Via Marc Ambinder, via Don Surber, via Larwyn, comes perky Katie Couric's butt-kicking of Barack Obama:
Couric: But talking microcosmically, did the surge, the addition of 30,000 additional troops ... help the situation in Iraq?
Obama: Katie, as … you've asked me three different times, and I have said repeatedly that there is no doubt that our troops helped to reduce violence. There's no doubt.
Couric: But yet you're saying … given what you know now, you still wouldn't support it … so I'm just trying to understand this.Obama: Because … it's pretty straightforward. By us putting $10 billion to $12 billion a month, $200 billion, that's money that could have gone into Afghanistan. Those additional troops could have gone into Afghanistan. That money also could have been used to shore up a declining economic situation in the United States. That money could have been applied to having a serious energy security plan so that we were reducing our demand on oil, which is helping to fund the insurgents in many countries. So those are all factors that would be taken into consideration in my decision-- to deal with a specific tactic or strategy inside of Iraq.
Couric: And I really don't mean to belabor this, Senator, because I'm really, I'm trying … to figure out your position. Do you think the level of security in Iraq …
Obama: Yes.Couric … would exist today without the surge?
Obama: Katie, I have no idea what would have happened had we applied my approach, which was to put more pressure on the Iraqis to arrive at a political reconciliation. So this is all hypotheticals. What I can say is that there's no doubt that our U.S. troops have contributed to a reduction of violence in Iraq. I said that-- not just today, not just yesterday, but I've said that-- previously. What that doesn't change is that we've got to have a different strategic approach if we're going to make America as safe as possible.
When Ms. Couric tongue-ties the Democratic contender for President and makes him look the fool, you know the bloom is off the rose.
Beyond doubt.
One wonders what the critical thinking Religious Leftists are pondering as they see one MSM outlet after another begin to finally ask this empty suit some tough questions and they see that he simply can't handle the heat.
How about this interview, where he states that he can't talk in hypotheticals.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBO5s8NUOxw
When it is his own hypothetical that he is actually talking about.
Posted by: Locutisprime | Thursday, July 24, 2008 at 12:24 AM