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By Vanessa Silverton-Peel

Obama's best chance for winning in November might just be John McCain. Or rather, John McCain's campaign, the most poorly managed, embarrassingly outmaneuvered campaigns since Katherine Harris ran for Senate. So on today's show Rachel will be running through the litany of missteps and miscalculations, from the canceled visit to an oil platform during a hurricane to his backward timeline on the surge and the Sunni awakening.

Our first guest is Ilan Goldenberg from the National Security Network.  Later John Amato from Crooks and Liars joins Rachel to talk about CBS
news editing out John McCain's mistake on Iraq -- and also about the Blue America pac's campaign against the rightwing "Freedom's Watch"
pac.  Learn more about Blue America here.

Normal Lives?

I came across this Senator McCain quote at the First Read webpage yesterday:

McCain said. "We will withdraw. The fact is, is whether we withdraw in victory or whether we withdraw in defeat. And again, you and I have different versions. We have succeeded. The Sadr City is safe. Mosul is safe. Basra is safe. The people of Iraq, and I've been there, are now leading normal lives."

Is this true? Are these cities safe? Are people living normal lives there, lives without fear and with essentials? Is this a true assessment or one which Senator McCain wants us to believe?

Thanks for pointing out all the other misstatements - since his MSM friends seem to feel that these statements don't really matter.

JT

By JTGullsJuly 23, 2008 - 6:42pm