep bringing it to this tool named Obama!

I’m impressed with the constant hamemring he gives to Obama

[9YearLurker]

Yep, McCain’s sounding good. If he can get such a boiled-down message across, we’ll be in good shape.

[Loyal Buckeye]

"Government is too big, he wants to grow it. Taxes are too high, he wants to raise them. Congress spends too much, and he proposes more. We need more energy, and he's against producing it. "We're finally winning in Iraq, and he wants to forfeit,''

Shades of Ronald Reagan

[TitansAFC]

Brilliant Speech!

Shades of Reagan. We need more of this from Sen. McCain!!

Go Mac!!!!

McCain/Palin 2008!!
McCain/Palin 2008!!