Soft on Iran

McCain misrepresents Obama's stand on naming Revolutionary Guard as terrorists.

McCain implies that Obama doesn't think Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is a terrorist organization. That's wrong. Before the Kyl-Lieberman amendment was introduced, Obama cosponsored a bill that called for the IRGC to be designated as "a Foreign Terrorist Operation." Full Story »

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B.G. Rhule
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by B.G. Rhule - Oct. 1, 2008

I'm not surprised McCain distorted the stand taken by Obama. The more I hear McCain speak, the less he impresses me as some kind of maverick politician. From where has that label drived? All we hear are misrepresentations like this, along with mistakes and misnomers about the facts. He is three steps too late on his attacks, trying to grab handfuls ofprimary fodder already forgotten or rehashed into the ground. Yesterday, for example, he dug up and dusted off a "bitter" quote that was not even derived from the actual quote. He mentioned "consitution" when Obama had actually employed the words "guns and religion." Miller supplies a clear contrast between the two distictly different bills, and supports it with solid analysis.More importantly, the chasm illustrated as existing between the two bills, and Obama's preference for the earlier one, provides an underscoring of McCain's inabilty to understand just one more facet of Iranian culture or its political landscape. Further, he seems even less able than Bush to articulate just that whichhe does understand, and what stand his rival really has taken.

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