I posted this video a bunch of times before, but it;s worth showing again:
With that as a backdrop, can you believe that Gibbs is publicly claiming that Obama supported the surge? Oh yeah. From Commentary Magazine via memeorandum: Gibbs vs. the Historical Record
With that as a backdrop, can you believe that Gibbs is publicly claiming that Obama supported the surge? Oh yeah. From Commentary Magazine via memeorandum: Gibbs vs. the Historical Record
"What is certainly not up for question is that President Obama, then-candidate Obama, said that adding those 20,000 troops into Iraq would, indeed, improve the security situation, and it did," Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said on the Today show this morning, in anticipation of Mr. Obama's Oval Office address this evening.
That statement is false. As I pointed out in this COMMENTARY essay, on the night of President Bush's "surge" announcement, then-Senator Obama proclaimed: "I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq are going to solve the sectarian violence there. In fact, I think it will do the reverse" [emphasis added]. It's worth pointing out as well that in January 2007 then-Senator Joseph Biden declared: "If he surges another 20, 30 [thousand], or whatever number he's going to, into Baghdad, it'll be a tragic mistake."
It would be hard to find two more vociferous critics of the surge than Obama and Biden.
It's regrettable that Obama's press secretary would compound his error in judgment with a shameful (and stupid) attempt to falsify the historical record.Former beauty queen Gretchen Carlson absolutely had Gibbs for lunch over at Fox News on his rewrite (via Townhall):
That's about s crisp as I've ever seen Carlson. Kudos to her. Cassandra had this over at Villainous Company: "Confidence and Commitment"? … Does this sound like "confidence and commitment" to you?
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