Obama Slaps McCain on Iraq Pre-Surge Comment

[Connie_Corleone]

The McCain campaign released the following statement in defense of Senator McCain’s comments that “we have drawn down to pre-surge levels” in Iraq:

Clearly John Kerry and Barack Obama have very little understanding of troop levels, but considering Barack Obama hasn’t been to Iraq in 873 days and has never had a one on one meeting with General Petraeus, it isn’t a surprise to anyone that he demonstrates weak leadership. What informed people understand, John McCain included, is that American troops are not even close to Surge levels. Three of the five Army ‘Surge’ brigades have been withdrawn and additional Marines that were initially deployed for the ‘Surge’ have come home as well – the remaining two brigades will be home in July. Talk about a political stunt, it’s sending out campaign surrogates to parse words about a topic Barack Obama has no experience with, and has shown zero interest in learning about.

In response Obama campaign spokesman Hari Sevugan released the following statement...

The McCain campaign still can’t explain why John McCain could be so clearly and factually wrong in stating that our troops are at ‘pre-surge’ levels. They are not, and anyone who wants to be Commander-in-Chief should know better before launching divisive political attacks. Once again, Senator McCain has shown that he is far more interested in stubbornly making the case for continuing a failed policy in Iraq than in getting the facts right.

On edit: forgot the link. http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgrahamfelsen/gGBmHf

[JimGinPA]

1. McSame Is A Pompous Fool...

Johnny Maverick gets his ass handed to him daily.

K&R

[me b zola]

2. The more McCain talks, the stupider he sounds

McCain has the temerity to lecture Obama on Iraq/foreign policy, yet he doesn't know the difference between Sunni & Shia(sp) or how many troops we have in Iraq.

I am so looking forward to an Obama/McCain debate. :)

[speedoo]

3. Nice smackdown.

I trust Obama has someone building a handy reference to all McCain's "mispokes" for use in debates and ads.

[Spazito]

4. I have to say I just love how the Obama campaign responds...

succinctly. They get right to the point with no wasted words. Impressive, imo.

[scarletwoman]

10. Yeah, I really like it too. I feel like I'm watching Mohammed Ali at his finest.

The Obama campaign seems to be pretty damn quick and deadly. This is really getting exciting!

It makes me think that if Hillary had been Obama's REPUBLICAN opponent (yes, I know, basically she was) she would have been so smacked down by now there'd be nothing left but a pile of dust.

The more I see of Obama, the more I feel like we Dems ought NOT to be afraid in the least. We've got us a real smart fighter on our ticket.

Peace,
sw

[ampad]

5. Honestly

Does McCain think his Iraq argument is going to win him many votes when this thing kicks off? The man is totally out of the loop with Iraq as this country has moved on from stay the course. I cannot wait to see these two debate this issue.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

6. Pow!

I love the way Obama punches right back--with the truth, stated plainly and clearly!

[Coexist]

7. I can't wait for the first debate between these two.

[SPURGEMAN23]

8. # of days of the Iraq war

Obama just needs to say how many days the Iraq war, supported by McCain, has been going on every time they bring up their "not been in Iraq" number. It would immediately nulify their argument.

Do it today.

Spurgeman

[Imagevision]

9. McBush has no friends on YouTube that'sfor sure

[FrenchieCat]

11. hahahahaha!