A couple of interesting video clips from Ted Koppel on ABC’s This Week.  First up, here’s Ted talking about how Obama is just now realizing that blunt promises to withdraw the troops from Iraq do not a sound foreign policy make:

With even mainstream media reporters owning up to the fact that abandoning Iraq isn’t sound policy I think it’s time for the left, up to and including Barack Obama himself, to admit that they’ve been wrong about Iraq all the time.  That it hasn’t been a failure.  That success has been possible all this time.

They won’t admit it, of course, but they should because it’s true.  President Bush is going to leave office with Iraq - and by extension the middle east in general - in much better shape than it was when he came into office.  And that fact is a terrible rebuttal of the liberal lefts incessant defeatism.

The second video here shows Koppel, no doubt in pain from having to criticize the liberal messiah in the first clip, telling us all how Obama’s flip-flops on issues as he enters the general election show how he’s a “tough” candidate.

Personally, I don’t think politicians trying to confuse the public as to their true policy positions is “tough” at all.  I think it’s a crass and cynical ploy from a power-hungry politician who will say anything to get elected.

We all know Obama is moving to the center because he knows he can’t get elected as the far-left, Daily Kos/New York Times candidate he was in the primaries.  We all know that, should he take office, he’ll govern as the far-left liberal candidate he was in the primaries.  Therefore, we all know that this “move to the center” stuff we’re seeing from Obama is calculated to mask the sort of leader he really is.

It’s all a lie, in other words, and there’s nothing “tough” or even positive about that.