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Sarah Hammers Obama on Surge
2008-09-09
PALIN: Just last night Senator Obama finally broke and brought himself to admit what all the rest of us have known for quite some time, and that's: thanks to the skill and valor of our troops, the surge in Iraq has succeeded. Senator Obama said that the surge, quote, "succeeded beyond our wildest dreams. I think," said Senator Obama, "that the surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated."
I guess when you turn out to be profoundly wrong on a vital national security issue, maybe it's comforting to pretend that everyone else was wrong, too.
I guess when you turn out to be profoundly wrong on a vital national security issue, maybe it's comforting to pretend that everyone else was wrong, too.

RUSH: This woman is dynamite! I mean, this woman is just hammering this poor little man-child! This woman is smart. What an analogy! It succeeded beyond anybody's wildest dreams? See, this is where Obama's dead wrong. If it succeeded beyond anybody's wildest dreams, why plan it? It succeeded as planned, Obama! It succeeded as planned. It was beyond YOUR wildest dreams. I'll tell you something else. He still said, after all this, that he would have opposed it. So he's still gathering. He's still gathering the little nuts and those acorns that make up the loony left of his base.

Posted by:Hupeatch Javigum7979

#5  Like many others, the surge did not exceed my wildest dreams. It did do much better than I thought, but I was not fully aware of the majors changes in strategy that ere coupled with it. What it did do for Obama and other Democrats is exceed their greatest fears. If Iraq was a mess now, no Republican could save the white house. It would have been a Goldwater year.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon   2008-09-09 16:44  

#4  Obama said that the surge, quote, "succeeded beyond our wildest dreams. I think

But he's not really sure? I think? Far cry from Harry Reid doom and gloom pronouncement that all is lost in Iraq, surrender, appease, withdraw immediately.

I expect some declaration from BO and Biden that we were for the surge before we were against it but now we are for the surge again.
Posted by: JohnQC   2008-09-09 10:09  

#3  "READ MY LIPSTICK" signs!

LMAO!
Posted by: Skunky Glins 5***   2008-09-09 09:06  

#2  No need for an essay in contrasts however, huh's, and 'you knows' distant thoughtful reflection, verbal meandering, phrases like 'above my pay grade'... none of these are in the lexicon of General David Petraeus.
Posted by: Besoeker   2008-09-09 08:38  

#1  Beyond our wildest dreams? In ways that no one anticipated?

Rather than accuse Him of being a dissembling bag of crap, I will just point out that the results you see today in Iraq are what Petraeus and company planned for, worked for, and even died for. My contempt is boundless.
Posted by: SteveS   2008-09-09 03:53  

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