Posted by JumpyPants
From TPM, great analysis of Cindy's double-bind statement today:
Here's the thing, though. If Obama's vote against that supplemental can be said to constitute a vote not to fund Cindy's son, as she put it, McCain, too, can be said to have voted to defund his own son.
McCain, of course, also opposed an Iraq troop funding bill in 2007 -- the one that did include a withdrawal timetable -- and voted against passage of the bill in the Senate.
It's important to be as clear as possible about this. If we accept Cindy's implication that Obama's vote constituted a danger to the McCains' son, then John, too, put his own son at risk -- all because the bill he voted against would have brought his son and his fellow troops home and ended the war McCain wants to continue.
In reality, of course, neither man supported "defunding" the troops. The goal of Obama's vote was to impose a withdrawal timetable, and the goal of McCain's vote was to oppose one. Not that reality matters, of course.