Not quite the straight dope

Matthew Yglesias has a couple of good posts here and here on how John McCain's "straight talk express" has been doing a lot of twisting with statements Obama has made on Iran.

A quote from Obama:

Here's the truth: the Soviet Union had thousands of nuclear weapons, and Iran doesn't have a single one. But when the world was on the brink of nuclear holocaust, Kennedy talked to Khrushchev and he got those missiles out of Cuba. Why shouldn't we have the same courage and the confidence to talk to our enemies? That's what strong countries do, that's what strong presidents do, that's what I'll do when I'm president of the United States of America.