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lawhawk12/01/2009 6:55:44 am PST

re: #257 wozzablog

All politicians do it. Obama does it; Bush did it; Clinton did it.

Politicians reward their faithful followers with tickets to these events. They fill the room with them, because it makes for a great backdrop.

What is interesting here is that Obama is making the announcement not from the White House, but from West Point, even as he’s announcing that the first troops to be deployed are going to be Marines.

No, what it signals is that he’s trying to be serious on military issues, and wants to be seen as a wartime president - the commander in chief. Problem is that most of his Democrat supporters in Congress would rather cut and run than fight and win the war - or even leave Afghanistan knowing that Taliban and al Qaeda can’t regroup and use it as a safe haven.