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American Wienie

I didn’t really expect Obama to go for a walk with McCain in Baghdad. The fact is, he’ll never walk in McCain’s shoes, there or elsewhere, but who would expect a political rival to accept a rhetorical challenge of that sort? 

The fact is, if Obama does decide it serves his interest to show the American public how clued in he is, and maybe also that he has balls — as much as a United States senator needs them for a shielded stroll through an Iraqi marketplace and a frontup with the troops whose mission and sacrifices he wants to throw away — the likelihood is he will only end up showing exactly how small a shadow he casts in the arena of foreign policy. For that matter, in anything related to our nation’s most pressing current concern, which is not energy policy or global warming or health care or race relations or even the economy, but war. Here’s an Obama spokesman, not even Obama himself, responding to McCain’s challenge: 

“John McCain’s proposal is nothing more than a political stunt, and we don’t need any more ‘Mission Accomplished’ banners or walks through Baghdad markets to know that Iraq’s leaders have not made the political progress that was the stated purpose of the surge. The American people don’t want any more false promises of progress, they deserve a real debate about a war that has overstretched our military, and cost us thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars without making us safer.”

I’m sorry, but that sounds like sniveling chickenshit for president. Maybe that’s being uncharitable. Maybe, for someone who claims to care so much about the troops but can’t be bothered spending any time with them or finding out firsthand what they are doing, it sounds more like don’t give a shit for president.

Topics: pols

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 2:32 am Comments (5) on Wednesday, May 28, 2008

5 Responses to “American Wienie”

1. Sister Toldjah Says:
   May 28th, 2008 at 9:04 am

   Obama: There will be no joint trip to Baghdad with McCain

   Greg Sargent at the TPM Election Central blog reports that he talked to the Obama campaign yesterday about McCain’s suggestion that he and Barry O. travel together to Iraq. Here’s what BO campaign spokesman Bill Burton had to say:
   “J…

2. The_Real_JeffS Says:
   May 28th, 2008 at 9:30 am

   Well said, Jules. Obama is an empty suit; the only person he supports is himself. As his grandmother found out the hard way.

3. RebeccaH Says:
   May 28th, 2008 at 9:31 am

   Not uncharitable so much as starkly realistic. “Casts a small shadow” indeed, and not just in foreign policy.

4. The Thunder Run Says:
   May 28th, 2008 at 11:20 am

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5. Fatty Bolger Says:
   May 28th, 2008 at 2:45 pm

   What reflects on him so poorly is that he never thought of doing it himself, until McCain brought it up. Now he has no choice but to disdain it, or take the chance that he’ll end up with a “Dukakis in a tank” moment. Of course, he might instead go, actually learn something, and use it to make himself a better candidate (and perhaps, a better President). Also, monkeys might fly out of my butt.

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