Osama Bin Laden Still Free Because of Republicans!
By: Nedra Pickler, AP
June 17th 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrat Barack Obama says he’ll take no lectures from Republicans on who will keep America safer. GOP rival John McCain’s campaign criticized Obama Tuesday for speaking approvingly of the successful prosecution of terrorists. A McCain aide said, “Obama is a perfect manifestation of a September 10th mind-set” and does not understand the dangers posed by U.S. adversaries.
Obama told reporters that the Republicans have no “standing to suggest that they’ve learned a lot of lessons from 9-11.”
He said they “helped to engineer the distraction of the war in Iraq at a time when we could have pinned down the people who actually committed 9-11.” He said Osama bin Laden is still at large in part because of their failed strategies.
In a conference call with reporters, McCain adviser Randy Scheunemann said Tuesday: “Senator Obama is a perfect manifestation of a September 10th mind-set. … He does not understand the nature of the enemies we face.” Former CIA director James Woolsey said Obama has “an extremely dangerous and extremely naive approach toward terrorism … and toward dealing with prisoners captured overseas who have been engaged in terrorist attacks against the United States.”
The Obama campaign quickly responded with its own conference call in which Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Richard Clarke, a counter-terrorism official in Republican and Democratic administrations, argued the McCain campaign was emulating Karl Rove, President Bush’s former political adviser.
“I’m a little disgusted by the attempts of some of my friends on the McCain campaign to use the same old, tired tactics … to drive a wedge between Americans for partisan advantage and to frankly frighten Americans,” Clarke said.
GOP criticism of the presumed Democratic nominee echoed the words of Rove, who in January 2006 said Republicans have a post-Sept. 11 view of the world and Democrats a pre-9/11 view. Eleven months later, the GOP lost control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections. Click here to read more at Breitbard.com.