Here’s the latest McCain ad:

Now, here’s the full quote from Obama with context:

“Strong countries and strong Presidents talk to their adversaries. That’s what Kennedy did with Khrushchev. That’s what Reagan did with Gorbachev. That’s what Nixon did with Mao. I mean, think about it: Iran, Cuba, Venezuela — these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don’t pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us. And yet we were willing to talk to the Soviet Union at the time when they were saying, ‘We’re going to wipe you off the planet.’ And ultimately, that direct engagement led to a series of measures that helped prevent nuclear war and over time allowed the kind of opening that brought down the Berlin Wall.”

Obama’s position sounds like something an adult came up with.  Not some cheap, misleading political trick to scare people into voting a certain way.  And if McCain fundamentally disagrees with the above analysis, I don’t thing we have a threat of a third Bush term; it’s worse than that.  We may be looking at a repeat of W’s first term in office: no more talking to adversaries but seeing threats everywhere and rushing from one to the next with no forethought.

And as a personal aside: I couldn’t be more disappointed in McCain.  He won me over in the first Iowa debate in 1999, when he was the only Republican on stage who told the farmers where to stick their ethanol subsidies.  He came across as the only one with a spine.  But now it seems like he’s decided the only way he can win is to lie about his opponent and constantly play the POW card.

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