The Audio is at the bottom of this post:
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/06/obama_campaign_rolls_out_richa.phpI am listening now, and frankly -- they are just smashing every argument the McCain campaign made today. The Democrats led by Barack Obama are READY to lead and govern. Listen to this call, and you'll just FEEL it. The Democrats will gain power in November!
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/06/17/terrorism_take_center_stage_as.html?hpid=topnewsThis morning, McCain advisers attacked Barack Obama's comments in an interview yesterday with ABC News, calling them "dangerous." Obama had pointed to the prosecutions of the extremists involved in the 1993 World Trade Center attack as proof that the U.S. legal system was capable of bringing terrorists to justice, and the McCain camp charged that this betrayed a pre-Sept. 11 complacency and belief that terrorism could be addressed using law enforcement tools alone.
Two hours later, the Obama campaign responded that Obama's confidence in U.S. civilian or military courts to try suspected terrorists did not mean that he believed in an exclusively law enforcement-based approach to hunting terrorists. In a conference call with reporters, Sen. John Kerry (who faced the same soft on terror charges in his 2004 presidential campaign) and former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke noted that Obama is proposing a comprehensive approach that includes military measures, including a possible invasion of Pakistani border areas if the U.S. has a solid tip on Al-Qaeda whereabouts and Pakistan refuses to act.
In fact, Kerry -- who had considered McCain as a possible vice presidential runningmate in 2004 -- and Clarke noted, McCain and other Republicans had criticized Obama for that very suggestion of military action in Pakistan. And, they pointed out, Obama's call for granting habeas corpus rights to individuals held at Guantanamo Bay was upheld by the Supreme Court last week.
Kerry and Clarke went on to criticize McCain's approach to fighting terrorism as ineffective and outdated. McCain's approach, they charged, had relied too much on the military, diverted resources and attention from Al-Qaeda and aided terrorist recruitment. Meanwhile, the circumvention of the U.S. legal system in handling suspected terrorists had undermined America's standing in the Muslim world.
"This is really an important day in marking a real line between John McCain's policies and Barack Obama's," said Kerry. "The McCain campaign has defined a road to defeat and, frankly, to more disastrous policies that haven't worked... has fully embraced, willfully and openly, the failed policy of the Bush administration of the past seven years. He is really defending a policy that is indefensible."
Kerry added: "John McCain is Washington's biggest supporter for worst foreign policy decision of our generation. He failed to learn the lesson of 9/11 and we're paying for that failure today... He is continuing a legal approach that has violated our Constitution, failed to prosecute terrorist, failed to bring them to justice, failed to have verdicts, failed to bring them to jail, and failed to lead the world. If you want to talk about going backwards... John McCain has done that."
This is how the Obama campaign turns an attack on them into an advantage by the end of the day. I'm sure that Kerry playing attack dog has got McCain seething, too!
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