If you've been saying all along that a timetable for withdrawing the troops is in order and that aggressive diplomacy with Iran is better than just "cross your arms and do nothing" approach, and then the White House is either forced to reverse itself or start a war and reverses itself, out of common sense, by beginning to talk to Iran, as well as now drafting up a plan to finally end the war, at Iraq's pleading, don't you think that would boost your ego?

It's gotta help Obama on the foreign policy front, that everything he's said is now taking shape. It's left McCain impotent over the weekend, grasping at straws, releasing that stupid attack video blaming Obama for the rising gas prices, while McCain, Giuliani and Lieberman trashed him while he was out of the country, something that most candidates don't do to other candidates.

Fucking hilarious. Give McCain credit for backing the "Surge"; but Americans look forward, not backwords, and when we read "Maliki Supports Obama's Timetable For Withdrawal" this weekend, it leaves McCain behind, spitting out the dust.

If I were in McCain's camp, I would be wondering why the White House and McCain were not properly co-ordinating what's actually happening in the world to make it look better for McCain. Instead, the White House mistakenly e-mailed the press that story about Maliki supporting Obama. Was it a mistake? Or was it part of that neo-con thinking that if you link Obama with muslims that that will work against him?

Whatever they were thinking, Obama is having a great tour overseas, everyone wants to meet him, there aren't people lined up everywhere protesting, and the foreign policy is going precisely in his direction.