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Has the McCain campaign neutralised the 100 years quote?

Wednesday, 9th April 2008

One of the main attack lines in the general election against John McCain is going to be the idea that he is prepared to keep the war in Iraq going for 100 year. This all comes back to a town hall meeting in New Hampshire, where McCain said that he’d be prepared to see US troops in Iraq for 100 years which is obviously quite different.

The McCain camp has to be pleased that its pushback on this point is succeeding, as the video below shows. If it can have this attack ruled out of order, then it will have successfully dealt with one of McCain’s biggest vulnerabilities for the general.

Hat tip: Jonathan Martin


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Robert Simpson

April 9th, 2008 9:10pm

I agree that Obama and Hilary are distorting McCain's words on this, but one way of interpreting this YouTube video is that Obama is challenging the accuracy of McCain's statement about Iraq. He may be saying "I dispute that Senator McCain was referring to a peacetime prescence". Obama may not have been denying his own statements.

I do hope McCain can counter this distortion, but I'm not so sure that this is the ad to do it.

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