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Barack Obama rebuked Republican rival John McCain and President Bush for "dishonest, divisive" attacks in hinting that the Democratic presidential candidate would appease terrorists, staunchly defending his national security credentials for the general election campaign.

Obama said their "appalling attacks" amounted to nothing more than "fear-peddling and "fear mongering".

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Some of the best lines lines:

• "The president did something that presidents don't do ... and that is launch a political attack targeted to the domestic market" while speaking to a foreign audience.
• "That's exactly the kind of appalling attack that has divided our country and has alienated the world. ... McCain embraced Bush's attack"
• "If George Bush and John McCain want to have a debate about protecting the United States of America that's a debate that I will have at any time in any place -- and that is a debate I will win because George Bush and John McCain have a lot to answer for."
• "They have to explain why we are now in our sixth year in Iraq."
• They've got to explain why Osama bin Laden is still at large. They have to explain why Iran and Hamas are now both stronger than ever. That's the Bush-McCain record.
• "John McCain still has not spelled out one substantial way that he'd be different than George Bush when it comes to foreign policy."
• "John McCain has nothing to offer but the naive and irresponsible belief that tough talk from Washington" alone will achieve our global objectives.

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