Here's video from this morning where Senator McCain sat down on the Today Show with Matt Lauer. As you'll see below, this will lead us to the latest attempt by the Obama Campaign to distort what Senator McCain is saying. Remember the 100 years in Iraq distortion that they shamelessly hawked? They hope that this is their latest addition.

Here's the transcript of what you just saw.

NBC’S MATT LAUER: “If it's working Senator, do you now have a better estimate of when American forces can come home from Iraq?”

SEN. MCCAIN: “No, but that's not too important. What’s important is the casualties in Iraq, Americans are in South Korea, Americans are in Japan, American troops are in Germany. That’s all fine. American casualties and the ability to withdraw; we will be able to withdraw. General Petraeus is going to tell us in July when he thinks we are. But the key to it is that we don't want any more Americans in harm's way. That way, they will be safe, and serve our country and come home with honor and victory, not in defeat, which is what Senator Obama's proposal would have done. I’m proud of them. And they're doing a great job. And we are succeeding and it's fascinating that Senator Obama still doesn't realize that.”

Here's what the libs are saying.

Obama’s Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and top foreign policy advisor Susan Rice on a conference call with reporters hit back. Rice, talking about McCain foreign policy used the phrase “real confusion” and said McCain is “confusing” and “confused.”

Is that a code for suggesting McCain is too old to understand what is going on?

Rice replied, “McCain has gotten it wrong, and not just once…I am not ascribing it to any particular function…I am simply pointing out a pattern that is notable.”

There is a question of whether McCain “ has a firm grasp of the issues.”

When it was my turn, I asked Rice if she realized that use of the words confused and confusing could be taken to refer to age. Obama will be 47 in August; McCain is 71.

“If you want to suggest another word for the same lack of understanding, misunderstanding,… they all amount to the same thing,” Rice said. There is a McCain “gap” with “reality” and “that is disturbing.” It is “hard to have good judgment if you don’t have a fact based foundation,” Rice said

Kerry jumped in. He said it is “unfair and even ridiculous” to “jump to the conclusion” that “somehow” this has to do with age. Kerry said there are “plenty of senators” older than McCain—he used Sen. John Warner (R-Va.) for an example who “know who the Sunnis are.”

Senator McCain has been consistent in what he has been saying all along. Time tables are not how we run this war. Our goal is to win it, and leave the Iraqi people with a stabilized government from which to build and prosper. Once we've achieved that, we bring the troops home.

Does that sound real confusing?

Then again, when all you understand is defeat and it's political potential for you're party, then maybe you can see why the Obama folks are "confused."

When is the last time anyone has witnessed one of these Obama folks ever discussing how we can win this thing and then leave? It's always leave now, leave in a month, leave in a few months. You never see the word win or success anywhere, and that's because it's not in their political interest to do so.

Yeah, I too try to understand these people and their motives. It can be rather confusing.....

UPDATE: Here's what the McCain campaign had to say.

The Obama campaign is embarking on a false attack on John McCain to hide their own candidate’s willingness to disregard facts on the ground in pursuit of withdrawal no matter what the costs. John McCain was asked if he had a ‘better estimate’ for a timeline for withdrawal. As John McCain has always said, that is not as important as conditions on the ground and the recommendations of commanders in the field. Any reasonable person who reads the full transcript would see this and reject the Obama campaign’s attempt to manipulate, twist and distort the truth.” ---Tucker Bounds, spokesman John McCain 2008