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July 18, 2008 3:30 PM

McCain Ad Blasts Obama On Iraq, Afghanistan

Posted by Vaughn Ververs
As Obama prepares for his long-awaited trip overseas, the McCain campaign is out with a new ad criticizing Obama on Iraq and Afghanistan and accusing the Democrat of changing his positions for political expediency. In the ad, an announcer intones: “Barack Obama never held a single Senate hearing on Afghanistan. He hasn't been to Iraq in years. He voted against funding our troops. Positions that helped him win his nomination. Now Obama is changing, to help himself become president. John McCain has always supported our troops. And the surge that's working. McCain: Country first.”

According to the campaign, the ad will be part of the campaign's current buy on national cable and in the battleground states of Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania Virginia and Wisconsin. Watch it below:

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by pakaal July 21, 2008 5:35 PM EDT
This is the ad the Republicans agreed to run? Are they on crack?

"Barack Obama never held a single Senate hearing on Afghanistan."

Wrong, Obama sits on the Senate Foreign Relations committee and they held a hearing last year. So, strike one.

http://www.senate.gov/~foreign/hearings/2007/hrg070308a.html

"He hasn''t been to Iraq in years."

Umm, actually, Senator Obama''s there right now, strike two.

"He voted against funding our troops."

Oh, now he''s just going senile. Sydney, you MISSED that vote. HR 2642 was written into law at the end of last month. Apparently you were too busy campaigning to support the troops.

http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/16047.html

Strike three, yer out!
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by pakaal July 21, 2008 5:22 PM EDT
Before Senator McCain says a single word about Senator Obama, he should first explain his woeful ignorance on the subject. Hey Sydney, Iraq and Pakistan DON''T share a border!

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=3105288&page=1

First he mentions Czechoslovakia last week (a country that hasn''t existed for a decade), now he''s talking about a fictional world where Iraq and Afghanistan are next to each other on the map?! And there are people out there that think McCain is in any way qualified to become president!? He doesn''t even know the location (or existence) of the countries he''s talking about!
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by mattcat25 July 21, 2008 1:48 PM EDT
If the Bush Administration would%u2019ve been successful (like 7 years ago) at competently alleviating Al-Quaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan there wouldn%u2019t be any debate today.

McCain is more of the SAME!
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by alicerea1 July 21, 2008 11:11 AM EDT
Thank God McCain has the courage to stand up for Americans. Just one of many issues relating to Obama is enough for me and my community.

Louis Farrakhan, anti semitic, radical, Nation of Islam leader supports Obama. He held a rally with 20,000 islam members in Chicago.
Obama''s father was a non practicing Muslim. How do the Muslim nations view Obama. Why shouldn''t that be a proper question to ask Obama?
Watch his followers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7QUftErt_M

It''s scary and the media should be talking about Obama''s relationships with radical leaders and anti American supporters as much as they should be reporting about a nominee that was being supported by the KKK.

What''s wrong with the media. What are they afraid of?
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by mh4cbs1 July 21, 2008 1:21 AM EDT
Aren''t you just SICK and TIRED of the Same OLD McCain Bush Cheney Rove attack smear slander politics ??

Lets elect Obama, put Cheney and Buch in JAIL for their War Crimes lying us into a Needless War of death and destruction, and end this endless NeoCon Nightmare
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by actornaught July 21, 2008 12:33 AM EDT
The only thing John is qualified for, that he remembers, is how to advise the US military how to deal with being tortured. We''ll need it more now that he''s for us doing it, after he was against it...
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by lordmi July 20, 2008 8:11 PM EDT
well, McBush. few days is enough to find - You were wrong .
Again.
You are out of date.
out of time.
out of touch.
out of sense.
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by redtornado10 July 20, 2008 6:02 PM EDT
The Republican war-machine is pulling out the same tactic it did when we went to war against Iraq and John McCain is endorsing this misnomer . We''re back on the same ole rhetoric of if "You are against the war (or financing it) then you are against the troops". I didn''t fall for it then, and I;m not now. America, needs to see this as the propaganda it is. I say it is the republican party that has screwed the troops, not people like Obama. Obama wants the troops to get the education and health care they deserve and so do I. This war has been one big lie and it is time to stop and look at what we need to do as a nation to fix the mess we made and what the troops really need. And thats ways to put their blown off limbs back together and a good paying job when they get home.
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by ioweign July 20, 2008 4:15 PM EDT
Good Lord, another McCain Flip-Flop

Complains about Obama not going to Iraq.

Complains about Obama going to Iraq.

What does this McCain the "Straight Shooter" want ?
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by indyvet66 July 20, 2008 12:52 PM EDT
John McCain and his NeoCon buddies keep trying to say that Senator Obama doesn%u2019t have the foreign policy chops of a John McCain.

McCain likes to say that he knows how to win wars. What? McCain knows how to start wars!

McCain%u2019s Iraq war has been a dangerous and wasteful distraction from the real right focus of the war on terror, Afghanistan. Obama has strongly recommending sending more soldiers to Afghanistan for a long time. McCain has long opposed sending in those additional troops because they have been tied down in Iraq. Now, McCain has completely moved to Obama%u2019s position on Afghanistan and wants to send in even more soldiers. Better late than never John McCain.

McCain has long been critical of Obama intention to negotiate with Iran. Now the Bush administration has finally and appropriately started the negotiation process with Iran''s top nuclear negotiator.

Senator Obama does not have McCain%u2019s 20 years of experience, but he is much wiser and exceptionally well informed.

Obama has the ability and judgment to lead this nation to a more promising future.

In contrast, McCain lacks that judgment and promises more of the same stupid foreign policy mistakes of the disastrous Bush Administration.

Really now, we can%u2019t afford to have any more of McCain%u2019s kind of %u201Cexperience%u201D.
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by zerato-2009 July 20, 2008 12:45 PM EDT
So much for a respectful campaign on the issues as mccain promised. another flip flop
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by indyvet66 July 20, 2008 12:42 PM EDT
John McCain is a joke.

At least his response to Prime Minister Maliki support of Obama''s troop withdrawal plan is hillarious.

Buddy, all you have left in your bag of tricks is more name-calling and misrepresentation.

The fact is that Iraqi%u2019s want their country back and they want the U.S. out. P.M. Maliki says that the withdrawal of U.S. troops (as the Iraqis continue to handle their own affairs) will be a victory for America.

Most Americans agree; except for McCain and his neocon followers.

Even Bush is starting to warm to the idea of a timetable for withdrawal that Obama has been advocating for years.

The truth is that you want more war. Maybe you are yearning for the %u201Crapture.%u201D

The truth is that McCain lacks that judgment and promises more of the same stupid foreign policy mistakes of the disastrous Bush Adminstration.

Really now, we can%u2019t afford to have any more of McCain%u2019s kind of %u201Cexperience%u201D.

You should ask yourself, %u201CAre you better off now than you were 8 years ago?%u201D If not, then vote Obama in 08.

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by lordmi July 20, 2008 6:52 AM EDT
where is a proof, that Mcbush know, how to win the war, when he did not take part actually in any?

Knowledge from prison?
Give me a break.
I do usknowledge courage ( same as of many other people) , but WHERE is a proof - he can command(when do not know even names, countriesm, facts)????
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by lordmi July 20, 2008 6:48 AM EDT
mcBush better hang up the world Map in front of his desk to lear ( if he still can do it) the country''s locations and names - at least that.
As poor beer-owner could not use internet - maybe some one from his staff will make some lectures for him...
about World politics.

Still want elect him?

what a shame!
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by starleo146 July 19, 2008 11:28 PM EDT
I got a job for Mc Bush apply for a generals job in the middle east front, and run the wars, and leave the rest, the senate and above all the presidency.
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by starleo146 July 19, 2008 11:04 PM EDT
I want all you mcbushnuts to pay attention to Mc Bush''s talks this week. I bet it will be Iraq Afghanistan, and not one thing about what the h@ell he would do for THIS country, he pounds the war into us in hopes we will get scared, and vote for him, never will I never, another Bush that is all we need.
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by starleo146 July 19, 2008 10:59 PM EDT
At least Bush has the intestinal fortatude to force a crual and monsterious dictator from rule and not be dismayed by liberal war demonstators to stop fighting the right fight.

It''''''''''''''''s not so much about bringing democracy to iraq as it is stopping radical muslim terrorists from exterminating our society.
Posted by bswalker12


Hellooooooo---lets get to the beginning of Iraq---Bin laden was never there--get it? Sadam was just one of the excuses Bush made to invade Iraq---Sadam had NOTHING to do with 911--remember 911?

Sadam/911---no connection.
Bush USED 3000 murdered Americans as an excuse/lie to get the oil in Iraq.

Man some people are just plain happy being stuck on stupid!

Posted by liberalme at 06:29 PM : Jul 18, 200

GREAT POST Liberalme, to think these idiots are going to vote
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by starleo146 July 19, 2008 10:47 PM EDT
This ad is perhaps the funniest of the bunch. Go look at McCain''''s record on Veteran support. Go ahead, I''''ll wait. Also, go look at the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs. Fun stuff, huh?

Did you know that Obama is ranked third on the list of most votes missed?

Guess who got first?

McCain is no hero. McCain is no leader. McCain hates you all.

does he talk about anything but the war get over yourself mcbush
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by rickstas July 19, 2008 8:50 PM EDT
Only an idiot would be fooled by this ad. The sad fact is, however, there are millions of idiots in the United States.
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by chplraj July 19, 2008 7:33 PM EDT
We have one candidate Pro Muslim and another who understands the Islamic religion. FACTS AND REAL NEWS: The following countries VOTED AGAINST USA more than 65% of the time in least percentage to greatest opposition: KUWAIT, QATAR, MOROCCO,UAE,JORDAN,TUNISIA,SAUDI ARABIA,YEMEN, ALGERIA, OMAN, SUDAN, PAKISTAN, LIBYA, EGYPT, LEBANON, INDIA, SYRIA, MAURITANIA, EGYPT. Foreign aid given to following countries that have voted against us a majority of time in the U.N. Jordan receives $192,814,000 annually, Pakistan receives $6,721,000, India receives $143,699,000.....Does the Obamaniacs and hollypollywood want to continue to lay a guilt trip on all of us who work in third world countries or deploy to third world countries? NOW THIS IS NEWS.....Obama/PRO-MUSLIM and funded by Arab Americans/Palestinian descent who feel disenfranchised and going to avenge parents and granparents from many of the above countries; heir targets: USA AND ISRAEL. WAKE UP...
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