From Campaign Spot reader Gary:
Obama attended that Indonesian grade school from 1967 to 1971. During this same period (actually 1967 to 1973) McCain was also in attendance at a Southeast Asian facility. Facing each other in a debate, the mind boggles at the potential one-liners available to McCain.
Yeah, the whole, “it’s time to have a President who knows the world beyond our borders because he’s lived overseas” line kinda packs less punch now, huh?
It seems a good time to go back and recall McCain’s deployment of the mother of all comebacks:
McCain faced two experienced state legislators in the Republican nomination process, and as a newcomer to the state was hit with repeated charges of being a carpetbagger.[84] Finally at a candidates forum he gave a famous refutation to a voter making the charge:
“Listen, pal. I spent 22 years in the Navy. My father was in the Navy. My grandfather was in the Navy. We in the military service tend to move a lot. We have to live in all parts of the country, all parts of the world. I wish I could have had the luxury, like you, of growing up and living and spending my entire life in a nice place like the First District of Arizona, but I was doing other things. As a matter of fact, when I think about it now, the place I lived longest in my life was Hanoi.”






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