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US Elections

Obama Retorts Bush and McCain on Foreign Policy Failures

Posted on: May 17, 2008

Senator Barack Obama reacted sharply to the attack on his foreign policy by President Bush and Senator McCain. Obama turned the tables on both Bush and McCain by terming them as partners of “the failed policies.”

“If George Bush and John McCain want to have a debate about protecting the United States of America, that is a debate I am happy to have any time, any place.” Mr. Obama said to The New York Times.

On Thursday President Bush spoke of what he called a tendency toward “appeasement” in some quarters of the West, similar to that shown to the Nazis before the invasion of Poland. Obama made these remarks a day after Mr. Bush, addressing the Israeli Parliament.

Mr. McCain endorsed Mr. Bush’s remarks, saying, “The president is exactly right,” and adding that Mr. Obama “needs to explain why he is willing to sit down and talk” with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran.

Obama’s defiance and disdain for Mr. Bush’s record appeared to be a signal that he will push back against efforts to define him or his record as weak on terror or accommodating to foreign foes, a strategy Republicans used successfully against Senator John Kerry in 2004. “In the Bush-McCain world view, everyone who disagrees with their failed Iran policy is an appeaser,” Mr. Obama said to The New York Times.

Obama’s retort also signals that the campaigns are pivoting swiftly toward the general election, with the two sides already in full attack mode.