McCain Making Money Off Petraeus Hearings?

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Sen. John McCain has just sent out a fundraising e-mail based on yesterday's testimony by Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker.

"Today, I had the privilege to hear from General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker on the current state of the war in Iraq and the progress that has been made there. We owe these two patriotic Americans a debt of gratitude for their selfless service to our country," he says in the e-mail letter.

McCain tells supporters to reject the "reckless and dangerous" call from his potential Democratic opponents, Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, to withdraw troops. He also asks supporters to sign a "support our troops & their mission" petition, and includes a button asking for campaign donations.

All three of the candidates had a chance to question the architects of the Bush administration Iraq strategy, and they and the other senators used the appearances to score political points, but McCain has taken it a step further by fundraising off of it.

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[aosborne]

As much as I believe that McCain is way off on Iraq and has sold his soul to the NeoCons in an effort to be more electable to his party, I don't think this justifies as anything unreasonable. I am certain that Obama and Clinton will include their take on the testimony in fund raising materials; it merely shows their respective stances on the issue.

This is not even a minor issue, but a complete non issue here.

[Daly]

I agree folks are getting too touchy