John McCain, typically blunt, has told colleagues regarding Obama "that many of these appointments he would have made himself," said Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican and a close McCain friend. According to Fred Greenstein, emeritus professor of politics at Princeton, said: "I don't think there is a precedent for this. Sometimes there is bad blood, sometimes there is so-so blood, but rarely is there good blood." Now that their Chicago meeting on November 16 is a bit of old news Graham, who accompanied McCain to the meeting, said Obama took a notably different tone toward Iraq than he had during the campaign, emphasizing the common ground in their views. "What the Obama-Biden administration has talked about is not losing the gains we have achieved." He added, "Obama does not want to be the guy who lost Iraq when it is close to being won."
Obama should be apologizing to those families who sacrificed so much yet never during the campaign did he acknowledge their heroism nor did he recognize how successful the surge was.
