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Rep. Kevin McCarthy: “Wouldn’t It Be Nice To Have A President Who’s Smarter Than His Sec’y Of State?”

September 17, 2007

Sep. 14: In advance of President Bush’s address to the nation Thursday night, Democratic presidential candidate Senator Joe Biden met with patrons of the Family Table Restaurant in Atlantic, Iowa.

“This is George Bush’s war. But it’s America’s future,” Senator Joe Biden told patrons of the Family Table Restaurant in Atlantic, Iowa today. “The fact of the matter is that this president is going to tell you tonight that he wants to continue what is absolutely, in my view, a flawed, losing, destructive, and now unconscionable policy.”

Iowa House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy , who endorsed Biden today, commented “Given that Iraq is the number one issue facing this country, and it will be for the next few years, wouldn’t it be nice to have a president of the United States who’s smarter than his Secretary of State?”

Asked to respond to Sen. Barack Obama’s speech in Clinton, IA, yesterday, Biden painted Obama’s plan for troop withdrawal as unrealistically rosy. “My impression is he thinks that if we leave, somehow the Iraqis are going to have an epiphany” of peaceful coexistence among warring sects. “I’ve seen zero evidence of that.”

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