McCain's Campaign Saying Publicly Obama Is Weaker than Clinton

Republican Presidential candidate John McCain's campaign now believes, in contrast to its statements from previous months, that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, who received the required number of delegates in order to win the party's nomination last night, is a weaker candidate than fellow Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, according to Robert Novak of the Chicago Sun-Times.



According to Novak, McCain's campaign appears encouraged over Obama's losses in Democratic primaries in the state of South Dakota on Tuesday as well as in Puerto Rico on Sunday. In a speech that he gave just outside of New Orleans on Tuesday night, McCain specifically criticized Obama's lack of political experience in comparison to his.

During the speech, according to Novak, McCain attempted to differentiate himself from current Republican President George W. Bush as well as criticize him in an effort to not only separate his policies from Bush's, but also to try to show that Obama himself shared a similar viewpoint as the President in a certain regard. The Republican candidate criticized Obama for supporting an energy bill that President Bush supported, which McCain himself opposed.