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The anti-John McCain's has the blogsophere up in arms. If you've forgotten, during an interview with the Bill Bennett radio show last year, McCain said, "There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods today. The U.S. is beginning to succeed in Iraq."

When confronted with that comment in several other interviews, McCain waffled, first saying that as an American, driving an unarmed Humvee through Baghdad was not something he would do — and then telling a reporter at a press conference that he'd just come from a stroll through downtown Baghdad.

Although the above video, featured on The Jed Report, feels slightly propaganda-filled (slash Michael Moorish), it does highlight McCain's inconsistent claims.

To make matters worse for McCain, Barack Obama kicked off a two-week economic tour in North Carolina where he linked McCain's economic stance to Bush's.

"John McCain and I have a fundamentally different vision of where to take the country. Because for all his talk of independence, the centerpiece of his economic plan amounts to a full-throated endorsement of George Bush’s policies," he said.

"President Bush told the American people he thought the biggest danger arising from this housing crisis was the temptation to do something about it. Now Senator McCain wants to turn Bush’s policy of ‘too little, too late’ into a policy of ‘even less, even later’. That’s not the change we need right now. That’s what got us into this mess in the first place."

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