An "Obominable" Plan by Austin Bay

Barack Obama has kinda-sorta demanded withdrawal from Iraq. He wants US forces to leave Iraq by the end of 2008 — that isn’t an immediate withdrawal, but it is still a timetable for abandoning Iraq.

Accept Obama’s demand for what it is: a quick genuflection to MoveOn.org, the DailyKos, and the other nutroot groups which rhetorically ignite —and bully—today’s Democratic Party. Obama is trying to appeal to the Code Pink Stalinists and gray-haired profs with Vietnam-era ponytails who vote in Democratic Party primaries.

Obama’s call for defeat is reminiscent of his rhetorically botched recommendation that the US invade Pakistan. Alas, this year’s Mr. Excitement has a lot to learn. Shady characters and a re-play of Bill Clinton’s “Chinese financial culture of corruption” haunt Hillary’s campaign — it appears a basic lack of international savvy is Obama’s glaring defect.

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