Bush: America Has No Problems.

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Out by 2011 isn't exactly something that will help McCain, ASM... people have decided that the Iraq War was a mistake, and that opinion has lasted through much of this year despite a lessening in the violence there. John McCain isn't winning on the Iraq issue... he keeps trying to push his "I supported the surge, which worked" line, but for many people, all that does is remind them of the fact behind that: He supported the war in the first place.

The war in Georgia does seem to be helping McCain a bit because overall Republicans win foreign policy (which is why Obama might have chosen Biden?), for whatever idiotic reason (considering how many massive foreign policy messes the Republicans have gotten us into, why people think of them as better at it really makes no sense...), as Iraq did for Bush in 2004 before most of the American people turned against it, but no... I definitely think that the more Iraq or the economy are an issue, the better Obama does; the more generic foreign policy or Republican wedge issues (deceptive lies about tax cuts, abortion/gay marriage, etc) matter, the better McCain does. Right now it's close, far closer than it should be... hopefully America will wake up and realize that McCain would be far more of a Bush 3rd term than most anyone in this country wants, but we'll see.

Oh, and if it really is Biden, Obama clearly thought that he really needed to narrow that foreign policy gap. Biden is/was almost certainly the #1 person in the Democratic VP running on the foreign policy issue.

Wesley Clark would give Obama the credentials needed to rebuff republican attacks on the matter of foreign policy experience, General Clark commanded most of the NATO operations during the Clinton era including Kosovo and he would blow McCain out of the water in regards to matters of war and peace.

Even though its likely Clark would get the defense secretary position should Obama win, Just as Kerry intended too but having Clark on the ticket as a running mate would give Obama a strong face.

Like you said, He should hammer away on economics.

The "evangelical" vote is partly why the republicans keep winning off on the good pious "christian " tirade, This is Obama major weakness,The Reverend wright scandal is stinging him.

In Canadian politics, Alberta would be Canada's bible belt or the closets thing to it, Most of the population is very liberal and left leaning even a conservative goverment that came from "christian evangelical constituent's" could never hope to take or maintain power without conceding to the whims of the largely liberal country.

The republicans would not be the way they are if it waisnt for demographics that would back it.

The American media deserves a great deal of blame for not doing their job during that crucial period in 2003, All the pre war propaganda was treated with far more skepticism in the foreign press then the American ones,Since the corporate media is profit based some of us suspect that just maybe they kept conveniently quiet during 2003 so they would get the rewards of war coverage ratings,Its kind of like the plot of James tomorrow never dies,Media barons are a threat to democracy thats clearly visible in Russia.

Update, Joe Biden is his running mate.