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July 23, 2008
saying always is always a bad practice
The election campaign is a long sprint. It's not surprising when candidates fumble their words. It's actually not uncommon for Presidents to do the same thing. Senator Obama had a couple moments yesterday and they only reason I mention it is that it's just a hilarious quote.
"You know, it's always a bad practice to say 'always' or 'never.'"That's just good plain fun. More troubling to me was Obama's response to question from Terry Moran at ABC.
Q: If you had to do it over again, knowing what you know now, would you support the surge?President Bush has gotten a lot of flak for stubbornly ignoring the facts, especially after the invasion. There is really no good reason to oppose the surge other than appeasing the base on the Left. Fortunately for Obama, he's going to lose on the foreign policy issue no matter what happens. His strength is on the domestic front so I don't expect McCain to beat him too much on this issue. Obama's real weakness right now is on energy policy.
Obama: No. Because, keep in mind that --
Q: You wouldn't?
Obama: Keep in mind, these kind of hypotheticals are very difficult. You know hindsight is 20/20. But I think that what I am absolutely convinced of is at that time we had to change the political debate because the view of the Bush administration at that time was one I just disagreed with.
Posted by nemov at July 23, 2008 7:34 AM
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