Why can’t Obama just admit he blew it on the surge?
Critics of Geaorge W. Bush call him stubborn, they scold him for his supposed inability to admit mistakes, but where is their criticism for Barack Obama? He certainly erred when he voted against the surge and opined it would fail. Yet, Obama refuses to admit his mistake. Everyone makes mistakes Barack, everyone, and real leaders admit them, and learn from them. Why don’t you just come out and admit yours? As Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey points out today, Senator Obama is now stuck between a hard place and, well…
Barack Obama finds himself stuck between Iraq and a hard place on the surge. Instead of just admitting that he miscalculated the potential effect of the surge when he opposed it in January 2007, he has instead tried rewriting history in order to prove himself correct. ABC’s Jake Tapper looks at the Obama rebuttal — and demolishes it:
