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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (42260)	8/27/2008 7:41:33 PM
From: Ruffian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224738

McCain Goes for Obama’s Jugular in Latest Ad by FOXNews.com Wednesday, August 27, 2008 John McCain’s campaign launched a new attack ad Wednesday against Barack Obama in an attempt to destroy the Democratic presidential candidate’s credibility during the same week he accepts his party’s nomination. McCain’s ad, entitled “Tiny,” is designed to undermine the theme of Democratic convention’s third night, national security. It highlights comments Obama made during the Democratic primary season when, defending his foreign policy, he called the comparative threat from Iran to the former Soviet Union “tiny,” and said the Islamic republic “doesn’t pose a serious threat.” “Strong countries and strong presidents talk to their adversaries,” Obama said at the time. “I mean, think about it. Iran, Cuba, Venezuela — these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don’t pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us. And yet we were willing to talk to the Soviet Union at the time when they were saying, ‘We’re going to wipe you off the planet.”‘ The new ad cites terrorism and Iran’s desire to destroy Israel, asking, “Those aren’t serious threats?” before declaring that Obama is “dangerously unprepared to be president.” McCain’s attack line, stating that the Illinois senator is not qualified to be commander-in-chief, is hardly new. But McCain is eager to burn up the money left in his war chest from the primary season. He will be prohibited at the end of the month from spending that cash when he accepts public financing, which will supply him with $84.1 million. McCain’s fundraising apparatus has been easily outperformed by several of his Republican rivals in the primary and by Obama. But he has seen improvement in recent months since joining forces with the Republican National Committee, which has more money than its Democratic counterpart. McCain has churned out a number of ads, most of them airing only on cable news programs. Obama’s campaign asserts that McCain’s latest ad amounts to a massive distortion of the Democrat’s words and point out that Obama told AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobbying group, in June, “There is no greater threat to Israel — or to the peace and stability of the region — than Iran.” Obama made the tiny country remark in May when he tried to defuse a controversy triggered by his earlier statements that he would be willing to meet unconditionally with the leaders of rogue nations, which the Bush administration largely shuns. “Strong countries and strong presidents talk to their adversaries,” Obama said at the time. “I mean, think about it. Iran, Cuba, Venezuela — these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don’t pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us. And yet we were willing to talk to the Soviet Union at the time when they were saying, ‘We’re going to wipe you off the planet.”‘ FOX News’ James Rosen contributed to this report.