McCain ad attacks Obama on Iran position
Washington, 27 August (IranVNC)—Republican presidential hopeful John McCain released a new television advertisement today accusing his Democratic rival, Barack Obama, as being “dangerously unprepared” to be president.
By: IranVNC
Published: Wednesday, August 27, 2008
15:00GMT—11:00AM/EST
MCCAIN – OBAMA – IRAN
Washington, 27 August (IranVNC)—Republican presidential hopeful John McCain released a new television advertisement today accusing his Democratic rival, Barack Obama, as being “dangerously unprepared” to be president.
The advertisement is based on remarks Obama made in May, in which he said Iran, Cuba and Venezuela were “tiny” countries compared to the former-Soviet Union and that the countries do not pose a threat to the U.S. as the Soviet Union did.
“And yet we were willing to talk to the Soviet Union at the time,” Obama said earlier this year.
As images of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Israeli flag flash across the screen, the narrator says: “Obama says Iran is a ‘tiny’ country, ‘doesn’t pose a serious threat.’ Terrorism, destroying Israel, those aren’t ‘serious threats’? Obama – dangerously unprepared to be president.”
The U.S. suspects Iran of using its nuclear program to develop nuclear arms; a charge Tehran denies.
McCain has previously criticized Obama for saying that he would sit down for talks with Ahmadinejad without preconditions. But recently Obama has said that discussions should begin below the presidential level, and that Ahmadinejad would not be the “right person” to discuss US-Iran relations.
Obama’s spokesperson Hari Sevugan said that the ad highlights that McCain holds similar positions as President George W. Bush.
According to AFP, Sevugan said: “If John McCain was serious about dealing with the threat from Iran, he would join Barack Obama’s bipartisan effort in the Senate to step up sanctions on Iran instead of adopting the same tired, old Bush-Rove playbook,” in reference to Bush’s former Deputy Chief of Staff, Karl Rove.
Sources: John McCain website, Agence France-Presse
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