TPMCafe: Obama Rips Romney and McCain

[flpoljunkie]

Obama Rips Romney And McCain, Scorns McCain's Baghdad Stroll
By Greg Sargent

Barack Obama has just unleashed the following statement hammering John McCain and Mitt Romney for criticizing Obama's vote with the majority of Americans and against the no-timetables Iraq War funding bill:

“This country is united in our support for our troops, but we also owe them a plan to relieve them of the burden of policing someone else’'s civil war. Governor Romney and Senator McCain clearly believe the course we are on in Iraq is working, but I do not.

“And if there ever was a reflection of that it's the fact that Senator McCain required a flack jacket, ten armored Humvees, two Apache attack helicopters, and 100 soldiers with rifles by his side to stroll through a market in Baghdad just a few weeks ago.

“Governor Romney and Senator McCain are still supporting a war that has cost us thousands of lives, made us less safe in the world, and resulted in a resurgence of al-Qaeda. It is time to end this war so that we can redeploy our forces to focus on the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11 and all those who plan to do us harm.”

Note the direct mockery of McCain's Baghdad Stroll. Now, Barack, that's just not done. We just don't go there with McCain. Everything he does is born of unimpeachable integrity, so we don't take such a tone with him. D.C.'s elders will be very unhappy with your incivility and will be shaking their heads and murmuring their disapproval.

Seriously, one thing constantly debated in the liberal blogosphere is whether the Dems have figured out how to hit back effectively and hard against the GOP's endlessly predictable national security attacks. This debate, incidentally, is why we often posts statements like these, and often in full -- so you can evaluate the Dems' responses in light of that question.

http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2007/may/25/obama_rips_romney_and_mccain_mocks_mccains_baghdad_stroll

[TwilightGardener]

1. Awesome--excellent hard-hitting response by my guy--he's a fighter.

[Nimrod2005]

2. Starting to take some leadership here, way to go Senator!!! He knows Hillary looks weaker

today...After her NO vote last night.

[Cameron27]

3. Hahaha!

MSNBC just had this on. McCain tried to nail Obama on misspelling flak jacket, and they pulled up a dictionary proving Obama was right--flack jacket is an alternative spelling.

McCain is such a dumbass!

[AndyA]

5. Leave it to McCain to extract the really important thing from Barack's statement.

A misspelling. WTF?

McCain needs to just go back to Arizona and retire. He's too old, and too out of touch to be President.

[TeamJordan23]

7. Pathetic

Sad when your argument's strongest point is a misspelling. And he wasn't even right about that. I rather pick my president on judgment than military experience.

[DemDem07]

4. Priceless. Better than the knockout above.

;)

[MannyGoldstein]

6. Did Mrs. Clinton Rip them Minutes Later? n/t

[jefferson_dem]

8. LOL! Carville and Wolfson are still putting the finishing touches on "her" response.

:rofl:

[Bullet1987]

9. The headline is too flashy...it was a decent rebuttal by Obama

Clinton & Obama vs. McCain & Romney....lol TAG TEAM!!! And Obama tags Clinton...she's in the ring!!! McCain scrambles to tag Romney...DDT!!!

[Ethelk2044]

10. I Expected No Less From Him

One thing they do not realize is he will hit back and hit back hard. He is not like some Dem's trying to be nice. He is straight to the point. Can't wait to see him in action against the repugs.

:yourock:

:woohoo:

[Hard_Work]

12. Dumbass GOPers

Obama has yet to let anyone take a shot and not respond, Democrat OR Repub. Eventually the GOP will realize that they don't wanna fuck with him, but until they do, he can just keep raining blows on their heads!

[goclark]

11. Knockout Punch from GObama!

:bounce: