President Obama....err Senator Obama

An interesting story from the New York Post. It argues that the Senator improperly overstepped his bounds in trying to delay troop withdrawals and any agreement that the Iraqi government may sign with the US. It seems to me that this story is more about political expediency than anything else.

"He asked why we were not prepared to delay an agreement until after the US elections and the formation of a new administration in Washington," Zebari said in an interview.

Obama insisted that Congress should be involved in negotiations on the status of US troops - and that it was in the interests of both sides not to have an agreement negotiated by the Bush administration in its "state of weakness and political confusion."

"However, as an Iraqi, I prefer to have a security agreement that regulates the activities of foreign troops, rather than keeping the matter open." Zebari says.

Though Obama claims the US presence is "illegal," he suddenly remembered that Americans troops were in Iraq within the legal framework of a UN mandate. His advice was that, rather than reach an accord with the "weakened Bush administration," Iraq should seek an extension of the UN mandate.

It is clear that his agenda/promise was to get America out of Iraq in 18 months. All during the primaries President Obama was claiming the US presence was illegal when it is politically expedient he changes his mind and accepts a fact when it is convenient to him.

Obama has made many contradictory statements with regard to Iraq. His latest position is that US combat troops should be out by 2010. Yet his effort to delay an agreement would make that withdrawal deadline impossible to meet.

Once again you have to ask yourself about President Obama's capability to set foreign policy with good judgment without flip flopping back and forth on our position to whatever he deems politically expedient to him at the time. Obama answers to nobody but himself, he does what is politically expedient for his career and nothing more.

This is why the McCain/Palin ticket has been picking up speed under the mantra "Some candidates use change to promote their career while others user their career to promote change". The message is resonating with the American public. While the mindlessly shallow in America are easily fooled with a 30 second sound bite here and a softball interview on PMSNBC or CNN, the media's agenda has become more and more clear to a majority of the American people.