Senators Joseph I. Lieberman and Joe Biden, who spoke as surrogates on behalf of Senators John McCain and Barack Obama, respectively, made a case for why their candidate would be a better commander in chief.
Mr. Lieberman said that if Senator McCain were elected, he would be “trusted by our allies and respected and feared by our enemies.” Mr. Biden called Mr. Obama a “wise leader” on foreign policy and sought to associate Mr. McCain with President Bush: “This administration’s policy and John McCain’s view — and I love him — are abject failures,” Mr. Biden said. “We have never been weaker in relative terms than we are today.”
The senators spoke at a conference organized by the Center for U.S. Global Engagement.
Mr. Lieberman, independent of Connecticut, said that John McCain would be the kind of president who “will do what is in our national interest even when it means bucking public opinion polls and even when it means standing up to his own party.”
He also took several opportunities to criticize Senator Obama, sometimes subtly (terrorists, he said, “can not be appeased by sweet reason or appeals to the better angels of their nature”) and sometimes more directly.
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