Writing in the Times of London, Andrew Sullivan has an interesting take on Obama's supposed adjustments to his positions on Iraq and other things. The subhead: Slowly and subtly, Barack Obama is wiping out every reason to vote for McCain
The bottom line:
... there’s a point to the successive shifts: Obama is slowly undermining every conceivable reason to vote for Republican candidate John McCain. If you want to withdraw from Iraq – as prudently as possible – Obama is still your man. You now know though that he won’t risk chaos in a precipitous withdrawal regardless of the strategic and tactical situation. He will not, in other words, be susceptible to snatching defeat from the jaws of progress. Unlike McCain he is also unafraid of real diplomacy with Iran and Syria; and unlike McCain he does not threaten a hundred years of occupation in Iraq and the suspicion that he’d like the US to stay there for ever.What can McCain say now in response? All he can say, I think, is that Obama is cynical. However, it is a little difficult to have spent the entire year portraying Obama as a radical, soft-on-terror leftist and now pivot to accuse him of being like the Clintons. Indeed. | Labels: 2008 election, Barack Obama, John McCain, presidential candidates |
