The Discerning Texan
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Obama Loses It...

... and to hear Jim Geraghty tell it, Obama lost a lot more than just an audience in New Hampshire today; Barack may have just coughed up the whole enchilada. In fact one wonders with statements like this--which appear to be more of a trait than an accident--whether the Hillary camp will actually consider Obama as a VP to be a liability to the ticket:

When I first saw the comment on Instapundit, I thought it was an Obama aide who made an astoundingly boneheaded assessement of U.S. efforts in Afghanistan. But no, it turns out it was the candidate himself:

Asked whether he would move U.S. troops out of Iraq to better fight terrorism elsewhere, he brought up Afghanistan and said, "We've got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there."

Ahem.

[Here Geraghty runs through several Afghanistan news item from the CENTCOM ...]

Nope, no ground troops currently fighting, just a bunch of "air-raiding villages and killing civilians."

That's it. Too many foreign policy gaffes in too short a time. Goodnight, Senator Obama. Thanks for playing.


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