But as he moves closer to the White House, President-elect Obama is making clearer than ever that tens of thousands of American troops will be left behind in Iraq, even if he can make good on his campaign promise to pull all combat forces out within 16 months
In an interview with ABC just a week before he was inaugurated, Obama conceded that some things just might not get done due to the gloomy economy:
"I want to be realistic here -- not everything that we talked about during the campaign are we going to be able to do on the pace that we had hoped
Mount Holyoke history professor Joseph Ellis explains that politicians going all the way back to Thomas Jefferson have gone back on their campaign promises, but has a two-pronged theory about why they do it, and how it may be unavoidable. From the L.A. Times:
"First, campaigns are inherently exercises in propaganda and posturing, the posing of melodramatic choices usually defined by candidates' contorted exercises against stereotypical versions of the opposition...Second, the world has a way of generating unforeseen predicaments that require unrehearsed choices."
Its interesting that had Bush said a week before his inaugaration he wouldnt be able to keep his promises....people would have formed a lynch mob...but nobama says sorry folks i lied and no ones making a big deal of it........very interesting....wonder if its race or party afiliation thats keeping the media at bay on this.
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