CJR: Obama seriously misleading voters about McCain's "100 years"

from josh --

Full Court Press

Republicans can see how John McCain's 100 years comments (remember, he said it repeatedly) can be made into an albatross around his neck. So they're going for the full court press. Here's a press release just out from the head of the NRCC, the Republican House campaign committee (one among many over the last couple days) ...

Note what he says below at .20 seconds. And then again at 1:20 when he says 1000 or 10,000 years is okay.

Here's why Republicans are scared to death of this. No one wants to be in Iraq 100 years from now, even if McCain stipulates to the fantasy that Iraqis will be happy having us occupy their country forever and that the place will become like Finland. And none of our soldiers will ever get killed there and it won't cost any money. If that's the explanation for why we shouldn't be concerned that he's happy to stay in Iraq for a century, that just tells people that McCain is living in a fantasy world.

They need to stop people from talking about it at all because their explanation for what he meant is at least as bad as what he really said.

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