Boosh Buddy Bartlett: Maliki's move a game-changer, incredibly damaging to McCain

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Bartlett: Maliki's move a game-changer

Former Bush White House communications director and counselor Dan Bartlett yesterday offered a strikingly candid assessment of what Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's support for Barack Obama's troop withdrawal plan means for the campaign.

“Time will tell, but the al-Maliki comments about a timetable is very close to a game-changing event," Bartlett told my colleague Daniel Libit in an interview. "That was incredibly damaging ,because it neutralized one of biggest liabilities."

Bartlett, part of President Bush's original cadre of Texas loyalists, left the White House in 2007 and now works for a public affairs firm.

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