Obama visits the troops in Afghanistan. Here’s raw video. Nothing happens (he eats) but one soldier endorses him — on Department of Defense video.
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In a New Mexico town hall, McCain reads (without Telepromter and with more verve than usual) a speech pointing once more to his fundamental disagreements with Obama on military strategy.
Sound bite: “Flip-floppers all over the world are enraged.”
Sound bite: “Today we know he was wrong. The surge has succeeded… Our enemies are on the run.”
Sound bite on Afghanistan: “The status quo is not acceptable.”
Sound bite: “It is precisely the success of the surge in Iraq that shows us how to succeed in Afghanistan.”
Sound bite: “I know how to win wars.”
Sound bite: “You can have complete confidence that I will get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice.”
And here, to compare and contrast, is Obama’s half-hour speech on his plan for Iraq:
Josh Marshall launches into Mitt Romney for attacking Barack Obama for saying that we need more troops in Afghanistan because missile attacks on terrorists are killing too many civilians.
Sound bite: “Mitt Romney is probably the biggest phony in the 2008 presidential race… It’s also turned out that he’s remarkably ignorant of American foreign policy.”
