Today's Iran back and forth
James Forsyth 9:00pmIt started with Obama's comments yesterday donwplaying the threat posed by Iran:
Which drew this response from McCain this morning:
Obama then punched back:
My hunch is that this will continue for a fair while as both sides think it favours them. The McCain campaign know that its best chance of winning is to turn this into a national security election. Yet the Obama people know that if they can negate McCain's advantage on national security by tying him to the Bush administration and the its handling of the Iraq war then the election is in the bag.
Marbury
May 20th, 2008 6:56pm Report this commentI think your analysis is exactly right. It's also worth noting that in this exchange, there was no room for Hillary (one reason why Bush's intervention worked quite well for Obama).
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