Posted on 11/27/2008 10:26:14 AM PST by SoftTyranny
Obama campaigned and won the election by telling a majority of voters in this country exactly what they wanted to hear. Every move was calculated. Every position was based on the latest polling numbers. He won by campaigning on raising taxes for only 5% of Americans and cutting taxes on 95%. In a society that has moved more and more towards a belief that the government owes them something and lives by the “I got mine” mentality - This Works! When everyone was mad at Wall Street, Obama ripped into Wall Street. If gas prices were too high, he ripped into the “evil” oil companies. Furthermore, he convinced a majority of drones in this country that the war in Iraq was lost and we should pull out in retreat knowing full well he was never going to pull out.
This article by JONATHAN MARTIN at Polico.com is a testament to this fact:
Leading opponents of the war have mostly been silent as president-elect Barack Obama, who first built his national image on the foundation of his early opposition to the Iraq war, assembles a group of national security hands that is anything but a team of doves.
It’s a disorienting moment for the peace wing of the Democratic Party, at once elated America selected a new president opposed to the Iraq war and momentarily disoriented by the imminent removal of a commander-in-chief whose every action they’ve opposed for the past eight years.
“Shock has paralyzed them for the moment,” said Steven Clemons, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation who writes The Washington Note, a popular foreign policy blog. “We are in an Obama bubble now. And it’s tough to step out and be first to deflate the bubble.”
Especially, he added, before that bubble takes shape.
“You’ve got some people like myself who are saying there may be an interesting design in what Obama is trying to do. Maybe it doesn’t fit easily in a neatly sculpted box of liberal pacifist and warmonger hawk. Maybe it’s more complex than that.”
Read the rest of the article here.
Since the surge Bush and the generals have been on a great course. Results are obvious. OB will have nothing to do with ending the war or the winding dwon. He'll follow the Bush plan because it's based upon the realities in Iraq.
When the Iraq war is still going on in 2012, with no end in sight, does anyone think the Dems will renominate him?
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