Great moments in consistency
A presidential candidate today. NYT:
the same factors that led me to oppose the surge still hold true. The strain on our military has grown, the situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated and we’ve spent nearly $200 billion more in Iraq than we had budgeted. Iraq’s leaders have failed to invest tens of billions of dollars in oil revenues in rebuilding their own country, and they have not reached the political accommodation that was the stated purpose of the surge.
What the candidate said in direct response to the President’s announcing the surge 18 months ago:
I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is going to solve the sectarian violence there. In fact, I think it will do the reverse.
Not that any of this matters of course. That Senator Obama predicted that the highly successful surge would be a failure is irrelevant. Senator Obama is just so cool and everything that what he says is, like, beside the point.
July 15th, 2008 at 11:02 am
the msm luvs him. end of story.
the msm tried to turn iraq ito a defeat.
they’re talking down the economy.
they’ve convinced many we’re in recession and that agw is an impending catastrophe.
they want obama to be potus.
until we destroy the msm we will make no real progress.
July 15th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Recall that 18 months ago BO introduced legislation to cut off funding for the Afghanistan (that’s right – Afghanistan, not just Iraq) conflict, and immediately withdraw our troops, legislating the defeat his radical Left demanded.
Now he insists he’s only abandoning Iraq to move military forces to Afghanistan.
I don’t know if the geezer media is lying for him, or just too dazed by his ‘whirling dervish’ policies to report anything by gibberish.
July 16th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Imagine this story exactly the same but just change the candidate to McCain. It would be front page in papers, lead story on the tube, main joke on every comedy show, lead question every time McCain was interviewed, and absolutely viral online. If Obama can’t win with this level of media protection, how bad are Democrats at choosing a candidate? If he does win, how lame are we at choosing a president.