Why Is Obama Talking About Iraq Tonight?
August 31, 2010 at 10:35 AM Leave a comment
For the life of me, I can’t figure out what Obama is thinking when it comes to giving a speech about Iraq tonight. First of all, I don’t think people care about that war anymore; they want it to go away. Why remind them that we’re pouring billions of dollars into that godforsaken country — money that could be spent here? Second, what’s he going to say that hasn’t already been said? He can’t say “the war is over,” because it isn’t. 50,000 troops and contractors remain. He can’t say he kept his campaign promise to end it, because he hasn’t.
People want to hear what he’s going to do about the economy. Period. To see him talking about (and, by inference, thinking about and spending time on) the Iraq war, will only make people think (and maybe rightly so) that he isn’t concentrating like a laser on what’s going on here at home.
He will look like he’s grossly out of touch with the mood of the country, and maybe he is.
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