NY Times rejects McCain attack on Obama
John McCain wrote an op-ed piece that apparently defended his stance on the Iraq War and attempted to lay out his plan for Iraq. The editorial was rejected by the New York Times. At first, I was ticked that the NY Times would play bias and print only an editorial by one side, but then I discovered the real problem. After reading the editorial released by the McCain campaign, it is apparent why it was rejected in that it contains little regarding McCain’s plan.
I have said that I expect to welcome home most of our troops from Iraq by the end of my first term in office, in 2013.
Only one statement in the editoral seems to lay out a concrete plan for Iraq. The presumptive Republican nomineee writes that “I have said that I expect to welcome home most of our troops from Iraq by the end of my first term in office, in 2013.” But other than that he offers little in terms of his real plan for Iraq. Instead McCain decided to bash Obama’s plan - now that’s fine if you are going to offer up real solutions, but he didn’t.
McCain editoral was not a proposal, but instead it was an attack on Barack Obama’s plan for the Iraq war. Apparently, someone sent the piece to the Opinion section instead of the graphic designer for touchups before running a full page ad. Shame on the McCain campaign for attempting to use the Opinion section of the Times to launch an attack ad against Obama - hopefully, the campaign will revise the poorly written piece and submit a real plan for Iraq (and maybe he should go after a plan on economics while he’s at it).
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