<p>McCain isn’t weak on the Iraq War. A poll came out yesterday that said 1) the majority of Americans think things are going well in Iraq and 2) the majority of Americans believe we will succeed in Iraq. McCain, as a critic of rumsfeld and advocate of the surge, can attack the issue from two sides. He can say “I knew bush messed up, I advocated for change, that change came and things are going better.” Obama on the other hand can only say “lets get out of Iraq.” Obamas “leave and go back in if we must” comment is going to get tons of play as well…I think McCain will shape his campaign around Iraq. If things continue to go well Mac is your pres, if they go bad it’s Obama. </p>
<p>To the OP: Clinton can better stand it because her past is out there, the skeletons in her closet have been exposed and dragged through the mud for years. Obama is “fresh meat” if you will…he’s a “clean” guy as far as most of America is concerned and therefore it’s much easier to change peoples perception of him. Everybody who dislikes Clinton already dislikes her…</p>
<p>“A poll came out yesterday that said 1) the majority of Americans think things are going well in Iraq and 2) the majority of Americans believe we will succeed in Iraq.”</p>
<p>Are you talking about the Newsweek poll, with an increase in 3 points claiming the war is “going better”? (That poll, with a MOE of 3.5?)</p>
<p>According to late February polling conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, 53 percent of Americans — a slim majority — now believe “the U.S. will ultimately succeed in achieving its goals” in Iraq. That figure is up from 42 percent in September 2007.</p>
<p>The percentage of those who believe the war in Iraq is going “very well” or “fairly well” is also up, from 30 percent in February 2007 to 48 percent today.</p>
<p>Democrats’ resolute support for the withdrawal of U.S. combat forces may soon position them at odds with independent voters, in particular, a constituency they need to retake the White House.</p>
<p>Half of self-identified independents polled now believe the United States should “keep troops in Iraq until the situation has stabilized,” according to polling data assembled by Pew at Politico’s request.</p>
<p>“How could Democrats possibly hand McCain a better issue than to let him run on his record of advocating a robust U.S. presence in Iraq with all the positive battlefield news that is filtering out of that country?” asked Michael O’Hanlon, a national security adviser at the Brookings Institution who has been at the center of the Iraq debate since the war’s outset.</p>
<p>“Thinking about where we were at the time of the congressional elections, it’s ironic that the Iraq issue could actually be the one that most favors the Republican and most other issues — including most foreign policy issues — could most favor the Democrats,” O’Hanlon added. “Yet Democrats keep wanting to fight the Iraq debate.”</p>
<p>Although even Democratic discontent has ebbed for the first time in more than a year — 29 percent now support keeping troops in, an increase of 8 percentage points since last summer — foreign policy advisers to both candidates dispute the idea that Democrats are in the unenviable position of disagreeing with the majority of Americans over whether the war in Iraq can succeed.</p>
<p>“yes I want my daughters to marry men just like him.”</p>
<p>Yes, and I want my son to marry a woman who thinks for herself and can support her views rather than to rely on mouthing convenient political orthodoxy.</p>
<p>Has Rove started working for Senator Hillary Clinton’s campaign? Is he the new assistant of Howard Wolfson? </p>
<p>It takes quite the partisan to ignore the relentless negativity oozing from the “non-slimey” people who work for Clinton. Didn’t HRH herself have to apologize for her partner and past-her-prime advisor? Is she really surrounded by such peachy characters who refuse to use innuendos and sotto voce? Wonder how many copies of the African clothed Obama pictures the Clintons’ shredded last week? </p>
<p>By the time, Clinton bows out or gets her wish, poor Obama should be hoping to battle the McCain campaign … and Rove!</p>