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If Obama Could Do It All Over Again He’d Still Oppose The Surge

By Rob on July 21, 2008 at 06:20 pm
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Despite the fact that it, you know, actually worked.  Something tacitly confirmed by Obama’s deletion of criticism of the surge from his website.

Video here, transcript of the pertinent part below:

  Q: If you had to do it over again, knowing what you know now, would you support the surge?

  A: No, because, keep in mind that…

  Q: You wouldn’t?

  A: Keep in mind… These kinds of hypotheticals are very difficult. Hindsight is 20/20. But I think that, what I’m absolutely convinced of, is that at that time we had to change the political debate because the view of the Bush administration at that time was one that I just disagreed with.

So Obama would still oppose the surge, despite evidence that it has worked, because the debate needed to be changed?  Changed in which direction, Senator?  Towards defeat despite the fact (as we know now) that victory was possible?

Marc Ambinder has additional Obama quotes from the ABC interview and these make it seem as though Obama is actually admitting that the surge has made things better in Iraq (though he seems to credit the “Sunni awakening” more than the surge, as though there were a distinction between the two.

Personally, I think this all sounds like spin from a man who knows he was wrong but can’t admit it.

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LifeTrek

This could be a HUGE opportunity for McCain if it pans out!

McCain is comfortable making jokes about his age, how about this one:

“Wow, I though the old guy was supposed to be stuck in his ways in spite of the evidence. Next Obama will be telling us to get off his lawn and turn that damn music down!”

Well, this presents McCain with an opportunity to frame Obama for the rest of the campaign as a staid, inflexible fool who can’t seem to understand that the world doesn’t revolve around his failed, inflexible policies!

It hits at the premise that judgment is not just riding one decision 6 years ago but one has to have the wisdom to adjust to the changing world!
David

LifeTrek on July 21, 2008 at 08:01 pm
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Obama’s juggernaut has so much momentum that gaffs like this have no effect.  Poor McCain will look bad in the debates too and that will seal it for Obama, just like Kennedy and Clinton.

rightstuffy on July 21, 2008 at 08:44 pm
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Kennedy and Clinton didn’t hide from the press.  Obama does because he is slow-witted.  There is a good chance this will be revealed in the debates—Hillary cleaned his clock, and she essentially had to fight the mutt with both hands tied behind her back.

McCain is a brawler—and he has core beliefs.  Obama has neither. I like McCain’s chances, particularly in light of the fact that the press seems to get fed up with the Obama approach to electioneering as election day approaches.

Tuna on July 22, 2008 at 12:00 pm
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