redstate.com - 8/11/2008
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It Took A Day For The Obama To Nuance His Position To Sound Like
McCain's
You remember Hillary's infamous 3:00 a.m. ad. Russia's invasion
of Georgia presented Senators McCain and Obama with a true 3:00
a.m. moment.
Their responses to the crisis suggest dramatic differences in
how each candidate would lead America during an international
crisis.
McCain got it right from the start. In ...
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Obama Blows It, In More Ways Than one
Ankle Biting Pundits —
A number of conservative bloggers have derided Sen. Barack Obama’s lame, even inept, initial response to Russia’s commencement of military hostilities against Georgia. After condemning the apparently spontaneous “outbreak of violence” and calling on “both sides” to stand down, Obama amended his reaction to mimic the moral clarity of Sen. McCain’s response.
What fewer bloggers have noted however, and what no one save for the McCain campaign (of which I am a part) has condemned, is ...
Obama And McCain On Georgia
Obsidian Wings —
... up by a lot of right-wing blogs. As far as I can tell, there are two basic versions of it.
First, Obama has changed his position, while McCain got it right at the outset:
"Now that he's had time to crib from McCain's paper, Obama has released a new statement that sounds a little more like someone who knows what the hell they are talking about and not some inexperienced 'citizen of the world'."
(See also here, here, here, etc.)
It's worth remembering when, exactly, Obama's and McCain's ...
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Amy Chozick reports on the presidential race.
John McCain said Monday that Moscow appears determined to take down the Georgia government.
“Americans wishing to spend August vacationing with their families or watching the Olympics may ...
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