Sen. Obama goes on the offensive

I was concerned that Sen. Obama’s conciliatory tone earlier in the campaign signified that he would be reluctant to throw a punch. However, if this is any indication of how he’ll respond to republican attacks, well, then, I say Bring it! Because Sen. Obama is showing that he can counter punch, and that he’s not afraid to get bruised:

ABC News Sunlen Miller reports: Sen. Barack Obama went one step further today in his pushback against presumptive GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain and President Bush on appeasement, suggesting that both Republicans have a problem with presidents past who have engaged in direct diplomacy.

“If George Bush and John McCain have a problem with direct diplomacy, led by the president of the United States, then they can explain why they have a problem with John F. Kennedy because that’s what he did with [Soviet leader Nikita] Khrushchev, or Ronald Reagan, ’cause that’s what he did with [Soviet leader Mikhail] Gorbachev, or Richard Nixon ’cause that’s what they did with [Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung],” Obama said in Roseburg, Ore. “That’s exactly the kind of diplomacy we need to keep us safe.”