McCain--Heroes don't brag

The Hill:
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) continued to hammer the Obama re-election team over its use of the death of Osama bin Laden in a campaign commercial, echoing Mitt Romney's statement that any president - including Jimmy Carter - would have made the same call.

“I say any president, Jimmy Carter, anybody, any president would have, obviously, under those circumstances, done the same thing.  And to now take credit for something that any president would do is indicative of take over campaign we're under -- we're -- we're seeing…So all I can say is that this is going to be a very rough campaign," McCain told Fox News in an interview set to air Monday night. "And I've had the great honor of serving in the company of heroes.  And, you know the thing about heroes, they don't brag.”

Those remarks largely mirror a similar claim made by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney earlier Monday. McCain has endorsed Romney's bid for the White House and served as one of his top surrogates on foreign policy issues.
"Of course. Even Jimmy Carter would have given that order," Romney said Monday before a New Hampshire campaign event.
Fox News host Bill O'Reilly then pushed McCain about Vice President Joe Biden's statement that he would have not ordered the SEAL raid that killed Bin Laden, as part of a larger commentary on President Obama's decisiveness.

“Listen, Biden is the same one that said we should divide Iraq into three countries.  Biden is the same one that said Desert Storm would be another Vietnam.  Biden has -- has been consistently wrong on every national security issue that I've been involved in in the last 20 years or so," McCain said.
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McCain is right about heroes and Biden.  Biden has been wrong on nearly every foreign policy issue his entire career.  He was far the nuclear freeze movement, and against the Reagan military build up that brought the Soviet Union down, besides the other issues McCain mentioned.  The suggestion that he would not have done the bin Laden mission indicates that his judgment is not up to the office of the Presidency and it is another reason to vote against the Obama-Biden ticket.

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