Obama Continues to Press McCain on Iraq

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) peers through a kaleidoscope while shopping for gifts for his wife and daughters at Prairie Edge in the downtown shopping district May 31, 2008 in Rapid City, S.D. (Getty Images) By Keith B. Richburg ABERDEEN, S.D. — Sen. Barack Obama, campaigning here in South Dakota in advance of its Democratic primary Tuesday, continued to focus on the general election, exchanging rhetorical fire with presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain by Iraq and final year’s “surge”

of American troops. Using his sharpest language yet in what has become a long-distance three-day duel, Obama, at a dawn town corridor assembly in Rapid City, S.D., compared McCain to President Bush for refusing to confess he misspoke on Thursday when he said U.S. troop numbers in Iraq had been “drawn down to pre-surge levels.” “We’ve seen that film before — a leader who pursues the wrong course, who is unwilling

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