You can't make this stuff up. Or rather, if you did, no one would consider it remotely plausible.

Reminds me of hearing about the immigration flap over a child with a name pronounced on the news as "Alien Gonzalez". Yet none of the news anchors so much as blinked, let alone stopped reading their scripts saying, "What? His name is Alien? You're pulling my leg."

Iran...

Think about it from Iran's perspective. Iran has supplied and trained our enemies in Iraq and Afghanistan; they're interfering behind the scenes in Iraq's elections and attempts to form a government. They're the world's major state sponsor of terrorism, and that they bankroll Hamas and Hezbollah. Their Hamas clients just murdered four innocent Israeli civilians, including a pregnant woman, in an supposedly safe area. They're beavering away on a nuclear weapons program, enriching uranium, testing long range missiles, firing up a nuclear energy plant no one believes has a peaceful intent.

By not calling Iran out, even as he proclaims our troops are leaving the region, President Obama may have inadvertently given them a green light.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/09/01/kt-mcfarland-obama-speech-iraq-iran-afghanistan-american-military-terrorist/

Obama DIDN'T give Bush any credit for Iraq, which he should have.

Obama didn't concede that Bush was right and he (Obama) was wrong about the troop surge.. What IS it about this President that he can't A)admit when he is wrong and B)give credit where credit is due.

THESE are the hallmarks of a true leader...

Once again, Obama is very disappointing.

Michale.....

Cutest picture in the world. Look at the expression on the cub scout's face. This is the kind of thing that can change a kid's entire life. That little guy could grow up to become president himself some day, all stemming from that one moment when he shook the president's hand.

Oh, I can wait 'til then. 'D

I think even Rasumussen would have a hard time finding numbers that were a whole lot better than those CBS numbers for whether it was "worth it" to go into Iraq right now. Whether you're willing to admit it or not, a lot of people have changed their minds on that one.

Polling has been interesting for the past few weeks. But that's a subject for tomorrow's Obama Poll Watch column...

-CW

I don't think he walked a fine line. I think he made a big mistake in talking about the cost of the war and tying it to economic woes:

"We have sent our young men and women to make enormous sacrifices in Iraq, and spent vast resources abroad at a time of tight budgets at home."

I'm not left with the sense that he's committed to winning but only to leaving, with money serving to guide his war decisions. (This, mind you, from a president who thought nothing of spending a trillion on a health care overhaul that the American people were dead set against. Yet somehow the cost of the war is a serious concern.) By reducing it all down to dollars and cents, it just killed whatever effort he was making to sound committed to the troops and to winning. From that point forward, it was just words written by a speechwriter who was trying to make Obama sound like a serious Commander in Chief — when he just plain isn't. He's a politician, watching the ratings; not a strategic commander, making decisions in the best interests of the war or the troops or the Iraqis or anyone. That's how I was left feeling. I think he would've been better off not giving the speech.

I think it shows CBS polling in Dem-heavy states again. 'D