McCain, Obama and Iraq

The New York Times: Interesting article that looks at how Iraq will affect the Campaigns of Obama and McCain. On the Obama side how the success in Iraq means that he has to change policy to win the centre while McCain who won has supported the War from the start but was critical of the management has to make the issue work for him during the next few weeks and months. This is a very fair article by the Liberal New York Times, but also shows how Iraq is working, they might left wing crackpots but they are not stupid. The politics is simple, if McCain can define Obama as weak on National Security and not willing to change, thus Iraq, he will win the election, the intelligent liberal left, as represented by the Times wants to give Obama a get out clause, change the rules thus move to the centre and remove one of the pillars of the McCain Campaign.