[Jim in CT]

Here is one line from Obama's recent speech on Middle Eastern policy...

"In Iraq, we see the promise of a multiethnic, multisectarian democracy. There, the Iraqi people have rejected the perils of political violence for a democratic process … Iraq is poised to play a key role in the region."

Is it me, or did Obama just admit that Bush's policies in Iraq are paying dividends in that region? Not that he would ever say it that way...but how can Obama decry the Iraq War when he is speaking at a political fundraiser, and the next day talk about the tangible benefits of that war? Spence?

Here is the answer...Obama is politicizing war. He's taking a war in which thousands of the best kids you have ever seen gave their lives, and Obama is contorting his view of that war to maximize his political capital. I think that's vile, putrid, and par for the course with this guy. Either the war accomplished nothing, or it accomplished something significant, but it cannot have done both.

Obama worshippers, please think for a moment about the virtues (or lack thereof) of a man who would exploit the death of thousands of vets for his political gain. If he thinks the war was a colosal waste, he should say so. If he thinks the war produced some valuable results, he should say that. His answer should not depend on the audience he is speaking in front of at the time.

I don't get this guy's appeal, I just don't. The only "change" this guy brings is the previously unfathomable depths to which he will sink to get people to vote for him.