Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, one of McCain's "good friends" is annoyed with what McCain has been saying about the Iraq war."I'm very upset with John with some of the things he's been saying," Hagel added. "And I can't get into the psychoanalysis of it. But I believe that John is smarter than some of the things he is saying. He is, he understands it more. John is a man who reads a lot, he's been around the world. I want him to get above that and maybe when he gets into the general election, and becomes the general election candidate he will have a higher-level discourse on these things."
Hagel, who is not running for reelection in November, has become an outspoken critic of the War in Iraq and he said in April he is open to the possibility of endorsing Obama's candidacy.
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Hagel and Lidsey Graham are a couple of the R Senators who are "mavericks" like McCain, or so goes the media meme. Hagel's only real beef with him is Iraq, but I guess it's big enough.
That being said, no one likes Hagel any more (there is a reason he's not running for re-election), so while he may vote for Obama, an endorsement is useless. In fact, if he endorsed McCain it would probably only hurt McCain's standing among Republican voters.
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