Malarky from the mind of Obama
Caught this over at Bottom Line, Up Front in an excerpt from a response to a question at the Unity Journalism Conference in Chicago yesterday:
Now, any time you put 20,000 to 30,000 U.S. troops anywhere in the world, they are going to perform brilliantly and that is going to contribute to keeping the lid on violence.
I’ve hear the senator spin this in much the same way on other occasions, but I seemed to recall a totally different take on the value of the surge in previous comments. I’m not talking about how Obama said the surge wouldn’t work… no, no, no, no dear reader… what I am referring to is Obama’s belief that sending more troops to Iraq would INCREASE the violence.
Well… thanks to the magic of YouTube, here’s the clip… take special note around 53 seconds into the video:
I suppose we need to make allowances for his memory lapses considering the potential long term effects of (admitted and documented) drug use… it may not be that he is trying to rewrite history, it may just be that his memory is no so good.
Stumble it!