Posted by Jed Lewison on Mon Jul 14, 2008 at 10:02 AM Pacific

An expert not so much

John McCain loves to boast that he's seen the facts on the ground in Iraq. This is how he knows we're winning the war, whatever that means. (Defeating the terrorists who he can't even keep straight, I suppose?)

Anyway, McCain isn't satisfied with his own self-promotion -- as Steve Benen writes, he's also arrogantly decided to take upon himself the role of travel agent, trying to plan out Barack Obama's upcoming trip overseas. Of course, as Benen explains, the whole point of McCain's framing is to try to trap Obama no matter what he says.

And the truth remains that John McCain's command of the facts about Iraq is actually quite poor. Take, for example, his comments about Mosul being quiet:

An expert not so much

John McCain loves to boast that he's seen the facts on the ground in Iraq. This is how he knows we're winning the war, whatever that means. (Defeating the terrorists who he can't even keep straight, I suppose?)

Anyway, McCain isn't satisfied with his own self-promotion -- as Steve Benen writes, he's also arrogantly decided to take upon himself the role of travel agent, trying to plan out Barack Obama's upcoming trip overseas. Of course, as Benen explains, the whole point of McCain's framing is to try to trap Obama no matter what he says.

And the truth remains that John McCain's command of the facts about Iraq is actually quite poor. Take, for example, his comments about Mosul being quiet:

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