Tuesday, July 22, 2008

BARACK OBAMA

Knowing What He Knows Now, Obama... Still Would Have Opposed the Surge

Yes, Obama's campaign is getting stirring visuals at every stop of his world tour. But his answers in the interviews are terrible, if anyone's paying attention. Maybe no one is.

Obama to ABC's Terry Moran:

Q: If you had to do it over again, knowing what you know now, would you support the surge?

Obama: No. Because, keep in mind that —

Q: You wouldn’t?

Obama: Keep in mind, these kind of hypotheticals are very difficult. You know hindsight is 20/20. But I think that what I am absolutely convinced of is at that time we had to change the political debate because the view of the Bush administration at that time was one I just disagreed with.

Moran's close of the story: “And so, when pressed, Barack Obama says that he still would have opposed the surge but said he didn’t anticipate what people here call the Iraqi surge uprising against Al Qaeda and Shi’ite extremists. He said he didn’t anticipate that, but he is insisting that he is focusing forward on what needs to be done — setting that timetable for withdrawal.”

So he didn't foresee the surge working, but as his adviser Susan Rice said, Obama "bows to nobody in his understanding of this world."

07/22 09:12 AMShare