“Earmarks, my friends, earmarks.”
To be fair to McCain, I think his main message was going to be that he was right about the Surge, and Obambi was wrong.
The only problem with this is that he was so right about the Surge that it ceased to be a campaign issue.
“The only problem with this is that he was so right about the Surge that it ceased to be a campaign issue.”
And the economy knocked the war off the top of the issue pile when really weakened the impact that the surge working had on voters.