Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Obama and Democrats: Please forget what we said
The Democrats predicted defeat in Iraq at every turn. As a party they uniformly declared Iraq a failure. Are all voters supposed to forget all of the doom saying? Harry Reid said the war was already lost. Nancy Pelosi said the war was a total failure. Barack Obama said the war was a “dumb war,” a civil war that Americans cannot resolve, and a “tragic mistake.” No doubt can exist in the mind of a reasonable person that Obama and the Democrats saw no way to win in Iraq and did everything they could to disrupt our efforts.
Obama, Reid, and Pelosi not only opposed the war but attempted to thwart it legislatively and politically. They intentionally undermined American morale in an attempt to gain politically. They did not stand by and allow the war to go forward while simply registering their opposition respectfully, but openly and hostilely attacked the war as foolish and leading to nothing but American loss of life and wealth. They viewed the war as a symbol of Bush’s idiocy and consistently registered incredulity at the Bush administration’s and McCain’s steady approach toward victory.
Now Obama wants Americans to see the "wisdom" of his timetable because Maliki and Bush have both voiced support for one. But to assign Obama credit for this is like making a pinch hitter the MVP of a game who did nothing but hit a lazy single to add the seventh insurance run in the top of the ninth inning while telling his teammates they had no chance to win. He deserves no credit for his timetable because he won his party’s nomination by stridently ridiculing every difficult decision that made this timetable possible.
Now that Obama has implicitly acknowledged that we are winning in Iraq, should we make him the Commander-in-chief of all armed forces and the final voice on all foreign and military policy? Should Obama’s inability to see the slightest glimmer of a chance for victory in Iraq and open hostility to our effort there bear on voters’ determination as to whether he possesses the proper military and foreign policy outlook?
Does this profound lack of vision threaten to harm America’s national security interests when Europe disagrees with us? Should we trust this neophyte to guide America’s foreign and military policy at a time when terrorists seek the weapons to destroy this nation’s biggest cities, our national economy, and kill millions of Americans? The Democrats and much of the media will do all they can to distract from this profound failure of judgment, but one can reasonably doubt their likelihood of success in a country no longer monolithically dominated by either institution.
Editorials/Op-Eds
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The Obama Principle | WSJ
Obama goes global | Wash. Times
Class in America | Paul Greenberg, Wash. Times
How Israel's Race Could Shift Ours | Dick Morris & Eileen McGann, Wash. Times
The Greatest Scandal | WSJ | Ref's Comment: Obama's insistence on keeping inner city children in failing public schools demonstrates his priorities, teachers unions and government before what works.
Closer Than He Should Be | Robert Novak, Wash. Post
Docking Paychecks for Politics | WSJ
The Far Left's War on Direct Democracy | John Fund, WSJ
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