In Columbus today, John McCain made his pitch that he, and not Barack Obama, is the candidate of hope. In a major if theoretical reversal of his commitment to a perpetual 100, a thousand or a million year American presence in Iraq, McCain declared that he "would hope to have achieved" a drawdown of most U.S. forces by the end of his first term in 2013. But given McCain's unbroken record of error of forsecasting when it comes to Iraq, Americans should rightly view his new 10 year prediction with suspicion.

And with a total suspension of disbelief. In a speech that was more hypothetical thought exercise than policy address, McCain did his best John Lennon impersonation and asked Americans to "imagine all the people" (or at least most of them) back from Iraq by the end of his first term...

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No One Suffers More Last year, First Lady Laura Bush said of the costs of the Iraq war for the American people, "no one suffers more than their President and I do." Now we know why. While U.S. troops were sacrificing life and limb in the battlefields of Baghdad, President Bush sacrificed golf... read more...   Bush Doubles Down on Mideast Peace Heading to Israel for that nation's 60th anniversary, George W. Bush was nothing if not optimistic about the prospects for Middle East peace. Even as his negotiating partners are incapacitated by scandal and internal conflict, Bush reiterated his January promise to produce an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement by the time he leaves office... read more...   Top 10 McCain Out-of-Touch Moments At almost every turn, the Republican presidential nominee has shown almost a total ignorance of - or yawning disinterest in - the real lives of American voters. Here, then, are John McCain's Top 10 "Out-of-Touch" Moments... read more...		McCain Breaks GOP Deficit Promise The once-vaunted Republican marketing machine has fallen and can't get up. A central promise of the Republicans' 2008 rebranding effort, to balance the budget by 2012, is dead on arrival. As it turns out, Republican nominee John McCain already abandoned his short-lived, first term balanced budget pledge... read more...   McCain's Double Flip-Flop on Abortion In just the latest blow to his tattered maverick myth, the McCain camp is signaling its man will perform yet another about-face on abortion. Eight years after attacking George W. Bush's defense of a Republican platform which called for banning all abortions, even in cases of rape, incest and to protect the life of the mother, John McCain, too, will kowtow to the GOP's radical right... read more...   McCain Voting Record Contradicts Myth John McCain's home state Arizona Republic did some good excavation work in the ongoing demolition of the GOP nominee's maverick myth. The analysis of his Senate voting record since 1999 shows he rarely strayed from the Republican Party  line... read more...
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