Curious report from The Hill on tonight’s Oval Office address on the Iraq drawdown:
President Obama has an opportunity Tuesday night to remind his supporters on the left of a time when they were all on the same page, united in opposition to George W. Bush and his war in Iraq.
Obama’s highly anticipated Oval Office address on the end of combat operations in Iraq comes at a perilous moment for his presidency, but it’s a moment that could serve as a reminder to liberals that they once rallied around Obama as the man who would bring the war to an end.
The obvious problem is, that Obama has followed, to the letter, a status-of-forces agreement negotiated with Baghdad by the Bush Administration. His speech tonight will be the equivalent of your contractor claiming credit for designing kitchen remodel because he didn’t pee all over the blueprints.
The less obvious problem is, what is Obama doing shoring up his antiwar base just 63 days before the election? This is when he’s supposed to be reminding independents about all the wonderful things he and his Democratic congressional majorities have accomplished in the last 18 months or so.
Oh, right…
The less obvious problem is, what is Obama doing shoring up his antiwar base just 63 days before the election? This is when he’s supposed to be reminding independents about all the wonderful things he and his Democratic congressional majorities have accomplished in the last 18 months or so.
Ah, Stephen,…you obviously have not read the strategy manual for the next 63 days.
This is taken directly from the Dollar Store, a leftist symbol formerly known as “Prints”…or for those not owning a secret JournoList decoder ring, “Newsweek”.
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/08/27/midterm-election-will-be-referendum-on-obama.html
We Are All Apologists Now.
“…Obama, who as the first black president reinforces the myth of America as a colorblind society…”
“…who could have predicted that the GOP would be complicit in aiding and abetting Obama’s downfall. Yet that’s what Republicans did in obstructing and delaying every step along the way, even legislation they supported, to the point where Congress’s approval rating is 11 percent, the lowest in recorded polling history…”
“…treating lawmakers as equals, spending far too much time chasing a bipartisan consensus that turned out to be a mirage created on the campaign trail…”
“…Obama’s aversion to confrontation, which worked so well for him as a candidate, has made him appear too pliable and even weak as a president. His overall poll ratings have held up pretty well considering the battering he’s taking, but his image as a strong leader had its greatest drop between February and June of this year, even as he was racking up major achievements with the passage of universal health care and the biggest overhaul of the financial system since the days of FDR.”
He is shoring up his anti-America base AND THEY are reminding people of all the wonderful things he accomplished or would have accomplished, but for…the superminority powers of obstruction by an outvoted class of myth advancing, racist Republicans.
They are peddling this pungent poop to the lapdog Democratic faithful at fundraisers all over America. These “major achievements” that virtually every close contest Democrat is running away from in full retreat. They are asking for donations for having advanced these despised ideas in a Cash for Clunkers redux…at $500 per plate.
They are on the wrong side of 70% of the people on protecting our borders, suing our states, building shrines on the ashes of our innocent mass murder victims, spending us into depression, stimulating nothing, creating nothing, saving nothing. They are on the wrong side of the American people. They are on the wrong side of sexual slurs, name calling and unfettered arrogance.
And all they have left, is to try to run away and hide. Blame someone else. The dog ate my homework. Nobody understands us. We haven’t done a good enough job of explaining why you all are stupid. And racist.
Good luck with that, Democrats. And thank goodness for that Dollar Store magazine for letting us in on the JournoList gameplan.
$1 …a leftist symbol, formerly known as “Prints”…aka, Newsweek.
The more important question is, will you be drunkblogging it?
Do it for your health:
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/08/31/great-news-heavy-drinkers-live-longer-than-non-drinkers/
That’s my question. Please do it. For all of us, as well as your own health and wellbeing as is pointed out on that link.
Not that you need reminding, but the other obvious problem Obama faces when he makes tonight’s speech is that every prominent Democrat including Obama himself opposed the surge that made this drawdown possible.
Honestly, the surge was a battle for improving a War, not winning it. Thank God we are getting out, what a waste of our Youth and Treasury set on a bed of lies.
Montana, your first sentence makes no sense. What, exactly, are you trying to say with that “improving, not winning” formula?
Also, please refresh my memory. What were the lies?