Today’s edition comes from the LA Times’ blog Top of the Ticket, via Wake Up America (H/T: Instapundit)
It’s all tied up with Obama’s recent decision to memory hole his opposition to the surge, once it turned out to have actually worked. Alas for the junior Senator from Illinois, we live in The Age of Scrutiny, and nothing ever goes away. How ironic that it’s the older guy in this contest who seems to have the better strategy for dealing with this sort of thing: McCain just keeps talking to you until you’re done listening to him, and if you want to discuss any contradictions that might come up, well, obviously you’re not done listening to him, so he’ll happily keep talking to you about it. Simply pretending it never happened isn’t what you would call a viable alternative, these days; not that it’s stopping the enthusiasts in the Obama campaign from trying.
For that matter, I don’t think that said enthusiasts have entirely internalized yet the notion that a lot of the media stopped writing him free passes when they realized that he lied to them about public financing. See the WaPo for the latest iteration:
The Iron Timetable
Whether the war in Iraq is being lost or won, Barack Obama’s strategy remains unchanged.BARACK OBAMA yesterday accused President Bush and Sen. John McCain of rigidity on Iraq: “They said we couldn’t leave when violence was up, they say we can’t leave when violence is down.” Mr. Obama then confirmed his own foolish consistency. Early last year, when the war was at its peak, the Democratic candidate proposed a timetable for withdrawing all U.S. combat forces in slightly more than a year. Yesterday, with bloodshed at its lowest level since the war began, Mr. Obama endorsed the same plan. After hinting earlier this month that he might “refine” his Iraq strategy after visiting the country and listening to commanders, Mr. Obama appears to have decided that sticking to his arbitrary, 16-month timetable is more important than adjusting to the dramatic changes in Iraq.
They don’t get any nicer about it, either.
Neil Stevens
Moe Lane
Steve Maley
Daniel Horowitz
Jake Walker
It's
Wayne (Diary) Wednesday, July 16th at 9:36AM EST (link)easy to explain, Obama hasn’t talked to any military officers, so none have told him the surge is working. And, it’s so unfair to accurately quote him. He’s on a mission to save you and me, and everyone else, so he can’t be expected to remember everything he said, or didn’t mean to say.
And his insistence on the 16 month timeline means that he won’t listen to Petraeus, or anyone else.
“Hell, these are Marines. Men like them held Guadalcanal, and took Iwo Jima, Baghdad ain’t s–t”. Maj. Gen. John F. Kelly, USMC, Deputy CG, First MEF
This is the format
SteveLA (Diary) Wednesday, July 16th at 9:43AM EST (link)Moe,
This format of showing what Nobama says now, against what he said before is the perfect means of highlighting the “say anything, stand for nothing” that is the Nobama. I’m not sure who is producing these videos, but they are GREAT and much more effective than the usual unsupported charges of Flip-Flop. Matter of fact that term “Flip-Flopper” should be put to rest and a new term for Nobama’s constant changing of his positions, faster than most people change their socks, should be developed. What that term is, beats me, but this video illustrates it perfectly.
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Competency over ideological purity and litmus tests
Orwell would love it: Newspeak countered by technology.
spainishirish (Diary) Wednesday, July 16th at 10:17AM EST (link)“Viciously attack” equals “quote accurately” (we saw some of this with the Swift Boat commercials in 2004).
“Racism” equals “disagreement.”
“Not the person I knew” equals “long-time friend and mentor.”
“Republican attack machine” equals “opposition.”
“Islamophobia” equals “parody of Obama.”
And on it goes.
I scream every time I see a Republican cowed by something above or similar to it, but on the whole the intimidation has fallen flat. The way to respond to this nonsense is to laugh at it and then tear it apart.
I thought Hillary out of touch with “The Age of Scrutiny” but it appears Obama isn’t much better.
I vote for "waffles"
Brian Simpson (Diary) Wednesday, July 16th at 11:47AM EST (link)Via QandO
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HAHA! Classic!
Bill S (Diary) Wednesday, July 16th at 12:25PM EST (link)You have defeated me in the graphic war. Bravo!
“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins
This is unrelated and hopefully not inappropriate
dorothyonthehill (Diary) Wednesday, July 16th at 1:02PM EST (link)Moe had something I needed to pass along to you, any shot you would mind emailing me, I can’t locate how to reach you directly on the new site. Sorry to everyone.
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