ANALYSIS-McCain foreign policy susceptible to Obama attack

[JimGinPA]

WASHINGTON, June 25 (Reuters) - Republican candidate John McCain could be vulnerable on foreign policy and national security -- his major campaign assets up to now -- if Barack Obama can paint him as a symbol of contradiction and hardline ideology, experts say.

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Democrats led by Obama himself have tried to portray McCain as no different from President George W. Bush, whose popularity has plummeted along with that of a 5-year-old Iraq war for which many Americans blame neoconservatives in his administration.

"This is an opportunity for us to take the fight to the Republicans and not just be reactive on foreign policy and national security, but be aggressive," said Sen. Joseph Biden, a Delaware Democrat who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and is viewed as a possible Obama running mate.

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"The Democrats have to go on the offensive and stay on the offensive. The message has to be: John McCain and his foreign policy team are very, very dangerous for America," he added. "A worried American electorate on that score might very well shy away from McCain."

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Democrats say the Republican candidate who staunchly supports the Iraq war and once jokingly sang "bomb Iran" to the tune of the 1960s Beach Boys hit "Barbara Ann," already has to reassure voters that "I hate war" in a current campaign ad.

"McCain's going to run hard on foreign policy and Obama's not trying to change the subject. Democrats are better prepared and more confident on foreign policy issues than at any time since the end of the Cold War,"


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http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed2/idUSN24328846

[uponit7771]

1. McSame SOUNDS like he WANTS to go to war, his recent comments on WWIII should get every kid who can

...vote out to voting against him.

I don't see Obama et al taking advantage of McSames war talk and attacking him on those stances though.

The media is OVERTLY giving McSame a pass