Tornado Alley (PROG)

[BullNBear52]

I read that hatchet job this morning and Frank Rich defines what Gibbs was talking about when he mentioned professional progressives. Dowd has been running right along side him in the race for first place.

But Obama only paid it lip service. It’s a mystery why a candidate so attuned to the nation’s pulse, most especially on the matter of war, has grown tone deaf in office.

Obama can't win for losing no matter what he does. He as much wanted to be in Iraq or Afghanistan as Dorothy wanted to be in Oz. If you don't get the literary allusion I'll help you out with there is no place like home.

Despite Rich's verbose rant Obama and Gates achieved what Obama promised which was to get us the hell out of Iraq.

But apparently that wasn't good enough for Rich who seems to think he needs his pound of flesh.

Americans are less forgiving. In recent polls, 60 percent of those surveyed thought the war in Iraq was a mistake, 70 percent thought it wasn’t worth American lives, and only a quarter believed it made us safer from terrorism. This sour judgment is entirely reality-based. The war failed in all its stated missions except the toppling of Saddam Hussein.

Rich isn't telling us anything an intelligent American already knew. What he doesn't understand is Obama continues to take the high road while every idiot drags him through the mud regardless of his religion, his stance on the war or the color of the wallpaper in the Oval Office.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/01/opinion/01dowd.html?ref=maureendowd