NEW: Obama memo: Obama leading, McCain following

We have all noticed that Obama has been leading on very important foreign policy proposals lately and not only is McCain following but so is Bush.  From Iraq withdrawal, to Iran nuclear talks, to Afghanistan increase troop support, etc, Obama has been leading the charge and slowing the media is catching on.

Well the Obama campaign has finally released a memo stating just that.

Obama Camp Calls McCain A Follower On Foreign Policy

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/...

Many of us have been asking when is the Obama campaign going to state the obvious which is that Obama is leading on foreign policy and Bush & McBush are just playing catch up.  For example, Obama wrote an OpEd piece in the NYT followed by a major speech on Iraq/Afghanistan/foreign policy and McCain followed suit.  Instead of McCain giving his speech on Thursday as scheduled, McCain jumps right in after Obama gave this speech on Tuesday to counteract Obama with his own speech.  Bush even promptly scheduled a news conference that day the exact same time that Obama was suppose to give his speech to try to take away from Obama's press coverage.

Well from "time horizons" to nuclear "listenings" with Iran both McCain and Bush really seem like they are just following Obama's lead.  Also, McCain was the one who goaded Obama into going to Iraq and Afghanistan and when Obama does go, all McCain does is whine about it.

Well the Obama campaign has just released a press release stating that very fact that in this game of "FOLLOW THE LEADER" the leader is Obama and McSame & Bush are trying to runnning after him.

Here are some of the highlights from the Obama campaign memo:

There are two problems with John McCain's political attacks on Barack Obama's foreign policy. First, on the biggest foreign policy questions of the last eight years, Barack Obama has made the right judgment and John McCain has sided with George Bush in making the wrong one. Second, the failure of the McCain-Bush foreign policy has forced John McCain to change his position, and to embrace the very same Obama approaches that he once attacked.

Just this week, Senator McCain has been forced by events to switch to Barack Obama's position on two fundamental issues: more troops in Afghanistan, and more diplomacy with Iran. On both issues, Obama took stands that weren't politically popular at the time – opposing the war in Iraq as a diversion from the critical mission in Afghanistan, and standing up for direct diplomacy with Iran – while John McCain lined up with George Bush. Time has proven Obama’s judgment right and McCain wrong.

The next shift appears to be Iraq. For months, Senator McCain has called any plan to redeploy our troops from Iraq "surrender" – even though we'd be leaving Iraq to a sovereign Iraqi government. Now, the Bush Administration is embracing the negotiation of troop withdrawals with the Iraqi government – a position that Senator Obama called for last September, and reiterated on Monday in the New York Times. And now, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki supports Barack Obama’s timeline, telling Der Speigel that, "Barack Obama is right when he talks about 16 months."

Furthermore:

Afghanistan –

·McCain at the beginning of the week: more of the same

· McCain at the end of the week: more troops...

IRAN

· McCain at the beginning of the week: against high-level talks with Iran

· McCain at the end of the week: praised Bush Administration's high-level talks with Iran...

Well I am glad to see the Obama campaign go on OFFENSE on what we have all been talking about here.  Furthermore, more importantly Obama is demonstrating JUDGEMENT TO LEAD.