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Talking Points Memo | Speaking To Veterans, Obama Directly Takes On McCain's Attacks On His Patriotism

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Barack Obama is giving his speech before the Veterans of Foreign Wars right now. With some Dems questioning whether he's hitting back hard enough against John McCain's attacks, Obama went out of his way to directly confront McCain's claim that he would rather lose a war than lose an election. From the prepared remarks: But one of the things that we have to change in this country is the ...

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A response, or a warning?
Blah3 Feed — Obama addressed the VFW this morning, and there's a lot of talk about what he said in response to McCain's slams on his patriotism. Here's what Obama said: ...

MIDDAY ROUNDUP
News — ... determines at The Plank. Obama went before the same crowd that heard McCain make the attack yesterday—at the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States (VFW) convention in Florida—and wisely fired back, overcoming the Obama camp’s reluctance to play defense against McCain’s attacks, Zengerly proclaims. And Obama not only addressed McCain’s attack, but skeptics in his own party as well, Greg Sargent proposes at TPM Election Central. Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), meanwhile, fails to surprise ...

The McCain Formula
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... The clear implication is that someone who disagreed with McCain early last year could not have had a genuine reason to doubt that the surge would work and therefore could not have had a different view of the national interest. For McCain, it seems, everyone who disagreed with him was pursuing an unpatrotic selfishness - and only he was noble enough to "put country first." Good For Obama for challenging this today: ...

Required Reading: McGain!
Weekly Standard Blog — ... that he assured an assemblage of Obamaphiles yesterday that he was about to unveil the new, pugnacious Obama. He signaled the oncoming transformation with the bravely butch pronouncement, “You have a candidate who doesn't take any guff.” So here was the non-guff taking Obama addressing the VFW convention today: ...

8/21: Turning A Corner?
Blogometer — ... that Obama's opposition to the Iraq troop surge is grounded in his "ambition to be president," Obama offered the following response : "One of the things that we have to change in this country is the idea that people can't disagree without challenging each other's character and patriotism. I have never suggested that Senator McCain picks his positions on national security based on politics or personal ambition. I have not suggested it because I believe that he genuinely wants to serve America's national interest. Now, it's time for him to acknowledge that I want to do the ...

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