Senator Barack Obama responded sharply on Friday to attacks on his foreign policy, linking President Bush and Senator John McCain as partners in “the failed policies” of the past seven years and criticizing them for “hypocrisy, fear peddling, fear mongering.”He sounds more like the senator from MoveOn than a serious candidate for President. Making bogus or overstated assertions against the administration and employing the Democrat politics of fraud in his defense, may play well with his base, but people who have been paying attention will associate this kind of rhetoric of Rev. Wright and the other kooks on the left.
Confronting a major challenge to his world view, Mr. Obama tried to turn the tables on his critics, saying they were guilty of “bluster” and “dishonest, divisive” tactics. He cited a litany of what he called foreign policy blunders by the Bush administration and accused Mr. McCain, the presumed Republican nominee, of “doubling down” on them.
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It has been the Democrats who have been divisive and dishonest in their complaints about the President since the war in Iraq became difficult. Rather than supporting the war effort they have politicized it and have been desperate for a defeat which they hope to take political advantage of. Obama is becoming the spokesman for defeat in Iraq just as our forces are winning.
He remains profoundly ignorant of the facts on the ground in Iraq and the principals of counterinsurgency warfare.
By adopting this attacking style he is going to lose support of people who perceived him as moderate.
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