To: Land Shark who wrote (129441 ) 7/20/2008 10:43:47 PM From: Hope Praytochange Respond to David Brooks:Gail, as you know, I spend most of my waking hours thinking about Human Greatness, Theodore Roosevelt and really large heads carved out of stone. So, of course, I was thrilled a few weeks ago when you got me a Mount Rushmore T-shirt. But last week was the sort of week that I will think back on decades hence as saliva is drooling down my chin, the last breaths are escaping my body and my children are hiring lawyers to battle over their inheritance. Today, he could just admit he was wrong. But, of course, it is an iron rule of politics that no politician — not Bush, not Obama — can ever admit a mistake. So Obama goes on TV and says he always predicted that the surge would reduce violence. In America it’s better to be seen as a confident liar than as someone who once got something wrong. And he rewrites his position with such confidence and bald-facedness it’s sort of scary.
