Here's a question for the room: If Barack Obama made a huge mistake in saying "we now have spent $400 billion and have seen over 3,000 lives of the bravest young Americans wasted," how come Republican officeholders and candidates aren't issuing press releases condemning him?
That's usually how these things work. Take yourself way, way back to three and a half months ago and the John Kerry "joke" scandal. Kerry made his comment; he was attacked immediately by Republicans starting with John Boehner. After Kerry made an angry statement half-apologizing for the joke, he was attacked by Dick Cheney and the president, and half of the Democratic party.
Obviously that occured in the heat of a midterm election campaign. But Kerry wasn't running for anything. Obama is perhaps the most formidable Democratic candidate for November 2008. Doesn't it follow that Republicans would jump on the opportunity to take shots at him and extend the "wasted" story?
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