As far as aggressive militaristic foreign policy is concerned McCain is bang on:
Sounding presidential, Senator Barack Obama said Wednesday he would order a surge of U.S. troops – perhaps 15,000 or more – to Afghanistan as soon as he reached the White House.
So Obama wants his own surge. This is the change that you can look forward to, a surge in Afghanistan and maybe Pakistan rather than Iraq.
Obama also notes:
“We can't afford another president who ignores the fundamentals of our economy while running up record deficits to fight a war without end in Iraq,” Mr. Obama said Wednesday.
But apparently mounting a surge in Afghanistan and expanding the military doesn't count as being a president who does this. Duh!
Obama also even likes to spout lines that could come straight from Bush:
“The terrorists who attacked us on 9/11 are still at large and plotting,” he said, echoing Mr. Bush's oft-repeated refrain
Cheers, k hanly
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--- On Fri, 10/24/08, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> "On the stump and in interviews, McCain took
> Bush-bashing to a new
> level by charging that an Obama presidency would be a
> replay of the
> last eight years of Republican rule," Richard Sisk
> reports in the New
> York Daily News.
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