Obama on Successful Surge: Bad Strategy
Posted on July 22, 2008
This guy has to be the king of idiots. First get your platform of anti-war and a campaign of hope, change, and pulling the troops out. After this, turn around and praise the success of a strategy you were against and change your position about troop withdrawal. After getting beaten with the backlash of your own base, go back to the original anti-war position and say something idiotic like calling a successful strategy a bad one. Don’t forget to throw in utter arrogance by stating that your plan of surrender might of, could of, should of, perhaps worked as well if certain imaginary factors might have played out differently. Also give credit for the success of the strategy you call bad to decisions made by the enemy, and belittle the U.S. military’s role as much as possible. If anything will get you elected as Commander in Chief, this will, especially if you act like an arrogant rock star on a world tour the whole time.
Gateway Pundit nails this one:
That was an amazing segment! CBS did an excellent job. Congratulations.
This could very well be a turning point in this year’s election!
Obama came off cocky, confused and crazy. McCain was wonderful- honest, humble and smart.
Jim also goes on to show details and results and asks the question, that if the surge is such a bad strategy….how will Barack explain the facts of success?
Marc Ambinder has more of the interview.
I’m surprised that he’s as reluctant as he is to change his position on the surge in hindsight given (a) how much improvement there’s been, (b) what the likely consequences would have been if it hadn’t worked, and (c) the fact that he can still tout his initial judgment on the war to voters as evidence that he’s savvier than McCain. A “serious energy security plan” would be wonderful, but the alternate-history timeline in this scenario includes possible Srebrenicas.
…does Obama think the Sunni Awakening and the Shia militia stand-down are somehow separate developments from the surge and the brilliant performance of American forces? If he really thinks that, it’s dumb. And if he thinks it’s better to say that to the American people — who are very proud of their military — than simply to say “I wuz wrong,” it’s politically dumb.
Evidently Obama’s upbringing instilled in him nothing of the best of American tradition. He’s, purely and simply, a total sell-out - all ego and ambition, with no realistic positive vision for America at all.
What the hell is this below supposed to mean? I was clueless and got it dead wrong, but, if not for that, my judgment would have been right …?? because I am the messiah come to deliver you from Satan Bush. Now don’t ask me anymore tough questions, or I’ll write a whiny op-ed in the New York Times that everyone’s always picking on me, just as they were my wife before I cried about that. What a pathetic excuse for a man, let alone a would be world leader this clown is.
Like Jake Tapper says….Obama didn’t learn anything on this trip.
This is the same man who said: “I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is going to solve the sectarian violence. In fact, I think it will do the reverse.”
Is there anything this fool knows?
How will all this play? It depends if the American people, after learning of the surge’s great success and the brilliance of our commander there, find it troubling that the candidate with no national security experience would throw it all away and disregard knowledgeable advice. It is peculiar in the extreme to have a nominee who when presented with potential victory says ” I wouldn’t have tried to win.” One can imagine that a victory he would not himself have pursued himself (and is apparently sorry we did) is one he has little interest in securing. Hence, his light regard for the advice of Petraeus.
America can’t afford a president like this pathetic, arrogant coward. Brutally Honest nails it with a title:
Obama would “rather lose a war than lose a campaign”
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The first time that I posted about Barry was October 2005. Since that time, I have begun to change my opinion on him. In 2005, I called him a moron, today I think that “brain-dead, idiotic, stupid dummy” would not be harsh enough.
And the only reason that the media would say anything disparaging about the Changapotomus is because even they realize that their coverage is beyond ridiculous. I believe that by the time the election rolls around, the media will be breaking into commercials to kiss Barry’s ass.
THIS POST of mine actually contains a link to Michelle Obama’s Facebook wall. Go read that if you want to see how deranged people can be.
Obama > Jesus.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again - like every day Obama does or says something to tick me off.
I’m also getting the feeling Obama’s thought process is “I haven’t given McCain enough material to beat me over the head with, so lets do something about that.”
Way to go! Already using the Karl Rove mantra/talking point…win an election, lose a war. Lemmings…..read the transcript again. Obama sees it as complex, which it is. McCain is dumbing it down for you folks. Also, funny how this guy from AZ who hates Bush (see 200 Election, signing off on 9/11 Commission, calling the war and admin handling, “A disgrace”)and is a moderate. He will do what it takes to get elected. I like him. I like Obama. Obama makes far more sense. McCain can’t even tell the difference between Sunnis, Iranians, and Shiites. It wasn’t one slip, it was repeated slips in saying Iran was funding al-Queda….al-Queda is Sunni, Iran is Shiia; mortal enemies. Iran is funding insurgency in Iraq, but it is Mochtadar al-Sadr and Shiites. McCain doesn’t even see the difference.
You go ahead and root for McCain. Your Bush will go down as the biggest disaster in the history of the U.S. McCain would be a Schwarzenegger moderate. Obama would probably make greater strides and changes which would help the American people, instead of Dick Cheney.
Obama was also cocky and arrogant. What got me was when he said if they did what I wanted them to do. As if not supporting the Surge was his own idea and nobody else.
I am shocked. This didn’t sound like Couric the Obama drooler.
Obama is clueless. When opposing the surge he said Iraq cannot have a Military solution. Then he said we need to have a SURGE in Afghanistan. Duh
Miguel, this post is about how Obama cannot acknowledge that he was wrong and still maintains that he would not let Christopher Columbus sail off the edge of the Earth. And I believe that you will be wrong when history looks back on the Bush administration. The thinking people in the future will prbably try to erase Obama and his supporters from the record because of their overwhelmingly embarassment for our country.
And Phyllis, Obama’s life expectancy is 61.1 years, McCain by comparison is not that old. Even at McCain’s advanced age, he doesn’t attempt to say that the Earth is flat, like the Changapotomus does. Now, who are the idiots?
Obama suggests that we can’t afford this war. Who ever heard of such nonsense? Republicans have never needed dental care or schools! Republicans just need three things: guns, bad guys to shoot at, and American flags.