Here's Joe Lieberman, McCain's best bud and other old-fashioned guy, spinning.
I think the cat's really out of the bag. McCain = Bush. Obama was and is right. End of story.
McCain is complaining that he's not getting coverage. Well, if he had something new and interesting to say that didn't sound like George Bush policies, then I think people would be inclined to listen. Really, is there anything that McCain has said that differs from Bush? McCain believes in global warming, but where are his policies, where are his people talking about it?
All the folks whining that Obama shouldn't be traveling to other countries and that he should be focusing on the economy need to think past their noses.
Our economy is related to our security in the world. I think Obama and Gore and others are trying to connect the dots for people. Had we not poured all of our money and attention into the Iraq war, we wouldn't be in the position we're in now.
I agree with the folks who want to hear more details on fixing the economy. I want to hear more and there's plenty of time.
Media Matters: In a July 19 Washington Post article analyzing an ad by Sen. John McCain claiming that Sen. Barack Obama "never held a single Senate hearing on Afghanistan," media reporter Howard Kurtz wrote that the ad "is accurate in saying that Obama, who has spent most of the past two years campaigning, has not held a hearing on Afghanistan in the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee he chairs." But Kurtz failed to note that McCain is a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, but reportedly has not attended a single Armed Services Committee hearing related to Afghanistan in 2007-08.
In a July 17 post on ABC News' Political Radar blog, reporter Byron Wolf wrote:
The McCain campaign criticism of Sen. Barack Obama's hearing record on Capitol Hill led us to put the shoe on the other foot.
It turns out that presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain has attended even fewer Afghanistan-related Senate hearings over the past two years than Obama's one. Which is a nice way of saying, McCain, R-Ariz., the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, has attended zero of his committee's six hearings on Afghanistan over the last two years.
Meanwhile, Obama attended the full Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Afghanistan in March 2007, although he used the opportunity to ask Gen. James L. Jones, then the commander of NATO, about Pakistan.
Jones also came before the Senate Armed Services Committee that week. But McCain was a no-show.
