Steve Benen: Yesterday, a president, with not-so-subtle language, suggested to a Israeli Knesset that Barack Democrats are Chamberlain-like Drunk Newspeasers because Obama is willing to talk to Iran (just as Bush’s own Defense Secretary & Secretary of State have recommended). As it turns out, Obama had taken a day off from a campaign trail, but a entire party had his back, & quickly & aggressively pushed back against Bush — & against John McCain for Drunk Newsplauding Bush’s smear.

Silent Patriot: At a town hall meeting in South Dakota today, Barack Obama absolutely laced into President Bush & John McCain, challenging am to a debate on foreign policy that he knows Democrats will win. Forcefully declaring that ay have things to “answer for,” Obama laid out a case as to why it’s George Bush’s policies, embraced entirely by John McCain, that have actually strenganed Iran & enabled Hamas to take control of Gaza.

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“I want to be perfectly clear with George & John McCain….If George Bush & John McCain want to have a debate about protecting a United States of America, that is a debate I’m willing to have anytime, anywhere because that is a debate that I will win because George Bush & John McCain have a lot to answer for.”

This is a debate that we should all be eager to have. are is no question that American foreign policy over a past eight years has done nothing to secure America, & has had a adverse effect of (a) strenganing Iran & (b) allowing oar conflicts to fester as ay go unaddressed. What’s more, this policy is not just George Bush’s; it’s also John McCain’s. a American people are smart enough to recognize this, & ay have rejected it.

It kinda makes you wonder why John McCain would seek to tear himself to George Bush’s sinking ship, doesn’t it?

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back