Serious problem for Obama--missile defense works

CNN:

The outgoing head of the U.S. missile defense agency said he'll tell President-elect Barack Obama's transition team that missile defenses are workable and working in tests.

During the campaign, aides to Obama said he would support a missile defense shield when "the technology is proved to be workable."

Lt. Gen. Trey Obering said Wednesday that missile technology is developed much further than some may believe it to be.

"Our testing has shown not only can we hit a bullet with a bullet, we can hit a spot on the bullet with a bullet. The technology has caught up," Obering said Wednesday.

Although not mentioning the president-elect or any of his transition team by name, Obering said that many critics are "behind the curve."

"What we have discovered is, a lot of those folks that have not been in this administration seem to be dated in terms of the program. They are kind of calibrated back in the 2000 timeframe," Obering said.

"We've come a hell of a long way since 2000. So our primary objective will be to educate them on what we have accomplished."

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This is bad news for Obama who was already counting on spending missile defense money on health care. Seriously, he is like most Democrats who never wanted missile defense and have tried to kill it for over 20 years. Fortunately, the Bush administration ignored them and developed and put in place missile defense systems that really work.

The Democrat base would prefer that we be defenseless so that we would be force to negotiate with our enemies. That would of course mean giving in to extortion which does not seem to bother them as much as it bothers me.

I wonder if Jamie McIntyre has any idea how much trouble he has caused Obama with this report. I suspect he is just a reporter with integrity who is willing to let the chips fall where they may while he is doing his job.