Nathan Moore's Thoughts
Axelrod on Obama on MSNBC
According to David Axelrod, the American people want a president who gives them the straight, unvarnished truth. This came just after Axelrod began back peddling on Obama’s promise to withdraw all American troops from Iraq within 72 hours of taking office (ed: exaggeration noted), and after denying Obama’s misuse of McCain’s statement about a long term commitment to Iraq. Things seem a bit varnished to this observer.
Posturing for the general election at this point is probably wise strategy, but with a Clinton nipping your heels, a potentially risky one. Obama has yet to have to run on his record because things have been going as planned since Super Tuesday. Mindful of general election considerations, he never had to run any further left than he did (though he certainly could have had he needed to do so). Now he’s trying to re-calibrate his message to something the American people, and not just Democrat sycophants, will accept. Once again, Obama is taking his supporters for dupes.
April 7th, 2008 at 8:42 am
Having not seen the interview in question, I don’t know exactly what Axelrod said, but if it was something along the lines of Sen. Obama will survey the situation as it stands when taking office, that is pretty much what he’s said all along.
April 7th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
An interesting tidbit.I saw at the http://www.AmericanThinker.com today……..On January 30, 2007, Senator Barack Obama introduced the Iraq War De-escalation Act of 2007 in a speech from the floor of the U.S. Senate. In describing the proposed legislation he said,
“This plan would not only place a cap on the number of troops in Iraq and stop the escalation, more importantly, it would begin a phased redeployment of U.S. forces with the goal of removing all U.S. combat forces from Iraq by March 31, 2008.
Does not sound like the same guy today, does it?