Obama In Israel, McCain Stuck On Iraq

23 July 2008 |permalink | email article

THE crucial part of Obama’s overseas tour takes place today “with profound security issues” in packed meetings with both Israeli and Palestinian leaders.

He’ll also visit Yad Vashem, the Israeli memorial to victims of the Holocaust, with a possible stop at the Western Wall, a site where McCain stopped when in Jerusalem in the spring.

Like a jilted warrior McCain continues to chafe at the glowing coverage Obama is receiving. Yesterday his camp released a video mocking the press. The video contains several clips of reporters fawning over Obama on air.

ABC News’ Rick Klein noted that the criticism “is particularly striking,” given that McCain “has long enjoyed a cozy relationship with journalists.”

As Obama was speaking to reporters in Amman, Jordan yesterday McCain lost it in Rochester, New Hampshire with an insulting quote comparing Obama’s judgment with his own which suggests the wheels are coming off the Straight Talk Express:

“I had the courage and judgment to say that I would rather lose a political campaign than lose a war. It seems to me that Sen. Obama would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign.”

Summer Read

“There is no record that Bush ever objected to the methods employed by the C.I.A. in its black sites or insisted on any outside review of the C.I.A.’s claims that their approach was working.” – Jane Mayer, a staff writer for The New Yorker, who’s must-read book, “The Dark Side,” is a chilling new history of abuse in the war on terror, the battle against Islamic radicalism and whether the president should have limitless power to wage it.

“It’s a cage match between the Constitution and a cabal of ideological extremists, and the Constitution goes down,” wrote the New York Times.

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