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| It's not as if there isn't serious ammunition for anyone who wants to claim Barack Obama has shifted his positions on some issues of late, or (gasp!) flip-flopped. But Friday's confusion -- in the press, in the blogosphere -- over whether Obama has changed his stance on pulling troops out of Iraq isn't that ammunition. If someone thought that Obama had put in place some kind of absolute plan for all troops to be removed within 16 months, they could hardly be blamed. Obama himself has made it sound like that's his stance. But that position has always come with caveats, caveats that were common to all the Democratic presidential candidates. None of them, in a September debate, would promise to withdraw troops by 2013. Why not? For the very same reason Obama wouldn't Friday: “I have always reserved the right to do what’s best for America’s national interest… I would be a poor commander-in-chief if I didn’t take facts on the ground into account.” What's new here, if anything, is the emphasis. By signaling he was open to the possibility he might "refine" his Iraq plan, he called attention to something that he had not much called attention to before. That he would do so may or may not be worthy of criticism, but it is that shift, not the imagined one, that should get it. |
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| 2 Comments |
| Max my good man you are factually incorrect. Don't believe the 90% media myth. Simply type Barack Obama into google news and you will find negative articles about every day. Note Don't use Hitler comparisons, if you want to keep your credibilty. |
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| Mr. Unite Us | Homepage | 06.07.2008, 23:45 | ||
| Obama is a totally unqualified joke with his campaign the product of his own excess unbridled ambition & the unprincipled 90% Democrat MEDIA's idiotic decision that he should be President. Today's 90% Democrat Media in America makes Hitler's Joe Goebbels Media look honest. | ||
| Max Rugemer | Homepage | E-Mail | 05.07.2008, 11:57 | ||