http://dagblog.com/politics/why-mccain-losing Comments for "Why McCain is Losing" en http://dagblog.com/comment/443#comment-443 <a id="comment-443"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/politics/why-mccain-losing">Why McCain is Losing</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Experience.  For people critical of Rumsfield, Cheney, et. al., the experience meme won't work. </p> <p>My own family knows that.  My mother, bless her, can't agree with me that we have to leave Iraq, but she knows that we shouldn't have gone.  It took her years to say that.</p> <p>She believes that Obama will make us leave there too soon, "before victory, or at least closure".</p> <p>There is no victory for the US in Iraq.  We have nothing to beat.  Closure is our only step.  Closure of something we should never have started, and have to leave up to the Iraqi government and military to finish. </p> <p>Obama knows that.  He knew it back in 2003 when he made his statement about "dumb wars" and not having a neat ending tied up in the plan. </p> <p>Experience.  You can keep Rumsfield's and Cheney's.  I'll take Obama's any day.</p> <p> </p></div></div></div> Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:53:35 +0000 LisB comment 443 at http://dagblog.com