National Security To Be A Campaign Issue For President Obama

Obama Embraces National Security As Campaign Issue -- New York Times

WASHINGTON — With a Republican opponent all but chosen and the general election campaign about to start, President Obama is preparing to emphasize an issue that few Democratic candidates have embraced in the past: national security, long the domain of the Republican Party.

At the same time, the Obama campaign is seeking to portray Mitt Romney, the likely Republican nominee, as a national security neophyte whose best ideas are simply retreads of what the president is already doing, and whose worst instincts would take the country back to the days of President George W. Bush: cowboy diplomacy, the Iraq war and America’s lowest standing on the international stage.

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My Comment: Will this be an effective tactic .... hmmm .... probably not. VP Gore used a variation of this tactic in the 2000 election, but those who base their vote on national security issues still ending up voting for the 'neophyte' Republican candidate George Bush.