McCain Continues To Slam Obama For Opposing The Surge Calling It The "Audacity Of Hopelessness"

Speaking to an audience of Hispanic military veterans, McCain continued to slam Obama for opposing sending more troops to Iraq in the "surge" that McCain supported and he claims would have led to defeat there and in Afghanistan. "We rejected the audacity of hopelessness, and we were right," McCain said, a play on the title of Obama's book "The Audacity of Hope." He said that had Obama gotten what he wanted and there had never been a surge then "America would have been humiliated and weakened. Terrorists would have seen our defeat as evidence America lacked the resolve to defeat them. As Iraq descended into chaos, other countries in the Middle East would have come to the aid of their favored factions, and the entire region might have erupted in war." McCain said: "Sen. Obama told the American people what he thought you wanted to hear. I told you the truth." Obama even joined only 13 other senators in voting against funding the troops after Bush had vetoed a previous bill making funding conditioned on withdrawal.

Also, while in Colorado, McCain had a 45-minute meeting with the Dalai Lama


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