Posted on: Wednesday, 20 August 2008, 09:00 CDT By Brian Knowlton Elisabeth Bumiller contributed reporting from Orlando, and John M. Broder from Albuquerque. Senator Barack Obama on Tuesday rejected Senator John McCain's challenges to his patriotism and competence and said it was time to end "personal attacks." He also told a veterans group in Florida that his Republican rival had long supported a "dictator" in Pakistan, and he urged a new approach there. Obama said that the resignation Monday of the embattled Pakistani president, Pervez Musharraf, confirmed the wisdom of his earlier calls "to move from a 'Musharraf policy' to a 'Pakistan policy'" built on more than "a relationship with one man." And while both presidential candidates have condemned the Russian military action in Georgia, Obama departed from McCain by...
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