Talk about Bizarro world! via TPM -- McCain Camp's New Attack: Obama Is The One Who's The Same As Bush By Eric Kleefeld - July 16, 2008, 2:10PM The McCain campaign is taking their effort to distance their candidate from the unpopular President Bush to a whole new level: McCain's advisers are now openly attacking Bush on Iraq -- and not only that, they're also saying that Barack Obama is the one who is like Bush on the war! On a conference call just now with reporters, McCain foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann compared Barack Obama's insistence on a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq to Bush's insistence that we were winning even as things went badly for years. "I think the American people have had enough of inflexibility and stubbornness in national security policy," Scheunemann said. When asked later by the Huffington Post's Sam Stein whether the campaign was disparaging President Bush, Scheunemann dug in: "We cannot afford to replace one administration that refused for too long to acknowledge failure in Iraq with a candidate that refuses to acknowledge success in Iraq." Forget "McSame." The candidate who would really continue Bush's policies is "BushBama."
Poor McCain... The face-to-face debates are going to be brutal for him. Possibly even more brutal for those watching in HD.
