Boils Down to a Bust: Too Much Hype - Sizable Schism on Health-Care Reform… That His Speeches Aren’t Helping – On Other Subjects: ''O'Bama the Apologizer, the Unwise, the Divider''
President Obama said Sunday he will remain skeptical about the need for more U.S. troops in Afghanistan until he is satisfied that the military has the right strategy for winning the war there.
In taped interviews on five Sunday morning news programs, Obama said his top generals have completed another review of that strategy, and that he will not act on a further troop increase until he is satisfied that the review has produced a winnable approach.
"What I'm not also gonna do, though, is put the resource question before the strategy question," Obama told NBC's David Gregory on "Meet the Press." "Until I'm satisfied that we've got the right strategy I'm not gonna be sending some young man or woman over there- beyond what we already have."
He echoed the same line to George Stephanopoulos on ABC's "This Week" program: "We're going to test whatever resources we have against our strategy, which is, if by sending young men and women into harm's way, we are defeating al Qaeda -- and that can be shown to a skeptical audience, namely me, somebody who is always asking hard questions about deploying troops -- then we will do what's required to keep the American people safe."
The president made his comments on the morning shows as surveys showed increased pessimism in the United States and Europe about the mission in Afghanistan.
Reports have suggested that military officials could ask Obama for tens of thousands more American soldiers and Marines for the effort amid a surge in violence from insurgents and the Taliban.
But Obama told the network hosts that he has made no decision about sending more troops. He said the strategy in Afghanistan was "adrift" when he took office and he said the security situation is rapidly changing.
"We're not gonna put the cart before the horse and just think by sending more troops, we're automatically going to make Americans safe," he told Bob Schieffer of CBS's "Face the Nation."
Washington Post – 11-20-09
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Obama plays dumb on ACORN
By Michelle Malkin • September 20, 2009 11:21 AM
Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti
Channeling clueless Charlie Gibson and Nancy Pelosi, President Obama is playing dumb about ACORN. Here’s what he said on ABC’s This Week this morning:
STEPHANOPOULOS: But have your — have some of your allies made it easier for — handed your opponents some ammunition, like ACORN, for example…
OBAMA: Well, look, the — you know, I think that — are there folks in the Democratic camp or on the left who haven’t — haven’t always operated in ways that I’d appreciate? Absolutely.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Congress said they should cut off all funding for ACORN.
OBAMA: Is — is — is…
STEPHANOPOULOS: … all funding for ACORN. Are you for that?
OBAMA: Is that true on the other side, as well? Of course that’s true.
STEPHANOPOULOS: How about the funding for ACORN?
OBAMA: You know, it’s — frankly, it’s not really something I’ve followed closely. I didn’t even know that ACORN was getting a whole lot of federal money.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Both the Senate and the House have voted to cut it off.
OBAMA: You know, what I know is, is that what I saw on that video was certainly inappropriate and deserves to be investigated.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So you’re not committing to — to cut off the federal funding?
OBAMA: George, this is not the biggest issue facing the country. It’s not something I’m paying a lot of attention to.
It strains credulity — no, it snaps credulity in half — to believe Obama “didn’t even know” that ACORN was “getting a whole lot of federal money” given hisextensive legal services on behalf of the group and training for its voter education arm, Project Vote. (Go re-read my column from June 2008, “The ACORN Obama knows,” and all the links for a refresher course.)
Repeat after me: Obama is ACORN. ACORN is Obama. Barack Obama can no more disown ACORN than he could disown his own shadow.
Now that the White House supports an investigation, Congress should make sure to investigate:
1) How Team Obama hid its $800,000 campaign payment to ACORN through front group “Citizen Services, Inc.”;
2) How Team Obama shared donor lists with the president’s old employer, ACORN affiliate Project Vote, a 501(c)(3) organization, which is prohibited from engaging in political activity (Mr. President, meet Anita MonCrief);
3) And how Project Vote and hundreds of myriad entities intermingled non-profit, tax-exempt funding with the national ACORN flagship’s political operations — a buried story Obama would know about if he read NYTimes reporter Stephanie Strom’s report last October before she wasmuzzled as Election Day drew near.
Bring it on.
Some media consultants say the president has overexposed himself… nobody is listening or trusting what he is saying. Nobody, but his faithful, are buying his ObamaCare rhetoric!
One woman Michelle Obama will not mention – Are these the kinds of people you trust with your healthcare?
You can fool some of the people some of the time… but you can’t fool all the people all of the time! And if you are trying to cram something down their throats… they know something is wrong!!
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