Obama to speak in two minutes on Iraq withdrawal (12:46pm EST)

[WilliamPitt]

Eight years waiting to hear this.

[deacon]

1. WTG Mr. President! K + R

[leftstreet]

2. Why are they making this a Friday news dump?

Rhetorical, don't expect you to know.

It's just odd

[WilliamPitt]

4. Perhaps

because the predictable right-wing "Soft on defense loves terrorism WHAAARGARBLE" response will likewise wind up in the dump.

[seacaves]

5. At least Obama is emphsizing he has fulfulled his promise.

[snooper2]

3. he didn't move fast enough, should have done this in first month in office,

This is another ploy, blah blah blah..

I miss anything?

[MADem]

7. No matter WTF he does, it's never right, too late, not enough, pandering, triangulating, etc. etc.

The only thing not said is that he's not white enough. I sometimes wonder how many people think it, though. That racism is an ugly thing.

It's tiresome. I didn't vote for the guy in the primary, but I got the spirit, and support him wholeheartedly. I wish more Democrats could understand how completely unacceptable ANY viable alternative to him would be, and if they want change, they need to get off their asses and grow it from the grassroots on up.

Easy to gripe, harder to grow and harvest the crop. You can gripe in a minute, bringing in the sheaves takes time!

[Ken Burch]

8. There WASN'T any justification for keeping the troops there one minute past

Noon on January 20, 2009. It's been for nothing since then. How can you deny that?

Now, it's too late to send any positive message to the world. Now it just means the status quo will go on forever.

Why are you ok with that?

We didn't need any Scoop Jackson-LBJ shit this time.

[deacon]

6. Drawdown in Afghanistan too! He's getting us outta there too. n/t