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He still refuses to acknowledge that the surge has succeeded. She has been in charge and she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities. Obama has never had a position of responsibility to do with many of those responsibilities. And everybody knows energy is a key element in American strength and future. Tom Ridge, who has served in so many different capacities.
MCCAIN: Of course, I think, overall, she's by far the best candidate. And, again, being governor with an 80 percent approval rating of America's largest state, I think, is a very significant plus. And by the way, if you'd talk to the other governors who have worked with her, they're very impressed with her. Obama has the most liberal extreme voting record of anybody in the Senate. Obama comes from the old Chicago machine politics and has never taken on the special interests in his party on a major issue ever. GIBSON: It says "Country First" all over the convention hall, as you'll see when you go in there tomorrow night, probably seen pictures of it, it says "Country First." You can assure people you made this decision based on the idea of country first as opposed to a political decision to solidify the base of the party. MCCAIN: I can look the country in the eye and say this is a person who will bring change to Washington and start working for you and upon your side. They don't want somebody who has -- who is, frankly, necessarily gone to Harvard or an Ivy League school. She probably hasn't been to a Georgetown cocktail party. She represents everything we want to see in government and America -- change and reform and ethics and taking on the special interests. And I'm telling you, Charlie, I believe, I am convinced -- if I'm convinced of anything, tonight's performance, I think, will convince a lot of Americans and a lot of this other stuff's going to go away immediately.
You have talked about them in pernicious terms that you campaign. And then when she became governor, she said, "No more for my state." GIBSON: Gave a speech or spoke at a Pentecostal church not long ago, said, "Our national leaders are sending US soldiers," talking about Iraq, "on a task that is from God." MCCAIN: I think -- look, I think that they're on a task to try to defeat what Gen. Petraeus and Osama bin Laden have said is a central battleground in our struggle against radical Islamic extremism. I think that, obviously, that we are facing a transcendent evil of radical Islamic extremism that wants to destroy everything we stand for and believe in and value.
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