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By Moe Lane Posted in 2008 | Irony Death Watch | Obamafiles | Rooting For Injuries — Comments (5) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »

Most of the rest of Joe Wilson's HuffPo post was at best nonsensical blathering*, of course, but that's all right: this will do nicely.

On Iran and the question of designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization, the junior senator from Illinois was not quite so clever at avoiding taking a position. He first co-sponsored the "Counter-Proliferation Act of 2007," which contained explicit language identifying the Iranian Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization. He subsequently claimed to oppose the Kyl-Lieberman sense of the Senate resolution proposing the same thing. Obama's accountability problem here is that he didn't show up for the vote on that resolution -- a vote that would have put him on record. Then he declined to sign on to a letter put forward by Senator Clinton making explicit that the resolution could not be used as authority to take military action. All we have is Obama's rhetoric juxtaposed with his co-sponsorship of a piece of legislation that proposed what he says he opposed.

Obama's gyrations on Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran are not the actions of one imbued with superior intuitive judgment, but rather the machinations of a political opportunist looking to avoid having his fingerprints on any issue that might be controversial, and require real judgment, while preserving his freedom to bludgeon his adversary for actually taking positions as elected office demands. It is hard to discern whether Senator Obama is a man of principle, but it is clear that he is not a man of substance. And that judgment, based on his hollow record, is inescapable.

So. Joe Wilson staking his entire accrued reputation (among a certain sort) on his ability to trivialize Senator Barack Obama's foreign policy experience.

All I can say is: Dayenu.

(PS: Allahpundit's gleeful, too.)

*And, at worst, the futile attempts of a not quite as clever as he thinks nonentity to try one more turn at revisionist history before objective reality steps in. Just so we're clear on that.