Katiie’s Beer

Barack Obama speaking at Iowa State University. Click on photo to view video.

You know…I’ve spent more than a few moments this past year wondering how in the world I would get myself pumped back up to cover the upcoming presidential race. No more! Thanks to Barack Obama I now have full confidence in my ability to opine on comments like this one made at Iowa State University last weekend:

We ended up launching a war that should have never been authorized, and should have never been waged, and to which we now have spent $400 billion, and have seen over 3,000 lives of the bravest young Americans wasted. ~Barack Obama

Now to be fair, let’s see what he had to say afterward when called on by the press to explain his comments.

Obama, in an interview with the Des Moines Register right afterward, told the paper, ‘’I was actually upset with myself when I said that, because I never use that term,'’ he said. ‘’Their sacrifices are never wasted. . . . What I meant to say was those sacrifices have not been honored by the same attention to strategy, diplomacy and honesty on the part of civilian leadership that would give them a clear mission.”

There! That made things perfectly clear. Can’t wait to hear four years of explanations like that! And to think that liberals like to accuse President Bush of being incoherent. Watch the original speech on YouTube.
Hat tip to James Taranto’s Best of the Web (WSJ Opinion Journal feature) and the Chicago Sun Times.

Tags: politics, Election 2008 //