'Monster' Slip: Obama's Iraq Plan Just Words

[ElsewheresDaughter]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzy3lObigF0

Sheesh. You can't make this stuff up. Before she resigned for calling Hillary Clinton a 'monster,' Obama's senior foreign policy adviser Samantha 'Monster' Power told the BBC not to take seriously Obama's pledge to get the troops home in 16 months! A statement by Hillary Clinton follows the video clip. I wonder how Obama is going to blame this one on Hillary.

“This is the latest example of promising the American people one thing on the campaign trail and telling people in other countries another. We saw this with NAFTA as well. He’s attacked me continuously for having no hard exit date and now we learned that he doesn’t have one. In fact, he doesn’t have a plan at all, according to his top foreign-policy advisor. If he keeps telling people one thing while his campaign tells people abroad something else, I’m not sure what the American people should believe.” -- Hillary Clinton

BBC Transcript: STEPHEN SACKUR: Let me stop you just for a moment. You said that he’ll revisit it when he goes to the White House. So what the American public thinks is a commitment to get combat forces out within sixteen months, isn’t a commitment isn’t it?

POWER: You can’t make a commitment in whatever month we’re in now, in March of 2008 about what circumstances are gonna be like in Jan. 2009. . He will of course not rely upon some plan that he’s crafted as a presidential candidate or as a US senator. . .

SACKUR: Ok, so the 16 months is negotiable?

POWER: It’s the best case scenario

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[SoonerPride]

1. you need help

really

[tabatha]

2. Really.

You are like a kindergarten.
Your comprehension is at that level.

[SoonerPride]

8. How sad you are

The first phase is denial.

Now you're angy.

Soon will come coping and moving on.

HRC is done and the game is over.

She didn't win texas.
She won't and can't get the lead in delegates. The game is over.

Time to move on.

[MrCoffee]

3. Learn a few things about Samantha Power, will you?

She's better, more talented, more gifted, and infinitely smarter than either of our two candidates.


Hell, she's better, more talented, more gifted, and infinitely smarter than both of them combined.

[Cant trust em]

4. The final quote from Power is all that matters

"What you can take seriously is that he will try to get U.S. troops out as quickly and as responsibly as possible. And that is the best case estimate of what it would take."

The interviewer is clearly trying to get her into a trap and you fell for it.

[anigbrowl]

5. Nice way to edit the transcript

par for the course.

[snappyturtle]

6. Sounds like a reasonable plan to me. n/t

[Window]

7. Jesus!

*shaking head*

[OhioBlue]

9. total desperation. you're almost out of straws. n/t

[ElsewheresDaughter]

12. "almost out of straws" hahahal it is being discussed on MSNBC again today Saturday

[Kahuna]

10. And??? They all say early on that they could not promise to extract

troops by 2013. Did you miss it? :eyes:

[rug]

13. Yesterday in Wyoming Obama promised potential voters he'd end the war in Iraq by the end of 2009.

Which is it?

[jlpohio69]

11. Another Obama bungle....

say one thing to the people of America in your debate, but say something different when you think people are not listening. Obama is not above the fray as he would like everyone to believe.