RNC: The Best Policy

WASHINGTON, Apr. 21 /PRNewswire/ --

WASHINGTON, April 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is an Op-Ed by David Freddoso from National Review Online and is being issued by the Republican National Committee:

Barack Obama is still licking the wounds from his connection to a sharp-tongued reverend. As he does, critics are setting in on the unrepentant terrorist with whom he worked and associated. A criminal trial of a close Obama friend in Chicago is proving to be a big added embarrassment. ...

It's tough times for Barack Obama. The last thing he needs right now is for people to question his honesty. ...

On Friday, Obama addressed a crowd of Democrats in Erie, Pa., throwing them some red meat on his Republican opponent's statements about the economy. "John McCain yesterday said that we are, that, that during George Bush's tenure, the economy actually made great progress," Obama said. "That's his quote." ...

[B]ut look at what McCain actually said about the economy on Thursday in that appearance on Bloomberg Television: ...

McCain: Certainly at this time we are in very challenging times. We all recognize that. Families are sitting around the kitchen table this evening and figuring out whether they're going to be able to keep their home or not. They're figuring out why it is that someone in their family or their neighbor has lost their job. There's no doubt that we are in enormous difficulties. I think if you look at the overall record and millions of jobs having been created, et cetera, et cetera, you could make an argument that there's been great progress economically over that period of time. But that's no comfort. That's no comfort to families now that are facing these tremendous economic challenges.

A bit different from what Obama suggested, isn't it? In fact, it's the opposite of the representation Obama made. ...

[D]uring March, Obama was misrepresenting McCain's January comment on troops remaining in Iraq for "a hundred years." ... Even news outlets very favorable to Obama, including the New York Times, had to concede that he was basically lying. Frank Rich used the word "libel." Asked whether U.S. troops might remain in Iraq for as many as 50 years, McCain had said the following:

[McCain:] Make it a hundred. We've been in South Korea... we've been in Japan for 60 years. We've been in South Korea for 50 years or so. That would be fine with me. As long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed, that's fine with me. I hope that would be fine with you, if we maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world where Al Qaeda is training, recruiting and equipping and motivating people every single day.

Obama's mischaracterization of McCain as wanting 100 years of war backfired ...

The remarks from Pennsylvania on Friday represent a second bad data point in measuring Obama's honesty. ... Now Obama is beginning to demonstrate a deceptive pattern -- and a badly executed one at that. ...

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