Yep, first time I’ve heard this from him too. I see he’s moved on from “turning back the waters and healing the planet” to changing the past now?
Brokaw:
All right. Well, let me show you what the USA Today said in its editorial, and then we'll move on to Afghanistan. This is what USA Today had to say about your position on the surge. "Why can't Obama bring himself to acknowledge the surge worked better than he and other skeptics thought that it would?" That's a conditioned response on their part. "What does that stubbornness say about the kind of president that he would be?"
Obama:
"Well, listen. I, I actually think that there's no doubt that the violence has gone down more than any of us anticipated, including President Bush and John McCain. If you, if you would--if you had talked to them and, and said, "You know what? We're going to bring down violence to the levels that we have," I think--I, I, I suspect USA Today's own editorial board wouldn't have anticipated that. That's not a, that's not a hard thing to acknowledge, that the situations have improved more rapidly than we had anticipated. That doesn't change the broader strategic questions that we've got to deal with."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25872804/page/2/
That's the problem with pathological liars -> they can't remember who they told what when, and invaribly get caught, which leaves them no recourse but to lie about the last lie.
I would like to note a major change in his demeanor since Saddleback, during which he spent the duration with his head cocked to the side, eyes on the floor in a manner reminiscient of a kid who burglurized a home and feels he has successfully blamed it on someone else, compared to his 1st part of the intervies with BOR during the Republican Convention.
The arrogant, smug, boorish behavior was gone as he emphatically, wide eyed and obviously scared, told BOR just about anything he thought BOR would want to hear....I got the impression that he knew he'd been caught doing a crime and wanted to do a deal, rat someone out, save his skin.
He was absolutely on the edge of his seat desperate, and the real street punk in him that is so disfamiliar with the concept of accountability is starting to show.