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Posted at 12:18pm on Jan. 8, 2008 Obama's Unfortunate Collision With History

By streiff

Our Beloved Leader, Erick, makes a few observations about Barack Obama below. One in particular caught my eye:

And I suspect that he is really vapid and shallow. A smart man nor a smart man who is just inexperienced do not make the foreign policy pronouncements Barack Obama makes, nor some of the public policy statements he has made.

From Saturday's debate in New Hampshire

MR. GIBSON: Would you have seen this kind of greater security in Iraq if we had followed your recommendations to pull the troops out last year?

SEN. OBAMA: Let me respond. I think the bar of success has become so low (yadda yadda)

It has cost us upwards of $1 trillion.(Yadda yadda)

Now, I had no doubt -- and I said at the time, when I opposed the surge, (yadda yadda)

(yadda yadda)I welcome the genuine reductions of violence that have taken place, although I would point out that much of that violence has been reduced because there was an agreement with tribes in Anbar province -- Sunni tribes -- who started to see, after the Democrats were elected in 2006, you know what, the Americans may be leaving soon, and we are going to be left very vulnerable to the Shi'as. We should start negotiating now. That's how you change behavior.

Whoa. Whoa. Whoa.

Conveniently for us, inconveniently for Obama, we've looked at this timeline before for a different reason.

As early as March 2006, the inestimable Bill Roggio was reporting on the Anbar Awakening from open sources. Probably the earliest mentions of this was blogged by Bill Roggio in June 2005. Success in Anbar Province was evident and substantial before the 2006 elections were even held.

Is the man truly this stupid? Are what passes for his foreign policy advisers this stupid and he's simply a sock puppet? Does he think we're this stupid? Did he not know and simply make something up relying on the Donovan McNabb Effect to keep him from being criticized?

None of the answers are pleasant to contemplate. The best we can hope for is a mediocre intelligence who surrounds himself with dolts so he can be the smartest guy in the room.

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