Obama Gets Endorsement From Iowa Republican

Barack Obama has received the endorsement of former a former Republican Congressman from Iowa named Jim Leach. Click here to read the story. Leach was a Congressman for 30 years (from 1976 to 2006.)

This endorsement helps Obama with bipartisan appeal, particularly in Leach’s home state of Iowa. Right now 538 projects Obama to win Iowa by 5%. Iowa was very close in 2004, Bush won it by less than 1%.

What’s notable about Leach’s endorsement is that it seems that it was made mostly on the strength of Barack Obama’s foreign policy ideas. While the Republicans (and seemingly the media as well) want to play up the idea that John McCain has an advantage in foreign policy that doesn’t make sense to me. It was Obama who was right on Iraq and it is Obama who is talking about a sensible foreign policy that doesn’t get America into further unneeded unwise wars.

McCain, on the other hand, was wrong on Iraq and represents a continuation (or perhaps even worse) of George W. Bush’s “cowboy” foreign policy that has cost America so dearly.

As Pat Buchanan said “John McCain will make Dick Cheney look like Gandhi.”