Slinging B******t, Obama-Style
When you read this quote from Barack Obama, I want you to try to imagine the question that prompted it. This is really what he told ABC’s Terry Moran.
Well, no, keep — these kinds of hypotheticals are very difficult. Hindsight is 20/20. I think what I am absolutely convinced of is that at that time, we had to change the political debate, because the view of the Bush administration at that time was one that I just disagreed with…”
That must have been one brain-twister of a question, huh?
As it turns out, the question wasn’t very tough at all, unless you happen to be the sort of politician who gets his daily positions from a Rube Goldberg contraption that involved a Magic 8 Ball, a dart board, two dozen fortune cookies, and the cryogenically-frozen head of Jeanne Dixon. What Moran asked him was:
If you had to do it over again, knowing what you know now, would you — would you support the surge?
I’m pretty sure that normal human beings could handle that on in one word. Maybe two.
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LOL, okay I'll take a stab at deciphering it. I think what he meant was, even if looking back it appears to have been the right thing to do, it was still something he would not have agreed to because it was Bush's idea. And anything that might come out of Bush evil, black heart has to be wrong & evil.
Liberals never just say "yes" or "no" (nor "always" or "never"….that is their whole problem. What they really mean is "you shouldn't be asking me this question because your are a peasant & are too stupid to understand my supreme, intelligent response".
Seems clear to me (insofar as anything a politician says can be called 'clear') that he's saying, "There's more than one reason to vote on legislation–not just because of the consequences for the people affected by it, but also as part of the ongoing political game between Congressional factions and the White House. Knowing the consequences of the surge, I still would have voted against it, because I felt that the political benefits of rejecting it at that time were more important than the military benefits of supporting it."
But saying it clearly would leave him open to more criticism, which he would rather avoid–his platform does say he's going to rise above petty political squabbles, but he knows he can't win the game without playing the game.
Say what you will about his experience or his motives or his vision, Sen. Obama is very good at telling people what they want to hear, and he's getting better at talking around anything he doesn't want people to hear….
There's no doubt that he's a good dancer but, improvisationally, he's no Bill Clinton (who may be the best I'd ever heard). I wish the media folks who interview Obama would start treating him like someone whose words are important and less like they're Marsha Brady in front of Davy Jones.