McCain economics 1

Here's Obama's new ad hitting McCain:

I'm not entirely sure I get the Iraq bit. Is the Obama campaign now trying to cast Iraq as some sort of pampered welfare recipient? I know it now has an oil surplus, but it's not exactly like they're sitting pretty over there.

David Roberts is staff writer for Grist. You can follow his Twitter feed at twitter.com/drgrist.

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  1. GreyFlcn Posted 4:01 pm
    14 Aug 2008

    The logicI'm not entirely sure I get the Iraq bit. Is the Obama campaign now trying to cast Iraq as some sort of pampered welfare recipient? I know it now has an oil surplus, but it's not exactly like they're sitting pretty over there.
    Yeah, but the argument is "Why are we spending $10 billion a month on Iraq, when they got a $79 billion dollar oil surplus".

    -David Ahlport

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