From NRO article in Mao's 1:17 post----
Perhaps Obama had finally decided the war was hopeless just as he was announcing his candidacy. If so, he misread the war in a way that would have had catastrophic consequences had he been president. As time passed, it became obvious that the surge was working. But Obama determinedly refused to credit the surge or acknowledge the new conditions in Iraq. Perhaps this was because he was so ideologically rigid and blinkered that he couldnt accommodate reality, but if weve learned anything about Obama in recent weeks its that hes flexible (and politically shrewd) to a fault. He knew he couldnt speak well of the surge because it was anathema to his left-wing base. So he couldnt support the strategy that was defeating al-Qaeda in Iraq and winning the war for political reasons.
Now that the primaries are over the political imperatives are different. Obama has softened his support for a 16-month timetable for withdrawal, and in an interview in the latest Newsweek almost sounds like McCain in the emphasis he puts on conditions in Iraq in determining the role of U.S. troops. Obama thus tacks to the center. But he cant alienate his supporters on the left or commit another flip-flop-- on a major issue, so against all evidence he maintains that he was right to oppose the surge even though it has worked. His political tap-dance on the war continues apace.
Its easy now to pretend that the surge and its success was inevitable. It wasnt. President Bush had to implement it against stiff political headwinds, made all the stiffer by the likes of Barack Obama. If Obama had had his way, we would have lost in Iraq. But he positioned himself exactly right in the Democratic primaries. This is shameful. The disgrace is not John McCains in pointing it out, but Barack Obamas in having been so wrong and letting politics so influence his mistaken position on the war.
This is about right and McCain--for all his faults--called for the surge before Bush.
McCain turned out to be right and Obama is wrong and won't just admit it for fear of being flamed by the leftists running the Dem party.
Obama is still lying about his choice not to visit the troops in Germany--He said he would se them and lied again--like campaign finance and townhall meetings and gun Ban and Iraq and Cuba Embargo and illegal immigration and pot and abortion and NCLB and driver's license for illegals and Faith based initiative and death penalty for child rapists--
Too many to list--
Oh and he has no experience and lousy judgment for his spiritual advisor for 20 years and hangs out with unrepentent terrorists who bomb the Pentagon and raise money for him.
He is all about political expediency--but he sure makes a good speech--as long as it's in front of the teleprompter...
It is crazy and sad to have soo many people who vote on someone that makes them feeeeelllllll good. The uninformed fish in the fish bowl.
