Obama vs. Obama On Afghanistan

[t0dd]

Run time: 04:56 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGB_jQziUBU   Posted on YouTube: August 10, 2010 By YouTube Member: Dprippa Views on YouTube: 34   Posted on DU: August 11, 2010 By DU Member: t0dd Views on DU: 600

 
Back in early 2007, when the Bush administration was insisting that its military intervention in a faraway land was not open-ended, Senator Barack Obama wasn't buying it.

So the freshman from Illinois used then-secretary of state Condoleeza Rice's appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as an opportunity to raise some probing questions. Obama was particularly skeptical about the administration's alleged "benchmarks" for success. He wanted to know exactly what they were -- and what would happen if they weren't met. And he wanted to know the answer to this question: "At what point do we say: 'Enough'?"

In this video, Huffington Post Video Editor Ben Craw interweaves edited clips of Senator Obama questioning Rice about Iraq in January 2007 with comments President Obama has made about his own Afghan exit strategy in a speech in March 2009, an interview with CBS's "60 Minutes" in March 2009, an address to the nation in December 2009, remarks to the troops in Afghanistan in March, an interview with ABC in April, and an appearance on ABC's "The View" in July.

[tomm2thumbs]

1. ouch

this is going to play well

[Vincevega]

2. Good Obama vs Bad Obama

Is there anyway we can bring back the old Obama?

[Grassy Knoll]

3. It goes to show you ....

how little candidates really know vs how having access to secret service documents
and daily briefings change the outlook of the world leader.
Running the country and running your mouth , let's just say it's different once you get the crown.

[liberation]

4. So common sense is now "running one's mouth"

Dear lord, and I thought the perennial justifications to power by the Bush loyalist were creepy.

[LAGC]

5. K&R

This needs to be seen.