Obama Told to ‘Up His Game’ to Persuade Congress on Syria

President Barack Obama and his aides are meeting resistance from multiple directions as they seek congressional backing for military action against Syria, and a prominent critic told the president to “up his game.”

Obama won conditional support yesterday from Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham. They left a White House meeting yesterday urging their fellow lawmakers, many of whom are balking at the prospect of another U.S. entanglement in the Middle East, to support a limited strike against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.