Yesterday, in a speech to disabled veterans, Barack Obama announced the beginning of the end of combat in Iraq:

Our commitment in Iraq is changing — from a military effort led by our troops to a civilian effort led by our diplomats.

I certainly hope he’s correct, and that our boys and girls come home as quickly as possible, but for some reason, this sounds very familiar…

The most amazing thing about Tuesday evening’s speech by President Obama at West Point was that if you closed your eyes, and imagined the occasional butchering of the English language, if could have been George W. Bush on the stage.

The Afghani conflict was stated to be crucial to the security of the United States, with no real explanation of why this is the case. And, although the previous strategy didn’t work, the best thing to do is more of what we’ve been doing.

I’ve definitely heard all this before.

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President Obama would like us all to believe that there are only two choices on healthcare: his plan and the current situation. In fact, he beats this straw man up whenever possible.

His position is that if you are against his plan, then you must be in support of the current system. This is incorrect. One can, in fact, be against Obama’s plan and the current plan.

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I’m a believer in the idea that if a political leader angers people on both sides of the issue, he may well have found a reasonable place in the middle.

Barack Obama, who has been tacking hard to the left since January 20th, has thoroughly enraged both the RIght and the Left with his release of four memos detailing CIA methods of extracting information, while concordantly announcing that CIA interrogators who followed these guidelines would not be subject to prosecution.