Robert L. Borosage: Your Health Care May Decide The 2008 Election

Now we're in the presidential campaign's silly season. The primaries are over; the conventions yet to come. Americans are tuning out politics and dialing in baseball and the Olympics, vacations and the price of gas. Obama is traveling abroad, demonstrating that he really is a responsible driver. And McCain seems intent on running into every pothole in the road. This week, he published an op ed in the New York Post slamming Obama for agreeing with the Iraqi Prime Minister that it is time to bring the troops home by 2010. Sure, McCain admitted, "Iraq's army will be equipped and trained by the middle of next year," but it will still need a lot of help. "The Iraqi air force, for one, still lags behind, and no modern army can operate without air cover." Particularly not against the fearsome al Qaeda AIr Force. And McCain didn't... [read full story]