The lefties, like Moore are outraged that Obama is sending troops to Afghanistan:

Do you really want to be the new “war president”? If you go to West Point tomorrow night (Tuesday, 8pm) and announce that you are increasing, rather than withdrawing, the troops in Afghanistan, you are the new war president. Pure and simple. And with that you will do the worst possible thing you could do — destroy the hopes and dreams so many millions have placed in you. With just one speech tomorrow night you will turn a multitude of young people who were the backbone of your campaign into disillusioned cynics. You will teach them what they’ve always heard is true — that all politicians are alike. I simply can’t believe you’re about to do what they say you are going to do. Please say it isn’t so.
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We the people still love you. We the people still have a sliver of hope. But we the people can’t take it anymore. We can’t take your caving in, over and over, when we elected you by a big, wide margin of millions to get in there and get the job done. What part of “landslide victory” don’t you understand?

Um…didn’t he realize that Obama was pretty clear during the campaign that he intended to fight the war on terrorism and he viewed Afghanistan as the central front of that war?

“We went to Afghanistan first because it is the central front in the war against terrorism,” Obama said. “That is where the 9/11 attacks were planned and today in Afghanistan and the border region of Pakistan, Al-Qaeda and the Taliban are mounting a growing offensive against the security of the Afghan people and, increasingly, the Pakistani people, while plotting new attacks against the United States.”
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“The situation in Afghanistan is perilous and urgent,” Obama said. “We must act now to reverse a deteriorating situation. I called, over a year ago, for additional U.S. troops to be placed in Afghanistan, as well as more nonmilitary assistance and more support from our NATO allies, and I am glad that there is a growing consensus back home that we need more resources in Afghanistan.”

Did he hear it and ignore it like this guy:

“The implications of what he was saying I don’t think registered on people…..They didn’t see it.”
“I don’t think there was a consciousness in the electorate that, if we elect Obama, we’re sending 50,000 troops to Afghanistan,” said Kurt Volker of Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. “It wasn’t hidden, but it wasn’t evident to voters who were focused on other issues.”

The right heard and understood and some even voted for him because of it.
Ultimately, I guess the lefties, like the GOP are going to have to realize that Obama won and he can do what he wants.

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