Do You Believe We Should Talk with Chavez?
US Sen. John McCain seems to have gotten pretty tired of talking about the economy, and understandably so. After a week of losing on economics issues, McCain's latest ad attempts to bring the discussion back to foreign policy, where he has a percieved advantage.
The ad hammers Obama for a comment he made in a primary debate, saying he would meet with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, among other less-than-friendly world leaders, without precondition. Obama has since backtracked on that point
This may begin to set the stage for Friday, when the two candidates face off in a foreign policy-themed debate.
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Just to provide some context behind Chavez's eloquent speech - this was a rally he held after the expulsion of the U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela as a show of "solidarity" with Bolivia's decision to expel the U.S. Ambassador before that nation. Univision's political Sunday morning show, Al Punto aired this footage used in the McCain ad last Sunday. Since then, the Ambassadors of Venezuela and Bolivia to the U.S. have similarly been recalled. Time magazine wrote more on the backdrop to this "anti-yankee" rant: