A story in The Politico reports the Democrats are poised to use a reference made by Senator John McCain at a NH town hall meeting against him in the general campaign:
John McCain is scheduled to deliver a major foreign policy speech Wednesday in Los Angeles, one with a heavy Iraq focus, but chances are, Democrats won’t be listening. They’ve already distilled his views into an easy-to-remember formulation: 100 years of war.
It is a reference to an offhand remark made by McCain in January about the possible duration of the U.S. presence in Iraq, a comment that Democrats now portray as the equivalent of the McCain Doctrine.
Though it’s not exactly an accurate representation of McCain’s views, Democratic strategists view the “100 years” remark as the linchpin of an effort to turn McCain’s national security credentials against him by framing the Vietnam War hero as a warmonger who envisions an American presence in Iraq without end.
Both Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama began citing McCain’s remark in Democratic debates not long after he made it, and their campaigns have stepped up the focus in recent weeks.
Did you get that? Even though everyone knows the simple one line sound bite is "not exactly an accurate representation of McCain’s views," to the Democrats, that doesn’t matter. Why let the truth interfere when there’s a political opponent to destroy?
Fortunately, the GraniteGrok team was on the scene when the episode in question took place, and we caught it all on film. It was actually part of a fairly lengthy exchange with one of the members of the audience, which we Youtubed at the time to show the essence of NH’s primary and to show how, unlike Democrats, McCain doesn’t shirk from unscripted, freewheeling debate. Here is the video, which runs a little over six minutes in length. It provides the context in which his "100 years" remark was made. View it for yourself in total before you buy the latest talking points from the propagandameisters in the respective Democrat campaigns…
