Preparing for President Obama

Ed Morrissey (I know, again) notes that Harry Reid see’s things going “pretty good” in Afghanistan. Ed asks what the hell is he thinking?

Exit question: What strange twist of fate has brought Dingy Harry to the brink of applauding Bush’s management of a war? No doubt he has his eye on next year, but which way is he going to spin the progress he claims to be seeing? By citing it as evidence that we’re winning and should therefore support President Obama’s call for more troops? Or by citing it as evidence that the country’s in good enough shape that we don’t really need any more troops, as candidate Obama is hinting now about Iraq? Remember, a majority of Democrats have soured on Afghanistan. Any excuse to abandon ship will suffice, I’m sure.

Personally, I think Harry Reid is setting up Obama to have his very own “war win”. Iraq will definitely be connected with Bush for all time. We’ll be in Afghanistan for a while more and this way Obama can “win it” and bring everyone home with a parade.

If you vote for McCain, you’re racist and

if you ask Senator Obama a question with actual meaning, you are a proxy for John McCain.
Here’s the question:

RALSTON: I guess what the American people want to know though Senator, is what is the real difference between you and John McCain. You are running this ad tying him to the industry saying that he has taken all of these contributions, but as you well know there is a story out today about how you supported the Dick Cheney bill and he opposed it. That bill gave subsidies to the oil and gas companies, John McCain opposed the bill saying those are tax breaks for those companies, Barack Obama favored it.

And the response:

SEN. OBAMA: Hold on a second Jon, I thought I was talking to you instead of debating John McCain, but I am happy to let you serve as his proxy.

There’s more, but click on through and read Ed Morrissey’s commentary.