Published 8/19/2008
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ORLANDO — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama criticized Republican rival John McCain Tuesday for questioning his patriotism and judgment on national security matters.
Obama told the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Orlando, Florida, that McCain was wrong to support the invasion of Iraq.
“He [McCain] said that I have changed my position on Iraq when I have not,” Obama said before a crowd of about 3,000 veterans. “He said that I am for a path of ‘retreat and failure.’ And he declared, ‘Behind all of these claims and positions by Senator Obama lies the ambition to be president’ - suggesting, as he has so many times, that I put personal ambition before my country.”
“That is John McCain’s prerogative,” Obama continued. “He can run that kind of campaign…But I believe the American people are better than that. I believe that this defining moment demands something more of us,” he said.
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