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Obama's Flexibility

8:29 PM, Mar 27, 2008 • By MICHAEL GOLDFARB
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Obama in an interview today with CNBC:

Well, look, there's no doubt that anything I do is going to be premised on what the economic situation is when I take office. I'm going to be sworn in in January, we don't know what the economy's going to look like at that point. And, you know, the thing you can--you can be assured of is that I'm not going to making these decisions based on ideology. I'm not a dogmatist. I know that some, you know, my opponents to the right would like to paint me as this wooly-eyed, you know, liberal or wild-eyed...

Isn't this exactly what Samantha Power was saying about Iraq that got her fired? And wouldn't any reasonable person (or any person who believed themselves reasonable) promise to take such an approach in every decision? So why don't we get the same thoughtfulness on the war? Unless Obama's defeatism is dogmatic, or he's some wolly-eyed, you know, liberal who thinks everything's just going to be sunshine and daisies when he pulls U.S. troops out of Iraq.

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