On a conference call with reporters today, the McCain campaign fired back at Barack Obama's speech to AIPAC in Washington this morning.

After first congratulating Obama for his nomination, Sen. Joe Lieberman said he "appreciated" Obama's good intentions toward Israel, but that there existed a "disconnect between what [Obama] said today with regards to Iran and what he has said earlier."

Lieberman referred to Obama's opposition to last year's Kyl-Lieberman amendment which designated the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization, and which a majority of the Democratic leadership supported, as evidence that disconnect.

The Connecticut Independent also took issue with Obama's contention that the Iraq war has made Iran stronger and the U.S. less secure. The Iranian threat, said Lieberman, is not a result of "what we've done in Iraq, but because Iran is a fanatical, terrorist state."

Rep. Eric Cantor said he found much in Obama's speech he agreed with but that it did "nothing to dispel the doubts about Obama's Israel policy."

Protecting Israel is "easy to talk about," said Cantor, but "hard to do."

Finally, McCain national security advisor Randy Scheunemann called Obama's speech as representative of an "odd, alternative reality."

Obama, said Scheunemann, has a "different message for a different audience," referring to the Illinois senator's more liberal foreign policy views he held as early as a few months ago.