Badlands Blue's very own Virginia Lowell makes a lame attack on John McCain. Lowell, as usual, is simply repeating the talking points from this DNC overlords. I'll post the video below, but Lowell is trying to claim, implausibly, that John McCain doesn't know the difference between Shiites and Sunnis. Watch the video. It seems to be clear that McCain is simply making the point that Al Qaeda is still a force in Iraq, not an obscure minor sect. McCain is not trying to tie Al Qaeda to the Sunnis or Shiites, but is arguing that Al Qaeda is a bigger threat than a minority faction of any religious sect. The real criticism Lowell could make is that the surge was supposed to take care of this problem. If the surge is still necessary to quell threats in Iraq then it isn't really a surge, is it? It is just a troop increase. But Lowell doesn't know what to say about that because the DNC has yet to tell him what to think.
One thing you can say about John McCain is that he knows our friends from our enemies. You can't necessarily say that about Barack Obama. Obama thinks we should be talking to Iran without conditions. Now the Bush administration has short shrifted diplomacy in its tenure, but Obama talks the good of diplomacy to an extreme. What exactly does he think he can say to the Iranian regime that will stop it from pursuing nuclear weapons and supporting international terrorism? Here is a bit of a truism: people who think they have time to not negotiate. Until Iran faces a credible threat of force, either military or serious sanctions, it will not negotiate away its violent tendencies.
Finally, there has been some talk on this blog and elsewhere regarding Condi Rice as a VP candidate with McCain. Jay Cost argues that Condi is a sure loser for McCain due to her close ties to the Bush administration. Discuss among yourselves.
Update: John Hinderaker on the McCain story.
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