Obama’s moment of truth by Dick Morris (know thy enemy)

[Demeter]

http://thehill.com/dick-morris/obamas-moment-of-truth-2007-05-02.html


Soon it will be time for Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) to face a moment of truth and decide whether he is going to lead the anti-war movement or cave in under administration pressure.

As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) move toward an accommodation with the White House over funding for the war in Iraq, they are also moving toward a civil war within their own party. If Pelosi and Reid agree to give Bush a new bill providing funding for the war without a deadline for troop withdrawal, they will redeem their party’s image nationally and show their support for the troops, but they will alienate their left wing. A bitter and divisive battle will ensue — one that could cost the Democrats the White House in 2008.

The left, led by John Edwards, is not about to accept mushy language holding the Iraqi regime accountable for its lack of progress, especially if the provision leaves Bush in charge of assessing what progress is being made. Why, they will ask, did we elect a Democratic Congress if the war is just going to drag on?

If Pelosi and Reid cave in to Bush, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) will most likely support their compromise to preserve her hawkish credibility and offset doubts about a woman’s ability to be commander in chief. With Edwards leading the chorus of critics, the question is: Will Obama join the compromise or ally with the left in voting against it? On this question the success or failure of his candidacy may well hinge....If Obama votes against the compromise, he might be president. If not, he will have to share the anti-Hillary vote with Edwards and may find himself squeezed out between a candidate on the left (Edwards) and a centrist on the war (Hillary).

Morris, a former political adviser to Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and President Bill Clinton, is the author of “Condi vs. Hillary: The Next Great Presidential Race.” To get all of Dick Morris’s and Eileen McGann’s columns for free by email, go to www.dickmorris.com .


I KNOW, I KNOW, BUT THE MAN HAS A VIEWPOINT THAT SHOWS FACETS OF REALITY.

[classysassy]

1. Mr Morris

you are just another shill for those republican thugs,shut up.

[zbdent]

2. Morris ... keep your mouth shut, or else

mrs. "Madam" might just keep talking about your toe preferences ...

I wonder why the media comes down hard on David Brock as a turncoat (for reporting the truth) and holds up Morris as credible (for turning against reality and cashing checks from Scaife & Murdoch ...)

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. "If Pelosi and Reid agree to give Bush a new bill providing funding for the war without a deadline

for troop withdrawal, they will redeem their party’s image nationally and show their support for the troops"

Redeem? In whose eyes? In the eyes of the majority of Americans who want us OUT of Iraq?

If anything "redeems" our party it will be confrontation with the criminals who have been working to destroy the nation for the past six years.