“Second, he needs to explain himself on the surge. “I didn’t believe General Petraeus when he said it would work” or “I still wouldn’t have done it despite the results” are not going to cut it. And after cleaning that up …”
Whoa, Nelly. That’s a mighty huge segue you’re foisting upon us. If you really think that Obama needs to “clean that up” in order to succeed in the debate then you’ve pretty much written him off. His buddies in the MSM have presented him numerous opportunities to “clean it up,” only to be met with more of “nobody thought it would work,” “it only worked because of the Iraqis,” and “I apparently don’t care that it worked because even knowing that I still would have preferred to have ignominiously ran with our tail between our legs and abandoned our peace and freedom loving Iraqi allies to the murderous thugs not unlike what my ideological forefathers did to the South Vietnamese.”
