McCain and Bush are “joined at the hip”

Senator Joe Biden (D-Del.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, spoke at the Center for American Progress Action Fund today and discussed presidential nominee John McCain’s remarks last week about Senator Obama and his statement to commence talks with Iran. Biden said that McCain’s foreign policy aims are undefined and will be following in President Bush’s footsteps.

Biden declared that Bush was “completely out of touch” with the government. The Bush Administrations foreign policy objectives have failed, Iran’s influence has expanded not diminished, Hamas runs amok in Iraq, over 4,000 American soldiers have lost their lives in the Iraq war and the Middle East is more dangerous now then it was seven years ago, Biden said.

McCain said last week that Obama is naive for seeking out peace talks with Iran, but Biden thinks that Obama understands the United State’s sophisticated relationship with Iran. The allies and partners of the United States need to know that the new administration in January will go the extra diplomatic mile to talk with Iran and use diplomatic means to work things out instead of using military force.

Biden said that McCain has no plan to remove the United States from Iraq other then the Bush plan, which is to stay. Biden maintains that there is no difference between McCain and Bush, and that they are “joined at the hip.” Obama offers new plans and ideas for United States foreign policy, which shouldn’t be slighted by Bush and McCain, but looked forward to as a way to improve America’s standing in the world in the future, and bring American troops home.