Republican presidential candidate John McCain said a while back that U.S. troops should have a presence in Iraq until they finish their mission — even if it takes up to ” a hundred years or a thousand years or 10,000 years.”
The liberal online activist group MoveOn.org is now taking that figurative statement and applying it literally to attack McCain. “A hundred years in Iraq — and you thought no one could be worse than George Bush,” MoveOn says in a new advertisement.
President Bush today tackled an array of subjects in a press conference with reporters.
The topics included: the state of the U.S. economy, including high energy and food prices; the progress of military operations in Afghanistan; the plans for extra spending on the war in Iraq; presidential relations with Congress; the decision by former President Jimmy Carter to meet with leaders of the terrorist group Hamas; and Bush’s expectations of how the next president will approach the war on terror.
Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., today endorsed fellow Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois for the Democratic presidential nomination. Casey made the announcment in a speech in Pittsburgh. The state’s primary is weeks away.
“This campaign is a chance for America to chart a new course, to go down a different path” that is about “healing” and “a new kind of politics,” Casey said, adding that Obama is the only candidate who can lead the nation down that path.
With hundreds of delegates at stake in Super Tuesday voting tomorrow, John McCain and Mitt Romney are continuing their battle for the hearts of conservative voters over the airwaves.
McCain has been the one taking the most heat from establishment conservative commentators, but he is trying to score points by using Romney’s own words against him. In an ad titled “Trust,” McCain’s team highlights Romney emphasizing his independence, noting his vote in a Democratic primary and distancing himself from the time of Republican presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
Romney’s campaign, meanwhile, has an ad dubbed “Very Close” that compares McCain’s views on hot-button issues like immigration with those of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. Another Romney ad says McCain “Falls Short” in key policy areas.
This video, inspired by the campaign theme that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama reiterated a week ago today during his victory speech in South Carolina, is traveling rapidly around the Internet.
I saw it via Ann Althouse, who called the video “some amazing, low-key brilliance. It’s lovely in so many ways, one of which is that it makes Barack Obama seem to be a man whose mere speech is singing.”
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