Iraq

Yahoo! Buzz: The Elephant's No Longer in the Room

Posted by okami from Buzz.yahoo

Jeez, who's next, Cindy McCain? What with ex-Bush press secretary Scott McClellan's endorsment of Obama, the initial trickle of high-profile Republicans coming out for the Democratic candidate has become something of a steady stream. Rats deserting a sinking ship or principled patriots putting country before party? Here's a guide to other recent defections.

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RESISTANCE AS IF IT REALLY MATTERED: Now it's our turn

Posted by mikeferner from OpEdNews

This man, responsible for the welfare of 2,000 people in his village, looked at me and graciously said what I'd heard so often from Iraqis, "I know there is a difference between the American people and your government." Then as his voice quaked and his eyes welled up he added, "But you say you live in a democracy. How can this be happening to us?"

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Former Bush press secretary backs Obama

Posted by okami from Yahoo News!

Colin Powell was the first former official of the Bush Administration to endorse Barack Obama in the upcoming election.

Now Scott McClellan stands with him.

What are they trying to tell us?

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The Choice: Comment: The New Yorker

Posted by Jenzaka from New Yorker

Never in living memory has an election been more critical than the one fast approaching-that's the quadrennial cliché, as expected as the balloons and the bombast. And yet when has it ever felt so urgently true? When have so many Americans had so clear a sense that a Presidency has-at the levels of competence, vision, and integrity-undermined the country and its ideals?

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Islamic Terrorists Back McCain

Posted by theangryindian from Angryindian.blogspot

"Al-Qaeda will have to support McCain in the coming election," said a commentary posted Monday on the extremist Web site al-Hesbah, which is closely linked to the terrorist group. It said the Arizona Republican would continue the "failing march of his predecessor," President Bush.

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Politico repeated Cindy McCain's comment about troop-funding vote without noting her husband's own vote

Posted by jdbe from Media Matters

In an October 20 Politico article, staff writer Amie Parnes reported that Cindy McCain "has used her son's service in Iraq to accuse [Sen.] Barack Obama of endangering his life and, by extension, the country's security," and quoted her assertion at an October 17 rally for her husband, Sen. John McCain: "The day that Sen. Obama cast a vote not to fund my son when he was serving sent a cold chill through my body." But the article did not note that McCain himself voted against legislation to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. As Media Matters for America previously noted, Parnes' colleague Jonathan Martin and others reported similar comments by Cindy McCain on October 8 without mentioning John McCain's own vote.

McCain -- along with all but two of his fellow Republican senators -- voted against a March 2007 bill that would have funded the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and would have provided more than $1 billion in additional funds to the Department of Veterans Affairs. On the October 8 edition of NBC's Nightly News, chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell played a clip of Cindy McCain's assertion at a previous rally that Obama's "vote to not fund my son while he was serving sent a cold chill through my body." But, in contrast to Parnes, Mitchell noted: "In fact, Obama voted against money for the troops once, in May 2007 -- he said because the bill didn't include a timetable for withdrawal. But John McCain also voted against a troop-funding bill two months earlier for the opposite reason: because that bill called for a troop withdrawal."

From the October 20 Politico article:

In speeches across the country, Cindy McCain has used her son's service in Iraq to accuse Barack Obama of endangering his life and, by extension, the country's security.

"The day that Sen. Obama cast a vote not to fund my son when he was serving sent a cold chill through my body," McCain, 54, told a rally in Pennsylvania last week, standing beside her husband of 28 years and his vice presidential running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. "I would suggest Senator Obama change shoes with me for just one day. I suggest he take a day and watch our men and women deploying."

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Bush Administration Contacts Obama, McCain, Biden On Iraq Troop Deal — But Snubs Palin

Posted by Damianmann from Think Progress

In today's White House press briefing, spokesman Dana Perino explained that the adminstration contacted the candidates "to keep them equitably informed." "One of them is going to win the election, and they will be taking over and having to deal with these issues," Perino explained. But nobody called Gov. Sarah Palin.

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