"We're F***ed"
Jul. 20th, 2008 12:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
matt_zimmerBIG win for Barack Obama yesterday. I can't wait to see the MSM try spin this in John McCain's favor because there is really no way they believably can.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7...208/337/553922
Quote:
The White House this afternoon accidentally sent to its extensive distribution list a Reuters story headlined "Iraqi PM backs Obama troop exit plan - magazine."
The story relayed how Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told the German magazine Der Spiegel that "he supported prospective U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's proposal that U.S. troops should leave Iraq within 16 months ... ‘U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be the right timeframe for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes,'" the prime minister said.
The White House employee had intended to send the article to an internal distribution list, ABC News' Martha Raddatz reports, but hit the wrong button.
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Via e-mail, a prominent Republican strategist who occasionally provides advice to the McCain campaign said, simply, "We're f***ed." No response yet from the McCain campaign, although here's what McCain said the last time Maliki mentioned withdrawal: "Since we are succeeding, then I am convinced, as I have said before, we can withdraw and withdraw with honor, not according to a set timetable. And I’m confident that is what Prime Minister Maliki is talking about, since he has told me that for many meetings we’'ve had."
I love this. Basically, the Prime Minister is saying "look, you guys can declare victory if you HAVE to but get the heck out of here" and we can directly use McCain's previous statement against him. This is going to be a FUN election.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7...208/337/553922
Quote:
The White House this afternoon accidentally sent to its extensive distribution list a Reuters story headlined "Iraqi PM backs Obama troop exit plan - magazine."
The story relayed how Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told the German magazine Der Spiegel that "he supported prospective U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's proposal that U.S. troops should leave Iraq within 16 months ... ‘U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be the right timeframe for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes,'" the prime minister said.
The White House employee had intended to send the article to an internal distribution list, ABC News' Martha Raddatz reports, but hit the wrong button.
...
Via e-mail, a prominent Republican strategist who occasionally provides advice to the McCain campaign said, simply, "We're f***ed." No response yet from the McCain campaign, although here's what McCain said the last time Maliki mentioned withdrawal: "Since we are succeeding, then I am convinced, as I have said before, we can withdraw and withdraw with honor, not according to a set timetable. And I’m confident that is what Prime Minister Maliki is talking about, since he has told me that for many meetings we’'ve had."
I love this. Basically, the Prime Minister is saying "look, you guys can declare victory if you HAVE to but get the heck out of here" and we can directly use McCain's previous statement against him. This is going to be a FUN election.
