Slow Down There, Marc Ambinder |
| Published: July 21, 2008, 8:00 am |
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Will He Retract His Words? Three days and three translations later, the shock waves from the alleged Nuri al-Maliki "endorsement" of Sen. Barack Obama's timeline for withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq have been tempered by a statement from the Prime Minister's office making clear that the German magazine Der Spiegel got it all wrong. In their rapture at the thought that their golden boy had conquered Sen. John McCain on the one issue on which he holds a distinct advantage over Sen. Obama, national security; many media outlets, bloggers, commentators, and pundits of the left declared the remarks to be the death of the Republican presidential campaign. The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder said: "This could be one of those unexpected events that forever changes the way the world perceives an issue. Iraq's Prime Minister agrees with Obama, and there's no wiggle room or fudge factor. This puts John McCain in an extremely precarious spot: what's left to argue? to [sic] [ Full article ] |
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