Rick Richman notes that Barack Obama used a lawyer like locution to obscure his own history regarding the Iraq War:Barack Obama used a lawyer-like locution last night to avoid acknowledging the courage of his predecessor in initiating the surge that won the Iraq War:It's well known that he and I disagreed about the war from its outset. Yet no one could doubt President Bush's support for our troops, or his love of country and commitment to our security. As I have said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it.The key words were "from its outset." His locution focused on his opposition to the war, while faintly praising Bush as a well-intentioned patriot. But while Obama opposed the war "at" its outset, he did not always oppose it thereafter.I am going to expand a bit on Rick's blog.Obama shifted his positions on the war depending on how the war and his campaign for the Presidency were going. He hid this history -- a bad habit of his...(Read Full Post)