Karl Rove: Obama Must Stop Voting Present in Afghanistan

WSJ/The Lid ^ | 9/30/09 | The Lid

[Shellybenoit]

Last year, when he was running for President Barack Obama described Afghanistan as the "good war." He promised to see this war through to the end. Over a month ago General Stanley McChrystal asked for additional troops to get the job done. The President sat on his hand-picked General's recommendation for three weeks until it leaked out. Now he says he needs to think about what to do (don't forget the POTUS fired the last General for requesting more troops).

What has the President been doing since word leaked out? Lets see, he took the opportunity to experience the joy of becoming the first US President to run a UN Security Council Meeting. He took the time to lower the prestige of the Presidency by trashing Glenn Beck on the White House website, and tomorrow he runs off to wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen and lower the prestige of the office even further, with a pitch to give get his Chicago buddies the Olympics, then its back home to try and shove a radical change of the health care system down the throats of the American people who would rather see him concentrate on lowering the deficit and trying to win in Afghanistan.

The President is trying to balance the fact that his progressive supporters want to cut and run in Afghanistan and the protecting America from the terrorist threat. So Obama avoids the problem and goes "small picture" focusing on the Olympics and Glenn Beck and sits on the General's . Problem is that while Obama is doing everything in his power to avoid making a decision the war in Afghanistan is going to hell in a handbasket. Instead of being a leader, Barack Obama is doing what he did in the Illinois legislature..voting present: