Back in May, Barack Obama said that if John McCain wanted to sit down with him “anywhere, anytime to have a debate about…our respective policies in Iraq, in Iran, the Middle East or around the world” it would be a conversation he’d be “happy to have”.
You really didn’t think that would hold up two whole months, did you?
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you Barack Obama Flip Flop Number 11 (or for those of you who are members of La Raza, that’s Numero Once).
Obama was invited to debate McCain at a town all meeting in front of an audience of soldiers, their families, and military support groups. His response? He just can’t make it. He’s really too busy.
While we unfortunately had a previously scheduled commitment on the date proposed, Senator Obama looks forward to continuing the dialogue he’s been having throughout the country with veterans on how we can better serve our men and women in uniform as they serve us.
The managing director of the group trying to coordinate the debate has suggested several other dates, but none of them meet with the Obamessiah’s approval. Instead of keeping his promise, he’s decided to roll over, play dead, and hope the big, bad soldiers go away.
I wonder what he’s afraid of? Surely in the four months between now and the election, he can carve out one day to have this debate. John McCain’s willing to do it, even though his campaign would get more of a benefit from his gathering the scattered remnants of his base and raising money. Barack’s base, for all their whinnying, isn’t going anywhere and he has more money in his campaign coffers than Croesus. There’s no good reason he can’t make this debate.
Unless he’s afraid that his foreign policy is as thin as wet tissue paper and as silly as a Prius full of fat clowns.
Says Ed Morrissey of Obama’s Eleventh Flip-Flop:
What are we to make of this? The man who wants to be Commander-in-Chief lacks the testicular fortitude to appear before military groups to make his case in an open format? That hardly suggests Obama as a man who can lead a nation during a time of war, nuclear proliferation, and terrorism.
What makes this a little more ironic is that the crowd would probably be more sympathetic to Obama than some might think. Military families have sacrificed and endured much over the last five years, and they want to see the Iraq war come to some sort of conclusion. Obama, if he had any courage at all, has the opportunity to make a case among open minds. How open will those minds be when it becomes clear that Obama can’t face them?
Instead of Vero Possumus, perhaps the motto on Obama’s seal should have been Vero Pusillanimous.
Heh. It sure looks to me like Obama’s doing a really good job of playing possimus.
Tags: Barack Obama, Fighting the Islamists, Foreign Policy, Iraq, John McCain
