BUT I THOUGHT HE WAS A MUSLIMLive Blogging Obama's War Orgy Thingy
At exactly 8pm tonight, Obama will confuse pundits from all sides by announcing his plans to kill some Muslims. Already, the interwebs are aflame with criticism from unexpected sources: Michael Moore says America will go the way of the Soviet Union; HuffPost wants Obama to just come clean about France like Churchill; Politico points out that Dick Cheney is loving this shizz while DailyKos is freakin out, man! None of this makes any sense because in America one of the ten commandments is that every issue is supposed to break evenly along party lines.
Let's try to make some sense of Obama's plan to invade Afghanistan like, even more than we already invaded it, thereby conveniently increasing our troop presence in the region just as Iran is hinting it might stop cooperating with the U.N. and bomb us all. Live-blogging starts at 8!
Cheat Sheet: The Afghanistan (Speech) Aftermath
Remember that major event that happened a few nights ago? I did my first live blog! ("First" in that it wasn't a fake live blog written with the benefit of DVR.) Oh, and: Obama-Wan Kenobi went over to the dark side by announcing a 30,000 troop surge in Afghanistan. (Although, notably, he avoided using the term 'surge;' apparently even seventy trillion 9/11 references aren't enough to make anything Bush tried sound like a good idea.)
So anyway, the nice looking colored fellow says that there is a date sometime when we plan to leave, so, um, I'm not that worried? Plus I have more important things to worry about like did Tiger Woods really have sexy time with all those women? Wait a sec--maybe let's check in on the whole war on terrorists (remember, Obama ended the "War on Terror") and decide once and for all what the media refuses to decide for us: Is or isn't Afghanistan the new Vietnam?
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