DID AL QAEDA ENDORSE MCCAIN?

TERRORISM CHARGES CAN BE USED AGAINST MCCAIN TOO

Kenneth Hacker

October 29, 2008

As the McCain campaign still tries to make an issue out of a Vietnam war protestor who bombed buildings and was willing to commit acts of terrorism 49 years ago, McCain can now be subjected to claims of support by terrorists that are far more powerful that the powerless Bill Ayers in Chicago. Indeed, Al Qaeda is said to be framing McCain as the kind of president they need in order to continue the folly of Bush -- the incessant tendency to fan the flames of violence and anti-Americanism in the Middle East.

So unless McCain wants bin Laden hung around his neck, he should halt the absurd Palin charges that Obama pals around with terrorists. All of this constitutes nonissue rhetoric that simply diverts attention from the real issues of this election. If McCain had a medical care and tax reform policy that made sense, he would not have to stoop to cheap tricks-based campaigning.

It is time for McCain to kick Palin off the stage and to propose some kind of serious foreign policy and plan to deal with terrorism against the United States. McCain is short on time and Obama is still vulnerable on foreign policy issues. Obama is saying the right thing now by noting that his administration will have taking out bin Liden as a first priority. Maybe bin Laden knows that McCain, like Bush, will let him stay in hiding...