Obama's Nonsense in Iraq and On the Immigration Reform Bill Show Us a Window Into His Soul (Updated)

The Anchoress had a good overview of this Iraq business and Obama this morning at Obama has a “troop-gate” - UPDATED. This part struck me and has been on mind too:

As I said when this story broke, it just seems so counter-intuitive, doesn’t it? To spend two years saying “bring those troops home! Mr. President bring those troops home!” and then go over to Iraq and say, “hey buddy, do me a favor, and don’t negotiate on those troop withdrawals until I can get into office and keep all that glory for myself…” or words to that effect.

I think that is exactly what happened . This is very much like the immigration reform bill. Obama role in killing the immigration reform bill last year very much told me all I needed to know about Obama and his supposed new politics.

The issue here is not if you thought it was good or bad but role but Obama's role in killing it.

For those of us that supported it we were shocked that Obama betrayed us and voted for one of the poison pills to kill it. It was quite unexpected. For those that supported the Immigration Bill our main goal was just to get it over to the House and we could clean up in a possible conference. Obama switch was part of what caused the whole thing to fall apart.

I have always thought he did this because:

(1) He went along with Dems that have a manic hate of Bush and wanted to kill any chance of Bush getting a second term defining legislative victory

(2) He wanted to kill of McCain. McCain was at his lowest point then. Obama listening to the pundits probably thought Republicans voters would kill him off. He failed of course to recognize the political skill of McCain, that the Republican Primary voters was a lot more evenly divided on this issue than people thought, and of course the emergence of Governor Huckabee that in many ways saved McCain.

(3) He did not want Hispanics giving any Kudos to McCain for his hard work on the bill

and

(4) He wanted to get the glory and have immigration reform as a achievement of an Obama and Democrat Administration.

Country First ? or Politics First? or Obama First?

You might not like Bush but at least he had the political courage to bring social security reform and the very tough issue of immigration reform TWICE. McCain took great political risk on the immigration reform bill.

Is this a foretaste of what a Obama administration will look like? I pray the country takes a pass

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See also this column today by the very good Ruben Navarrette No friend to Latinos on immigration