Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who has hectored Democratic rival Barack Obama to visit Iraq, now says Obama should go to South America as well.<\/p>\n
McCain, an Arizona senator, is to make the case in a speech on Monday in San Diego to the National Council of La Raza, one of the most important advocacy groups in the United States for Hispanic Americans.<\/p>\n
McCain, who needs support from Hispanic Americans in his battle against Obama in the November 4 presidential election, will tell the group about his support for a stalled free trade agreement between the United States and Colombia and a hemispheric trade pact.<\/p>\n
“And while it is surely not my intention to become my opponent’s scheduler, I hope Sen. Obama soon visits some of the other countries of the Americas for the first time,” McCain is to say, according to excerpts released by his campaign. “Were he to do so, I think he, too, would see that stronger economic bonds with our neighbors and the closer friendships they encourage, are a great benefit in many ways to our country.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
This, of course, would lead to three possible scenarios:<\/p>\n
1. Obama doesn’t visit South America. This would draw criticism from McCain, because, apparently, going to South America is important.<\/p>\n
2. Obama visits South America, and gains information he’ll use to help shape his trade policy. This would draw criticism from McCain, because Obama is supposed to visit South America and change his mind.<\/p>\n
3. Obama visits South America, and completely abandons his opposition to the Bush\/McCain trade policy. This would draw criticism from McCain, because Obama would be inconsistent.<\/p>\n
Note to McCain: Obama doesn’t need a travel agent. These constant recommendations are getting a little insipid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For quite a while, John McCain had a talking point he really enjoyed: “You know what Barack Obama really should do? He should go to Iraq and see the war first-hand.” This touched off a debate about, well, I’m not quite sure what the debate was about. Apparently, McCain and the RNC wanted voters to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}