Apr
3

So Why’d Obama Say That?

Cliff May points out a few possible reasons:

  • A Bloomberg poll last month found that 61% of Americans believe withholding funding for the war is a bad idea, while only 28% believe it is a good idea.

  • According to a March USA Today/Gallup poll, 61% of Americans oppose “denying the funding needed to send any additional troops to Iraq.”

  • That poll also showed that only 20% of Americans want to withdraw the troops immediately.

  • Public Opinion Strategies (POS) recently reported that a majority of voters (54%) oppose the Democrats imposing a reduction in troops below the level military commanders requested.

  • A POS poll in February found that 59% of voters believe pulling out of Iraq immediately would do more to harm America’s reputation in the world than staying until order is restored.

  • That POS poll also finds 57% of voters support staying in Iraq until the job is finished and “the Iraqi government can maintain control and provide security for its people.”

  • According to a Time magazine poll also taken in March, only 32% want to withdraw the troops within the next year no matter what happens.

Obama May not think very logically, (What Democrat does?) but he’s smart enough to understand that the track that Reid and Pelosi have the Democrats on now is the messiest most painful kind of political suicide possible.  By the way, make use of the address at the end of the post of Cliff’s, would you?

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