Understatement of the day
May 10, 2008 by John Rich
This Times (U.K.) article illustrates a continuing problem of Obama and those he turns to for counsel. This time it’s a pro-Hamas worthy, one Robert Malley, who’s been advising Obama’s campaign on the Middle East.
This makes some sense. After all, Hamas is pro-Obama, it makes sense there’s some kind of quid pro quo.
Of course no one will step right up and claim to be pro-Hamas who expects to gain our presidency. I don’t believe for a moment that Barack Hussein Obama is pro-Hamas. Just that he’s got the moral blindness to not care if his associates are. Or, in a more charitable interpretation, to care but not know the difference.
From the Times, this from the McCain campaign:
Randy Scheunemann, Mr McCain’s foreign policy chief, suggested that Mr Malley was part of an emerging pattern in which other advisers had been repudiated after throwing confusion over policies on trade and Iraq. “Perhaps because of his inexperience Senator Obama surrounds himself with advisers that contradict his stated policies,” he said.
To state that it is because of Obama’s ‘inexperience” is both an understatement and an excuse. I prefer this reason, in plainer speech: Obama simply says what he believes his audience wants to hear at that time. He has no core values, other than gaining and holding power.
