Barack Obama is vulnerable on terror – and he knows it
In Hawaii, where Obama was holidaying, Gibbs's deputy Bill Burton told the press that "we are winding down a war in Iraq that took our eye off of the terrorists that attacked us" and that Obama was reviewing "procedures that have been in place the last several years" (i.e. Bush instituted them). He added, without apparent irony, that "the President refuses to play politics with these issues".
Meanwhile, the White House was working overtime to build a case against Bush. A source in the White House counsel's office told The American Spectator of memos frantically seeking information that would "show that the Bush Administration had had far worse missteps than we ever could".
We can go back and forth on who is worse and I'll have my opinion and others will have theirs, but let's stop pretending Obama is above anything that the other politicians aren't or weren't. Due to his miserable failings, his administration has nothing left to do but posture as best they can and misdirect attention.
