ACTUALLY, THERE IS ONE THING HE HASN'T, BUT SHOULD...:

Is there anything Obama hasn't blamed Bush for? (CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, 11/01/09, Jerusalem Post)

It's as if Obama's presidency hasn't really started. He's still taking inventory of the Bush years. Just this Monday, he referred to "long years of drift" in Afghanistan in order to, I suppose, explain away his own, well, yearlong drift on Afghanistan.

This compulsion to attack his predecessor is as stale as it is unseemly. Obama was elected a year ago. He became commander-in-chief two months later. He then solemnly announced his own "comprehensive new strategy" for Afghanistan seven months ago. And it was not an off-the-cuff decision. "My administration has heard from our military commanders, as well as our diplomats," the president assured us. "We've consulted with the Afghan and Pakistani governments, with our partners and our NATO allies, and with other donors and international organizations" and "with members of Congress."

Obama is obviously unhappy with the path he himself chose in March.

Fine. He has every right - indeed duty - to reconsider. But what Obama is reacting to is the failure of his own strategy.

His Nobel Prize was W's fault.

Posted by Orrin Judd at November 2, 2009 6:20 AM