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May 16th, 2008
Posted: 08:13 PM ET
WATERTOWN, South Dakota (CNN) — Barack Obama linked John McCain Friday with what he called “the failed policies” of the Bush administration, accusing the presumptive Republican presidential nominee and the White House of “bombast, exaggerations and fear-mongering” in place of “strategy and analysis and smart policy.” “What we’ve done over the last eight years does not work,” the Democratic frontrunner told reporters. The “track record of George Bush supported by John McCain” includes the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, a longer and more expensive war in Iraq than was initially projected, the continued freedom of Sept. 11 mastermind Osama bin Laden and the strengthening of Iran after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, he said. “The American people are going to look at the evidence,” he said. “We don’t get a sense that this has been a wise foreign policy or a smart foreign policy or a tough foreign policy. This has been a policy that oftentimes revolved around a lot of bluster and big talk, but very little performance, and what the American people want right now is performance.” |
 
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