Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?

Well, I think what’s really important here are two dates. The first is August 30. That’s when the McChrystal report was sent to Washington. That is three weeks ago. Obama has had a single meeting [on that report] since then.
He says he hasn’t reached a conclusion — I suppose because he is spending all his time preparing for Letterman and speeches to schoolchildren — to focus on a war in which our soldiers are in the field getting shot at and, as the president himself is saying, without a strategy.
Now, the other date is the 27th of March, when Obama gave a speech in the White House flanked by his Secretaries of Defense and State, in which he said, and I will read you this, because it is as if it never happened, “Today I’m announcing a comprehensive new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan.”
So we for six months have been living under the new Obama strategy, of which he says today we have none. And his next sentence is, again in March, “This marks the conclusion of a careful policy review” — not the beginning, the end of the policy review.
So it has been his policy, and now he tells us we don’t have a cart and we don’t have a horse.

For those of you who still think my use of the double negative is grammatical oversight.

They’re his, and don’t you forget it.

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose
Washington Post – But Obama’s deliberative pace — he has held only one meeting of his top national security advisers to discuss McChrystal’s [Aug.30th] report so far — is a source of growing consternation within the military. “Either accept the assessment or correct it, or let’s have a discussion,” one Pentagon official said. “Will you read it and tell us what you think?” Within the military, this official said, “there is a frustration. A significant frustration. A serious frustration.”
Associated Press – Highlights of President Barack Obama’s interviews broadcast Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” NBC’s “Meet the Press,” ABC’s “This Week,” CNN’s “State of the Union” and Univision’s “Al Punto.”

Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?

“…the President has a clear arts agenda and has been very supportive of using art and supporting art in creative ways to talk about some issues that we face here in our country, but also to engage people. And I think all of us who are on this phone call, you know, were selected for a reason.”

This just came across on the WaPo wire;

The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan warns in an urgent, confidential assessment of the war that he needs more forces within the next year and bluntly states that without them, the eight-year conflict “will likely result in failure,” according to a copy of the 66-page document
obtained by The Washington Post.

In related news – “Obama shrugs off request to drop CIA abuse probe”
From the comments – He was for squelching before he was against it;

“I nearly fell out of my chair when I read this quote from Obama “I don’t want to start getting into the business of squelching, you know, investigations that are being conducted.”
Oh he must mean except when he is firing inspector generals when they uncover the misuse of AmeriCorps grant money by a friend of Obama.

More from Rich Lowry here on the Obama reaction and the “ideal timing” of the McChristyal report.