McCain Learning Curve: Recipe For Success?

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The McCain campaign sent out a press bulletin today detailing the GOP Presidential hopeful's exit strategy for the

U.S. in Iraq, as related to Fox News' Megyn Kelly:

FOX NEWS' MEGYN KELLY: "Senator, one of the criticisms of General Petraeus yesterday and of some Republicans on the Hill is that no clear exit plan in Iraq was laid out. Indeed, earlier in the week that had at least one Democrat calling you a 'warmonger' because there is no clear, quote, exit strategy. Your reaction to that?"

JOHN MCCAIN: "Well, I think those kinds of comments are very unfortunate, and if Senator Obama is going to wage the kind of campaign that he says he is, I hope that he will, he personally, will repudiate that kind of language. The exit strategy is success of the surge, continued Iraqi ability to take over their security, requirements to have the democratic process go forward. It's the classic counterinsurgency strategy.

Did I miss the "strategy" there? Try to imagine McCain on "The Food Network," explaining how to make a pizza.

CHEF MCCAIN: "Well, we're going to take a variety of ingredients, combine them, employ a heating device, and when there's a beautiful pizza there, we're done."

I don't think the problem here is that McCain's a warmonger, it's that he's a lousy cook.

Filed Under: John McCain, Iraq, 2008 President

Tagged: david petraeus, DavidPetraeus, Mac Attack, MacAttack

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