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WaPo: Bush's Overseas Policies Begin Resembling Obama's
Dan Eggen at the Washington Post elaborates on the trend that Josh has been flagging for a while now: Bush taking up Obama's foreign policy positions that McCain had criticized.
He cites: diplomatic talks with North Korea; timeline for withdrawal from Iraq; moving troops to Afganistan; and formally approving cross-border raids into Pakistan without that country's explicit permission. He also mentions that the Bush administration just gave 1 billion in aid to Georgia, which Biden had proposed.
But the killer line is from Obama supporter Randy Beers:
"The flip side of that is that John McCain is therefore to the right of George Bush, which I don't think is the way he conceived of his campaign."If done right this could be a great commercial:
Obama said we needed to do X. McCain said no way, but Obama was right and now we're doing X and Y has happened....Obama's ideas are already moving our nation forwards. McCain would move us backwards.





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