So McCain has been blasting Obama for a while now for pushing foreign policy before consulting with our military leaders in Iraq and before stepping foot in Afghanistan. Then he reveals an upcoming trip before it happens. A cynic could wonder if he’s trying to make good on Clinton’s prophecy.
One could even argue that Obama has a better understanding of Iraq and Afghanistan than McCain, since (as the White House revealed) Iraqi Prime Minister Al-Maliki supports Obama’s withdrawal timetable, and Obama attended more Senate committee meetings on Afghanistan than McCain did in the last two years.
Perhaps the most ridiculous criticism from McCain’s camp though, attempts to blast Bush and Obama at the same time on Iraq:
“We cannot afford to replace one administration that refused for too long to acknowledge failure in Iraq with a candidate that refuses to acknowledge success in Iraq.”
That quote came from Randy Scheunemann, McCain’s foreign policy adviser, who used that line as proof that Obama would be the one more like Bush in office. I wonder if he’s going to get the same treatment McCain’s economic adviser Phil Gramm did after calling America a “nation of whiners.” (By the way, McCain’s new economics adviser, Carly Fiorina, wasn’t so hot at HP while she was CEO there.)
Anyway, I know both of the candidates are out to screw us -
So I guess the question becomes, lesser of two evils, or snowball’s chance on a third-party candidate?