Arizona Senator John McCain Chimes In
--- McCain's comments came just before the Bush campaign launched a new television ad that pictured a marauding pack of wolves while the narrator's ominous voice drew parallels with Democrat Kerry and "liberals in Congress" who had voted to "slash America's intelligence operations" by $6 billion a year after al-Qaida's initial attack on the World Trade Center with a truck bomb in 1993.
"Weakness attracts those who are waiting to do America harm," the ad warned as the video showed the wolves.
The presidential candidates themselves targeted broader economic issues that had appeal to families and women in battleground states including Pennsylvania, Ohio and Wisconsin. Polls continued to show a tight race.
McCain used an appearance on the NBC News "Today" program to defend Kerry and insist that the Democratic nominee did not have the "fundamental misunderstanding" of the war in Iraq that Bush repeatedly alleges on the campaign trail. McCain also urged the president to describe the situation in Iraq more accurately to the American people, noting that "mistakes have been made." ---
McCain chastises Bush, Kerry over campaign rhetoric. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a supporter of President Bush and a friend of Sen. John Kerry, chastised the two candidates Friday for their superheated campaign rhetoric on Iraq and the war on terror. [Front Page]
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