Presidential hopeful John McCain is understandably taking criticism for his absence in Iowa this week. Some have taken this as an indication that he is throwing in the towel.
Yet, all along he has said that he places no merit or worth in straw poles.
So, what has McCain been up to? Heading to South Carolina, traveling with the common folks aboard a public airline. According to a Reuters article (here), McCain is hedging his bets with small locales, in the "early voting states" of New Hampshire (where I currently am) and South Carolina.
Yesterday, McCain appeared on the always entertaining Bill O'Reilly show. Predictably, the two chatted about immigration (McCain is now stressing that he wants border security) and the war in Iraq. McCain, to his possible detriment, continues to argue that the US is winning, despite any clear markers of what that means.
We're winning. It's not success; we're winning. And that's the facts on the ground.And for four years, I have railed against the failed policy orchestrated by Donald Rumsfeld, and Americans are frustrated and saddened and angered. And again, a credibility problem because of things like "mission accomplished", "last throes", "few dead-enders", et cetera. In fact, when you look at it over time, the patience of the American people was quite good.
Now we have a strategy that's winning. What ought to give it a chance to win. Will — is the political situation? Yes. As you say, on the ground the political situation is improving in a lot of areas. I believe that the Maliki government must be told. And I call on them to act in a more inclusive and effective fashion.
McCain's best response was to O'Reilly's question concerning the reason behind America's "hate" for the war in Iraq:
I don't know but they've lost sight of the fact that president's don't lose wars and parties don't lose wars. Nations lose wars.
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