Posted on 08/11/2008 8:12:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
McCain said the Georgia conflict shows the need for a president with strong foreign policy skills, while likely Democratic opponent U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has little such experience.
Supporters of likely Republican U.S. presidential nominee John McCain say the conflict between Russia and Georgia is making him look better to voters.
Backers of the senator from Arizona say his stand for a tougher stance against Russia, such as his call for the country to be excluded from the Group of Eight industrialized nations, is resonating in the wake of its military campaign against Georgia, The Hill reported Monday.
McCain's campaign has sent out e-mails to reporters and political pundits noting a Sunday television appearance by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, a McCain supporter, during which he said the Georgia conflict shows the need for a president with strong foreign policy skills, while likely Democratic opponent U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has little such experience.
"Anything that shifts the focus onto the theme that 'the world is a complicated place and foreign policy experience is important' has a lot more upside for McCain than for Obama," Charlie Cook, publisher of the Cook Political Report, told The Hill.
Obama, meanwhile, issued a more even-handed statement condemning the violence and his campaign noted McCain adviser Randy Scheunemann has a history of lobbying Congress on behalf of Georgia.
there’s one too many ING’s too
Most of us are more qualified to be the President of the United States.
No bias here. Nope.
Except nobody will hear about it from his lackeys in the media.
I firmly believe that the assassination of Benazir Bhutto was what won McCain the Republican nomination. This will give McCain a boost at least temporarily.
bttt
Kick Russia out of the G-8. Let them sit at the thugs table.
Just wait until Israel starts bombing Iran in late October.
I firmly believe that the assassination of Benazir Bhutto was what won McCain the Republican nomination. This will give McCain a boost at least temporarily.
Most of our countrymen do not even know who she is. Only us freepers do.
“Just wait until Israel starts bombing Iran in late October.”
Indeed, and the U.S. military is gone so “light” in its organization that it cannot fight a high intensity “real” war.
I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.
I will not weaponize space.
I will slow our development of future combat systems.
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Commander-in-Chief. A living nightmare.
Well, McCain was already going to win; but this may make him win by a much bigger margin than before. If Putin wanted McCain to be our next president, I can’t think of anything more conductive to that end than what he’s doing now.
This might help McCain, because he seems to be tough and assured, not because he has more experience. After all, the man with the most foreign policy experience, the President of the US, seems paralyzed, mainly because he has very few options.
Oh, hope they don't find anybody on McCain's team lobbying for England or Canada. I'd say McCain's been lobbying Congress for America, how's that?
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