Barack Obama and the Surge
by tdaxp ~ July 17th, 2008
Barack Obama eloquently and persuasively makes the case that Barack Obama has no idea what he’s talking about.
My favorite part is about 3:30 in, where Obama calls for full withdrawal in 16 months, and then denies he ever advocated withdrawing troops.
It’s not a sin to be wrong on the surge. I was.
It is wrong to deny you were. It makes people think you’re a liar.
And it’s dangerous to elect someone President who’s still learning about the COIN cycle. There’s advantages to electing a naif as President. Winning wars and keeping soldiers alive aren’t included in that list.
July 17th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Obama is an empty suit.
He’s all about Change. That is, Changing his position.
July 17th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
On the subject of Obama learning on the job, Charles Krauthammer argued that Obama did not flip flop, when he adjusted his position from supporting an “undivided Jerusalem” [1,2,3,4] to supporting presuming Palestinian sovereignty over the Jewish Quarter, and the rest of the Old City… rather, Obama did not know the meaning of the words.
Obama literally did not know what he was talking about.
[1] http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/07/obama_reaffirms_his_support_fo.asp
[2] http://hedgehogcentral.blogspot.com/2008/07/obama-gives-final-burial-to-undivided.html
[3] http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/06/undivided_jerusalem_1.php
[4] http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed7/idUSMAC46470920080604
July 23rd, 2008 at 11:28 am
[...] another far more serious one, where Obama may or may not support an Undivided Jerusalem. Whatever his ultimate position, he certainly didn’t know what those words meant when he said [...]