Bambi In the Headlights???
During his interview with NBC’s Tom Brokaw, Sen. Obama showed himself to be as clueless as a deer caught in a car’s headlights. Here’s the first proof of that:
MR. BROKAW: That prompted this radio ad from your opponent John McCain, which is running today. So let’s listen to that and then respond.
SEN. JOHN McCAIN: (From political ad) Now that it’s clear that the surge has succeeded and brought victory in Iraq within sight, Senator Obama can’t quite bring himself to admit his own failure in judgment. Instead, he commits the even greater error of insisting that, even in hindsight, he would still oppose the surge. Even in retrospect, he would choose the path of retreat and failure for America over the path of success and victory. That’s not exactly my idea of the judgment we seek in a commander-in-chief.
MR. BROKAW: That’s a radio speech from Senator John McCain that is running on this Sunday in America. He’s referring to what you had to say on January 10th, 2007…
SEN. OBAMA: Right.
MR. BROKAW: …and repeated several times. Let’s listen to you now and your immediate reaction to the idea of the surge back in the beginning of 2007.
SEN. OBAMA: I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is going to solve the sectarian violence there; in fact, I think it’ll do the reverse.
MR. BROKAW: We’re not talking about angels on the head of a pin here, but let me ask you a direct question.
SEN. OBAMA: All right.
MR. BROKAW: Do you believe that President Maliki would be in a position to more or less endorse your timetable of getting troops out within 16 months if it had not been for the surge?
SEN. OBAMA: You know, we don’t know, because in my earlier statements, I mean, I know that there’s that little snippet that you ran, but there were also statements made during the course of this debate in which I said there’s no doubt that additional U.S. troops could temporarily quell the violence. But unless we saw an underlying change in the politics of the country, unless Sunni, Shia, Kurd made different decisions, then we were going to have a civil war and we could not stop a civil war simply with more troops. Now, I, I…
MR. BROKAW: But couldn’t they make that political decision because troops were there to help them make it.
SEN. OBAMA: Well, the…well, the…look, there’s no doubt, and I’ve said this repeatedly, that our troops make a difference. If…you know, they do extraordinary work. The troops that I met, they were proud of their work, they had made enormous sacrifices, they had fought, they had helped to construct schools and, and rebuilt the countryside. But, for example, in Anbar Province, where we went to visit, the Sunni awakening took place before the surge started, and tribal leaders made a decision that, instead of fighting the Americans, we’re going to work with the Americans against al-Qaeda. That was a political decision that was made that has made a huge difference in this entire process.
We don’t know??? Who’s he kidding??? To not send in more troops is to have continued fighting the war with the President Bush/Donald Rumsfeld strategy. Wasn’t he critical of the Rumsfeld strategy and of President Bush in general?
At that point in history, there were only three options: try Petraeus’ counterinsurgency plan, stay with the Bush/Rumsfeld strategy or the Murtha plan. Sen. Citizen of the World voted for the Murtha plan. He voted to cut off funding for the troops because he was the purist on the war, the presidential candidate that always opposed the war.
Not only did he try triangulation in this interview, he admits that he talked in circles in the debate that his clip came from. Check this out:
First, they play the clip where he says that he isn’t “persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is going to solve the sectarian violence there; in fact, I think it’ll do the reverse.” Then he admits that “there were also statements made during the course of this debate in which I said there’s no doubt that additional U.S. troops could temporarily quell the violence.”
Sen. Citizen of the World can’t have it both ways. He can’t say in one sentence that the Surge will make things worse, then say that it would also “temporarily quell the violence.” Perhaps Sen. Obama can explain how a miltary strategy could make things worse while temporarily quelling violence.
Later in the interview, Mr. Brokaw talked about how Charles Krauthammer and David Brooks were critical of the Obamessiah’s Berlin speech. Here’s Sen. Obama’s reply:
SEN. OBAMA: Let me say first of all, there were a bunch of really good reviews that you didn’t, you didn’t put up on the screen. I’d, I’d say there were about nine good reviews for every, every bad one.
My first response to Sen. Obama would be harsh: Who cares if the Adoring Media gives you gaga reviews? They could’ve written those reviews without going on the trip. It’s as if Sen. Obama doesn’t realize that the Adoring Media hurt him with the people he needs to attract, namely blue collar workers in Bethlehem, PA and Youngstown, OH.
Sen. Obama is living in an adoration bubble. When he holds a rally, thousands of people come to see him. When he talks with the press, they toss him softball questions. It’s likely that he thinks that he’s universally adored.
History says that there aren’t many presidents that are adored. The ones that are are the presidents that made gritty, difficult decisions. There are fewer presidential candidates that’ve been adored. In fact, I don’t recall any since starting voting in 1974.
It’s time that Sen. Obama realized that many voters, myself included, picture him as a silver-tongued empty suit. I know that he isn’t stupid. It’s just that his record is paper-thin and unimpressive.
Technorati Tags: Obama, Blue Collar Workers, Elitist, Tom Brokaw, Charles Krauthammer, David Brooks, John McCain, Iraq, David Petraeus, President Bush, Election 2008
Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
July 27th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
It’s too bad McCain acts like he doesn’t want to be president. He should be running over Barry Hussain.
July 27th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
George, I thought that until I watched his interview with Sean Hannity. Watching that interview, it’s obvious that he’s ramping things up for the closing stretch.
PS- You’re gonna love his answers on energy, which I posted about here.
July 27th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
First thing I thought of when I read your headline was “Oh, Bambi the hooker down on Hollywood Blvd.”
Then I read the piece. It’s still about a prostitute, but not down on Hollywood Blvd.