McCain Responds: Americans Have "Every Reason To Doubt" Whether Obama Can Keep Us Safe
Here's the response from McCain spokesperson Tucker Bounds to Obama's speech hitting McCain and Bush on foreign policy today:
"It was remarkable to see Barack Obama's hysterical diatribe in response to a speech in which his name wasn't even mentioned. These are serious issues that deserve a serious debate, not the same tired partisan rants we heard today from Senator Obama."Senator Obama has pledged to unconditionally meet with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- who pledges to wipe Israel off the map, denies the Holocaust, sponsors terrorists, arms America's enemies in Iraq and pursues nuclear weapons. What would Senator Obama talk about with such a man?
"It would be a wonderful thing if we lived in a world where we don't have enemies. But that is not the world we live in, and until Senator Obama understands that, the American people have every reason to doubt whether he has the strength, judgment and determination to keep us safe."
You know, I wasn't aware that Obama had ever indicated that he thinks "we don't have enemies." I thought that Obama has been talking specifically about the Bush-McCain approach to dealing with our enemies, and labeling it an abject failure. But that's just me, I guess.
Separately, here's something that's noteworthy: The McCain camp appears to be reiterating -- in a slightly watered down version -- his claim yesterday on that blogger call that Obama is unfit to keep us safe.
In the current version, the McCain campaign is saying that "the American people have every reason to doubt whether he has the strength, judgment and determination to keep us safe." That's their message, and they're gonna stick with it.
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