LA Times

In a speech he will deliver this morning, John McCain manages to take a slap at Barack Obama and Iran at the same time.

McCain, according to excerpts of a prepared address to the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC, will ridicule the notion of negotiating with Iran’s leaders to stop the nation’s suspected efforts to develop nuclear weapons. That’s his not-very-subtle dig at Obama (McCain also attacks the Democrat by name in the address).

“We hear talk of a meeting with the Iranian leadership offered up as if it were some sudden inspiration, a bold new idea that somehow nobody has ever thought of before. Yet it’s hard to see what such a summit with President Ahmadinejad would actually gain, except an earful of anti-Semitic rants, and a worldwide audience for a man who denies one Holocaust and talks before frenzied crowds about starting another,” McCain says in his prepared remarks to the AIPAC Policy Conference.

Instead of negotiating, McCain proposes political and, in particular, financial pressure. He would first urge the United Nations Security Council to impose sanctions but, if that failed, McCain would have the U.S. and its allies take over. What’s more, he urges “a worldwide divestment campaign.”

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