Barack Obama, who saw himself as the target of Bush's criticism, is
expected to directly rebut the president later today at a campaign event in
South Dakota.
His top foreign policy adviser, Susan Rice, said this morning
on MSNBC that Obama will deliver a "very vigorous response to what was an
outrageous, unprecedented, and divisive attack from President Bush yesterday
which was patently dishonest."
While the White House officially denied the remarks were aimed at Obama,
presumptive Republican nominee John McCain used the opportunity to argue again
that Obama's willingness to negotiate shows he is naive and inexperienced in the
ways of foreign policy.
The McCain campaign today issued this response: “There should be no
confusion, John McCain has always believed that serious engagement would require
mandatory conditions and Hamas must change itself fundamentally -– renounce
violence, abandon its goal of eradicating Israel and accept a two state
solution. John McCain’s position is clear and has always been clear, the
President of the United States should not unconditionally meet with leaders of
Iran, Hamas or Hezbollah. Barack Obama has made his position equally clear, and
has pledged to meet unconditionally with Iran’s leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and
the leaders of other rogue regimes, which shows incredibly dangerous and weak
judgment,” Tucker Bounds, a campaign spokesman, said in a statement.
This article was interesting. I agree with McCain that Obama is naive and inexperienced when it comes to foreign policy and he shows that with his willingness to negotiate. Bush was not singling out Obama and criticizing him in his speech.
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