by Lionel Bascom — June 25th, 2008 — 1 comment
A furious debate over terrorism, security and the rule of law broke out on Tuesday as the presidential campaigns of Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama exchanged pointed salvos over who could best keep the nation safe, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
“The latest eruption began when John McCain’s top foreign policy and national security adviser, Randy Scheunemann, said in a conference call with reporters that Obama was displaying a “Sept. 10 mindset” about how best to fight terrorism - a comment that echoed President Bush’s attacks on Sen. John Kerry during the 2004 campaign.
Obama brushed off the criticism aboard his campaign plane, and questioned the McCain campaign’s standing to debate anti-terrorism policy.
“These are the same guys who helped to engineer the distraction of the war in Iraq at a time when we could’ve pinned down the people who actually committed 9/11,” he said.
It was the most heated back-and-forth yet in a debate that began last week when the Supreme Court ruled that the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have the right to challenge their detention in federal court. Obama praised the court’s decision as a return to the rule of law, while McCain excoriated it, saying that it could make America less safe, although the Republican candidate’s comments were a reminder of the complexities of his own past positioning on Guantanamo detainees,” the newspaper reported.
6:45 AM in Uncategorized, World Trade Center, Related Stories, Terrorist Threat, Freedom Tower News, Homeland Security, Politics
What bothers me about the postulating of these two individuals is that a crime has been committed against my country, and thus far, the guilty parties have not been held accountable for their misdeeds. Meanwhile, thousands of innocent American citizens are still in pain, both physically and emotionally.
Enough of the absurdity!
Jeanne · June 25th, 2008 at 10:05 pm