The Surge Purge
July 15th, 2008 by Scott
I love that title! Credit goes to an article in the New York Daily News talking about how Obama, over this past weekend, decided to rewrite history and purge his website of references to his opposition to the troop surge.
WASHINGTON - Barack Obama’s campaign scrubbed his presidential Web site over the weekend to remove criticism of the U.S. troop “surge” in Iraq, the Daily News has learned.
The presumed Democratic nominee replaced his Iraq issue Web page, which had described the surge as a “problem” that had barely reduced violence.
“The surge is not working,” Obama’s old plan stated, citing a lack of Iraqi political cooperation but crediting Sunni sheiks - not U.S. military muscle - for quelling violence in Anbar Province.
The News reported Sunday that insurgent attacks have fallen to the fewest since March 2004.
GOP rival John McCain zinged Obama as a flip-flopper. “The major point here is that Sen. Obama refuses to acknowledge that he was wrong,” said McCain, adding that Obama “refuses to acknowledge that it [the surge] is succeeding.”(Source)
We’ll see how much the main stream media picks up on this story or if they ignore it.
This is becoming a bigger problem online, as it becomes easier for people to “erase” past comments and or rewrite stories and revise history.
You’ll notice on my blog, when I make an update to an article I wrote, I add an “Update” at the bottom, leaving my article intact (two example: unemployment change, miscalled primary result).
A few times, this makes obvious the point that I made an error or was off in a prediction, but also shows I have nothing to hide, unlike Obama, who is attempting to change his own history.
In the long term, it also shows I am not afraid to state my beliefs and stick to them instead of feeling the direction of the wind and go with the popular “feeling” of the day.
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