Obama inadvertently reveals why the ’surge’ is working
In, perhaps, the sharpest public disagreement yet between front runners for their respective party nominations, Democrat candidate Barack Hussein Obama and GOP candidate John McCain clashed over the following statement.
"If al Qaeda is forming a base in Iraq, then we will have to act in a way which secures our homeland and our interests abroad."
This would explain why the "surge" is working. Apparently, al Qaeda isn't even in Iraq, much less forming a base there.
The statement, which was made by Obama during the Democrat debate in Texas last week, brought swift criticism from McCain.
"I have some news," said McCain. "Al Qaeda is in Iraq…it's called al Qaeda in Iraq…and my friends, if we left they wouldn't be establishing a base; they'd be taking a country.
Later, Obama followed up McCain's criticism of his statement with a couple more zingers of his own in which he placed the blame for the Iraq war on McCain (and Bush Jr. respectively), asserted that in going to war in Iraq, McCain and Bush missed the opportunity to hit al Qaeda where it hurts (in Afganistan), and that because of Bush and McCain's "negligence," al Qaeda is stronger now than at anytime since 2001. He also added, that he knew al Qaeda was in Iraq and that they wouldn't be there had not "George Bush and John McCain decided to invade …"
Were his statements accurate? No. But that won't stop the screaming thrall in this video from voting for him.
But what I find most interesting is how Obama dealt with some well deserved criticism. He changed his position and then played the blame game. Either he knew al Qaeda was in Iraq or he didn't. If he didn't, then why did he say the opposite at this rally? However, if he did know al Qaeda was based in Iraq, then why did he erroneously question that fact in the earlier statement? No matter how you slice it, he comes up a liar.
After he lied, waffled, flip flopped…whatever (liberals call that changing your mind), he very efficiently blamed McCain for not only the war, but for al Qaeda's presence in Iraq…and all this was done to the sound of applause.
I've learned two things from this exchange: all being a candidate for president qualifies you for is the right to be a smooth talking, lying, blame thrower and that upholding politics as usual is, now, defined as "change."
Finally, in the September 2007 edition of CQ Obama made this statement:
"I'm in this to win, I want to win, and I think we will win. But I'm also going to emerge intact. I'm going to be Barack Obama and not some parody."
That's why he's employing the same old tricks from the political dirty trick book used by politicians the world over. That's why he's been caught lifting the lines of other people's speeches as though they were his own. That's why he speaks in what others have called "soaring oratory," but it's an oratory almost utterly without substance…and that, in part, is why Barack Obama is beating the pants of Hillary Clinton right now.
She chose positions; He chose the flowery language of hope. She let her loud mouthed husband stump for her on the campaign trail; Obama, on the other hand, has kept his better half mostly in the shadows. She's a woman…he's a man and this is America. Need I say more?
A parody of Skeery, only without the credentials.
Credentials indeed, Lance.