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Kerry, Hagel, Lieberman praise Obama national security team

December 1st, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Democrats, Foreign Policy, Iraq war, Obama administration, Republicans
Reaction is rolling in on President-elect Barack Obama's leadership team national security and foreign policy. First, some conservatives. Mary Katherine Ham at The Weekly Standard (jokingly?) accuses the Obama team of "blatant misogyny" and failure of usually "impeccable staging" because...

MoveOn chief says he wouldn’t do headline on ‘Betray Us’ ad the same way again

September 18th, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Bush administration, Interest groups, Iraq war
One year after causing an uproar with an ad in The New York Times that asked if Gen. David Petraeus might also be known as "General Betray Us," the head of MoveOn.org Political Action this morning told USA TODAY and...

Bush announces troop reductions; Obama & McCain spar over policy again

September 9th, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Bush administration, Iraq war, Presidential race, 2008
Watch for the presidential contenders to respond to the announcement President Bush just made -- that 8,000 more U.S. troops will soon be withdrawing from Iraq. Here's what the president said moments ago at the National Defense University in Washington:...

Obama on Fox: Watch Part 1

September 5th, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Democrats, Iraq war, Media, Presidential race, 2008
Fox News Channel has put the first segment of Bill O'Reilly's interview with Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama online. Go here to watch. As we reported last night, among the headlines was Obama saying that the "surge" of U.S. troops...

Surge has succeeded, Obama tells Fox

September 4th, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Democrats, Iraq war, Presidential race, 2008
"I think that the surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated," Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama tells Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly in an interview due to air at 8 p.m. ET on The O'Reilly Factor. And, according to...

Deal with Iraq on troops ‘hovers’ over presidential race

August 22nd, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Democrats, Iraq war, Presidential race, 2008, Republicans
From an Associated Press analysis this morning about the news from Iraq that the Bush administration and Iraq's government are working out details of an agreement on a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. forces: If Americans believe the war is...

McCain says he doesn’t doubt Obama’s patriotism

August 20th, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Democrats, Iraq war, Presidential race, 2008, Republicans
Stop questioning my patriotism, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama told Republican contender John McCain yesterday. Today, McCain plans to say he isn't. Here's an excerpt from remarks his campaign says he'll make in Las Cruces, N.M.:

Vets for Obama: Election is not about who was a P.O.W.

August 18th, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Democrats, Foreign Policy, Iraq war, Presidential race, 2008, Republicans
A half-dozen young veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars just had a conference call to talk about their efforts on behalf of Democrat Barack Obama. They were asked whether it is "appropriate" for Republican John McCain to highlight his...

McCain says Obama has ‘ambition’ to be president, but not judgment

August 18th, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Democrats, In their own words, Iraq war, Presidential race, 2008, Republicans
Addressing the Veterans of Foreign Wars this hour in Orlando, Republican presidential candidate John McCain has this to say about his Democratic opponent, Barack Obama: "Thanks to the courage and sacrifice of our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines and to...

‘National Review’ makes case that McCain is right about Obama & the war

July 28th, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Democrats, Iraq war, Presidential race, 2008, Republicans
From the conservative National Review this morning, an editorial making the case that Republican presidential contender John McCain is right when he says Democrat Barack Obama "would rather lose a war in order to win a campaign." The "money graph:"...
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