Donuts And Politics

After the ridiculous comments from Bush yesterday, and McCain’s echoing of them, Obama hit them right back today with a pretty darn good retort.

“John McCain has repeated this notion that I’m prepared to negotiate with terrorists. I have never said that,” Obama said. “I am not prepared to negotiate with Hamas.”
“If George Bush and John McCain want to have a debate about protecting America, that is a debate I will have anytime, any place,” he said to a cheering crowd. “George Bush and John McCain have a lot to answer for.”
Obama then launched into list of grievances, including a war fought on the premise of uprooting weapons of mass destruction that were never found, the failure to catch Osama Bin Laden and turning Iran into the “greatest beneficiary” of the Iraq war.
“That’s the Bush-McCain record on protecting this country,” Obama said. “Those are the failed policies that John McCain wants to double down on.”

Now, one thing I have wanted to see from Obama was a little more fighting spirit, so to speak. It hasn’t always been there and some people have been concerned how he would deal with Republican attacks in the general election campaign, including me. One thing you can say about Hillary is she doesn’t take any crap, but she goes overboard most of the time. I think it was GREAT to see Obama fire back today about how Bush’s policies created this whole mess and to make a real distinction between himself and Bush/McCain. If people think McCain is going to continue Bush’s polices (which all his statements lead one to believe he will. esp. in foreign policy) then McCain is TOAST in November. So, not only was this a good response to McBush, it also was a very good signal and reassurance to Democrats who were concerned about Obama not being tough enough for the GE. Anyway, a bit of his speech: